The past few days I’ve spent in my mobile home again. My husband calls it our “Wellblechhütte”. Our “corrugated iron hut”.
I just love being there. Life has a different pace. We sleep a little longer. It’s often been told that the sea air makes people sleepy. I read on Google: “Sea air is charged with healthy negative ions that accelerate our ability to absorb oxygen. Negative ions also balance levels of serotonin, a body chemical linked with mood and stress.”
The past few days when we got up, the sun was up already. We had breakfast outside. A nice German way of putting it is: “Wir lebten in den Tag hinein”. We lived into the day. We lived for the moment. To live without a thought for tomorrow. Which comes a lot more natural to children than to adults.
Of course, it is important as well to think about tomorrow. To care for our future or even the future of our children and the future of this planet. But it is wonderful to have a few days now and then – or even just a few moments – where nothing matters but the moment we are in.
“Entschleuningen” is what it is called in Germany. To decelerate, to take out the gear, to slow down.
Even the Internet has a completely different pace over there, which makes it easier to disconnect. You could get frustrated about the very limited connectivity. But you can also just let it be.
There were several times the past few days where I send off a little Tweet in my head. Yet Twitter isn’t made for telepathic thoughts yet, so these moments didn’t get captured. Some moments are just too good to tweet them.
I paused my Magic test of seven, just for a few days. Tomorrow I will reconvene. I started writing up my seven things to do, but I ended up with more than twenty :-) As usual I have no lack of plans. But as I told a friend yesterday, most plans don’t get stale. You can park them, tackle them one at a time or just pace them a little differently. We don’t need to run so fast that we take our breath away. I haven’t signed up for the short distance. At least I sure hope I didn’t. I probably have another 40 years to do all those things I still would like to discover, unravel and enjoy.
There are many quotes that urge us to speed up like “The trouble is, you think you have time”. Don’t take them too seriously. We won’t know what tomorrow brings, but we can just adjust our pace with the beat of our heart. All we need to do is listen. Listen to what our heart is whispering.
I wish you all a wonderful Monday and a great week!
