Ready to go I: Sharm el-Sheikh

The simplicity of sun, sea and sand. 

The luxury of five-star hotels, water sports, shopping and entertainment. 

This is Sharm el-Sheikh, one of the most accessible and developed tourist resort communities on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on the coastal strip between the Red Sea and Mount Sinai with a population of approximately 35,000. 

Before 1967, Sharm el-Sheikh was little more than an occasional base of operations for local fishermen. 
Commercial development of the area began during the Israeli presence in the area. The Israelis built the town of Ofira overlooking Sharm el-Maya Bay, and the Nesima area, and opened the first tourist-oriented establishments in the area six kilometers north at Naama Bay. These included a marina hotel on the southern side of the bay, a nature field school on the northern side, diving clubs, a now well-known promenade, and the Naama Bay Hotel. 

After the Sinai was restored to Egypt in 1982, the Egyptian government embarked on an initiative to encourage continued development of the city. Foreign investors - some of whom had discovered the potential of the locality during the Israeli occupation - contributed to a spate of building projects. 

Nowadays, all around there are Bedouins, colorful tents, mountains and sea. There are small, intimate hotels with modern designs, as well as larger hotel complexes belonging to International chains, plus about all the amenities one could expect of a tourist center, including casinos, discos and nightclubs, golf courses and health facilities. 

 In fact, with diving and snorkeling, windsurfing and other water sports, horses and camel riding, desert safaris, and great nearby antiquities attractions, it is almost impossible for a visitor to ever suffer from boredom.

I keep asking myself...

I keep asking myself, over and over again, what really matters in life.

I have no words to describe my frustration, my incomprehension, my incapability to find satisfying answers.

I wish I knew for sure who and what to believe, to follow, to trust.

Everything would be so much easier if for once in a lifetime someone could tell me the right from wrong, the way to happiness, the small little piece that completes the picture and makes it have some sense.

How am I suppose to know where to go, what to do, what to fight for, if I don’t even know the purpose for it all, if I don’t know where I want to be, or what I want to be?

We learn that a strategy, to be well defined and to allow your company to be successful, it needs to take into account your environment, your capabilities, your expectations, your purposes – and others’ as well.  But when it comes to life, how can we try to be successful, if we do not understand none of these ‘basic pillars’?

And how are we supposed to measure our achievements, accomplishments, fulfillment? Based on which parameters, compared to who or what?

No matter how many books, films, studies, discussions we go for on the subject. People have always tried to figure out the true, wise and comprehensive explanation for life and most of all, the explanation for how to live it right. And eventually, we realize that there is no right or wrong, no prescribed behavior to follow.

Surround yourself with people, good people, loyal friends if you could find them. It will enrich your life. Nevertheless, no one can live your life on behalf of you. There is no formulary in this test. It is in your hands to decide what you want to do. And you will have to do it alone.

More. You will never know whether you followed the best path or not. Or even whether there is one best path.

Recordações

Cozinhar em memórias dos bons tempos.

Inventar, criar. Fazer algo meu. Saborear a minha própria criação.

Sentir que naquele momento só dependo de mim e da minha inspiração.

Relembrar os dias de liberdade e independência, em que não havia ninguém que o fizesse por mim... E que bons momentos! Saudosa já...

Voltar já não é exactamente voltar. Pelo menos não da mesma forma como partimos.

Pensar por mim, tomar as minhas decisões e, inevitavelmente, lidar com as consequências dessas mesmas decisões...É um desafio aliciante.

Criar dependência desse estado de independência. Sinto falta dessa liberdade, dessa responsabilidade.

Estranhar a comodidade em que sempre vivi. Já não a quero mais, já nem sei bem viver assim.

Querer mais. Muito mais.

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