Thoughts From Austria
- January 2008
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Dear Steph,
From time to time I have a look at your homepage and specially to the blog “Talking about life” I want to tell you some thoughts.
Please note, that I am an Austrian (Vorarlberg, you know it) and English isn’t my language, so I am sure that it isn’t possible for me to say it correctly what I mean, but I will try it as an approximation and hope it will go. “Ultimately, the only thing I can truly count on is myself, and my own heart”, you meant and of course I also feel so, but we must handle it very carefully because our heart will be somehow “locked” and as longer we will do so, to protect us from external things, it will be very hard for the next person to reach us deeply (really deep!). You know? We are humans and we will be humans forever.
A few months ago, a patient near his death said, that the most important of all of life isn’t health, it is sympathy (German: Mitgefühl) which reach us deeply in our heart. You know? We never should lose this point of view when we built protection round our hearts. We will never be perfect. Trust as far as it is fair to humans. To be human meant despair. That is part of life.
Too much words in the strange language, and nevertheless too less to say “it”.
So I wish you the best and handle your heart carefully.
Christoph
Dear Christoph,
Thank you, your words are beautiful and full of wisdom.
I wish you safety, adventure, and an open heart 🙂
xx Steph
