an ordinary life

99% of life happens in the ordinary.

If someone had told me that at 16 (or perhaps they did and it didn't register in my teenage brain), my poor wanderlust heart would have begged to just let the sparrows take me. I had high expectations to move and shake the world, "make a difference", and believed that I would accomplish it all by the ripe old age of 25. I wanted to travel the globe, I wanted every day to be an exciting adventure of finding myself in new places and making my mark in...