Its 2 o’clock in the morning, still 25 degrees outside, the window in my bedroom is open and with another breeze of warm air blowing gently into my room I feel even more awake. I have been up for 20 hours today, running errands, studying, training, cooking, working and so on .. I feel tired now, but though can’t sleep. But no, it’s not the things that I’ve done today that tired me out, not a tiny bit. On the contrary: I feel like every task I fulfilled, every step I took, every kilometer I ran, every piece of information I soaked up into my brain, supplied me with twice the amount of energy I rendered to fulfill it.
But yet, I feel tired. I feel tired, because handling all this happiness that life donates me every second overwhelms me. So I see myself laying here now, having to write down these things, hoping it will help me to be able to get at least some hours of sleep in.
Health
It might seem so trivial, but only 3 years back in time from where I am standing now,I could hardly do any sports and even daily life got sometimes hard to meet . I feared that I wasn’t going to be able to lead a normal life and conditions would only get worse. But I did all I could to face those issues, and with the biggest dose of luck, I am nearly fully recovered. Although it wasn’t a good time back than, I am more than thankful for having experienced not being healthy.
Music
I love love love how we connect music with different periods in our lives. It’s almost like you’re reliving those moments you connect to the music. Music makes every moment, feeling or emotion even stronger.
Turning on my current playlist is the first thing I do after getting up. It simultaneously excites and calms me down for the day. I can burst out some energy whilst dancing and afterwards feel more settled down.
At the moment I am especially loving Kygo and 4th Dimension.
Working
I mean, how amazing can it get? I live in a beautiful country where I can feel really save to even get to work (this is a huge rarity but we should all be more aware of that fact every day). We have working public transport systems, modern highways and even amazingly built out bike- and walkways. We have an amazing variety of jobs and further education and even students can get amazing jobs. So, why complaining about having to work when instead we should be more than thankful for it?
Hometown
Yes, I am german. And yes, this will always be my roots.
But I have never felt as perfectly complete, happy, thankful and settled in as I do here in Bern. Basically everywhere in Switzerland, but Bern is the city where I lost my heart. I love the people, the small old town, the Aare, the dialect , the mountains surrounding this little paradise, basically everything.
I took this picture some days ago, as I rode my bike up to the top of „*Gurten“ which is the local mountain. I reached the top at 5.15 am and was completely alone up there. This feeling was priceless. Watching my beautiful city in the quiet sunrise and slowly waking up – thats the paragon of perfection to me.
I don’t want to leave this country at all, I am swiss at heart.
SPORTS
Swimming, biking, running, weight training, HIIT, Sprints, hiking, crossfit, bodyweight training..to be continued. Everything that leaves me drowning in sweat, my muscles burning and my heart yelling with happiness.
I can’t act properly if I don’t have enough movement and exercise. I need it to refresh my mind, to be able to be concentrated and be energized. Sports is an addiction. And since there were times when I couldn’t do sports, I now enjoy every single move I make twice as much as I used to. And I thank my amazing body every day for keeping me healthy and in a good mood with showing me exactly, what it needs.
Studying
Its the same as with sports: I need it to be happy. Learning something new, feeding my brain with new facts and satisfying its thirst for new knowledge is just as amazing as the feeling after a good run. I am more than happy to be privileged to learn new things everyday and to relish an excellent education. This is a rare good and we should all be thankful for it and remind ourselves of that fact every time we even think of complaining about how much uni work we have to accomplish. Because we don’t have to, we are allowed to.
I feel much better now that I have written down everything that was on my mind.
I hope you guys have an awesome day and remember to appreciate every second as a unique gift not everybody on this planet was lucky enough to be given.
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