Back in Hamburg

After 6 months traveling around like a postcard and living out of a suitcase, overcoming cultural shock, jet-leg and Paris syndrome (turns out my condition in Paris after Tokyo has a name. It's actually a disease for those coming from Tokyo to Paris! google it!)

I am Back in Hamburg!

Well, then off to Munich for a day and then back to Hamburg again...So a lot has been happening. But once I am back here, it feels like nothing has changed- as if I have never ever been to so many places, seen so many things...seems like I've been stuck here forever! And it's kind of nice.

Nothing has changed but ME!

And if I have to summarize in a few words what I have been through in those 6 months, I'd better use somebody's wiser words:

"I have forgiven mistakes that were indeed almost unforgivable. I've tried to replace people who were irreplaceable and tried to forget those who were unforgettable. I've acted on impulse, have been disappointed by people when I thought that this could never be possible. But I have also disappointed those who I love. I have laughed at inappropriate occasions. I've made friends that are now friends for life. I've screamed and jumped for joy. I've loved and I've been loved. But I have also been rejected and I have been loved without loving the person back. I've lived for love alone and made vows of eternal love. I've had my heart broken many, many times! I've cried while listening to music and looking at old pictures. I've called someone just to hear their voice on the other side. I have fallen in love with a smile. At times, I thought I would die because I missed someone so much. At other times, I felt very afraid that I might loose someone very special (which ended up happening anyway.) But I have lived! And I still continue living everyday. I'm not just passing through life... and you shouldn't either. Live! The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while been grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant."

Charlie Chaplin

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry.

And I know you do the same things too. So we are not that different, me and you...