“You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust the dots will somehow connect in your future.”

– Steve Jobs

A friend once told me “I think now it’s time for you to find your own Leonardo”. She was teasing me. She knew I had been a life time Leonardo fan, Leonardo DiCaprio that is. The greatest actor of our time, every girl’s dream, at least that’s what I thought. I remember the first time I saw him on the big screen, I was fourteen years old and Romeo + Juliet had just come out. And then there was Titanic and the phenomenon it was. Leonardo starred as Jack, chasing his Rose on board of this unsinkable ship, that sank on it’s first voyage across the Atlantic. “I’ll never let go Jack, I’ll never let go”.

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Sometimes in life you wipeout through no fault of your own, this too is life, the Surf of Life. Life is no linear upward line, or a nice round circle. Life is like a set of waves, sometimes you’re up and sometimes you’re down:

• Accept that sometimes the waves just wash over you
• Remember that not every wave is for you
• Know that there’s no surfing without waves

 

‘God can dream a bigger dream, for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you’ve done as much and worked as hard and strived, and tried, and given, and plead, and bargained, and hoped. Surrender. When you have done all that you can do and there is nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself and let it then become part of the flow … You can dream this much, but God has a bigger dream.’

– Oprah Winfrey

“In the end, I’ve come to believe in something I call the ‘physics of the quest’, a force in nature governed by the laws of gravity. The rules of quest physics goes something like this: If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting and set out on a truth seeking journey either internally or externally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared most of all to face and forgive some of the most difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you”

– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat Pray Love – 2010

The next day I headed for Cape Leeuwin, with it’s beautiful white lighthouse. Here I was, after 4000 kilometers down the Australian West Coast, at ‘the end of the world’, once again. I walked over to the water where the Indian and Pacific Oceans met. This was the third time I was ‘at the end of the world’. Ushuaia – Argentina in 2008, Cape town – South Africa in 2010 and now South Western Australia. How many more places did I want to visit? I turned around and looked up towards a gigantic white lighthouse my ancestors left behind, and I thought about all the sailors that crossed these oceans over the centuries. Cape Leeuwin they called this place, Dutch for Cape Lioness. A little piece of home, all the way on the other side of the world. I stood there for a moment watching the oceans. I wondered what it was I was looking for. Or, was this wandering the earth just a purpose in itself? My ancestors had been globetrotters, and therefore maybe I was too.