this time tomorrow

according to burmese signs i'm a 'guinea pig', which makes sensitivity be my best virtue and makes me empathize with the difficulties of others. it also makes me have a restless nature and dislike being tied to any situation. i can relate with all of these things. but today i'm really happy to be tied to this 'being in lisbon' situation. for about 9 months i've known that tomorrow i'll be in lisbon. i'm really not used to knowing that. in the last 11 years or so i've been much more used to not knowing where i'd be the next day. but now that i am here and that i know where the next day is going to be... i like it :) all those years traveling it never occurred to me i would like being in a place for a long time again. i would probably not have liked it then because i really needed to travel. but now that i haven't traveled much in 9 entire months i realize that is not even true because i can travel so much staying in the same place. there are things i only seem to feel if i'm in one place for some time. and i had forgotten that. it's funny, i get so much from traveling that i never payed much attention to what i was missing out on by doing it. and there is so much. in the last weeks i started having memory flashbacks and i think it has to do with being in lisbon all these months, something that i can only access by not moving around the globe much. so many parts of me don't really function when i move from one place to another quickly. of course other parts don't work when i stay in lisbon long. the trick is probably to find the balance, the biggest challenge for everything xx being a 'guinea pig' and having a restless nature i change my mind quickly so who knows how long this peaceful lisbon mood will last. but right now i'm really happy i ended up in lisbon to have my knee operated forcing me to stop for a while. and as i do with everything else, i'm trying to make the most of it :) who knows what will come next?