Blick auf alte Jugendstilhäuser im Winter, Sonnenaufgangs-Himmel

BONJOUR TRISTESSE.

The new year has picked up speed and I have to keep calibrating myself so that life doesn’t absorb me like a pinball. Instead, I keep the reins in my hand – without being too controlling. It’s a balancing act between DOING and BEING. BEING mode is important for me. Because it’s the only place where I get my impulses for my blog and ideas for my weekly LinkedIn posts and selfies. If I don’t get any inspiration, I know I’m too busy DOING. Sometimes it helps to stroll through the weekly market with music playing in my ears. Or sitting in my favourite café watching people.

To escape the winter “tristesse” for a moment and shed new light on my sometimes heavy thoughts, I’m flying to South Africa tonight. A new adventure awaits me. I live and work in a shared flat 30 minutes in south of Cape Town. With young people in their early/mid-30s who work from Cape Town every year. I don’t know any of the flatmates personally. Just via video call (laugh*).

What can I expect?
I have no idea!

But having travelled to Tel Aviv, I am familiar with variables. I’ve stopped planning everything through. Through my work and my online training as a scientific trainer, which I am currently doing, there are a few fixed anchors anyway. So I’m just moving my workplace to a bright place. And I’m curious to see what people and adventures I’ll encounter over the next few weeks. Through a friend and a former client who has family there, I’m already in contact with locals I want to meet.

Life is fragile. What’s past is past. And I don’t know what the future may bring. But what I do know is that there is still a lot of exploratory energy in me that I want to savour. So what am I waiting for?

The here and now is mine!
Adieu tristesse.

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