The Secret of a Happy Simple Life
So this year, I really got the essence of the character of November here on the island. I have spent more Novembers here already, but this one was a special one. It must have been something with me spending the entire year here. A new thing, which I never did before. Having the opportunity to closely contemplate and feel the differences between each month, the seasons…
When I arrived to this island, years ago, for a short visit of just a few days, my first thought right in the “porto” where the “traghetto” left me, was:
"What the hell I’ll be doing here all week? 3 or 4 days will be enough, and then I’ll leave, that’s for sure!
Ha ha… very funny, our thoughts, our first impressions, may it be about the places or people.
How funny, how so often exactly the opposite is going to happen to us. Just like it happened to me. And not only with the island, but also with one of its male inhabitants one and a half year after my first landing, and that silly conclusion of mine.
This little island, as I perceive it today, is like a magical treasure chest. It’s so small, but by some kind of inexplicable magic it still, after not just a few days, but years, surprises me. Always, every day! May it be new scents, new places, possibilities, discoveries.
But I think I know, what is it, the mysterious secret of this little spot in the middle of deep blue salty waters, which slowly penetrates beneath the surface of your thoughts. It is its authenticity, which it still keeps, regardless the fast changing world there, seemingly far away from here and yet so close.
The “terra ferma” is not far from here, but it feels like it exists in a different world with all the rush and traffic, big shopping centers and so many other things, and yes, all the amazing possibilities too.
But it is the simplicity of the life you are “forced” to start to adopt here although you were used to live differently. That is the secret.
You discover, step by step, that the things, which you were missing in the beginning, you miss no more, because… quite unexpectedly, your life became so much bigger and real.
Love, K.
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