Reflections and changes...

Greetings,

Tough day at work... the clear perspective of a very loooooong and troublesome summer brings me home in a more reflective mood. (for later to remember...) What is life like today:

... Work...
Still enjoying myself, starting a second year on this assignment, a second year when the results and the legacy will need to be built. Managing 6 very different people in the middle of a major integration has been kick ass experience, all of them very different... the resources are as usually insufficient, the major business trends are against our work needs
(my team's) but for sure we will pull it off!

... Madrid...
Excellent chat with my flat mate today, as he decided to return to Lisbon taking advantage of an excellent opportunity... He ends a phase of 8 years out of Portugal. We end a chilled out year together in this flat. I loose the proximity of yet another very good friend here in Madrid. People are leaving, and as time goes by I feel like moving on as well, less in the mood nowadays to meet new people, to constantly start over again...

... Dillemmas...
The nomad vs. the portuguese thoughts return... on one side, looking at many of you, globetrotting and having a great time both professionally and personally, some even with major steps on the family front... but on the other side, I have to recognize tremendous attachment feelings that haunt me every time I step in an airplane or in a car on the way to Madrid... Is this the end of the nomad side...? Naaaa!!! A trip to Argentina and the perspective of a 3 month sabatycal next year will make sure of that (Southeast Asia or Latin America???). But, I do feel deep deep down that it might make sense to start planning my return, even if temporary, to the place that is my true "home".

Holidays!! I need holidays!! :)

Carpe Diem!