With exams finally over it seems the traditional celebration was lost on me this year. Or was it? As I drove to Virden Manitoba - half falling asleep in the car which turned to a full passed out state within 30 minutess - I couldn't help but think of all the things I could get done this weekend if I didn't have to come all the way out here - knowing that I had pretty big trip ahead of me the following week. Needless to say when we got there 3 hours later, me still half comatose, was just happy to be in a gym and not burning my eyes looking at paper and a computer screen to 'learn', otherwise known as cramming! After what left like an always productive practice session (not always stellar but productive) we headed out for a mini Manitoba prairie adventure. We were going to tour the farms that a couple of the girls that we coach live on …
Down the highway and 20 minutes later …. pure beauty. You know the feeling you get when you see something for the first time but it feels like it has made you happy your whole life or it was something that was right in front of you but you couldn't see? - well this was that. The landscape, the view, the culture, the happiness was a totally refreshing perspective for me. I'm sure they got a kick out my naivety to everything 'farm' but it was awesome - even got the right of passage of going for a 'country cruise' haha!
Does it honestly take the setting of a 'city girl' going to the farm to remind her that life can be happy in a totally unexpected way? Don't get me wrong I could see there being a "Housewives of Rural Manitoba" out here and I'm sure there are similar stresses but for me it was a great experience to see a new side of what true happy-family-living can be about for some people and that it still exists in such a pure form. The calm and darkness in the night can be stirringly eerie or bring a city soul much calm. Either way I was so fortunate to get to experience the real living of a 'friendly' Manitoba family and all the pride, responsibility and the sense of accomplishment that comes with it. Happiness in life can mean so many different things but all that matters is doing the things that make you truly happy and remind you how lucky you are.
Corny ramble but maybe after two weeks of being a hermit and getting fed up with school a change in setting is all I need to regain some passion and energy. And sometimes is can be as simple as a 3 hour drive west and spending some time with friends in an undiscovered setting - try it out!Trip to Florida post to come ...
"I wouldn't change the blissful of silence and the darkest of the night air out here for anything" SB
Makes you feel alive knowing that living in Canada a change of scenery, that can positively alter your perspective, is but a few hours away in car!
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