With Jean-Louis to Canmore

Sunset

Warum in die Ferne schweifen?

Some of my favourite lines:

Erinnerung
Willst du immer weiter schweifen?
Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah.
Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen,
Denn das Glück ist immer da.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aus der Dreigroschen Oper
Ja, renn nur nach dem Glück
Doch renne nicht zu sehr!
Denn alle rennen nach dem Glück
Das Glück rennt hinterher.
Bertolt Brecht

Both basically say: 'Do not look into distance to find happiness. Happiness is right there where you are.'
I interpret this in the way that they tell us, if one is not able to be happy where one is - if one is not able to be happy with oneself in ones head, than there is no place on earth where one will find happiness regardless how fast and far one might search.

When I left home my mom told me to not forget that one will always bring oneself with one wherever one goes. At first I did not understood. I was not too happy during my last years in Germany. I thought if my surroundings would be different I would act, think, be different.
I thought I would be able to find happiness by running off into the distance.
I did not. I did find contentment at times. But I still wanna run further and further.

Contentment I found always close to the sea, in company of people who accepted my twisted being. Oh, I still wanna run - run until I stop being.

;)