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Mireille - Bali - 2015

1/8/2015

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“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”- quote left by Mireille (from Holland) in Bali.

I met Mireille in a hostel in Bali and as we went for lunch one day she let me in on what she really wanted to study - which was the science of happiness. Her next stop in Thailand was going to offer courses at the mahidol university on exactly that. But more than a university, Thailand is also a place packed with travellers. She concluded that day that maybe travelling was for her the best way to understand what happiness was for others ; as the pursuit of happiness happens in many forms, no traveller ever went out in the world to seek unhappiness. He goes out in the world to find a sharper definition of what it means to him, and how to obtain it. And maybe in the end this is why our connections with fellow travellers are always much more meaningful than in our "other" lives – because as we all seek to go after what makes us happy – it changes us and makes us connect deeper with people who are looking for the same…So sometimes I wonder - why only limit ourselves to seeking happiness in travel – if we could be doing it back home – if that is in the end what makes us connect deeper as humans…?
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Diego Sebastian - Madrid - 2015

1/8/2015

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Diego Sebastian :
“Hay situaciones en la vida donde pequeños momentos generan grandes historias”
"There are situations in life where small moments generate big stories"

 
-Tienes fuego?
-Si…
I met Diego one night in Madrid at 3am as I was sitting on a bench in Tirso de Molina having a cigarette.
Like many of the encounters you did in this city, some lasted the time of a question and an answer – and others lasted hours into the night. This one was one that drifted; and it were these little encounters that I loved so much about this city.
What usually triggered it all, was that one word you pronounced, that one sentence you said, or sometimes even that one look you gave. In our case, Diego noticed I had a blank look, and he asked about it.
While we tottered into more intimate details about our lives, he spoke of the healing nature of some of the very physical massages he learned in India, while I stared at him with subtle disbelief. But Diego will probably never know, that after that night, as he hugged me goodbye as old friends would and cracked my back to show me but an example – my backed snapped, and so did something in me. Days later I found myself running out of a show only to cry for no good reason.
Like a side-effect waiting to happen, I let it all out when I least suspected it. And it became a wake up call that some emotions, no matter how much we judged them, needed a time and place to come out. Even out of small encounters like this one.
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    "Last words for the Road" by Lauren Klarfeld

    Book-in-the-making : A  collection of hand written quotes left by the people I met on the road (7 years and running)

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