I already shared the video in my status yesterday. But today I wanted to write something else about it. I love the sound of rustling leaves. I really love it.
I was so happy about it. I’m doing it every day right now. And as I’m walking through the leaves, I realize how lucky I am to be here right now.
Again and again I come across “If I were as free as you, I would be in the sun right now.” “Or how can you be in Germany voluntarily if you don’t have to be.”
💥And therein lies the difference: I CAN but I don’t HAVE to. 💥
As much as I love traveling and as much as I love Portugal, I was really looking forward to spending autumn and Advent in Germany after 3 years. The fact that I am “free” (although the belief that I am not free is also an illusion) and have the opportunity to be wherever and whenever I want, means that I experience places and things in a completely different way. Namely also free from judgments, preconceptions or views. I now see things with “free” eyes and that gives me a completely different way of experiencing them.
My intention to give up my civil servant status in 2020 after 20 years was a logical conclusion of my inner processes and liberation at the time. A cosequence of my heart and my values. I didn’t go out there to travel. I got out of there because it was the next step for my soul to be able to develop freely. At their pace. Having the freedom to be myself. To follow my truth and my values and intentions. Giving them space. The freedom to be alive. The freedom to go my own way without limitations and inner constraints. Freedom is a personal expression of my soul and the essence of my inner being.
Like everything, freedom begins on the inside before it becomes visible on the outside. If you gradually free yourself from your inner shackles, evaluations, judgments, opinions, compulsions and ideas, this will also become more and more apparent on the outside.