Quiet Weeks, Moving Thoughts
The past few weeks have left me feeling empty. Since the beginning of last month, I’ve been working alongside my studies. That means: when I’m not working, I’m at university and on weekends, I’m buried in assignments. There hasn’t been much time left to actually do anything, or to just be.
That’s why the Christmas break feels like a small relief. A pause. Time to slow down and do things for myself again. I still have university work to take care of, but that’s okay! It doesn’t feel as heavy right now.
On Sunday, I’m going to Gothenburg with a few friends to visit the Christmas market. I’m really curious to see if it’s as beautiful as the ones back home in Bavaria. There’s something comforting about familiar traditions showing up in unfamiliar places.
Lately, I’ve also been thinking about traveling to Amsterdam for a few days in March. There’s a fair happening there where I could gather a lot of useful information. And besides that, I’d like to explore the city a bit, to see if I could imagine living there one day. So far, I don’t feel the desire to settle down in Sweden. Somehow, the Netherlands feel closer to what I want, closer to who I am becoming.
But then again, you can only be truly sure after living in a city for a while. Everything else is just intuition, wandering thoughts, and quiet hopes for the future.
