Day 3 - The genesis of all this...
03.09.2011
Today is saturday, so I don't feel like doing much planning for the trip. I guess Montreal is a bad option to star the trip, just for the fact that the flights seem to be very expensive, comparing with the good deals I can make if I fly to Boston. But today I feel like living the present and reminding a bit of the past and how this all began.
For years, I dreamed with USA and living or doing a road trip there . But was something I kept postponing, somehow waiting for it to happen miraculously. And we all know that we can't wait for things to happen, we have to make them happen!
So yesterday, I was thinking about when this utopian dream became a reality. Or better, the moment when it stopped being just one of those things everyone says they want to do, but never do... to become a concrete and viable plan, to be accomplished in a certain time and place. And that moment was one apparently normal day, while having breakfast, in Berlin, chatting with my girfriend at the time, Violet (nickname).
And although we are no longer together, she will always be the person I will credit for the start of "this", whatever "this" might mean. We used to have long breakfasts, which are memorable for me, and we'd talk about all kinds of things, our dreams, our hopes, our goals...everything! That day, I was talking about my fascination about USA and that sooner or later I would have to go there or live there. And Violet just said (I still remember it clearly): "If you want to do it, just do it! Start planning it today, start saving money or whatever you need to do today, but do it, otherwise you will never feel in peace with yourself". These words gave me such a confidence boost, I just thought: "Yes it's possible and I can do it, I will do it!". And since then, I started preparing for this big journey. "Then" was more than a year ago and here I am today, full of energy and ready to make the arrangements for the trip of a lifetime!
Life takes us to many places and brings us lots of random or not so random enconteurs with people. About Violet, I know that no matter where life will take, I will always remember that she was in the genesis of all this and be forever thankful for that. To me, her strong and uncondicional encouragement to follow my dreams, irrespective of herself, is the ultimate demonstration of true love. And that's just beautiful.
Danke schön, Violet!
Posted by ZackFontang 04:39 Archived in Portugal
