Where it all begins

Living in Paris has been an experience already,

Ernest Hemingway once said "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young woman, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast."

I can't seem to think anything different. Paris has treated me well so far, and most likely will continue too. As it should have, it has shown me the truest of love, but not the love that you all think of when you go to Paris. Kissing under the Tour Eiffel, skipping down the Champs Elysees with your lover while holding hands, and feeding each other crepes in St. Michel is NOT what I am talking about.

 

I am talking about a more pure kind of love, love of ones self, friendships, solemn walks by the Seine, exploring night by night with your camera around your neck. The love of realizing what you have when you are walking down the street and seeing homeless folks, hearing them making their statements in the metro, you realize how truly privileged you are because not only do you live in this magical place at such a young age but you also don't suffer and you aren't constantly ignored or worse, starred at.

 

Paris is a city of variety. On a daily basis I could speak to someone from India here studying to be a pastry chef, to a 9 year old boy in the park who can remarkably speak English, German, Russian, french and is learning Chinese. There are places all over the world like this, but Paris brings out that certain je ne sais quoi in everyone.

Hate it or love it, it still does.

yes.

its true.

all you Parisians, that hate it, stop disagreeing.

face it.

 

We are all the same animal.

Whether we are male or female, Chinese or American, black or white, maybe even Simoen we all are the same; HUMAN.

or Homosapin (as you prefer)

 

We all have one thing in mind, to chase our dream.

I think we aren't realizing that we are living it right now. What are you chasing?

You can't forget all that time you spend chasing, you could be living.

We wake up from our dreams every night, so we can live them during the day

 

So, lets all live, love, share, and try to appreciate the life we have been given. Our chosen path and our true destiny. (that's for Julia)

For now, mine is living in Paris and getting to teach and play with two of the worlds most amazing kids and I'm going to tell you ALL ABOUT IT.

 

 

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