You know,…… today I’m kind of happy and sad. A Russian friend of mine, Dimitri, is leaving for New York tomorrow night to live there and having gotten to know him makes me think of the friends one has to leave behind in hopes of exploring the rest of the world. On the one hand, it is a damn shame to have to part from your closest of friends, the ones you have adopted as brothers and would give a kidney for if it came down to it; brothers who enrich your life in such a way that without them you feel lonely and deprived of the joys of life itself. On the other hand, life goes on so should you until you are too old to move. I really like the quote that Farid has on his site by Mark Twain:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”….
I’ve lived by this mantra so far and that, apparently, is not about to change. But still one question remains. How does one move from being the richest man in the world to starting over from scratch?......
That, my friends, is my dilemma and I must admit that I am in pain. I’m also moving to New York this summer and I’ve been having a huge issue with leaving behind my brothers. Life, it seems, has a very funny way of giving you opportunities and taking away other joys in the process………….. Or as the French say: “C’est la vie.”…
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