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perfectlight's avatar

thanx michael! i'm working on it, hope to bring more soon

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Nenad Georgievski's avatar

I'm providing the soundtrack for this writing :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQN1YyilcEc&ab_channel=CharlesLloyd-Topic

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perfectlight's avatar

excellent! thank you!

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Simona Muresan's avatar

Thank you

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

This is fantastic writing to accompany beautiful images. “I am not who I expected to be”. What a fantastic thing to be able to say. The courage to say yes, to take a path less travelled, to create with your footsteps. Love this.

Daunted though I am by the quality of these words, I’ll throw my hat in the ring. I’d love to collaborate - I think it’s the way forward for this space, for life in general. Barrie

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perfectlight's avatar

you're on, barrie! thank you very much for your kind words

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Simona Muresan's avatar

Thank you!

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perfectlight's avatar

dropped you an email so we can have a start

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Feasts and Fables's avatar

Ooh, was it a Substack e mail address. I may be found wanting. Could you forward it to feastsandfables at gmail dot com and I’ll peek soonest.

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perfectlight's avatar

sent to that address from start

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Xavi Buendia's avatar

So damn right, loved this piece!!

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Simona Muresan's avatar

Thank you!

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Framing-the-Story w/AK's avatar

Good photo, good text. Giving up the reins once in a while and letting the road take you where it will might be the key to happiness.

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perfectlight's avatar

thanx alex! as with everything in life, giving up the reins is hard to do but yes, it might be a thing to do once in a while

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By Nat's avatar

Beautiful and moving work from both of you 🙏 Love it

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Simona Muresan's avatar

Thank you Nat, greatly appreciated!

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perfectlight's avatar

thank you 💜 hope to see some of your beautiful work soon

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Donn Dobkin's avatar

You've shined a perfect light on this topic.

I'm so sorry, sometimes I can't help myself!!!!

Seriously though, it's more common than people realize to evolve and shift, to realize that some things we cared a lot about in one stage of our journey has become something that we no longer care much about, and the other way around. It's normal, and it's helpful to realize that it only means we are growing, shifting, evolving. It also means we are living richer lives, not that the earlier stages were bad or incomplete, just that now we're adding new layers to our personal histories.

That is the hard part, staying away from remorse over what we were doing before. It might have been absolutely perfect for us, at the time.

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Simona Muresan's avatar

That’s absolutely true, we don’t realise that every stage is necessary , the bad, the incomplete, the painful ones. It’s how we grow.

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Oliver's avatar

That was great, very inspirational.

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Oliver's avatar

I would also be interested in collaborating. I'm not sure how, but I'm definitely up for it.

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perfectlight's avatar

dropped you an email

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Oliver's avatar

I have replied.

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Andreea Kay's avatar

I think also sometimes we are told that we should "know" what we want without even trying anything first, and simultaneously choose a path that is "safe"... I love the idea of life being a journey, such an inspiring article!

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Priya Iyer's avatar

Such a fantastic post and a great collaboration!

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