Do you still remember those states in which one was refreshed with happiness and wants to embrace everyone who comes along? Where happiness literally bursts out of your body and you don't know where to go with yourself! Grinning all the time and wanting to share your state with everyone? One is grateful to be alive and experience beautiful things?

In my childhood I often felt like that. Very often even. Therefore I know this feeling very well. When I was newly in love, I experienced it the same way. In and after spiritual seminars, too. 

Or of course when my daughter was born. Happiness and love literally rush through my veins and almost intoxicate me.

There were times when I thought I would never feel this way again.

I suffered secretly. I felt dulled. Too busy with tasks that life demanded of me.

After I decided to do away with everything that stood in the way of my subtlety and sense of freedom, regardless of the financial or other consequences, the refreshing feeling of groundless joy returned to me.

I would never want to sacrifice or trade this state of being again. Radically choosing to shake off everything toxic is such an empowering and grounding experience at the same time! It's just all uphill from here.

After initiating changes professionally and romantically, the final game changer has been turning away from Europe. (After I was allowed to gain experience in several countries). 

I hate to say it, and I'm sure I'll face a lot of headwind, but the collective spirit in many European cultures seems to me to be more insane than in, for example, Latin American cultures.

At least it was for me.

Everyone can do something different to separate themselves from toxic elements in their environment or in themselves.

I personally love cultures that are designed to simplify things for us humans. Stealing as little of our time as possible. Promoting beauty in everything. To be fundamentally benevolent to fellow human beings.

To think big and generously. I love to look mainly into kind eyes. To be offered unconventional solutions.

All this, for me, corresponds more to the nature of the universe than conceptually implemented rules of coexistence that allow little room for special adjustments and simplicity.

Mexicans carry a childlike cheerfulness that is so good for the heart!

They love contact. They love encounter. They love to feel connected and close. They carry a certain innocence.

They have not lost it or let it be taken away.

Nature offers abundance wherever you look. Vastness wherever you look.

Thinking in terms of lack is simply harder to do here. Less obvious.

I wish for every human being to rediscover this groundless feeling of happiness now and then. To feel alive without needing artificial stimuli for it.