Abolishing Borders - Beginning of New Adventure
Magic is right outside of your comfort zone
Moment I first faced Georgian border controller, while leaving my country for 1 year, there was one thought crossing my mind: what am I doing? Where, why? When did I decide this? I realized it was not another short and funny trip, when you always come back to your house, your friends, place that you call home.
And after few hours, I was wondering in the city of my dream: Berlin.
I clearly remember myself exactly 7 years ago, thinking about running away for some time, in order to find myself again. After some time I created clear picture in my mind of my destination place. It comes like a habit in my life: I have a fixed idea for a while, and then this idea drives me crazy, and this craziness drives me to do everything to create reality from this idea.
But after a while some new fixed ideas and dreams took the place of the one about finding myself by running somewhere nice. But I still believe that all ideas and dreams are connected, to lead us to our bigger ideas and dreams.
I read somewhere that the moment we leave our comfort zone we face all the magic around. And it is true.
The moment you give up on the system you live in, and you are ruled by, and decide something crazy, life becomes awesome: you try your limits: where are they? How to determine them? How are they created? How are they fixed? Are they fixed?
With all life experiments come new borders, new lines, new runs and then you realize: no, our inner borders are not fixed, unless you fix them, unless you decide: well, that is enough space, which includes magic in my life. But do we always do like this? Do we leave our comfort zone in order to find some magic? Do we go for an adventure? No we do not. We are afraid to leave warm place, to take some risks, to betray the system, we stay there; stay sometimes forever, what for? What is it then if all the magic is out of this zone? Nothing!
It takes time to finally get over the panic. But is not it worth of it? Is not it beautiful how you reflect yourself going further, taking new challenges, accepting new realities, dealing with new problems? is not it nice to find a place where you can realize how independent, crazy, or happy you can be, where you can find how far you could go? Be surprised and excited about all the abilities you find in yourself?
Yes I remember myself 7 years ago, reading books about Berlin and dreaming about living in this city for a while, I realized from the beginning, it would not be easy, it would be a fight, but we need this fight, fight with our inner needs, inner ourselves, sitting there and complaining about the reality, nothing interesting happening around, complaining about you, yelling from the inside, hey, you should move, you should run, you should be crazy, time to go further, time for magic!
And here it is, all magic, challenges, difficulties and new comfort zones! After 6 months of living European volunteer life, getting over obstacles, difficulties, loneliness sometimes and all the stereotypes, I am more grown up than ever, acknowledging beauty of diversity around, acknowledging, that we are unlimited, until we set some limits, realizing, all the borders are fake, unless we approve them. There are no borders or limits, if we really abolish them in ourselves.
Leave your comfort zones, risk staying alone with yourself, do not miss the chance to go on a lifelong trip to find a magic!