Legolin’s Weblog

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.”

Last Friday we were all working quietly in the office when we heard a sudden muffled noise coming from the disused fireplace. When we cautiously got closer to check, we found out that a baby seagull had tumbled down the chimney.
This is how we met Jonathan.
He was obviously quite scared and covered with dust and soot, but seemed to be all right. So I gently picked him up and put him outside on our terrace, hoping he could pull himself together and fly back to his nest up on the roof. Unfortunately we soon realized he yet doesn’t know how to fly.
Then is when I decided to name him Jonathan, after the famous and unconventional seagull Jonathan Livingston.

Jonathan has been with us ever since, he seems to be doing ok considering he can’t go back to his nest. Luckily his parents spotted him on the terrace and are often coming down to feed him. I’ve been taking care of him as I could, leaving him some food and fresh water every day. I’ve also been observing him these days… watching him getting used to the new place, trying to learn that thing that he probably feels with each one of his feathers, but still can’t get.

I thought how Jonathan is not that different from all of us after all. Sometimes in life we might tumble down a chimney and find ourselves stuck on a terrace, and sooner or later we have to decide whether to stay on the safe, known, maybe unexciting terrace waiting for something to happen, or rather to lean out the edge, take a deep breath, spread our wings and jump towards the unknown.

Some people stay. Some people jump.
Either way is fine, as long as you don’t stay just because you’re afraid to jump.

I like Jonathan. Even though he’s veeery noisy : )
But every morning I go to the office and I hope he won’t be there.

Let it snow… : )
As soon as you start thinking you’ve been in Dublin for too long, that nothing in this city can amaze you anymore, there Dublin goes and proves you wrong… I was walking to the office yesterday morning and suddenly big, white, soft snowflakes were everywhere all around me. They didn’t really seem to be falling down from the sky, I rather had the impression they were just there, dancing in the air chasing each other. So I stopped  and looked up, enjoying their dance, for a second feeling like a snowflake myself.
And I felt happy.

I know. You can’t even call it a gap, it is more like a lag, a temporal hole that swallows the past 3 months!! My last post was back in June and now it’s October… Summer (if it ever came!) is gone… it brought good fun, old and new friends, my first swim in the Irish Sea, a new belt (yellow!!), my first freelance website (www.miadeejay.it) and, for few days after my holiday in Italy, also a bit of tan! ;-) Now the tan is gone and days are getting shorter but I’m still busy and still having a good time.
In the past 2 weeks I’ve been working on redesigning my website, I was a bit bored by the one I currently have but most of all I felt it was just shameful for me (probably the heavier CSS supporter after Ben!!) to still have a website built in tables! I was hoping to get it live this week but unfortunately my free time seems to become less and less, so I guess it won’t be live before the next week or two. Who’ll live will see, as we say in Italy.
This week I will be super-busy again as my dad is here (that means looot of Guinness!!) and on Saturday I’ll be going to Tramore (down in Waterford) to take part to the National Taekwon-do Championship… that’s basically the reason why I finally decided to write a post on my blog… to leave my last will!! ;-P I’m quite excited about the competition, I’ve never done something like that before (swimming or running in your own lane is a bit different than actually facing your opponent in sparring!!!)… hope to have a good time and not to get injured (too much!). Today I finally got to wear my gum shield without choke…it’s already a good start!!! ;-)
More news will follow (hopefully!!!) - now it’s bed time!