These days I’m thinking often of my childhood days. The advent season 🕯️ – the 24 days before Christmas – were always a really special time for me. A time filled with magic, family moments and small winter adventures like sledding.
Of course your life as a child lightens up when you get every day a little gift, a sweet treat or another piece for your lego car in your advent calendar. But there were also all this stories of human kindness, care and love around. In poetry, in theater, little stories, children books and songs. Other Kids were coming over and we had delicious things like “Bratapfel”, apples stuffed with grounded nuts, raisins and topped with vanilla sauce.
Growing up between forest and farm fields, the winter was really a wonderland, seeing everyday how the landscape is changing from almost dying – trees with no leaves – to a white ever changing landscape: bushes and trees forming sculptures, here and there ice popsicles were growing, and shifting into upside down landscapes.
The innocence and peace a fresh layer of snow brings to the world is an amazing feeling – which still today, just thinking of it, brings a deep peace to my mind. Because with heavy snow fall the world is changing, slowing down, things are working differently: you can’t go on with the usual rush of the day. Cars can’t drive with the same speed on snow and ice. And – due to the physical properties of snow to swallow all sound – the world becomes – – – silent.
Intoxicated with this mixture of excitement, magic, togetherness and deep peace, the winter time in December created always in me a sound feeling of belonging: feeling home in myself and in this world.
The beautiful thing with those feelings are, that we can recreate them every time we want to! They’re just a split second away from our present moment. The only effort: to remember that we can do it, and then browsing throughout our own life finding this moments of joy, peace and belonging.
That’s the whole magic. And the advent time is created for that!
To slow down, to turn inward and to remember those beautiful moments of past summer (the crickets singing in the bushes, a smile from a beautiful human, jumping into a lake, and drying in the hot summer sun), that moment 3 years ago when the Spree in Berlin was frozen and I could go onto the ice with my wife at the time – her first time walking on frozen water –, or those lovely childhood memories.
This magic moments create value: they define what’s important to us. Not as a concept, but as a feeling. A feeling what life is about. And this brings value to magic itself! My whole description of my advent time and winter memories form a feeling of home, peace and ultimately well-being.
Now I can take this feeling and think how can I create moments in my everyday life that is bringing this feeling up. Independently how my life looks like, I can incorporate this feeling in my everyday life by creating little islands of joy, peace and belonging. In this way you make your own life joyful, peaceful – and home.
Bring more magic to your life! Make your life home to yourself. 💖
Thank you for your support! I’m still learning to be on this beautiful journey I created with Being Yourself Rocks, learning to create value through magic and to share it. What is value? That what is important to us. What is magic? Think yourself ; ) That's the magic!
