30 Jan 2009 Erkelenz, Germany
Category: Personal statement
Today was a very busy and long day. We needed to go to Cologne to extend my and Yashendu’s residence permission here in Germany. For that we started at seven o’clock in the morning from Erkelenz. It was very nice of Sonja that she arranged a car for us, otherwise it might not have been a very nice experience to wait for trains and change trains in minus temperature. We also needed to pick up some things in Cologne so having a car was really a good idea. I have many friends around this world who support me on each step. This is wonderful and I thank you all for your love.
What is the reason for writing this today? I want to tell you how everything was so smooth and easy. We started in the morning and first of all needed to pick up brochures from the printer house for the next International yoga teacher training which we will have here in Germany. These we needed to show in the office as it is the reason to extend our visa. We arrived there half an hour early but we found a parking just in front and the brochures were ready for us. So we were done very soon and still had one hour to our appointment.
So I had the idea to pick up the things right away which we wanted to do later. That was also easy, we found another time the parking space right in front of the house and loaded a heavy suitcase full of books into the car.
Then we went to the immigration office. We arrived half an hour early for our appointment. For this application we had prepared a lot: we had Yashendu’s and my passport, photos, insurance, the application and some other things. We were thinking about it when we will need to come back to pick up the visa or if it will be in time before we go to India. All these questions were in the mind but when we entered in the office, the woman recognized me immediately. I met her three years ago when I was there the last time. She said that this should not be a problem, we should give her the passports. And when we asked her how long it would take and when we could pick up the passports she answered ‘I will do it now’. And she took the passports and made the new visa stickers into it.
We were amazed that we did not need to use any of our prepared things, did not need to sign anywhere and had not any problem or complication. It was very easy and again on the way back we had a very smooth drive with Ramona at the steering wheel.
Back in Erkelenz I continued my healing work. When we came back home and I told Sonja how everything went so smooth she said ‘But you said you don’t do magic.’ It seemed like magic how everything went smooth and it is the magic of a positive attitude. I just wanted to tell this story to show that if you are positive, things go easy and smooth. Maybe for some people it is too easy and they do not have fun in too easy things. They need some complication but about this I will talk tomorrow.
Last night I slept less and the whole day was busy so of course I am feeling tired. I was not in the mood to cook and so I asked for pizza and Carolin made a delicious pizza for us.
Tags:: Personal statement, Positivity, Attitude
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