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A recipe for disaster doesn’t require that many ingredients. An unhealthy amount of wishful thinking, mixed with a large dollop of devil-may-care when it comes to reading maps. Add a sprinkle of desperation distilled from wanting so badly for things to change, and you had the perfect recipe for my current situation –
Maybe it wasn’t about dreams coming true (although that would be nice). Maybe it was about becoming the kind of person who chases them, regardless.
That’s what happens when you are out of your comfort zone – time stretches like an elastic band, prolonging your discomfort and unease, accentuating your isolation.
‘Il faut aller à la préfecture pour chercher votre carte de séjour,’ Manu
‘People need to remember, Edith, otherwise their deaths and the thousands of people who sacrificed their lives trying to protect them will have been for nothing.’ His words were so powerful. Remembrance was the best way to honour people.
that abandoning your dreams is like abandoning a part of yourself. And for what? Because it won’t make you rich? I mean, so what? Maybe it’ll make you happy, and you can’t put a price on that.’
‘People think performing is about putting on an act, but it’s not. It’s about letting people see the real you.’
‘He told me that the love you have in your heart for someone you cannot be with is never a burden to be carried. It is a gift, he said. A gift you can share in other ways.’
‘Well, for him, it meant he put all of his love into his recipes and baked them for the people of Compiègne. He said it was so that everyone may know love.’
You were given a finite amount of time and whatever you didn’t manage to accomplish within those dates would remain forever undone.
realised that just because you get older, it doesn’t mean you get wiser. If anything, you become more protective of what little you can control in this life, shutting out all of the possibilities that require you to trust, have faith and let go.
