On The Brink

Deep breath. Begin.

When you’re on the brink of something - an idea, a breakthrough, an incredibly steep and dangerous cliff - there is a moment of complete weightlessness. You have one foot firmly planted in your past, and the other foot is dangling in mid-air, reaching for the next great accomplishment to smash its toes into. But eventually the balance will tip.

This is the brink.

Not quite on either ground. It is in this split second, in this exact moment in time, that you have to make the decision. You have to press yourself forward. Or let yourself fall back.

The brink is the scariest part. The brink is where all of the scary lives. The uncertainty. The “Oh no, do I actually have the balls to get this done?” We are so close to the brink.

Our brink has changed many times in the almost-decade of “us”. Graduating, moving in together, getting married. Normal “life stuff”. But our new brink is something so much more that normal.

All around us our friends are settling down into their careers. They are buying houses and have mortgages. They are starting families - and not just with fur babies. There are babies - so. many. babies. Which is amazing! We absolutely love that we get to spoil all of these new friend-extension creatures with our love and wisdom. Just so long as we are able to give them back!

Now, don’t get us wrong. We’ll probably have kids. Someday. But THAT particular brink is not one we are ready to trek just yet. The idea of cementing ourselves to one particular dwelling in one particular part of the world may sound appealing for some - and we are beyond happy for those that leap off that brink - but for us, it seems so permanent. Again, not a brink out toes feel like testing. And as for our careers, well, let’s just say we had other ideas for time spent than the average cubicle farm.

I am reminded of a quote from an episode of Doctor Who (a favorite show of course) called Love & Monsters:

"When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."

This is what we’re at the brink of. The stranger, the darker, the madder. There has to be more to life than growing up (something we refuse to do, by the way) and following “the right steps” to get on “the right path” so we can have “the right life” just like everybody else. We want to see if we can get to the better. And for us, that means seeing how the rest of the world lives.

This blog is a way to document our way through the brink and into the path of our next adventure. We want to share the experience of two kids in love who just want to see the world. Hopefully we can give you some tips and tricks along the way. Share with you what worked for us and what maybe didn’t work, because life is always about the ups and the downs, right? And if we don’t have anything poignant to say, we’ll always have some pretty pictures to share!

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