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Rounding of the evening and holiday period
A glass of red to celebrate that the holiday period is finally over, and I now face busier days. Days filled with more work, business matters, studies, and workout, moving forward.
The day has been marked by tranquil power walks with music and reflection, gentle taps on keypads, calling with pops, and, later, a few quality moments indulging in some local down-to-earth delicacies.
It’s time to get back on routine. Eat less out. Workout more and focus on the core things.
The studies went fine. I look forward to the rest of it.
I did my steps today.
I have proof of this!
V, for victorious!
English essay
Fragments of my soul
A red rose, a glass of red wine, flowers and a beach.
“Life is a beach; and then you marry one.” Such was my life and attitude for a period of life as I travelled the world in pursuit of adventures and seizing days. Not without complications though. Due to various circumstances, I was travelling light. On short budget.
I still made it.
Life was a beach.
When I was young, I saw the movie The Beach and years later, partially inspired by that movie, I found my own. Life has been hard some days and challenging. Yet I stand here today – both feet on the ground – safe and sound, alive and well, with only lessons, experience and sound conclusions. With sand between my toes. I was even asked to be the wedding model in Nikki Beach one time. I almost married one. There just was no bride for the occasion to be found and so it was moved to a main office location instead before I could make it.
I travelled. I dared. I lived. I made it.
I found my beach.
It’s a fragment of my soul.
I can still get married.
I once fell in love with a woman I was intimate with. Just as we had gotten to the point of being intimate from just being friends, she one day announced: “I’m moving permanently to my father in the Dominican Republic.”
One thing led to another. I bought a last-minute ticket just before she was going to leave. I left my temporary accommodation and my job; and two people got on that plane. Never be the one who wonders.
We live, and we learn.
I lost confidence and power as I had no foundation there and couldn’t communicate properly as everyone spoke Spanish and only very little English. Within short, I was on a flight back home.
Coming home I walked around in Stockholm where I had met her and listened to “Beautiful Disaster” by Kelly Clarkson. It resonated deeply with the situation: “I was a beautiful disaster.”
Not exactly as in the song, but in my own way, as my own lyrics and story, with that key-phrase and feeling from the song about it.
Pursuing the dream and hope of true love had left me in disaster.
Perhaps if certain circumstances in the background had been different, the eventuation would have been better, and destiny would have been written more to my fortune. We never know. We must continue to pursue. And try not to wonder.
I came back empty-handed, landed in disaster, but also; with a sense of destiny and a type of self-respect for daring to pursue what even the hope of is more important than the petty daily arrangements.
One thing resulted in another. I had no job or apartment, and this led to a friend and I applying for jobs in Barcelona as telemarketing agents. We lived temporarily in a hostel, without much of a budget. My life was a mess.
In that hostel, I somehow stumbled upon a poem that has stuck with me until today:
“Snus är blott snus, om än I gyllene dosor, men även I spruckna krus, rosor förbliva rosor”
“Dirt is only dirt, if so in golden cases, but roses will always be roses, even in broken vases”
That’s how a rose is a fragment of my soul. I realized perhaps not that day – but over time – that what truly defines us is our values, behavior, solidarity, intent and self-loyalty. Who we choose to be and deserve to become. Even if my life is broken, I am still a rose in a cracked vase. It’s who we truly are that matters.
Roses will always be roses.
Flowers are another fragment of my soul, representing doing your best, acting your finest, making the most of yourself and your life and living in a beautiful way, also with gratitude and appreciation, blossoming.
A glass of red wine is another fragment of my soul, and it represents indulgence, pursuing and appreciating what’s good in life – both your passion for life and what’s enjoyable and delightful. Much like red wine, life can be both down-to-earth or sophisticated and luxurious, and still be precious, beautiful and enjoyable in just that way. Red wine can be varied and appreciated in different ways to suit the prestige and purpose of the situation. It can be a summer day with reggae music in the tower of Nynäshamn and friendly laughter, it can be sophisticated moments in fine restaurants, tears in the apartment with music as rain falls outside, representation with discerning clientele, and it can be had straight from the bottle at a rock concert with a flaming date. Much like red wine, I can vary with the occasion and be indulged in life in different ways as I pursue what’s meaningful and enjoyable. Precious. Valuable, and invaluable.
The art is to seize the days in a way that also builds better tomorrows. We are not certain of tomorrow, yet we are likely to face it – in the results of today. So, let’s cherish the days and nights but with a balanced lifestyle, honoring and seizing the day, yet, ambitious and mindful of the future.
Have a glass of red.
Indulge in life!
*Alcohol-free options are available to you. Be healthy and live well.
*Do not drink before studying. Only afterwards and be responsible about your life and commitments.
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