onsdag 17 oktober 2012

1 million Euro.

I was walking to the movies with Fabien last Sunday. We talked about a lot of thing but this is what sticks with me.

Fabien: So you find a million euro bill in your pocket, right now, what would you do? GO!

Me: Eh... I don't know.
Fabien: You take a cab and pick up your good friend Fabe. Go!

Me: Yeah, I would do that. Pick you up.
Fabien: But it's right now, so I'm already here. What would you do?
Me: Eh... Probably buy something ridiculous.
Fabien: You can't. It's Sunday. ("Everything" is closed in Germany on Sundays)
Wouldn't you check in to a hotel or something?
Me: Would you go to the airport? I wouldn't. Yeah, I would probably check in to a nice hotel. A suite.
Fabien: I might go to the airport. A suite? I wouldn't do that. I just go and check in at hotels. I love checking in at hotels. I wouldn't stay there. Or maybe make a big night out and the see which hotel is closest.

This conversation lasted while we where walking from Friedrichstrasse to Potsdamer Platz (about 2km) so we said many thing that we would and wouldn't do.
I said I would buy an apartment to have some safety and not have to move around every now and then and that I would go to work the next day.
Fabien said a lot of things that he would do. Like start his own business and asked me if I would open my own bookshop.
I told him that I'm not ready to do that. I don't feel like I have enough experiences yet and I would like to learn before I start my own bookshop. He told me to that I could hire people to help me but I was still not ready to do it.
He told me that I was the most boring person for not knowing what to do with the money and that I was going to go to work the next day.

Fabien: I might buy a place in Paris and move there. Get you a job in a french bookshop where you could work once a month. So we have that settled.

In comparison to Fabien, I do sound boring.
He had grand plans. Also plans that include me.
I have nothing. Mostly because I'm so zufrieden at the moment. I like it here. I don't feel the need to move somewhere or to quite my job. I don't really want to do anything grand. I'm happy here, right now. I have plans on things to do next year and them I still want to do. I have no stress to change my life over night.
I think of this as a very good feeling; that I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm happier then I've been before and my life here feels stable. Right now, here is so right even if I found a million euro bill in my pocket.

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