farewell to Laura

We left as two big girls
We will return as two women
Where to begin?
A letter that starts from the heart never begins with the beginning
That’s why : the end
Nepal, the trek
It is so beautiful to see you here in the mountains after 5 months of traveling together
In your eyes I see change compared with the start
I see your passions arising, your dreams becoming more defined, your ideas more clear
And what I know for sure, I just know
Is that you will reach the goal you want to reach
Without any doubt, without looking back
Maybe with a detour, a side road, a run-up, an obstacle on the road
But what is sure is that your goal whatever it may be
Is within your reach
What a power
There aren`t many people who can create there life in that way, according to their wishes
You possess a sort of power that attracts what you need in order to go forward
And that`s where you`re going
Forward
All the time forward
Even if sometimes it doesn`t seem so, it is

You have the quality to change
To observe yourself and draw conclusions out of it
To stay true to yourself
Sometimes at the cost of being on time
And of my patience
But that`s only my own problem
Having lost yourself to eventually
Find yourself
More pure, more real, more honest, more feminine
Back

Those are the things I have seen
And of which I take a little piece with me
Just because they`re beautiful and right

As if this trek is a concentrate of the whole trip
Everything is being lived so intensely
The lessons we learned the last months are being applied
The troubles we had with ourselves, in ourselves, with each other
Are being pured out and dissolved
The pleasure stays and increases

As if this trek is a resume
A necessary goal
Where nature, human, time, space, clouds, snow, silence, past, future, now come together and become one

To share that with someone is very powerful

In the beginning of the trip I`ve written down something, a wish
That we would help each other to grow
That wish has been heard

Thanks to our faith in life
In things and how they go
Thanks to our willingness to learn, to keep on changing, to search, research
Thanks to our ability to be flexible

We are traveling together
Soon it will be that we were traveling together
Each with her own mindset
Each with her own things to process
Each with her own goal
And it works, it works
It worked, it worked

Beyond the differences I`ve learned to see you
It is a lesson of every day
Adjusting the image you have
With each step
Not clinging to a moment, a word
But continuing
On your own rhythm
And still together
Leaving space for each others growth
And still together

To have the opportunity to be with someone on a turning point
In life and thoughts
In body and heart
Is very intimate
Very intense

We left as two big girls
We will return as two women
Thanks to each other
Thanks to you
Thanks, to you