Crossing the World

If one day you want to be happy why don’t you start today? Don’t wait with making your dreams come true.

At first there were Anna’s journeys across Europe and Kris’s trip to South America. We than spent almost a month in India and Nepal. That gave the beginning of our journey around the world we are setting out in April 2010. It all starts with our faith in our ability to make our dreams come true. We wish our fate to be our guide. We really believe that the strength of our dreams can be miraculous.

Theoretically we perfectly know what limits us. Employed in big corporations, every single day we are snowed under with numerous tasks, forced to achieve another set of goals in a constant rush.  One question has been arising for months: how can we be sure which way to choose, how to be strong enough to leave such a warm, comfortable and secure place we live in? The answer comes with an old adage: “it is better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep”.

So we decided to look for a solution. Everyday is exactly the same: a few hours of sleep, the same way to work, predictive movement of toll bars at a railway crossing, at work a diary filled to the full. And where, exactly, are we running to? How can we restore our “spiritual” meaning of our life? How? We simply feel it should look differently.  Before, we also thought it would be just enough to take a fitness class or pedaling a bike in a rhythm of an instructor’s shout: “c’mon, you can do it…push your limits”. And in the evening before you go to bed you may just read a few pages of an essence of your dreams, but written by someone else.

If you read that and think you really like our plans, that your dreams are exactly the same as ours but you have got loads of barriers, I’d like quote Kris’s words he wrote when we kept thinking over our journey: ”beware of manipulators…speak to them as rarely as you can…at the same time read your book on Asia…eat a lot of porridge…while going to work wear your Indian outfit…put an additional red Indian string on your wrist…and most importantly…buy incense sticks and meditate in front of your altar…donate lots of fruits and flowers to “phi” ghosts.