The picture reminds me of fairytales, old, untold secrets, but also of warm summernights next to the ocean under a nightblue sky….actually I took it around 5 o’clock in the morning in Coimbra while we where looking for a place to keep warm until the car rental company would open their doors. But it really feels like a fairytale, to be here in Portugal again, to come back to places which are connected with crazy adventures, which are connected with my journey in autumn 2018…even nothing is the same this time; I’m not on a journey to explore everything new, I’m here with my dad, who’s checking out the last things so my parents can move to Portugal in summer, to the place we all fell in love with. It’s a place full of fairytales and magic, full of strong living-beings with crazy stories, it’s a place in the mountains near the sky, it’s valleys full of fruits and burned trees, it’s coffee in the middle of the village in the morning, it’s the sound of drums, guitars and singing people sitting around the bonfire, it’s the feeling of connected souls, connected, as all of us here escaped the system.
Category: General
Nachtzug nach Lissabon//23.02.2020//19:55//now
When I read the book “Nachtzug nach Lissabon”, I got the idea of taking that train one day…but never thought it would become real that soon.
Now I’m in exactly the same train which Mundus took back then in the book, when he suddenly left his life in Switzerland to start a life-changing trip…For me, it’s a long planned trip, but also I hope to find the answer to a question which I am thinking about all the time since a while…so let’s see where this trip will lead to!
– love, travellers!-
Fruit markets and tropical vibes
Right now, weather here in Germany is the complete opposite of typical weather in Rajasthan; it’s cold, rainy, the sky is grey and everywhere people are going crazy bc of the storm which will hit us in few hours…but somehow I’m not that concerned. However, maybe bc of these uncomfy, rough vibes I’m missing the tropical vibes of India; the heat, the sunshine, the palm trees, the unbelievable green of the forest and the warm orange everywhere in Rajasthan…and of course the amazing fruit markets, which we found absolutely everywhere in India, selling all the fruits you can imagine…Of course super cheap and – depending on the season – also very fresh, especially the mangos…so we ended up having several mangos each day…ohhh now I’m missing these days even more…
Sweet life
Some days, the tristesse of the smalltowns I work or live in is pulling me down, so I can’t enjoy anything then but Yoga and running, or escaping to the woods…but these days I feel fine, even while spending day by day in between grey walls and empty people. I think our inner state plays a huge role when it’s about daily life; we can choose to be sad and angry about everything, or we can choose to see beauty in everything. And yes, sometimes it feels impossible to see the beauty in everything, but it’s not, just harder sometimes. And finally: The way you feel, and the way you meet the world, the things will come to you, the world will come to you and invite you to adventures, you never even could imagine.
Why I need at least a second life/Travel plans
I’m quite stressed by my work these days as I also have to write stuff for university…and so I hardly find any time for doing things I love…or if I find time I’ve got less time left for sleeping…so I have to get enough sleep at the weekends which means again that I’ll have less time for writing, painting, hiking, running, Yoga…so, no matter what I do, there’s not enough time for everything. Sometimes I feel like I need at least a second life to do all the things I’d love to do.
But what I actually wanted to write about is, what makes me keep doing all of this:
Looking forward to my next journey, not a long journey this time, but a journey I’ve been waiting for for a long time..to a magical place I’ve already been to in autumn 2018…: Portugal!
24.01.2019//14.44//now
Today everything feels different. And actually everything is different now. While sitting in the bus, listening to music and following my thoughts wherever, I suddenly knew, what I were trying to figure out since years.
20.01.2019//19.01//now
When I went for that hike, I walked through a dark, grey landscape, not able to see anything bc of all the fog. I had no idea that already after a few kilometers walking up the mountains, there wouldn’t be any more fog….and so I ended up on a sunny mountain top above the clouds. Well…I had to head back to the cloudy landscape afterwards…but now I know, that there’s sun above the clouds – and I know how to get there. It doesn’t mean, I’ll always be able to reach the sunny mountain top..neither it means, all my problems are solved, when I’m up there…but it’s so important to know that there’s so much more than what we see in our daily routine, what we call “normal” in western society, that we sometimes just don’t know how beautiful and crazy life can be, as long as we’re not leaving our home and start to follow unknown paths, facing challenges and experiencing adventures, loosing the path sometimes…but finally arriving at the sunny top of the mountain…and as we look down, our life back then seems so small and unimportant, so boring and without any adventures, without any possibilities to reach something or to loose something, it seems like we’ve not been alive at all before. Right now I’m back home, and enjoying the safety of having a job and studying, of having a place to live and of having the same people around me each day…but missing that sunny mountain top badly…and actually I’m not sure, if I can keep going like this, living in this capitalist system, as if everything in the world was fine, or if I have to leave once again, to return to the sunny mountain top – and this time forever.
13.01.2019//11.22//now
Everything is possible, nothing is sure.
The last week was full of new things, learning and trying, and new situations which made me feel like a first class student again, knowing nothing yet. But I’ll keep learning and trying…and then I’ll decide if I keep going like now or if I quit. So nothing is sure; 2020 definitely will be a year full of changes…However, there are a few things helping me through such days…one of them is hiking. The picture I took at the “Belchen”, a mountain near my home in the Black Forest, where I hiked with a friend yesterday.
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Fullmoon
That fullmoon I captured weeks ago in the city where I study…Together with the pumpkin field in the front and the houses in the back, it was a magical view, short before darkness.
Everything is burning.
There’s no question that climate change is the main reason for these fires. And climate change is human-made. Climate change is just a very visible result of capitalism. If we want to stop the climate change to save ourselves and the living-beings around us, to save our life and future, to save the earth, we need to overcome capitalism. Stop being a part of capitalism. There are thousands of ways to get out of it! Some of them I’ll post here in the next few weeks.