Visiting homeland.

We all grow up and there is no pill against that. After years of coming back to Latvia just for holidays, I have started to see many peolpe episodiacly. Meaning - I see them every few months or years and have the general update on their lives, ofcourse things change. Many have gotten married or are engaged, some give birth to their first born, some are already sending them to school... and it is like I have been informed about all that, but cause I only see these things happening occasionally, it does feel like there is paralel life happening and time has different meaning.


And yet there is nothing as powerful, than sitting with my 3 child hood friends in a vine bar in the capital, all dressed up [some after work, some on holidays in Latvia] and chating about old times and current situation. All so grown up and beautiful, but most importantly HAPPY WITH THEIR LIVES. I am so proud with us! We all have gone and reach things we had not dreamt of 5 years ago. Five years is a a long period, as it turns out! :)

Few more days before I head back to Accra, where I have my life now, and I do wish I could stay here a bit longer and enjoy the birds singing in our beach house, reading Latvian books and having occassional visitors at the beach house. But I am me - I need more meaningful life, I need bigger space and area to go wild in and new things to discover. I still feel that there is much for me to do and learn in Ghana, before I head to the next destination. Therefore I am happy and sad at the same time, that my summer holidays are over. Next holidays to come is in December.

...but there is no other place on the Earth than Mom's home, where one can get freshly baked pie and a kiss on the cheeck - just because, for no reason. I will miss that in Accra.

What's next?

It has been a year since people around me started to learn about my desire to move to the unknown continent, a year since I decided to make a turn in my life. A twist.

Today, on my visit back in Latvia, a newly met person, asked me - what is my plan for the next two years, what is my plan after Ghana. And it is interesting, how everyone feels that it is yet another stop over and there shall be life after Ghana too. And fair enough - they ask it, cause I have the history of moving around, doing twists and turns, but I also find it a bit discriminating. Nobody asks my friends, who live in Latvia, are married and work, what is their plan after the next two years. Everyone assumes that it is - this is their life. Thou I dont think that it should be IT, there is a whole life ahead of us to live. And how on Earth can we plan it!?

So what is next? There is no NEXT... this is it - THIS IS MY LIFE I have chosen and created, there is no plan for NEXT, there is life filled with many, many NEXT that need no plan!

Ps. It is beautiful to return to past, to re-read my childhood books, to be restlest at parents' homes, to spend time with childhood friends and walk the old paths, but that is all just to have yet another kick-off before the next NEXT.