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“Oh, so you have your compass tattoo as well!” “Yeah, but it’s not finished yet.” “You mean, you don’t know where you’re going?” “I mean that I want to put some things which matter to me in the places of the coordinates letters… and yeah, I guess I don’t fully know where I’m going.” “Hah, well, … “ It made me think. Me, a Romanian girl, by chance traveling to Malta to an engineering conference, coming from my workplace in Germany. After attending the conference and doing what I had to do, I took some time with myself to move around freely, just with me. We all have these rich inner worlds, where we create our deepest desires intertwined with our biggest fears, we motivate ourselves, we self-sabotage ourselves, we plan just to then decide it is a bad plan, we don’t plan anything just to spontaneously do something which we always wanted to do. We’re walking contradictions. We’re always figuring out ourselves. We’re ever-changing. That is how I was feeling for the last few months. Constantly trying to figure out what do I actually want, where should I actually go (both literally and metaphorically), what do I actually feel for some people and experiences. Why am I not comfortable with change anymore, why I became afraid of the very changes and new experiences I craved not so long ago. What happened on the way. And still, somehow, in all this chaos, I find hints from time to time that everything is connected and we need these times of hardship. This time, it was in Malta, when the crystalline waters made me want to take a dive in the world underneath the surface. I had just two days and a half left there, so I started searching for a dive center that is open in the winter months. Each one I found on the internet and I contacted was unavailable, but then, when visiting a natural beauty, I quietly observed a group of divers preparing their equipment. I quickly talked to them and arranged a dive for the next morning. Ah, I was so happy. But it is just a normal situation, right? The next morning I enthusiastically reached the diving center, was introduced to my diving buddy and set off to the waters. While wearing my suit, he saw my tattoo on the back. “... I did exactly the same. And see, one spot is still free. I still don’t fully know where I’m going yet either.” Maybe none of us ever fully knows. Maybe we just have to trust. To trust that everything is connected.