Surprise! Suddenly my family was there at the campsite in Enschede. No expense or effort had been spared. They had brought streamers, snacks, drinks, cake, BBQ and presents. It was a great farewell party and also the last time we would see each other before our big trip.
Charity
When the family members arrived I was actually a bit irritable. The things we still had to arrange so close to departure were really getting to me. We had lost the connection with each other, but especially with myself. At first we were not exactly excited about this surprise party. An hour later we were happily sitting very relaxed with a piece of home-made cake and a cup of coffee. Of course we were overwhelmed by this surprise visit, but afterwards we felt so loved. Grateful with these lovely people around us, the program 'Ik vertrek' was nothing compared to this ;)
"If everything goes according to the book, you have no say"
Final countdown
In the meantime, I have also completed my last working day and it is also becoming very concrete for me now. Packing the last things, selling the car, taking out a different telephone subscription, adjusting insurance, all things that had to be arranged. Next Wednesday we will leave Enschede behind us to visit a beach concert in the west. To then finally travel through Europe on Friday.
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Concert
But first we had an open air concert ofXavier Rudd on the schedule. Unfortunately we had to leave the terrain in a hurry after the supporting act due to the sudden storm. To our great joy the concert could still go ahead a few days later! It was a beautiful evening. Xavier's music fits perfectly with our future vanlife .
After party
After the concert we were still full of adrenaline. We decided to park Globus 2 near the exit in the hope of persuading other concertgoers for an afterparty. Music from the speakers, “disco lights” on and dancing. Soon people came to take a look and party along. Eventually three spontaneous women from Nijmegen too.
They enthusiastically entered Globus 2 and looked around in amazement. Not much later I suddenly heard Richard say "honey, there are two strange women in our bed, but I'm not doing anything". The ladies asked unfiltered questions such as "can you have sex well in such a small space". What fun and craziness that evening, but especially also connectedness and living completely in the here and now. How many more of these kinds of evenings are we going to experience? Sitting around a campfire with other people, having nice conversations and experiencing the essence of life.
Select again
The unrest of the past few weeks was unnecessary. I am not restless, I feel restless. We tend to identify with what we feel and let it determine our entire mood. If you can separate these two, you choose what affects you and what does not. Often it is your ego that dominates, but it is not who you really are. And all the dissatisfaction you experience and criticism you express to others only says something about yourself. Therefore, choose every day for pleasant feelings that may affect you and let feelings of dissatisfaction quickly slide off you. This all sounds very simple, but in practice it is quite difficult. In the book Choose again by Diederik Wolsak a handy step-by-step plan is described on how to tackle this.
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