Now, it has been one month ago, when I have finished my travels and arrived back in Switzerland. The reception was great. Good friends and family members picked me up at the airport and welcomed me here in my home country. I really enjoyed seeing all my friends and family again and finally I can play my violin again! But ever since I'm back, I miss to travel. It's not to travel itself but to see and meet people from different countries and to live in a different culture. Everywhere on my travels I was welcome and so lovely and kind people in every place (of course there were also not so nice ones...). Especially in southeast Asia the people where so friendly and just happy to see you even if they don't now you. Pure happiness and joy of living you can see in those people's eyes. With so little like to say yes for a selfie with them, you can bring so much joy in their life. It's also incredible how gratful they are for everything in the life. When you are volunteering and a stranger on the street ask you what you do here, they will thank you for helping their country. However, this people don't have any direct benefit out of your doing or helping but they are truly gratful! Look in someone's eyes on the street and you get a big smile and you have to smile, too. Even when you can't talk to them, the non-verbal communication tells you enough to now, this person is happy just because they have seen you. Now back to reality and the routine. No! this is not reality here in Switzerland. Not for me. I've seen people who have just what they need to survive or even less but genuine love and happiness dwells within them. This is real! Real love, real happiness, real gratitude and real joy. Once a tour guide said to me "I'm happy when you're happy" and he really meant it. That's those people's philosophy of life. What I can see here in Switzerland is actually pure sadness. We have everything we need and much more. All this materialistic things we want and possess, we think it makes us happy but as soon as we have it, it makes us to want something else, one more thing. We can't be satisfied for we want alway just one more thing. The irony is, in terms to become happy we make ourselves unhappy because we always want just one more thing. I said before it's not reality for me here in Switzerland. Yes sure I grew up here and so on but I actually mean, here most of the people just put on a mask and aren't themselves. You can see that in many different way. For instant I have to behave in a certain way otherwise it is not appropriate but if I want to behave this way doesn't matter. The society demands it and I obey or I won't be accepted. I don't like to wear a suit but I have to otherwise I won't get the job. It's not you then who you present in a job interview, you pretend to be someone you are not, because you want to be accepted by the society. For this reason you can't be entirely yourself, you have to put on a mask. Now this is a reason why we can see so many sad faces everywhere in this place. I claime and am convinced those people with far less than we, are better off than us! "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." From the little prince.
