Dream. Here, there and beyond.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Men always wanted to reach the stars. There are days when the stars look distant and imperceptible, others when it seems I can touch them and feel their warmth and power. All I know is that the stars had always represented a dream, a mission a need for travel and exploration.
I think that life is too short to live only in one place, at least mentally. As human beings, we need to explore, know and experience what life has to offer. Then we can dream. To create a dream, we need
to know, to see and to understand. What makes dreams so unique, is the contaminations of all those things which have interacted with us consciously or unconsciously.
I don't want to reach a star yet, I would be content having reached as many places as possible on this planet.
I decided to work on this lifelong dream and try to travel as much as possible, to read a lot and meet people from all around the world. One step at the time, one piece after the other. After all, stars had million years to reach us.

Tied to my Tao

To go back, continuously, as if there was something unsolved. Each time living the same situations, the same life, the same grueling lie.

Those were the most difficult years, years that I myself find it hard to believe that I lived and let myself experience.

I didn't know much about the Tao then, not as I know it now.

Now I can see how all those situations that I had left suspended, were waiting for nothing but seeing me return, standing by with a proud and irreverent look.

The eternal movement of yin yang has dragged me fiercely through the middle and I know that I will be caught in the eternal cycle over and over until my spirit is able to step out and rise above to finally observe what holds me still blocked.

I feel chained to my own life, unable to escape a fate that I often struggle to understand. And I float limply in a river whose current is too strong for me to go upstream; helpless, I would like to let go and allow the power of my thoughts to finally drag me down.

Maybe, just so I could understand that I am not able to control everything.

The wisest me has always known that there was a universal current by which to let me rock and eventually ride the wave, but unfortunately, the rational me loved too much to fight everything and everyone and lived to prove to herself that reason was worth more than happiness.

Now I know that there are no paths or indications in the Tao, the Tao is a circle. And I will continue to circulate with the seasons and with the overwhelming alternation of day and night.

Only the light, free and enlightened spirit knows the way since by its nature it has no interest in knowing it.