I offer “le Coeur de Voh” for all the people
I love and inspired me in life, all the travellers I came across and shared
their journeys with me, I offer this heart for everyone who’s reading this and
believed in me.
Heart of Voh, Jan 5, 2012
Great journey full of sharing, joy and
happiness, I wish for everyone to have a day like my day today.
I would like to share with you a story a fellow traveller I met not a while ago
shared with me.
So this guy has been travelling for years
now, his girlfriend who joined him had a break down one day, and told him she’s
not even sure why she’s doing it. A real
nomad, travel lover who follows the road from the heart comes out with a wisest
answer, my friend asked her to look for something beautiful in her day every
day. Simple but very meaningful and since then I didn’t miss a day without looking
for something beautiful in my day every day.
Today I had more than one thing beautiful to
think of about my day.
Our
first stop not even 7am was at the coffee shop La Case in Foa.
Vitrine of La Case coffee shop
We got our
croissants and coffees from Sergui, smiley and nice guy. Made me try “Galet du
Roi” as I never had them before and told me about his travelling in North
Africa, then I asked him about the roasted chicken stands I saw on the road and
he said “ Wallis people eat biiiig breakfast” so I realized that the croissant
is not necessarily the national breakfast of every French colony, France can colonize
a country but can’t take the nature of the people of that country J
Second
stop: my day found: a smile of an old endogenous which I regret not asking her age.
Quiet a character, confirmed, confident standing like a president, I thought,
and smiling like a baby. Age is such a wonderful gift, you look back and you
remember those stories which make your day burden softer and your joy bigger
and make you realize “it must be something beautiful in my day today” J
After
4 hours drive, we made it to the mountain across from “ Coeur de Voh” as the
heart is too big to be seen from land, it can only be seen from above. So we
climbed about 400m high mountain to finally see it. It’s not as clear view is
if we were in a helicopter but it feels nicer as we took all the time of the
world up there looking at it, watching the cloud above it change it’s color and
even hiding it sometimes.
A
moment of reflection up there: Life is beautiful; there must be a good thing
about your day everyday. The beauty can be seen even in the croissant that was
made 4am to be ready for me to eat when I wake up, in the smile I see from the
person passing by. Beauty and joy of life is everywhere around us everywhere we
go, don’t have to make millions to be happy, don’t have to have your name in
the news-paper or your picture framed in a wall.
All
in all happiness and joy is a decision, it’s our own creation.
Great creation of joy, happiness and hope to watch:
Bonne continuation :)
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