It's Christmas day; and someone has just pointed out to me that I am going through a particularly exciting and eventful time of my life.. and that I should keep a record of it. I am not a diary keeper; numerous are the times that I attempted to keep a diary.. but after day 1 I am usually bored stiff of making a list of the events and emotional journeys and resort to a life with an unrecorded past.
However; I thought to myself.. if I don't at least mention these small steps for mankind, giant steps for Cicra-kind somewhere, one of two things can happen:
1. I wake up one day, sit up in bed all sweaty and out of breath, and wonder whether it was all real, or a really long sleep..
2. My future children and grandchildren will think that I am taking the mickey when I tell them how I climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or walked 800km across Spain, or moved to the land down under, or rode a mule up a mountain and nearly died in the process.
So, I decided I would find a way of putting pen to paper (as it turns out "finger to keyboard") and keep a record. My blog.. my companion during my darker years; was the answer. I hadn't evens saved it as a Favourite on my laptop.. so I had to internet search it. Finding Treshcan again was like finding a long lost friend: awkward!
And now, here we are.. ending a year of adventures. I am smiling to myself because if someone had to tell me I would do all that I have done lately.. I would have laughed at him and told him where to go.
The best starting point is the present. I am not sure I will feel like mentioning everything in the past.. but I am committed to at least note and analyse the future. At this very moment I am sitting in a country at the butt of the Earth, in an armchair, on a porch and I am in T-Shirt because here, Christmas is in Summer. An amazing person (probably the one that led me to and through this adventure) is sitting across from me and I have atrocious toothache. I have not worked for 6 months now.. and I am desperate for a job.. but here, you take things with pace and philosophy, even desperation. The sky is blue and the sun is shining (a lot!), which is quite an achievement considering that a few days ago the Earth had to end.
I I thought the next day: what if the World ends TODAY! That would be sooo ironic! "Yay the World did not end!".. Cabooom! (Silence).
"Take the plunge"
Adios
