I’ve been in Houayxay, Laos for two weeks. Since I have a lot to do this week and my next trip – to the capital – promises a 2-3 day adventure, I’m only leaving on Friday.
3 weeks in a fairly small part of town. That’s good for me.
Others ask why?
Why are you here?
I went into the “Gibbon Experience” office over the weekend to access some digital material. The young girl I made the reservation and contract with welcomed me with such joy that it was a pleasure to experience.
“You’re here again! It’s good to see you again!” Then her next question was: “Excuse me for asking, but why are you still here? This is such a small town, there’s nothing here.”
And she wasn’t the first local to wonder why I was still here, or how long I’d been here. Among others, the owner of my current accommodation looked quite surprised when I told him over the weekend that I was booking my accommodation for another 5 days.
Sometimes I get questions from my family and friends about how the place is, whether it has everything I expected. What is there in the city where you live.
In connection with these questions – which are minimally presumptuous – I came up with the idea that I have said several times since then. And I have already received feedback from others about how true it is.
I don’t expect anything. That’s how I find everything.
What I wanted to express with this is that since I am in these places without expectations, everything I find, or everything that finds me, points beyond the search.
This whole idea is about acceptance. The idea, repeated to the point of boredom, that I am happy with what life brings, becomes reality in me.
I don’t expect anything anywhere. Yet – it seems – I receive something from life as a gift everywhere.
This gives me more than I expected. That is, whatever I receive will be the complete, liveable, experiential gift from life.
And that is everything.
Nothing more.
In this way, everything will be in me from nothing.
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