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Month: December 2017

Restart Your Life With 11 Challenges (New Year, New View Part 2)

By Riley CorboyDecember 31, 2017January 11, 2018

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EPIC 2017 Media Roundup (New Year, New View Part 1)

By Riley CorboyDecember 30, 2017December 30, 2017

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“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.” (Italo Calvino)

A question, posed to me on NYE: “If you could go back in time exactly one year ago, what would you want to tell yourself?” My answer: “God, right now you can’t even begin to dream up the moments life has in store for you this year. There will be dizzying highs and shattering lows: you will drink champagne and swim in the deeply blue waters of the Greek islands, just as you will walk home alone in the rain at 3:00 am with a hole in your heart the size of a goodbye. Go anyway. It will be worth it. Lean into that jittery feeling when you’re about to do something that scares you, because it means you are growing. Never stop pushing your boundaries; you will find that your limits are malleable things, not locked in place. Follow your heart, but don’t lie to yourself and pretend you don’t have one the second it becomes more convenient to feel nothing (you’ll recognize this day when you see it and I’m telling you now, seriously, it’s not worth it — it just prolongs the hurt). The way you feel everything so deeply in this life is a gift (even when it feels like a curse). Dance more. Speak up in meetings, because you have good ideas but no one will know that unless you open your mouth. Try red wine, it’s actually not bad. Worry less, because shitty things will happen no matter what. Don’t sip ouzo. Take every opportunity you can to make others smile. And, honestly, life is short so strive to be brashly, recklessly honest and say what you feel when you feel it. Everyone is so afraid of everyone else, but you could get hit by a bus or get cancer or lose it all any day so stop tiptoeing around the borders of your life and start living in the trenches of it. Love you, also don’t forget to take your vitamins xoxo.”

“I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” (Anaïs Nin)

Berlin took me by surprise. The whole city was incredibly vibrant and I learned a lot there. Highlights include: delving into the city’s history, seeing the wall in person, remembering, getting my tattoo, too much Glühwein, a cheery snowfall, grocery store coffees gulped on the go for warmth, and the first decent Mexican food since Barcelona.

I got my first real tattoo in Berlin the other day and I couldn’t be happier with it. I had the best experience and I am so in love with how it turned out!!! One more amazing story to throw on the books.

Paris, you certainly were not boring. Highlights include: crêpes of all kind, drinking wine out of a juice container, watching everyone fall in love, running through the rainy streets at night, weirdly wonderful merengue desserts, and all of the amazing art. Also these two crazy girls who I love with all my heart. Can’t wait to return ✨

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