I wrote this text a few weeks ago and I hesitated to post it. It did not seem like the appropriate moment, given that we have different priorities nowadays.
However, now I realise that it is important, precisely during this period, not to forget to hope, to dream, to wish to do different things.
So here it is:
With time, we realise that life holds fewer things for us, that some are not for us anymore, that ‘they are not age appropriate’, that we cannot do certain things. We learn to accept who we are, to change what we can change, and accept the predicament that we are in. And yet, I would like to believe that at any age we could:
Get excited at a piano concert.
Sing and feel the vibration with all our being at a Metallica concert.
Shed tears of happiness when we reach a place dear to us.
Miss some places so much, that we literally melt with sorrow.
Have an attitude that would make us the most beautiful person on an airplane (that is how an Air France flight attendant was on a recent flight).
Play with a child in order to let out our inner child be happy
Get goose bumps when reading a poem.
Get butterflies in our stomach when we did not believe that someone could surprise us anymore.
Enjoy dinner in a sophisticated restaurant as if it were our last meal on earth.
Walk in the rain without an umbrella because we are in a place, in a situation that makes us so happy that the rain does not matter.
Learn something new because we want to be part of the young world around us.
Do something daring, such as skydiving or going around the world on a plane.
Travel to at least one place that begins with every letter of the alphabet.
Cry during a movie, as we used to in our teens, when we would watch Anna Karenina, Doctor Jivago, Gone with the Wind 10 times.
Get the 40th pair of sunglasses because they are ‘glamorous’, and the 150th pair of shoes because they give us the pleasure of being tall, regardless of the trends.
And many more…we can dream, dare, feel the most beautiful things in the world anytime, no matter how much.
Now, especially now, we should not forget that we can, that we will yet.
