Greece relocation or refuge

@Story Hunters Tv meets the lovely Sarah, an online Italian teacher and tireless traveller, who has chosen the island of Paros in the Cyclades as her refuge. "You're not a tree", says our friend, "you don't have to stay where you were born". Life can have many chapters, each of which can bring with it an encounter that, for the most diverse reasons, pushes you towards other shores. After all, if we like where we land, this can be a good reason to be optimistic and set off to look for the next place. As a young university graduate and aspiring theatre actress, she left the Veneto province to choose first Rome, then London and finally Los Angeles, but over time she felt that, although she wanted to continue traveling, she wanted to create a base in Europe. Sea and a prolonged good season were the prerogatives of his choice. Canary Islands or Greek Islands? her choice fell on the Cyclades. As an experienced traveller, she prepared her expedition and set off in search of her ideal island. Paros won out over the others without a shadow of a doubt. During the interview, she is moved to tears as she recalls her arrival in the port on the ferry from Piraeus to Paroikia. The siren of the ferry leaving Paros at 10.30 am is her morning wake-up call. Sarah feels at home on this strip of land in the middle of the Aegean Sea. "This is my size today," she says with emotion. But this home, which she loves, is not a place in which to get stuck. Every year, Sarah sets off on long journeys around the world, most of them alone, as she has always done. She also says something very nice about her online work. When I am somewhere in the world, alone, after visiting places, in the evening, depending on the time zone, I retreat to my home or hotel to teach my students, that for me is a moment of sharing. In teaching, Sarah uses her experiences as tools for linguistic communication, a moment which for her becomes, therefore, sharing. After all, language is made for the transmission of knowledge and therefore of experience. Her students, of different nationalities, are admired by their teacher's journeys and adventures and their lessons are enriched with emotion. What better combination of the art of living and the art of teaching and transmitting culture! Sarah has appeared to us and will appear to you serene and aware of the quality of her life, but this does not mean that she accepts being told 'you are lucky'. Of course she is aware of this, but what she has she has built up little by little by making choices, accepting unknowns, facing risks and often loneliness. This is an important lesson. Sometimes people say ... I envy you. But there is no reason to envy, there is only a need to take action to try to go in the direction in which you aspire to go, remembering that happiness is not about reaching the goal, but making the journey. Sarah seems to embody the dimension of this lifestyle. A style that envisages change not as a decisive and unique moment, but rather as a succession of changes relative and consequent to a choice that lies at the origin. In Sarah's case, this choice was the realisation that the province was not for her. She needed to get to know and experience places that were far away and very different from each other, she felt the need to meet people who brought new ideas to those she had grown up with. Her studies in literature and the theatre (she performed Shakespeare's Hamlet in London in English) certainly gave her the necessary stimuli and curiosity to understand that the world is a great theatre to be discovered and integrated within us. Sometimes, the province, with its small conceits and innate prejudices, can be a little grey, even in its local magic, and so Sarah, at the age of twenty, wrote on her bedroom door the warning that guided her along her way: "If you set your mind on reaching for the stars, you may not be able to catch a single one, but you won't end up with a handful of mud". We would like to offer you the example of this courageous woman, this Jonathan Livingston who, like Richard Bach's famous seagull, was tenacious and optimistic, and managed to direct her life, not without sacrifice and difficulty, towards her path, her journey, her ascension. A journey which, as we know, always has two directions, the outer one towards getting to know others and the inner one towards getting to know oneself, and the sole purpose of harmonising these two dimensions. Thank you Sarah for your spontaneous story.
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