Today I’m traveling to Lisbon, Portugal, for a vacation with my fiancé and her brother. The travel has been going great so far. Usually, traveling can be a bit stressful or chaotic, but today has been as smooth as butter.

I haven’t posted three times this week, but I have written three different posts. This one, my last one about the neatness of reflection in stack-based dynamic languages and PHP, and another about Laravel deleted after a day. It wasn’t work I was proud of.

I’m considering this week a success. By writing more, I’m stretching my writing muscles and building a habit. Once I have enough momentum, I can dive back into the bigger posts I’m excited to write.

Success is self-defined. If you’re creative, the purest form of success is enjoying creating for yourself and not needing to please others or make money. Not to say doing that isn’t nice, but to truly only need to create because you want to is a mindset freer than the wind. I’ve loved writing here these past two weeks because I’m no longer writing for other people. I’m writing for myself, and in these past two weeks, I’ve written more than I have in the past two years. If that isn’t success, I don’t know the definition.

I’ll be writing over this trip about our travels and my experiences. I’m excited to attempt some travel writing. It’s been a few years since I last reflected on a journey.