On Being Here
Strictly speaking, though I tend to count our time in SF from the point when The Mrs joined me in late September, I’ll have officially have been a permanent resident of San Francisco for a year next week. But I have to confess that I don’t really feel as though I’m ‘of’ San Francisco.
Fair enough, a lot of travel away from the city over the last year hasn’t helped, but I also have to admit that I don’t feel as though I’ve taken enough advantage of everything the city has to offer. I guess it’s always like that when you live in a place - the drive to get out and explore is curtailed by the sense that there’ll always be more time to do so. If you’re just visiting then you need to pack everything in.
But we’re in an odd sort of limbo: the original deal to come over here was based on staying until the end of 2010, so mentally we know it’s not permanent. Our house is still sitting in London waiting for us to go back to it, and our friends and family are all presumably awaiting our return. So there won’t always be more time to do things, but the end of the stay is far enough away that it robs us of any urgency to get out and do.
But I want to get better about this. We have been trying a bit harder recently, but could do better. So I’m setting myself the challenge of doing or going somewhere new at least once a week. It could be a big thing or a little one, but it has to be something I can only do because I’m currently living where I am.
Watch this space.
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:38 am
Good luck! It’s sooo easy to slip into a daily routine and forget you’re doing something amazing that won’t last for ever. Look forward to reading about it!