If you are someone who doesn’t like endings, then create lots of “beginnings”. No, it’s not a social media quote, or at least, I don’t think it is. I swear I thought it at this very moment when (speaking of beginnings) after some time I decided to get back to my blog.
I don’t know if any writer, philosopher or loser of any sort in the past has ever formulated this phrase, this thought.
I can tell you for sure that this is my thought, I’m living it now.
I am someone who doesn’t like endings, and mind you, not even happy endings. I don’t like seeing things conclude, perhaps because, even when it comes to successes, I see them as defeats in my fight against time, a fight from which, alas, I already know that (like everyone) I will end up losing. But I try to limit the damage.
And precisely because I don’t like endings I have always tried to “drug” my way with massive injections of uncertainty.
Solid foundations, certainties, fixed points: these are all things that are good for the vast majority of people, and I respect that, but not for me.
That’s why after so many years of work, I lost count, I decided to reshuffle the cards of my life, with the curiosity to understand how and how well, this time too, I will be able to play them.
And so after a long Roman interlude, here again the suitcase is filled and emptied to change air again towards Dubai. Certainly not an unknown city for me. I’ve been there many times, I even have a house here; and I think that one of the reasons why I’ve always liked it is not the Las Vegas-style amusement park effect for adults, which many perceive the first time they set foot in it. What I love about Dubai is that feeling of “everything is possible here”, a bit like what you could breathe in New York in the twentieth century.
I know that everything is possible here. Because the environment (and I’m not referring to the atmospheric one) here fills you with positive vibrations, or rather I would dare say “constructive”. And from all points of view!
Let me put it this way: if at a certain point for personal or work or artistic reasons you feel like your batteries are low, I assure you that the air of Dubai will be able to galvanize you, giving you new energy, inspiration and possibilities. I didn’t put these last two words “inspiration and possibility” there by chance, like the other 718 in this post 😊.
Inspiration and possibility are two key elements of Dubai’s character, and they are two things that only work when they go hand in hand. What’s the point of having fantastic ideas if there is no environment that gives you the possibilities to develop them? In the same way… what’s the point of having possibilities (economic and otherwise) if you don’t know how to exploit and enjoy these resources?
Well, Dubai is the right place for me, right now for the inspirations and possibilities it gives me.
In my work, where I am about to launch a whole series of activities in the restaurant and real estate sector and which, here in Dubai are easier than elsewhere because the environment is favorable to those who create, to those who build, thanks to zero bureaucracy and a system of services capable (and I’m not joking) of setting up a restaurant in just one week.
But Dubai is a source of inspiration and opportunity for me also in the artistic field, that of my art, photography. It is here that I took the most beautiful photos of the last few years, being able to take full advantage of my new Hasselblad (and here comes back to the first speech about how important it is to also have strong inspirations when you have great possibilities and resources).
And so here I am again, a new city (well not exactly new, as I said), and many new goals and dreams to realize. The energy is the same as always, the hunger is the same that has moved me around the world for the last 40 years.
Certainties? Not even one as usual. But it’s not a problem, the less I have the more I feel free to move, to be myself. Without a compass, without a navigator, choosing the road at every new intersection.
And what if I get lost? Well, never mind, better lost than stopped.