Picking up the thread

Lately, I’ve found myself reconnecting with old friends I hadn’t spoken to in a long time. Sometimes it starts with a message, a memory, an event, and then, suddenly, we’re talking again.

I noticed something: there are two things almost everyone has in common. First, everyone is creative. Second, everyone is doing just fine. Not perfectly. Not without effort. But in their own way, at their own pace. Sure, everyone has their struggles, who doesn’t? But no one is in the same place they were years ago. People are moving, evolving, adapting. And yet... the friendships continue almost exactly where they left off.

I’ve also met many new, inspiring people recently, and that’s always uplifting. But it’s something special to look around and see the people I’ve known for years growing into new, different versions of themselves , and still being entirely themselves.

It’s a joy to see them doing well. It’s a joy to reconnect. And it feels good to realize: probably I’m moving forward too.

Send a message to someone you haven’t talked in a while. It might make their days. And yours too!

Beyond creativity, these connections are eccentials for me as well. Reconnecting, even after years, reminds us of who we were, who we’ve become, and that we’re never truly alone. Our mental health also nurtured by human bonds. A good conversation, shared laughter and simply remembering something together offered more than expected.

The photos I chose this time feature some little animals I met during hiking in Vienna. I was just as delighted to see them as I was by the conversations joined me on this nostalgia train I seem to be riding lately. Sometimes that’s all it takes, a moment with an old friend, a funny creature, and suddenly, we’re closer to peace, ourselves and to each other again.

Fair winds,

Ivett