Here I come again
So, here I am again to heal my life through my writing.
It relaxes me, and I kind of need to tell some stories. Who
I am? Where I come from? What’s my story and why I feel like sharing it with everyone?
So, Who am I now? This one is a starter….
Let me see….
Ok,
Woman in my forties.
Woman in my forties.
Powerful but weak.
Deep thinker but obsessed with superficial media.
Mother of three. And really three little monkeys demand a
lot of time.
Unemployed. Used to have a great professional career in the
City, London. But that is part of my past and somehow is so deeply buried
there, that I don’t recognise myself any more as an interesting, sharp mind,
full of knowledge and skills or someone developing a profitable and rewarding
career. I truly don’t know who that person is any more, how to find it or re-connect
with her again.
The bank I was working for closed while I was in my third
maternity leave, and a chain of unpredictable events took place and left me unemployed,
full handed with three kiddos, starting a new life in a new country, and not
knowing any more how I landed in that part of my life.
It was all too quick to swallow. Deepest feelings of lost
were mixing constantly with my breakfast, my morning run to the school, the
empty hours without kids, and of course the night rest, where I ended up crying
and fantasising in front of Easyjet website about booking an spontaneous flight
for the next few hours and take myself back to my old life.
I felt lonely, sad and totally lost.
But first, I am going to tell you where I landed. Is not the
most beautiful city in Europe, but it has its charm. Is the city my
grandparents picked many years ago to raise their children and is the city
where, in a cold morning of December, I decided it was worth to make an adventurous
move and see, for the first time, the sun light.
So, in the middle of my life, after many years abroad, with
so much interesting and beautiful stories on my back, I landed where it all
started. And although, initially, I thought it would be a clean, fresh start, I
was SO wrong.
I have never-ever been as wrong as then. When I decided
that changing my life upside-down was the cleverest idea to welcome my forties:
with a blank page, in a blank book. That fresh start became a blank empty space
that somehow paralyzed me. And I am
still a bit puzzled, a bit bruised and a bit thick.
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