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Let’s talk about bettering yourself for a minute. Feeling confident in your relationships is also key to feeling confident in yourself.

Lauren and I took an amazing hike upstate this weekend. Before you think I am crazy, (“wait her name is Lauren and she went on a hike with Lauren?? What?”) No I don’t have a split personality that makes me talk about a second me. And No I am not pulling a Joe Cioffi and talking to the internet world in the third person narrative. Lauren is my friend. An actual person with the same name.

I’ve known this girl since the second grade, and she taught me some of the greatest life lessons through the years. It’s awesome when you have a great friend to learn from, but it is even better to have that same friend to learn from for such a long period of your life (Lesson ladies — hold on to the good ones!)

We took a simple drive to hike upstate in New York to reconnect, relax and experience nature.

I realized something when we were hiking: When was the last time I got together with an old friend and did something to reconnect that didn’t involve having a cocktail front of my face???

Having this in front of your face is SOO much better. Don’t you think?

We took a two hour drive from my house (three hours from her’s) and made it for an amazing hike up the most beautiful waterfall. It was a short hike, but amazing. Because of my New-York-City-Always-on-the-Rush-Mentality, I actually found myself calculating our time spent: We probably spent more time driving than actually hiking! But was it worth it?

Um. TOTALLY. Here’s why.

When was the last time you ever just jammed around to good music with a friend? Were you also getting drunk while you were doing it? Or screaming over loud music because you were in a bar? You probably don’t remember what song it was when you laughed to that funny joke — because you were probably under the influence.

Sucks. Doesn’t it?

What are you doing??????

Not to mention TEXT MESSAGE INTERUPTIONS! This was Lauren’s Face when I yelled at for trying to text and drive that one second at a red light that one time. How many times have you gone out for a drink or dinner with a friend who was sitting across the table from you texting the whole time and half listening to that story about your cat you? .. or about whatever awesome thing is going on in your life.

Going on a long drive followed by a nice climb up the mountain where you need to be constantly looking at the road (or your feet) makes text messaging impossible and your conversations far more valuable!

But don’t worry, you won’t miss out on good times without drinking. Because even though we didn’t wake up hungover, we woke up with some pretty embarrassing pictures to show from our get together.

Getting out of the bar scene and into a new place isn’t just good to do with others — it can be incredibly rewarding for an individual too! Exploring a new town gives you such a wonderful opportunity to get inspired by other things!! Taking yourself away from your home base for a while gives you and whoever you are traveling with an opportunity to share new interests, talk about new topics (Aka how I want to come back here for some nice photoshoots. Look how colorful the buildings are!) and just enjoy each other’s company.

Without the same old environment, your mind is able to recharge and refresh. Thanks to the outdoors, finding yourself in a present state of mind is pretty wonderful.

And doing it with a friend is just the best!

Stay tuned for my next post this week about our trip!





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