- Alone in Berlin.
- Are you complaining? You are living in Berlin, an awesome city where everyone finds his place, where nobody is never alone.
I have never considered myself brave. Indeed, the opposite. But here I am, starting a new life in Berlin. To start, to make yourself up again are always hard and although, we know it, we know that sometimes we are going to be alone, it does not makes it easier:. And this time, there is no university or friends holding me. This time is only me and a city with more than 3,5 million strangers. I moved here to work in a really small NGO and I am sharing a cute flat with a nice flatmate (although, for now, our lives are totally different). Of course, both are ways to start meeting people but yet, things take time and patience and after a few weeks of living here, meeting some people, this weekend was a "lonely" one. Yet, patience is either none of my virtues.
The last couple of years have taught me to be a bit more patience, to take things easy (and as they come), to realize some decisions are taking me away from important events I want to be, and to understand that there is no easy neither fast way to reach our aims but at least, we have people that are always willing to help us.But, although I learned it and to be alone, it is still hard to move and start a new life and we need someone who tells us that we are taking the right decision. Or at least, I need it. That is why I am in the middle of Germany's capital, wishing I were in some other place with people willing to hug me and offer me a kind smile. Or just with someone who calls me to go for a beer and tells me how things are going.
One friend is always advising me that there are no wrong or right decisions. We decide to go one way according to the information we have in that particular moment. And as we tend to choose what we think it is better in that moment, we are doing the right thing. Once we took the decision, it is only life (or luck or destiny) and our acts and behaviours what can change it, keep it...
So, here I am, trying to be patience and brave, taking a lot of new decisions and being strong enough to keep the one that took me to Berlin but among all, living each day. The end, it might does not matter (or not so much). What matters is the way. Getting up every morning, thinking about what we are, what we want and we have to offer. finding our way to reach our daily goals and at the end, going back to sleep thinking that we have done all we can, we have been that person we want to be and, that we might be one step closer to our objective (which can change with time and daily events).
I might not be brave, I might be afraid of loneliness and I have no patience at all. But I learned that the steps that took me to this point were only mine. So I only need to BE PATIENT. Yesterday a cup with this famous quote told me."Auch der weiteste Weg beginnt mit einem ersten Schritt" ( The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step).
- Are you complaining? You are living in Berlin, an awesome city where everyone finds his place, where nobody is never alone.
I have never considered myself brave. Indeed, the opposite. But here I am, starting a new life in Berlin. To start, to make yourself up again are always hard and although, we know it, we know that sometimes we are going to be alone, it does not makes it easier:. And this time, there is no university or friends holding me. This time is only me and a city with more than 3,5 million strangers. I moved here to work in a really small NGO and I am sharing a cute flat with a nice flatmate (although, for now, our lives are totally different). Of course, both are ways to start meeting people but yet, things take time and patience and after a few weeks of living here, meeting some people, this weekend was a "lonely" one. Yet, patience is either none of my virtues.
The last couple of years have taught me to be a bit more patience, to take things easy (and as they come), to realize some decisions are taking me away from important events I want to be, and to understand that there is no easy neither fast way to reach our aims but at least, we have people that are always willing to help us.But, although I learned it and to be alone, it is still hard to move and start a new life and we need someone who tells us that we are taking the right decision. Or at least, I need it. That is why I am in the middle of Germany's capital, wishing I were in some other place with people willing to hug me and offer me a kind smile. Or just with someone who calls me to go for a beer and tells me how things are going.
One friend is always advising me that there are no wrong or right decisions. We decide to go one way according to the information we have in that particular moment. And as we tend to choose what we think it is better in that moment, we are doing the right thing. Once we took the decision, it is only life (or luck or destiny) and our acts and behaviours what can change it, keep it...
So, here I am, trying to be patience and brave, taking a lot of new decisions and being strong enough to keep the one that took me to Berlin but among all, living each day. The end, it might does not matter (or not so much). What matters is the way. Getting up every morning, thinking about what we are, what we want and we have to offer. finding our way to reach our daily goals and at the end, going back to sleep thinking that we have done all we can, we have been that person we want to be and, that we might be one step closer to our objective (which can change with time and daily events).
I might not be brave, I might be afraid of loneliness and I have no patience at all. But I learned that the steps that took me to this point were only mine. So I only need to BE PATIENT. Yesterday a cup with this famous quote told me."Auch der weiteste Weg beginnt mit einem ersten Schritt" ( The journey of one thousand miles begins with a single step).
P.S. I also can start to go alone in pubs to have a beer as I have never done it but it seems it is something quite normal in Berlin (my flatmate told me that and she told me she has done it too).
