Legolin’s Weblog

When you love someone unconditionally, their happiness is your happiness.
It’s as simple as that.

Lake Tekapo, South Island, NZ.
A lake with the most amazing turquoise water, gem-set in a ring of gentle mountains. A quiet shore. A chair under a friendly tree. The sun passing through the branches and burning my feet. A little perfect moment. The kind of precious rare moments it’s worth living for.

Still few more weeks and I’ll start rolling again. I’ll be leaving the city that has been my home for the past 3 years and a half. I will say goodbye to the friends who have been my family. I will leave the known routines, the familiar streets, the favourite spots, the many places that had studded my path with happy moments and nice memories. It won’t be easy to leave Ireland for good. It isn’t easy. But the time has come… my urge to move, to discover new places, to face new challenges is back, and it’s stronger than nostalgia and fear. I don’t know what is waiting for me in Australia, but I like the fact that I don’t know. It’s like I finished writing my Irish chapter and I’m about to turn the page over to find a brand new set of blank pages waiting to be filled. It’s exciting. It feels like everything is possible.

So here I am, a rolling stone ready to roll once more.

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A rolling stone gathers no moss:
“A stone which stands still does inevitably gather moss and become buried and overgrown with all the ‘junk’ we carry around or fill our houses and lives with. One that’s always rolling down a hill or along a riverbed keeps itself ‘clean’ and free from all this.”

A great speech from a great man. About the importance of finding out what you love in life. About having the courage to “follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path”.