Back home again...
(two-and-a-half weeks later)

Those dreams continued for the rest of the two-and-a-half weeks of the trip, and when it was over, they helped me understand what I had left to find.

What I had learned was that despite the events that had happened in the last year, the things I wanted from my life weren't bad. They weren't necessarily good either. They were just my things. They were an expression of me.

I was ready to start anew. Having been an introvert for the first 30 years of my life, there were a lot things I wanted to learn. There were many things I had never allowed myself the freedom to do, so I started doing them.