Namaste, Ayubowan, Mingguhlaba, Sawadeekaa. As this point I am starting to mix up all these greetings.

Before I left home I thought I wouldn't even make it to one blog. But I am starting to enjoy these moments of reflection. Thanks to my friend Martin. He encouraged me to write the first one with him. The lovely reactions from family and friends that follow every time after my posts and pictures are so nice. Thank you.

This is my halftime. Taking time to look back, digesting my experiences (past). Enjoying this positive, happy flow (present). Figuring out how all these new perspectives will fit in my new life (future).

How it stared
Back again in Bangkok, the town where three years ago my first big adventure far away from home started. Wouter and I travelled through Thailand, got to know so many people from different nationalities and made experiences that last with me for a lifetime. I fell in love with it. What impressed me? The charm of a new culture, the smells, the food, the ambience. It was like being in a completely new world. Never in my life was it very clear for me how my future would look like, but travelling the world was the only thing that was always on my horizon. Giving me happy body feelings.

Travelling on my own was the other big dream and last year I knew en felt it: it is time! Talked about it a lot and finally I was brave enough to push it forward, booked a ticket, quit my job and left all my securities behind.

The road
The longer I am away from home, my real life, the stronger my trip becomes. It is not about seeing as much as I can, going to as many countries and destinations as possible. It is about my personal journey, what I am experiencing here. Without looking for it, new things keep crossing my path, challenging me, helping me to get new perspectives of myself and life.

Moving forward
On the 8^th of May I will fly back to my beloved India, this time to the magical North. While there are so many interesting countries yet to discover, I decided it is time to go again into one of my favorite things; doing yoga. And where else than India. In Uttarkashi I am going to follow an intensive one month Teacher Trainer Course. I am looking forward going into this PP - personal project.

Grateful
At this moment I am reminding myself every day to be grateful that my birthright is in a country filled with possibilities, for example to make a trip like trip. The many situations that I come acrossevery day make me realize, that this is not always that obvious in life. Even in nice surroundings like today at the airport in Myanmar. A Burmese man sitting next to me in the airplane. Me making yet another flight. For him it looks like his first time, making pictures every other second from every angle of the airplane. Being excited like a young schoolboy. Reminding me that it isn't just something to cross hundreds of kilometers in only 1,5 hours. My inner child starts spontaneous jumping up and down too...almost arriving in one of my favorite cities.

Grateful for Wouter, being such an openminded partner. Giving me all this time and space togo out and explore. Grateful for everybody back home, all your little messages, feeling your support. Grateful for the people who I met, building new friendships.

My travel time also makes me realize that the world is yours. If you truly want something, you can have it.

Biggest learning so far? The art of living, being just a beginner.....

Much light and love,
Marjolein