A climb towards creating a dream!

I had turned out the lights but could not fall asleep tonight. The kids are tucked in, sleeping tight after a day at summer school. The soccer training has started and they all seem to look forward to the new school year. 5 new kids from Germany, Norway (via Spain) and Sweden are joining the Montessori school this fall. New families settling in, in Ulricehamn, creating a new life in a new place and in a new country!

A year and a half ago we did the same! What has it meant for us? Did it turn out as expected and are we walking on the right path? I think we are on a path taking us forward, shaping us as we go along which brings a lot of happiness in our lives. Still, we are only at the beginning of this road and we need to make active choices in where it takes us and sometime these choices are not obvious.

Currently I am surrounded with people who struggle in different ways trying to find their path. What make us happy as individuals? What challenges do we need? How do we make the world turn slower when we set the speed ourselves? I have no answers for all these questions tonight but the older I get (oh, did that sound corny or what!) the more satisfaction I get out of small things in life. Or maybe the small things are the big things?

We reach for our dreams, trying to find the direction that will give us the right feeling but how do we define our dreams and when does a dream start to redefine itself? I like to think that the answers often come to us when we expect it the least in situations we create outside our normal sphere. I picked up my guitar playing when I moved back to Ulricehamn and in the evenings I sit with the kids playing songs and singing. Ingrid sings all the time, everywhere and this night I heard her singing from the bathroom;

There’s always going to be another mountain
I’m always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain’t about how fast I get there,
Ain’t about what’s waiting on the other side
It’s the climb!

Good night everyone!