In conclusion of 12 days in Europe with a good old friend…

This trip was a turning point in my life… it was revealing in many aspects. It helped me realize there is too much beauty to life to be wasted on regrets or feeling sorry for paths in life that I did not take willingly and which blinds me from taking the paths that I am willing to take.

The resemblance between my friend and me was abnormal. We read the same books, we are both a middle child, both Leos, we are both the rouge one of our families and we even have the same preferences when it comes to shoes. And let me elaborate on this shoes coincidence because it was quite funny. When we first met, we were wearing the same brand and only figured out the next day, which so happened to be another day in which we were wearing a different brand than the day before but still the same brand as each other!!!

The resemblances in our choices and preferences made me question, and affirm, some of my basic concepts in life, and right now, I am more convinced than ever that there is no such thing in life as chance. However, I started to believe in the concept of “meant to be” although I am still searching for the answer of why things are meant to be the way they are?

Life just keeps giving us clues but always forgets to give us the keys to interpret them… I guess it is up to us to find those keys.

A predominant subject that we have been discussing a lot was “relationships”, some how I still know a thing or two about these, and apparently, I haven’t lost my faith completely on the same. In fact, I haven’t lost my faith at all, somewhere deep inside my clouded heart I still believe that there is more to life than one big-time screwed-up relationship.

I right now believe that we should not miss on life because we are scared or not sure. We should build our criteria upon our needs and not our desires because the former are durable but the latter are ever changing. The need is the driving emotion of the human heart but desire is the byproduct of such need. That’s, basically, what makes us differ from animals, and ironically that what makes some animals differ from most – so called – humans.

The farewell moments were emotional, some how we bonded within these twelve days as we could have done in the twelve years, had we been interacting in real life. She told her friends one day that “some how we had this soul-mate thing going on between us since the start” her words crossed my mind while I hugged her and kissed her hands goodbye. I felt proud of her and myself for proving to the world that humanity can still prevail despite of all the madness that is going on.

We’ve already made plans for our next meet and I am very much looking forward to that.

Who knows where life will take us from there?

Norway - God's heaven on Earth...

Norway is god’s heaven on earth, you can tell that from the first encounter. My friend says “god had a very good day when he created Norway” I guess that should be enough to convey the meaning.

It is impressive to see the mixture of the four elements of the human origin combined in one massive painting that shows god’s creativity. For those of you who have not yet seen that in their lives … perhaps Norway will be the best demonstration.

It maked me wonder about the message god wanted to convey to humanity by giving some people deserts and oil and giving others rivers and forests…

We visited many places, and have been to more than half a dozen of forests looking for mushrooms and cram berries. That was fun. The landscapes here are breathtaking, and the fresh air is like nothing I have experienced before. One of the things that is worth mentioning is the mailbox at Nisseloft Brevhus, which they process once a year only around Christmas time so that all greetings messages have to be christmas related... a nice cheerful idea.

Something grows inside you as you stroll along the Norwegian countryside, I wish I know what that is.

From Denmark to Norway...

We have been driving all night. We crossed Denmark and we made three stops only. One of them was near Hamburg Germany. I was impressed by the German countryside, and not so much with the Danish, some how the latter is typical to ones expectations of a rural area. At one of the stops my friend had a Danish hot chocolate and based upon that, I would advise everyone to stick to Swiss chocolate :)

It has been raining for sometime now, but the sun is coming out from time to time to greet the one coming from the east. We have waited to board the ferry to Norway for a while but one can never be bored when the water meets the greenery, in addition for someone who was -twice - on a bus for three days and three nights, I do not think that is an issue. The weather is cold which I like the most. The lady giving us the boarding pass to the ferry gave us sickness pills because of the weather. I suppose that was a nice gesture, judging by the expressions made by my company.

We are on the ferry now we went to have a look from the back of the ferry and in less than 15 Min the land was gone, right now there is nothing around us but the raging Northern Sea and the sweet smell coming from the unknown.

Germany...

I arrived at Dusseldorf an hour late because my flight was delayed for some reason. We recognized each other easily with no hesitations. My friend and her family are too good to me. They are very nice people. In the east, we stereotype all Europeans as just being cold… I can say now that this is not true. All the people whom I met up to this moment are so friendly even those who cannot speak a single English word.

We were babysitting my friend’s two years old niece today; she is so cute I cannot get enough of her although we cannot understand each other due to the language barriers. We toured around a bit and today we took a walk up hill, it was amazing. Everything here is just so green. It rained yesterday and now it is raining again. I really love that, it has been a while since I felt the rain on my skin.

My friend’s father went to have a hair cut today and the lady there knew that I was visiting… that made me realize how small this place really is and that barbers are the same everywhere :o)

We are heading to Norway tonight and everyone is excited about that, they say Norway is a heaven… and I thought I have seen it all… if Norway is heaven then what is this place right here???

Dubai Airport... connecting to Dusseldorf

I took a connecting flight to Dusseldorf, so now I have 2 hours layoff at Dubai. I like this airport its some how a friendly one although it is huge and you can walk here for 20 minutes before reach the passport control.

The airport has a free wireless internet connection and next to the first class lounge, the signal is great :O)

Now it is almost 1: 10 Dubai time and I will go around for a walk.