Don't leave your dreams in the drawer of forgetfulness!

How many times have we tucked away our dreams in a notebook or simply in a corner of our mind, waiting for “the right moment”? Today, I want to share with you how I decided to dust off mine and make them come true—even when life took an unexpected turn.

When Plans Change

We all go through life enjoying moments with family and friends, building a more comfortable future. But the path doesn’t always go as we imagined. Sometimes, life takes unexpected turns that lead us to places very different from what we planned in our thirties or forties.

That’s what happened to me over the past two years. I thought I would stay in my last job until the day I retired. But that didn’t happen. One day, that job was gone, and I still had two years left before retirement. That’s when I made one of the bravest and most liberating decisions of my life: to retire early from the working world.

Then came another change: one of my greatest wishes was to spend more time with my daughters. But suddenly, they had become young adults with dreams and plans of their own. So, I had to learn to share life with them in a different way.

The Time Had Come to Revisit My Dream Notebook

In a special notebook, over time, I had stored my ideas, thoughts, and desires I hoped to fulfilled someday. Opening it brought a mix of emotions: letting go, moving forward, reclaiming dreams, and overcoming fears.

On one of its pages, I had written a recurring dream: to travel in a campervan, free from the rush of city life, stopping wherever I wanted to enjoy a coffee and the scenery, taking time to reflect on life and its lessons, and to imagine the years ahead.

Fuelled by that dream, I set off on my first solo trip in a campervan along the coast of Western Australia. I traveled over 2,200 km starting from Perth, visiting nature reserves and small towns, spending the night at campgrounds—some of them remote outback sites called roadhouses—and exploring Shark Bay, a Unesco World Heritage Area. I reached Monkey Mia, where I stayed for two nights, before taking a different route back to Perth, with a new perspective and renewed spirit.

A Journey Into Myself

The experience was a gift in every sense. Not just for the landscapes, the sunrises and sunsets, the nature and the food, but also for the challenges: driving a large vehicle, planning each day, finding safe places to spend the night, choosing my route, facing fears, and most of all, delighting in the silence.

I lived the present moment in an intense and fulfilling way. I had never felt such a deep connection to simplicity and truth.

What I Learned Along the Way

This journey taught me to walk through life more lightly, but also more deeply.

Sometimes, the perfect moment doesn’t come—you simply create it.And when you do, life surprises you with what has been waiting for you all along.