…the end

As my trip comes to an early closure I’m looking back at more than 7 months of travelling through 14 different countries. More than half of this time I spent in Nepal.

As I liked to point out from the beginning: there’s a plan, but it’s allowed to change. That was an approach that served me well and that I recommend to everyone planning something similar: give yourself the certainty of a plan and the freedom for it to change.

And that’s what happened. For good reasons I got stuck in Nepal, much longer than planned. For good reasons I decided not to go further from here. Those have nothing to do with the current health situation in asia, allthough it verifies my decision yet in another way.

The truth is, I’ve had enough of travelling and long for some stability. I’m happy I did travel, but everything has it’s time.

I am thankful for all the moments and experiences, the good ones, as well as the bad ones, of which there were more than my blog made believe. But the difficulties, the longing, the sadness, the frustration, the insecurities, the exhaustion too are teachers. The kind of the old and wise ones, that like to speak in riddles that perplex us and need time to ferment back in the dark ends of our minds until they have ripened and we are finally ready to cherish their lesson.

One of those key lesson is that what matters is not where we are, what we do, what we see or what we eat but how we relate. How we relate to ourselves, to our experiences and to the people around us makes all the difference. And this we do every moment, be it in an office, at home or in in the middle of the desert in turkmenistan.

I am grateful for all the people that I met and the friends that I made. I wish all of them only the best, happiness, health and lifes full of ease and joy.

Allthough my trip comes to an end and with it this little blog, it is clear that life itself is a journey that keeps on changing, sometimes in a more obvious and sometimes in a rather subtle manner.

I’m now looking forward to going home to my much beloved Vienna and to seeing my friends and family. I plan on keeping doing sculpture and ceramics. Working with the medium clay is highly satisfying and comes easy to me. Thats why I want to explore „playing with dirt“ as a potential carreer for a few months and see how that goes. With an upcoming exhibition in China in september (if the health situation will allow for it), the next travels are already in planning. But the future is uncertain, and as we know, plans can always change and likely will.

I wish all those who are reading this well. May you have peace and happiness in your lives.