New Year New Adventure

So, welcome to my blog, the Blog of Laughter and Forgetting.
For those of you who know or care I sort of stole the title from one of my current favourite authors, Milan Kundera, a Czech writer I got to know before deciding to go to Prague last year...

I chose the title because this year it feel that it is important for me to get back to my true self. I want to write more, I want to travel more and I want to learn more, and most of all I really, really want to be happy! I have not been laughing as much as I would like to recently, crying way too much and I want that to change! I want to be the carefree, smiling girl I was not so long ago.

To do that I need to let go of so many things in the past. There are memories I will treasure forever, things I wish I could remember more clearly and friends and family who will never ever be erased... however, I need to stop thinking about the past so much, it has tied me up for the last few years and now I need to forget the bad things, the silly things, the insignificant trivial details and memories which have kept me awake one night too many! I want to forget the past that holds me back, or at least learn to live with it.


Through this blog I hope I will be able to share all of the funny things I see and do, share the happy times I have and in doing so remember those things more vividly and, hopefully, I can look back and see the change happen. I hope you are in for the ride! I can't promise I won't go off the rails at times, have a 'rage black out' or two but I am going to try!!!

As I write this I am planning my next big adventure in life, I have a job in Italy, in the town of Catania in Sicily. I will be leaving in only 9 days and have so much to do... it is all very exciting and just a little bit scary! I left Prague thinking I wanted to be home, and I have loved being here with my lovely family and wonderful friends, they have helped me so, so much! But I have learnt some important things since Christmas 2009, most importantly I have learnt that the people who matter, really matter and care about me, will never forget me just as I will never forget them, they will be here when I come back and they will be there for me whenever I need them just as I would be for them. I will be back home because I love it here!

So, I will try to write often and will try to keep laughing but I will always remember you!

Claire x