This is a chapter from my book called The Inspirationalist (http://amzn.com/1447866576). I wrote this book as my dedication towards +Dodo Newman who inspired and motivated me in several times during my road. She taught me one very important thing, which was to not give up our beliefs in a positive solution. She taught me to keep up and to continuously believe in my aims. Thanks to Dodo I realized that I can always challenge the existing because we are able to improve things, to innovate.
As a child I learned early that there are always problems and nothing is perfect. This is an elemental part of life. My father handled these things in his own ways, so if something happened we just left for another part of the World. This is how we did also when my mother left us. My father is a very good man who always tried to protect me and who undertook the role as a man of being my father and my mother at the same time.
He could not face the happenings either, so with the wind of change we moved to India. Perhaps it was far enough from Europe for us to try to forget.
When I was a child I felt apart from the World. Growing up as a white child in India I often dreamed by the seaside, I never really felt myself alone there. The most beautiful actor of my dreams was always the infinite Ocean. I would watch the huge waves for hours, smell the salty air or just gaze at the ships and boats disappearing on the horizon. The Ocean meant for me freedom and the eternal space for opportunities. Perhaps this is why I am traveling so much even today, to explore eternity, the new, to find what inspires me and by which I am able to inspire others as well. My Soul is eternal and free.
Whenever I feel just a bit sad, or I just want to hide for a while to a safe place from the everyday happenings, I just need to close my eyes and I am a child again. I am sitting beside the Ocean on the sand and the wind and the steamy, salty air blows through my hair. These thoughts, dreams help me always to forget as well as to fill me up with renewed energy, to give me stability. Most people have dreams, but many do not take steps toward them, sometimes I also feel it very difficult to reach them but I endure to the very end of the path. I know deep inside that if I would give up my dream, I would get lost and my Life would be purposeless. In moments of weakness I grab onto this picture of memory in my past and I know that nothing is impossible by riding the waves of the sea. There is always a new hope behind the horizon no matter how high those waves are.
As I always said India has a deep effect on the senses, it stirs up vibrating every single sense and it does it in a multiple and unimaginable way. The colours enchant the eyes, the flavors and scents send us simply to another world. Even the air is colourful in India. The poorest person also wears colourful dresses, and even the food reflects colours as well.
In addition to all these India is the home of love. It is the world of intense feelings where passion is an element of the every days. What shows this even more is the fact that here even the food contains the strong passion. Spicy and hot flavours mix and each and every bite brings forth a new sensation in our taste buds. We just desire the new and to discover the unknown.
India was the place where I have also come to know the sense of freedom. I came away pretty far away from my native land but I believe this was one of the most important period of my life. I was happy and I flourished like a flower that has been transplanted from a dry and loamy earth to a fine soft soil.
Instead of having a mother I had an Indian nanny Linda. She was a real angel who told me many stories. I have to thank her that I came to know the real face of India. Linda took me everywhere with herself and so a wide, colourful and honest world unfolded in front of me, the real India.
I relived my stories with a hundredfold during every festival of Diwali. The Diwali is nothing else than the Festival of Lights, a very important holiday of Hinduism lasting for five days. Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil. During these days the game of the lights created a fairyland and I could stride on a magic carpet.
I know it is unbelievable for those born into the modern world but I grew up without TV, movies, electronics. The world of books and stories surrounded me each and every night and they took me to always a new land, where I could fly on the wings of the imagination.
My imagination developed with the help of books and stories: Every child needs a story!
There are no stories anymore. Most people have lost their belief. It is a materialistic world we are living in, where all people believe in is what they see, what others put in front of them and even then they have doubts about what is in front of them.
Fairy tales, legends, stories are for children...and even children have lost their interest in them. Fairy tales, stories made people create with their imagination and made them believe that there are wonders, magical places, people other than what they experienced in their every day lives. These gave them hope in another reality, in things they could change.
Scientists, philosophers, artists once all dreamed, imagined, believed and hoped. All inventions, great creations, big explorations, new ideas and findings came once from dreams and then became realities when their initiators, their inspirators, creators went on to realize them and not giving up, going through criticisms, struggles, disbeliefs all the obstacles that life can bring, they achieved what once were considered merely dreams today are considered normal, usual and part of our lives.
My dreams started with the Holi...In the last full moon day of every winter, usually in the beginning of Spring Holi is celebrated with coloured powder and coloured water that is thrown at each other.
I do not know who has had the opportunity to live through personally the magic of Holi, but for me this was when my strong attachment to colours, the strong colours came alive.
The powerful colours generate feelings. The eye can easily vibrate from a strong cyclamen-pink and can set off strong feelings.
Since I had the opportunity to be part of this fantastic cavalcade of colours, I always drew wherever we went. I can say that since then these powerful colours inspire me and they appear in everything that I touch. The colours that keep in me alive the magic of Holi. This inner wonder would have been long lost without them.
People are essentially social beings and human relationships have important roles in our development and formation. There are communities all over the world where people live together and help each other. I had the chance to discover a world where the concept of community was coupled with an unlimited openness.
I saw lots of things from the poorest children of the streets up to the most marvelous palaces.
India is an unbelievably rich country. There is something new to be discovered almost in every corner.
I also saw poverty first in India. As a child it was never strange for me to see poor children on the streets. I was even more astonished when later during my further stages of my life most people associated poverty with dirt and lack of hygiene.
Poverty is not a good thing but as a child I understood and accepted it easily. I played the same with the local children without any prejudice.
As a child I learned to live without any ties, freely. We lived in a house circled by a park but I always looked for the company of the local children. We used to play a lot with animals, I rode on elephants, I chased monkeys or we were just running away from some snakes.
I always believed every person is as open and tolerant as I got to know them in India until life uprooted me from this wonderful world...
The Cobra appeared in front of me in India, which became later an important and determining role in my life. In contrast to the Western civilization, in India the Cobra does not have a negative meaning but represents a symbol of wisdom.
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