This year, for the first time in 38 years, I did not leave for Sardinia with my parents.
I listened to my intuition, which told me to stay, and so I discovered a holiday different from all the others: vacation at home.
I didn't get bored. I had so much to do and I could devote myself to useful things that, if I had left, I would have postponed again. I gave myself silence and tranquility, but also moments of leisure: Regenerating walks, lunches with uncles, spaces of lightness that gave color to the days.
I am living these 36 days as a special time, which will end on August 31. A parenthesis that is teaching me to be with myself, to listen to me more, to face even my fears, such as managing my eating alone.
And perhaps the real journey is not where you go, but what you learn by staying.
You don't always need to leave to discover new worlds. Sometimes you just stay and find out your own.
A curiosity:
Also this year the hawk in Sardinia last year was there.
My brother left alone and then was joined by the girl a few days later. §I was not the only one not to leave even though I already had the ticket. Among us I was the only one not to leave even after... but I think it was a positive and different summer!
