Then that way the next day can be spent roaming around the vintage markets and buying large bouquets of flowers.ģ. I cannot waste any time and waking up the next morning in a clean, organized new space does wonders for my energy levels.
I have a tradition where no matter what time I arrive in my new apartment, my bedroom gets set up. It’s not worth carrying boxes of kitchen utensils and bed sheets around, you can buy that for so cheap now on Amazon or at a thrift store! Save the sweating for when you check out the new gym in your hood, not for lugging around boxes of stuff that is easily replaceable. My accessories and purses that are designer and last for years. Clothes and shoes that I know look fab are what follow me in my suitcase. I pin them on my wall and they put a smile on my face every day, reminding me I’m not alone. I have an envelope of pictures I bring with me to every new place. Learn to live with your necessities only and scale down the “stuff”. The more materialistic things you have, the harder it is to move with your backpack as it weighs you down. He uses an analogy of carrying everything you own in your backpack.
George Clooney did this great movie called, “Up In The Air” where he plays a business man who practically lives in airports and hotels traveling constantly for work. Practice minimalism and learn to let go of possessions. So this article is for the Gypsies, the Hussies, the bold and the beautiful who dare to dream and live outside their box.
But after so much moving my entire life, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to acclimate to my new bedroom, my new neighborhood and my new city. I call it explorative, exciting and fulfilling.ĭon’t get me wrong, there are days where I feel lonely and lost and crave my local streets of Shoreditch or gay bars of Vancouver where I knew I would always find my loved ones. Most would call that stressful, chaotic, unsettling.
Since New Years where we rang in 2016, I had lived in London, moved to Italy to film a movie, came back to London, moved to France to study, graduated, went back to London to leave it permanently, spent one month in Quebec, went to Las Vegas for two months, then resettled in Los Angeles which is where I’ve called home since July 1st. We lived in probably 20 houses and apartments by the time I was 17 and I had attended three different High School’s in the Lower Mainland. Then to Las Vegas when I was three years, and Vancouver when I was five. She took me from Comox, British Columbia to Nashville, Tennessee when I was a mere three months old. I could perhaps very well be, a modern day, city living, millennial gypsy.īefore I turned 18 and ran away from my home town to pursue aspirations and explore the world, I had moved countless times with my mother. Home is where the heart is, not where the average person has a mortgage. They never settle, carrying with them few possessions and adapting easily to their surroundings. This is the tone in which we casually use the word, paying homage to their traveling lifestyle.
Simple living, exploring where the seasons take them and soaking in the blue skies as the wind blows through their long, natural, sun stained hair. But the majority continue the traditions of their ancestors by living frugally, traveling in their trailers, playing music where they venture and maintaining a close knit community. Some Gypsies are vagrants, violent and still cause fear in the small towns they venture through. Now, Gypsies are a real culture of people who have been roaming the countrysides of Europe for over one thousand years. Naturally, this stuck and most of my friends and some family refer to me as a little Gypsy. When I was 19, I started calling myself a Gypsy Pirate.