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Monday, April 21, 2014

THE LAST.ing POST

Dear readers, 

I have this idea that out of all the people I meet in my life, a 95% I will never see again. It does not matter how important some people were at a certain moment in my life; how much influence they had on who I’ve become, or how much they have meant for me and how much they will always mean for me. I will simply never ever have the chance to see the majority of them again. 
You never know when you might be gone for good, and this is something that has lead me to take goodbyes very ‘at heart’.
  
I know that most of us never met in person, but a goodbye is still a goodbye – and, as you may know, my task as your writer has already come to an end! Consequently, the exclusive, the one and only and particular reason for this post’s existence, is for saying our farewells. And so:  

Two years… Gone like the wind! Haven’t they?

We have been together through The Netherlands

http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-week-is-week-off-fromschool.html  
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/05/arduous-student-life-group-work.html  
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/05/horse-overdose-week.html hORSE  
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/05/when-theres-nothing-left-to-burn-you.html


have made a few stops in Guatemala

http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/07/welcome-to-jungle.html  
 
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2014/03/happy-antigua.html

We have flown all the way to the wonderful and “mysterious subcontinent of India”…
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-indian-odyssey.html  
 
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/11/zorba-buddha.html
 
…we have been lucky enough to have set foot at ‘heaven on Earth’. The unimaginable Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon; my alluring, magnificent and (indescribable) beautiful Bhutan!

http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/11/mountain-of-gods-druk-yul-kingdom-of.html  
 http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-wheel-of-life.html  
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2012/12/reign-of-love.html
  
Flaming Sevilla has then opened us its doors

http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2013/03/universitas-atis.html  
http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2013/04/jueves.html


…to then head back to The Netherlands (AKA ‘The Legolands’), the very place where the whole adventure started.

http://followme-maria.blogspot.com/2013/09/jetlagging-in-legoland-inside-out-guide.html

You have been my ‘long-distance companions’, and together we have written stories worth telling. I say “we”, because if it was not for you, my dear readers, very possibly none of the posts that are now held in this blog would have ever left my brain. They would probably still be there, and most of them long gone forgotten:

Some of them were sad goodbyes ("Expiration Date 'The Legolands'"), while others were happy triumphs ("Concentration Cancelation: WUEC 2012"). There were the random ones ("Haphazardness"), the ones worth writing about ("Cell"), the rebel ones ("Brains vs. Cows")… the ones that were full of life ("Rules & Tools for Becoming a 'Marketist'"), and those other ones that will mark us for the rest of our existence ("Return to Civilization").


If you read one of them, half of one of them, the title of just one of them, or perhaps the entire “collection” of Follow mE’s experiences: All I have to say is thank you. Thanks for reading, for visiting. Thank you for your time and energy and patience! I hope it all went alright. And, of course… it was my pleasure writing for you all this time.

What else? Well, I think that during one of my ‘inspirational and romantic moments’ when writing a past post, I said something like: “Life is the moments in between the blink of an eye” ("Rules & Tools for Becoming a 'Marketist'"). 

I hope that all of you enjoy your “moments in between the blink of an eye” and that you are able to make the most out of them; in whatever way that feels right for you, in whatever way that will ‘color’ your surroundings.. in a way that will make them a bit more brighter. 

Life is magic: We are beings made out of atoms, beings made out of energy and information. There is not much difference in between a tree and us, and there is not that much distance in whatever we dream of and the turning of those dreams into a reality. 

I hope that you love what you do, and that you do what you love; and that you wear wings while doing so.

As for me, I have no idea. Lets see what comes next!

I end this blog journey, just as it started... we've reached this finish line ("On your marks, get set g..BLOG!" –'Oh, The Places We’ll Go!'– Now lets just see where the next one takes us:


Take care and PEACE OUT
Your writer,
Maria
:')


P.S: I left you the updated 'Top 10 Posts' (in case you feel like criticizing them!).. "Au revoir!"