Goodbyes/hellos
I wipe a thin layer of dust from my backpack and leave my hermitage. The time to leave Argentina has come. I organise the anecdotes created on my memory’s shelf and open the door to nostalgia and upcoming adventures.
The Argentinian city I resided in never managed to steal my heart. For the time being it was stored on a wonderful person’s nightstand.
I’m happy to have been here and excited to leave. All I have done over here was focusing on objectives in the distance. The time consisted of scorching heat, sporadically a coffee outdoors and the remainder: work, working out and a bed full of femininity.
No craziness, distraction nor decisions I shouldn’t have made. The structure was necessary. A routine to keep this rolling stone rolling in a circle for a while. A former hedonism-junkie recovering from his pointless addiction.
I had a good run, some nice walks and now I’ll jog along. I started what I said I would and finished what I envisioned. Off to the next step, carrying out construction work on this road leading to better things.
The taxi drives me past the supermarket I frequented, the gym in which I became a regular and numerous buildings that are ingrained in my recollection. Most likely for the last time in this lifetime.
As the car turns left my mind makes a right, making its way down memory lane.
The city never appealed to me, but I have met a handful of wonderful people who I, from now on, can forever call a friend. And there is no landscape, posh establishment nor short-term pleasure that can compete with the inherent beauty of their friendship and love.
Songs that never grew on me morph into salsa music, voices that sound as if they’re singing can be heard from afar. A country that instils fear into the mind of some appears in front of me and exhilaration takes over.
Escapades incoming. The adventure commences.
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