Nature was calling

We spent our mid-twenties exploring a different culture. Meeting, getting to know others, with very different backgrounds, beliefs and daily routines. Falling in love, each breath discovering a little more about each other's culture, and unconsciously questioning our own life purpose. Diversity. What a blessing it has been, each day, to realize the immense diversity of thoughts, shaping our own with what we liked the most about every influence coming our ways. We first learnt through each other. I never quite thought it was possible to be so aligned with someone. We like to talk, communicate and share perspectives. We learn and grow constantly. We share a love for travels - or rather, peregrination. Live simply, observe, absorb new foreign environments together and discuss what makes sense to us. And so we keep defining our way of living consciously, both for our inner and outer selves.

How did we come to define ourselves and what matters to us? We realize the importance of enjoying the present moment, the sense of community, an humble use of the planet resources, makers movement satisfaction, peace and spirituality, but also taking things light and the goofiness that makes life fun.

In search of renouveau, we moved, started life from scratch and looked for new work 3 times in the last 10 years. This nourished our appetite for challenges, reduced our personal possessions to only a few, and made us appreciate the fact that home is really where the heart is. We can now recreate home quickly and easily with essentials that deeply resonate with our life journey, decorations with a purpose, and meaningful life design. We aim to be anti-fragile and we hope we can continue to make decisions that seem irrational to many, but to us means freedom, irrespective of what the society is trying to impose.

Welcoming a sharp and healthy human being into our family has been a gift of gratitude. Somehow it rooted us even more. Taking the responsibility to raise him, trying to present the most unbiased environment, with deep love and kindness, so he can forge himself with good values and pursue his own purpose one day. This also makes us, more than ever, alert enough to question what is important in life.

There was one missing factor in our life. Somehow, it was more and more often that I questioned what the hell was I doing here? Me, the girl who grew up in a countryside town. When I was thinking of how my family lived, 2 generations back, in a rural setting in France. Nature. We started to realize the importance of being synced with Nature for a while now. I wondered if all the great progress that came with living in this century (greater life expectancy, high education, economic self-sufficiency) were meant to translate into a 8 to 5 life in a high rise building.

Probably not. Nature was calling.