Location: Bottom floor of Mutzingen home
Feeling: Blissful and productive (even though everything online is in German!)
Start with this song by Creedence
Someday never comes. In tune with this song I must say that someday only comes when you jump into it. When you immerse yourself just into what is thrown your way. At first it may be hard to find your sense of community-which is really all we look for when we go anywhere/live anywhere. Through each place I have ventured to I have learned that you can't wait for something to feel right for yourself, you can't just expect to not be uncomfortable, so in retaliation you must jump in. To become one with the community your day will come though, and when you find those people it is only then that you feel at home.
What I am trying to get at is that in life we only want to find this community in which we feel we belong, something that is greater than us, and better than we could have imagined. Being here in this small village like town of Germany I have indeed found my sense of community, but it is not what I would typically imagine for myself. Back at home I have the comforts of being able to drive anywhere at any time, able to watch tv, stay warm without a couple jackets, have internet anywhere in the house- all of these material things that normally seem so needed. Being here this is not what has occurred. Coming here I could not see that day coming, that day where I was going to get "adjusted" and comfortable in my new location, rather I found that there were more important things to this monotonous life I had been feeling these past few years.
What is so cool about being here is that while we are living in a rural place, the people here are so full of human wealth. Living here I have seen that the people still live off of their land, they use the products they grow, the eggs from their neighbors, the organic food from the local shops, the wood for the furnace and oven, the sardine oil to start a fire, etc. All of this seems like so much work, but the people are so happy and so satisfied with the life they live. Here I have found a community to help and be a part of. Something greater than me, something greater than themselves. The sensuality of community is that you can't always see it, in fact you don't need to see it-or touch it- you need to be it, feel it. Because that someday, that sign, that click in the brain is never going to come. It is already here.
