A brief new update

Hello,


I have now (well, a few hours ago) reached Bangkok and am happily settled into my room for the night.

As I informed my friends and family about my trip and my arrival many of them raised the question of safety and asked me to be very careful. All of this very much warms my heart and I am touched by the concern. However, I must admit my own personal opinion that Thailand is no more dangerous than it was before or any more dangerous than any other place. I am very sad over the events that took place in Bangkok earlier this week and my heart goes out to all of those touched by this tragedy.
Unfortunately, the world is not a perfect place and sad things happen every day. I think that the best we  can do is to provide all the people near us our attention, our help and our compassion. I do hope that we all learn for all the bad in the world and encourage ourselves to make a difference, no matter how small. On this note, I do wish to move onto lighter issues as I promised that this blog will be about my travels and I do not wish to preach to anyone.

Don't get me wrong, I did study international law and I have a passion for politics, international relations and all topics of deep conversation. I will not be able to keep my own observations and opinions out of this  blog, but I do intend this to be a little bit lighter to read than an analysis on the function of the world.

So now I wish to write about my best flight journey. On the way from London to Abu Dhabi I was lucky enough to be seated next to two amazing world travelers. One of them was an Irish doctor who currently practices medicine in Australia. The other one was a Canadian who is committed to his own voluntary work and mission in Nairobi. Both of them had such an amazing stories regarding traveling and how they ended up being where they are today. It was truly a pleasure to fly with people of such different experiences and backgrounds especially because they were both more than happy to share their stories. Second half of the flight I spent in a nearly empty plane in the most beautiful sunset. All together I have a very good feeling about this journey based on these first moments.

My luck did not even end to the flight journey. One of my future colleagues happened to arrive to the airport at the same time and I got to meet him briefly. This all has made me think of a lesson I started to understand a long time ago, but what has sunk in more and more over time. If you do what you love you will always find the people who share the same passion and you have the best chance to find the most amazing people. Doing what you love might just be the key to happiness.

On this note, and because it is past midnight in here, I shall leave you. I hope my post for today was not too heavy, I just wanted to write about things that have arisen recently. I will be moving on to Koh Samui in the afternoon and then I will have more sunny pictures to show.


Sweet dreams.


Mira