As Seen by Dani

A Quick Ramble

Today I started a new book. 

The opening quote was from a poem by Pablo Neruda and it talked about having to go back to places with one’s own company, “with no task but to live, with no family but the road”. I thought it was such a beautiful piece, given to me by fate at such an appropriate time. 

My time here, although spent meeting and learning about many new friends, has also been a huge marker in my own history and my relationship with my own self. For a while I felt like a passenger in my own life’s journey, and this one month I have spent away has taught me more about being in control than the past two years of my adult life. 

I am genuinely, finally, euphoric. I am feeling everything so intensely, with that childlike enthusiasm of discovering new, seemingly mundane things. There’s something special about solitude. Something that I have, for a while been too afraid to discover, but that I am very curious about now. I have gotten a glimpse of it these past few days. There’s something special about this place, about Greece and its people that both reminds me of home but also feels oh, so new. I have never felt embraced by a place that doesn’t know me, until now.