My life has certainly been far from ordinary and has been a roller coaster ride from the day I was born... Growing up in Africa was probably the greatest gift I could have ever received and my life there was the most wonderful adventure! It opened my mind and taught me so much about what in life is truly important. It allowed me to look at the world from so many different angles and never once did i feel like i was getting caught up in the mundane...
Memories.....
Running through the tall grass at sunset in the Seilou; catching catfish in the Mara River; Riding on the roof of a landcruiser with the wind blowing wildly through my hair and my pores filling up with the red soils of Tsavo... waking up in my tent in the middle of the night to watch elephants grazing under a full moon, huddled in a warm Maasai blanket... running on coral reefs barefoot and forever making new discoveries in the same pool, no matter how many times I went back to visit it...Getting dressed up in an evening gown to go to the ballet or an opera; afternoon tea and cookies in the garden with my mother; having Beluga caviar for the first time at age 6 and LOVING it!; Spending hours and days in a hot kitchen helping my mother prepare a 10 course meal for 50 guests; The smell of the grass and the earth when the skies open up during a rain fall...looking out at the horizon and seeing storms being formed hundreds of miles away....
Africa made me who i am... someone that easily blends in an adapts to all situations, because this is what the dark continent requires of you....
I have been known to be a fighter, hard headed, temperamental, funny and controversial (just ask my old high school friends)...but on the same token I am also a gentle soul, that wears her emotions on her sleeve, loves truly and deeply, is shy and reserved and asks nothing more of others than love, affection and respect... I am a giver....
I made good choices as well as bad in my short existence but do not look back upon anything with regret because each part of me was shaped by the paths I chose to walk and those which I had no choice but to follow. A mistake cannot be called as such if a lesson was learned from it. I am a risk taker, despite my many fears, but I follow my heart and my instincts with perhaps too much abandon... sometimes they fail me and sometimes they don't...I would regret more never knowing than knowing I was wrong....
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Christophe Mae on s'attache
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