'' where the hell is my ... passport :-s ?''
And then life happened and ... a week before I leave I got my passport lost or stolen! ...
I had been carrying it in my bag (placing it carelessly in the front pocket) for two days due to the fact I had to sort some paperwork at Rotterdam's city hall, my passport went missing.
Worst thing is that those two days I went around using trains and metro ... doing some shopping and going through many random places in and out of the city ... my passport could have been anywhere.
Before my mind starting going through post-apocalyptic scenarios I decided to let hope lead the way and start going on a private investigation... asking super market and cashiers ... metro and train officers, turning my house upside down, interrogating Shiva (my cat) ... and give my memory two more days, I finally decided to take more ''extreme measures'' yea ... I was standing outside the Greek Embassy's door in Den Haag ... feeling my palms sweaty and my throat dry as my trembling finger was reaching for the door bell ... thinking to my self ''greek bureaucracy ... I am totally fucked now!''...
My intuintion was right. 5 minutes after and I was standing infront of two ''chair - centaurs'' as we call them in Greece... that would not be willing to give time to listen to any part of story, clearly annoyed by my presence there and the sudden appearance of work. ''Miss we already told you! The greek law says 3 months! You cannot have a passport sooner under those circumstances. You can freely use your ID card and travel within the EU. There is nothing we can do. It is not an emergency case''.
And that was the moment ... I heard a loud noise ... yea that was my ambitious plan of travelling to Morocco breaking into pieces on the floor ...
Still not willing to accept thing I made a call to Greece (yes I was so angry at this moment that I was willing to even take a flash-trip to Greece just to have my passport ready sooner and not change my plans at all). Still I got the same answer, nothing could be done.
I guess this is where my inner practice begun for this trip. Now I had to practice one of the Niyamas according to the Yogi ethic code when Patanjali is describing ... Ishwara Pranidana ... letting go! Accepting what is and let the universe decide the course of things ... Silencing my ego from figthing against the possibility of not taking the satisfaction to reach the initial goal planned ... see my attitude as an offering to the situation at hand and accept this unexpected turn of events with joy ....
Well all these thoughts ... combined with a big bowl of ice - cream and feeling miserable for a couple of hours in my bed the next morning of course ... thinking: IF _ THEN _ ELSE