Oh, the blog, how I've missed you.... For all my anti-technology, hippy-esque rants (save the washing machine, I neeeeeeed a washing machine ancestral-style-bath-stamping doesn't cut it when you're 9 months gone...) I cannot deny the joy that has been brought to my life by a borrowed computer and dodgy, hacked internet access. Ah the mountain life....
I can't quite believe that 5 months have passed since packing up (again) and moving to Barcelona (again) to make a new life in the Mountain Town. Everything you can imagine is real so said Picasso, (which suits my tendency to believe the ramblings of manic depressive, crazy people) so, despite much advice against moving abroad alone, pregnant and without nearly enough money saved, here I am. Finding, on a near-daily basis that actually, yes, everything you can imagine is real. Or could be, Could you dare to imagine it.
I said before that I'm not comfortable being comfortable. I have since discovered that I greatly over-simplified what my spirit was telling me... 2 months of winter in a damp, antiquated (but very beautiful...) old and mould-ridden flat have had me pining for carpet, heating and a bath tub long enough to lie in (what is the deal, Espana, with the tiniest baths known to man...?). However, there is a difference between being comfortable - in the sense that you're cosy and warm, and not risking irreversible pulmonary damage to you and your soon-to-be-born child, and being comfortable and operating solely within some sort of self-imposed comfort zone. I should like to take this opportunity to apologise to PT for my renunciation of luxury and invite it back post-haste.
Many of you told me it would be easier, wiser or more sensible to stay in the UK, sign on, get a house and die a slow but socially acceptable death over the coming years. A few of you thought it sounded incredibly exciting, romantic even, to move back to Spain to grow vegetables and make a school in the mountains but attested that such a thing was a fantasy, a 'nice idea' or vowed "but I could never do such a thing...." (not I, you.. or them.. you know what I mean.. ). And a wee tiny handful, believed. I'd like to state, for the record, that it's amazing what we can achieve when we believe in ourselves. And each other.
Everything you can imagine is real- so get imagining.
Peace and Love
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