A trip down memory lane

For the last three days of my European tour I returned to Valladolid, the city in Spain where i spent a year teaching English. It's very close to Salamanca, so I figured I should pay it a visit since it was only a bus ride away. It was really nice to reunite with a couple of friends and to see some of my old students, but on my last day there, I was left feeling unsettled. It's a strange feeling being back in a city you once called home and simultaneously feeling out of place, like you no longer belong. Physically, everything looks the same, but romances have dissipated, friends have moved away and you're left with the memories of how things used to be. You realize that even though the plazas and streets still look the same, in fact, everything else has changed. However, it's moments like this that can give us the best lesson, if we are willing to look for it. I believe that people and places come into our life for a reason, and although they will always be a part of our history it's OK to leave them in the past. To be grateful for what we learned and where it took us but to close that chapter of our lives and begin the next one. And so, as I boarded the train to Salamanca I couldn't help but smile. Although one chapter was painfully coming to an end, another amazing chapter was just beginning. And as they say "There's a reason why the windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror. Where you're going is far more important than what you've left behind"