"Open up your heart - it can always be closed again"

It's been a little while since I haven't written anything, mainly because I was on a citytrip to Amsterdam, but I've been back for two days now and decided it was best for me to reflect on everything and let it all sink in, rather than just blabla'ing about it without thinking it through. Because believe me, there was a lot of material to think about.

To start off me and my friend Sara didn't have any plans what so ever. We just bought a busticket with a return dated 4 days later and the only thing we knew was that we were going to the Jason Mraz concert in Westerpark the first night.
Like I mentioned in the blog below he's an amazing person and artist, and that feeling has been confirmed even more now that I've seen him live. If there's one thing you need to do if you ever get the opportunity is go to a Jason Mraz concert.

It will change your life, I'm not kidding.

So, I went to Amsterdam with the intention of finding Jason - which I did, too bad I had no clue how to get to him and see him face to face. On the other hand what would I have said anyway besides "uuuuuh"? - and what I found was something way bigger than anything I could ever imagine.

It started with two guys asking us for directions at a crossroad and ended up shifting my whole perspective on who we are and what it is we're doing here. My main inspiration was one of the crossroadguys who - strangely enough - practically has the same name as the person I look up to, being the magnificent Jason Mraz.
Same vowels, same consonants, other order.

What I found on this trip was love. Not in a cheesy, highschoolmovie-way, but the learnings of genuine love. Not only for a person, but for everything around you. I learned that what we really need to do is open up our hearts, and just let the love in. It's so easy.
Situations of not being yourself, being scared or worried, is just because you don't open up to that - yet - unknown love. And to my opinion it can never be closed again, you leave bits and pieces of your heart spreaded all over.


I'm not going to get into all the details - I could probably write pages about what I've experienced - but I'll tell you this: because of opening up for just one second, and agreeing to go and have a drink at some bar in a strange city with two complete strangers, I slept on docks, partied on a boat and met the most amazing people. Most of them have almost travelled across the entire globe, and are living my dream, which is to travel and see the world, getting to know people all over the planet, spreading peace and love, doing what it is you want to do and attend the university of life. Because that's all that matters really.

And what I've fully and consciously realized is that you really only have one life on this earth, it's the one you are living right now.

So stop worrying about the future. Stop living in the past. Live here and now. Today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.

What I'm writing here, are things we already know. But do we follow it? Do we really live it? There are so many expectations you have to live up to, so many rules, so many boundaries, and for what? Get my drift? Exactly.
Live your dream, enjoy and respect your surroundings, be aware, show your gratitude, and most of all.. don't be afraid to love and let love in.

Namaste

A new Jolene