One year. One goal. To feel Freedom.

I thought, I think, I know I still often forget what it means to be free. The definition of freedom can eventually change with experience. Freedom depends on the place, the profession, the environment.

No, freedom is what you are when you allow yourself to just be. Freedom, a feeling that comes when you let go, when you just flow. If you accept thoughts instead of fighting them. When you see them for what they are, not for who you are.

Would this realization have been possible if I had never left this place, never left my family and friends behind? Who knows? But in the end, anything is possible, because only you paint and draw the boundaries. Only you decide what and who values to you.

You decide when to get into something and when to get out of it. No one and nothing else has control over you and your being, no, not even money decides whether you live or you just exist. That's all on you. Because you are not your appearance, nor your shell, you are the core. You're not your vocation, your account balance, nor are you your past. You are the consciousness behind it that assigns value to all these things, and you are so much more.

Freedom means to me, today more than ever, to be able to free myself. To be free of values, thoughts, fears and opinions.

Could this realization and all that followed have come about without breaking out of a world that feeds on the insecurities of humanity, focuses on the negative and allows the positive to remain in the dark?

Certainly, because once again it's us who decide what's possible and what's impossible. But this breakout, it allowed me to not just feel empathy, but to live it day in and day out. It allowed me to face every situation authentically. It just showed me one more time that as soon as we force things to be it turns out to be just another fantasy. To be free, not just as a man, but as a woman. To be free in the simple, present being that is to be seen behind every facade and turns every single thing into unity.

My sense of gratitude goes beyond the known horizon. It's measure and this awareness is difficult to put into words, but is found in confidence in oneself seen as the essence of the universe.

Thanks to the energies that follow me.

Thanks to all souls that are part of my journey through this human experience we call life and stand with me side to side, even if they aren't anymore.

Thanks to myself.