New Perspective
Suddenly craving a new lifestyle, suddenly craving a change of direction. This madness has gone on long enough, I tell you! Must sustain this chord as long as I can… must learn, make the best of this…
A word to the wise
“Own every moment in your waking life. “
-rockets love and dreams + Orange Dynamite
Freedom
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”
Marilyn Ferguson
Life in transit
Ah the experience of travel, its a gift that cannot be measured in the worth that it gives the individual that undertakes in a journey into the unknown. Quite beautifully, it taps into your core root and as the miles and the hours pass you learn who you are(or aren’t) and where your place is in this world(at least as much as you could know at your current place) . To travel is to be privileged, but not privileged of money, but privileged just know no matter the income you have the ability to go out of your comfort zone and experience life through a different lens. The people you meet in transit become your new family, your new friends, one that you enjoy and depart with in a matter of hours or days.
Life in transit, they say that life is “the journey more so than the destination” and I couldn’t agree more.
Returning home to a apartment that isn’t my own anymore with the few stuff(a insignificant word for meaningless things I’ve acquired)I have packed away in a 5×5 box in storage-quickly did I realize that I was still on the trip that I started months ago when I handed the keys to my place over to a person I just met a month prior to it. In transit you learn the real value of things, of course if you get into situations where you end up sleeping in park benches with no money in a land where no one speaks the same language as you. But it gives you great moxie, and skills with human communication that you can’t get in the towns and cities that are familiar to you. Your forced helplessly into the hands of other people who sometimes hold the key to you getting to where you need to go, so much gets lost in translation.
But that is essentially the gift, if you choose to acknowledge it or not.
On a bus to the siwa oasis I shared a long conversation with a family of Berbers where neither party knew what the other was saying, but we communicated through hand gestures and drawings-only to have everyone laughing together at our inability to communicate with each other.
Walking down a street in morocco I pass by 2 rather funky dressed men carrying a black plastic bag, we catch eyes and as soon as we acknowledge each others existence I stop from the group and walk back to say hello.
“We are from Liberia, stuck in tangier and trying to find our way back home.”
“I wish you could help, but I’m trying to find my way home too, Maybe next year I’ll come to Liberia.”
“No problem, I’ll see you in liberia next year then. “
I’ve heard people say that in travel you realize how small the world actually is, but I do strongly disagree, The world is very big and Although we have our differences we are all the same. And this common truth is known around in places one wouldn’t believe to have friends, instead of enemies.
Mantras from the Dalai Lama
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s:
Respect for self
Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
I also know that dreams really do come true and you have my Best Wishes and my best efforts in those.
osho
“Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice.” – Osho
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