Without being too profound, I want to reflect for a moment on some recent impressions. While home for a few days I spent time with friends in my neighbourhood, many of whom are elderly persons. In the last years many of them have aged quite quickly, to the point at which mobility is now an issue for them. Some of them traveled regularly until recent illnesses and disabilities made even traveling with organised groups impossible. The point is that as I was telling of my upcoming adventure, I could see their sadness that their days of freedom are gone and feel how much they would like to go out to explore one more time. This is the end that awaits nearly all of us. I feel very fortunate for my health and for the freedom and ability to live every moment with enthusiasm. This is a richness that as a younger man I did not understand and now that this has become part of me, I feel indeed very much better and complete and fulfilled. All the time I wasted chasing wealth, power, status.....what a mistake. In the end it caused much more loss than gain.
Sure, at the moment many issues in my life are quite messed up and rather confusing, but all that will work out. Of this I am sure. More about all that later. For the moment I invite you to enjoy the photos I made last night.
What an amazing trip and what an interesting idea to share it with other people. It is very nice and pleasent to read about you and your trip. Yes, there are often difficult turning-points in our lives. If only all our questions could be answered. It's often difficult to make major decisions, but some people never make major decisions and end up having "missed out" on things and in the process have lost out on gaining wisdom -which is the best outcome of any difficult decision we have made; it does not matter, in the end, if our decision was a good one or a bad one -whatever the outcome, we will always become wiser having gone through the experience...
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