Become alive

by Paula Arriagada (Chile)

I didn't expect to find Australia

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life was giving me lessons, some of them where really though or though enough to make me feel like it was the end... Until this trip came. I flew across the world for vacations (of my own life) with no expectations and with no spirit, but what I didn’t expect is that this trip was going to be the greatest game changer. At this point of my life I had lost the curiosity, the ability to be amazed and the feeling of self worthy. As I arrive to my first stop in Auckland I began to notice how different cultures are, how beautiful the differences result. When I got to Sydney, the first thing that I noticed was the weather the bloody weather, really humid and suffocating but still interesting, so interesting for me because i had never experienced a weather like that. Finally I took my last flight to Tasmania, it has been over 25 hours traveling but I didn’t felt tired I felt more energized than the last few years, I was feeling exited and not for a possibility but for a reality that it was my own and I started to believe that maybe just maybe This could be a life savor. The thrill that I got every time that I went out even to the supermarket was unique, was a possibility for a new adventure and I didn’t took it for granted, I knew that I was going to leave but that didn’t stop me for living the fullest of every situation and the partner that I made was making sure that I didn’t waste any moment. She showed me the greatest places, the greatest sunrises and the most colorful twilights, the strangest animals that I’ve could ever imagine. She feed my soul with her Aussie personality and then I realize that I was blossoming, that this place at the end of the world was making me feel joy, just by seeing a different sky, different trees, different ways of thinking. Then the day of my departure came, I cried, not because I was going to miss the life that I had there, I cried because never in my life I felt so happy like I was in Australia. I was so grateful by the people, by the nature and of course by the food (except vegemite). When I came back I was different, I was shining, I was more mature, more wise and more thrilled by everything in my life because that’s what is about, the thrill in every step you take, like a child we can’t loose our curiosity and our ability to be amazed because there’s always something to be exited about... We just have to be awoke enough to notice it.