I will always remember these words from someone very close to me before I left Europe. We were talking about this overland life in Africa I was busy planning with all my heart.
This person saw and followed each step of the preparation. One day they told me that I will get bored of this life, I will get bored of spending time with myself, of living such a basic lifestyle, of changing horizon every single day, of new encounters and goodbyes, of neglecting my career, my future, my personal life, and that I will get bored of missing family and friends.
Today, it’s going to be 20 months that I’m living on the road. Alone, in my 4x4 Rafiki. 20 months that every time I open my eyes, I fall in love with this life, with who I am, with this simple and meaningful lifestyle, with this changing sun every day, and a new moon every night, with all these people so different from me, with the courage of being free, the courage to live deeply in the present moment, the courage to carry a mental charge and challenges on my own, the courage to ignore society’s standards and bullshits, I am in love even more every day with that dream I fought to happen in my life.
‘Charline, we will see in one year’. There is nothing to see, but to feel. And what I am feeling in my heart while typing these words is something that even the most beautiful poem cannot express.
PS: the evolution of Rafiki in 4 photos (from least to most recent)
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