i need to thank elizabeth gilbert.

she writes about her findings. nothing else.
abiding by the pattern "this and this happened to me and i understood the following along the way" she has written the truly wonderful itenerary "eat, pray, love". [dont watch the movie, its the crappiest bullshit.]
not high literature in my eyes, however does it continue to have an effect on me more than any murakami.

in fact, she has a much more diverse and charming word pool than me that i might just have to acquire during the next years, but she really did encourage me to make notes of the ocurrences in my life without the anticipation of giving my lines any literary value.
to my mind she is incredibly right when she says that one doesnt need to travel the world in order to make the same experiences as her.
there are so many salutary, memorable experiences to be found in every life, also in mine, that i just need to wrap them into words in order to keep them.

there was, for example, this little african-german girl at the playground, a couple of days ago.
my friend and i were sitting on a bench, my 8 months old sister in a stroller next to us, when the child came up to us to look at the baby. she stretched her neck to look inside of the buggy and determined my sister to be really pretty.
afterwards she turned around and ran away.

a few minutes later she returned to talk to us shyly, the common questions: "how old are you? do you go to school? is that your baby?".
she discovered the candy that we had bought and then she did something that i still envy and admire her for:
she looked at us friendly and honestly and expressed her wish for some candy really fortrightly without making a rude impression on us at all.
so after consulting her mother, we shared our candy with the little one, who took a seat in our middle really haughtily with shining eyes, eating up the sweets given to her.

at the end of our encounter stood her pure sadness about us leaving and she told us that she would like to kiss us and that she liked us very much.
this litte, entrancing person will be kept in my memory for long.
as well as her infantile, actually really wise way of expressing her wantings.