I am fascinated by walking, looking ahead and seeing the path ahead unfold as I walk. Sometimes I have this feeling also when driving, especially a beautiful scenic road, not necessarily well known and especially beautiful in autumn, in a mixed forest.

I have just done this the last days and it makes me so aware of all that happens in our lives.

Ever so often, we take a step, no idea where it leads us to and we are not even aware that we stepped on a new path. We just thought that we do things a tiny bit different. Though in the long run, this tiny bit different leads to a totally new destination.

Sometimes we choose a path that has never been walked on before. We actually create it step by step. Other times many people have walked there before but it was hidden from us until a certain moment. A moment when something new came into our live or we were pushed out of something that no longer serves us and then there it is – a new way of looking at yourself.

There are also those places, those roads that we know already very well, but we are still fascinated by visiting them and discovering new things again and again.

Awareness is a great thing for me. I want to live my life aware of what is going on. I do not only want to live consciously every moment and see what is going on in my world. I need the balance between what I can see with my eyes and what I can see/feel/know with my minds eyes. My inner world is as real and integrated in my daily routine as is my physical world.

Maybe this is why I am so attracted to uncover, to discover the secrets of all the alleyways of life. Discover and inhale the life out there and be part of it.

In my minds eye are many of those alleyways that I have walked and I guess many of them I walked also in other lives. Alleys that are barely there, because they are so rarely used. Nevertheless, they connected houses, villages and communities. In the Andes, the communities built pathways out of stone always taking care that the heavy rainfall will not destroy their construction. You find channels, also made of stone next to the pathways. There is no day in my life that I am not thinking about walking them again and ever discovering new ones.

There have been many times that I stepped out on a new path in my life and I am at such a crossroads again. Full of curiosity where my chosen path will lead me, a bit wary of the unknown, the uncontrollable (wooooh….. not in control, eh?) but knowing that it is my passage, my calling and wherever it leads me, on the way is beautiful life!