Let's Just Live Now

Hello friends! For those of you who know me personally, you’d know that for the past few months I’ve been an intern at a wonderful place called MoveSpace. You’ve probably heard me rave about it a million times, got multiple invites to their events, had me begging for you to come experience the magic at least once. So now, I would like to share with you deeply the experience I have had the past few months, and the potential you could as well. So... What is MoveSpace? Officially, MoveSpace is a “Creative Co-working & Event Space - Home for creators making the world more awesome. Celebrating human connection, creativity & social change …” But really… What IS MoveSpace? What do you feel when you enter it. How does it forever change your world, your perspectives, your friendships. It is so much more than it’s description, and with this, I would like to share. What does MoveSpace mean to me? A place to create, to express yourself. I never thought I was a ‘creati...

Life is unpredictable, don't you think? You know that question: "What do you want to be doing when you grow up?" or "Where do you see yourself in five years?". How does it make you feel? When you want to scream "I DON'T KNOW". But instead you come out with "I am going to study medicine, married to a beautiful wife/husband, have two children and a cat called Ted or Tom" . Or maybe convincing yourself that that's what you want to do, when in reality frickin idea. Unfortunately we aren't given the space to find out, truly, what we want to do. So if you've read my past blog, you'd know that I ended up taking in psychology and business, but after a year of certainty but dread, I decided to jump into the unknown and take time off the well worn path. This time when I was asked what I was going to be doing next year, I really didn't know. There was no written up journey with the papers of life I'd be taking, it was a...

I’ll give you a bit of a backstory. Ever since I was young, I was a shy and awkward kid. Let’s just say while the others where out running around at lunch time, I’d stay in the classroom reading. Socialising was not my thing for sure. This led on to some problems with worrying about what people thought about me, magnified through Instagram in my teen years, and eventually started developing anxiety.  However, a few years ago, I stumbled upon a podcast talking about meditation.... Meditation? I tried it out but didn’t really understand the point. I couldn’t keep my mind quiet fo longer than a few seconds. It was something that I kind of found interesting and would try once in a while when I was already feeling anxiety kick up again, “take ten deep breaths”, yeah nah didn’t work for me. My chest was still tight and my mind racing. I don’t remember why or when exactly I started taking meditation and mindfulness seriously. Maybe because over and over again I heard about the be...

Hello again 😄 Before I write, I want to bring some points to the surface. I have decided to make my posts raw, pure, and unfiltered. This means that I will write out my thoughts, maybe read through it once, and just let it out into the world. No triple checking for spelling mistakes, no grammar corrections, no eliminating and double thinking. The reason I chose to do this is because I feel like sometimes we filter ourselves too much, we write what we want but after dwelling on it for a bit, we chose to back off and not do it in the fear of what people may think or say. There is going to be no space for that here. The best way to connect with people is to be vulnerable and pure, so this is what will be. Second, everything I write about is my experience, things that I have noticed and been through. I know that we all have different perspectives, opinions, ways of living life. I am also aware that I could be totally wrong in many things, so please tell me your opinions! I would lo...

My name is Melisa Gomez. My transition story will be based on going from first year of university, to a gap year out in the real world. Why did I leave uni? Let me give you a back story. I entered university in 2017 straight from highschool. To be honest, I didn’t really know what i was doing. Academics has always been extremely important in my family, and I was a high achiever at school. My mind had always been set on going acing a degree at the University of Auckland straight after high school. However, when I came to the decision of degree, I realised I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to study. After a lot of research, I decided to dive into a conjoint of Business and Psychology. Psych because it was something that always interested me, business because... I guess that’s the go to option when you really don’t know. This commenced to a year of stress, overworking, and many panic attacks. As I said, academia was extremely important to me, and I set myself tasks to achieve the h...

This weekend, my brother (Camilo) and I decided to go on a road trip over the long weekend. Our aim was to apply a few principles from what we have been reading: 1. Vagabonding - go unplanned (didn't know where the journey would take us) 2. Stoicism - I followed a ritual that Tim Ferris advices based on stoicism, which was to put myself in the lowest position possible for three days (consisting of eating only the cheapest of foods, wearing the most minimal clothes e.g. track pants and a jumper, and sleeping in an uncomfortable location (which in our case was the car)) while all the time asking "is this the condition I so feared. He recommends to do this so that the person is able to put themselves in the position they greatly fear and realise it is not so bad. 3. Camilo decided to do a 24 hour fast from Sunday 10am to Monday 10am. So on Sunday, we woke up and looked out to the rain, deciding we would head where the rain wasn't. So we searched up the nearest location ...