Runaway Friday

I WAS AT HOME ONE EVENING, READING… IT WAS THE END OF DECEMBER 2020.

Was it the paragraph about a wide wide heaven, or was it the beautiful blue moon rising outside which made me do it, I don’t know. But It was there and it could not be repressed. The urge to be free and send everything on my way to hell.

SO I DID IT.

I RAN AWAY.

Once I closed the door behind me, there was no turning back. I was on a quest. I wanted to find my life back and I knew the elements I was looking for were scattered all around the globe. It wasn’t only a question of kilometres or miles. It was mainly a question of perspective.

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What should I take? A boat or a plane? Sailing or flying? Floating on water or floating on the clouds? Well it really depends on what I want to do first because I won’t go very far with the local ferries. Let’s see how I want to do it?

First of all, I want to have a coffee somewhere nice.

Coffee sorted out, what next? A crowd! Oh that would nice to mingle in a big group of people. To be absorbed in a big drop of humans, to feel I am part of a civilization, to see faces and smiles and frowns and wrinkles…

Or then I could to go the the beach, lie down and just listen to the conversations around me. Maybe I could just mown a little, just for the sake of it, because the person next to me decided to put their towels too close…

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It’s almost the end of the day and it’ s going to get dark soon. I have just enough time to walk idly in the city in search of some good colourful street art.

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And now what? Some food maybe? What’s my favourite let’s see…. Italian sandwiches? Tapas? Poutine? Poached eggs and avocado toast? American breakfast? Japanese?…. So many to choose from.

I’d better think of how I want to end the day now. Unfortunately, I can’t really run away, can I? Can’t I…

Here is to normal life outside of our protecting walls, away from Netflix nights, without masks on, involving as many people we like as possible. Here is to travels, to promiscuity, to social drinking, to noise, to busy cities…

Here is to happy years to come with photos to take and memories to cherish!