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Fairy Dust

Digital soothing drops № 23

2 min readMar 10, 2023

Whoosh… and I was hurled into the maw of the universe!

Myriads of stars poured around me, glittering, shining like the bewitching eyes of children when their eyes have spotted a birthday package. Golden starlight! Magically blue rays roamed around. Red stars kissed my eyes like they wanted to lighten my spark of love for them.

The golden glitter morphed into emerald green, attention-grabbing little rascals. There was dancing, jumping, rotating and the gravity was ignored with a laughter that transcended every dimension. Look, that blueish arc of stars circling the luscious red glowing orb… taste the — pow! —beguiling yellow-orange lumps… and follow me, drift away into the unknown dark blue corner. There must be more. Much more!

Swarms of playful round dancing celestial bodies, of inorganic liveliness. A contradiction? Yes, for sure! A contradiction full of whimsy and an infectious freedom of pure being.

But… but… get real. Wake up!
It is only wrapping paper!

And yes, that’s true. It was only wrapping paper lying in front of me. But when the sun threw its rays right onto the paper, I was awakened by the stars.

It happened, once again… I let go of concepts, hard coded values, things that matter to the so called grown ups. Noticing how the chase of things, expensive or officially valuable, is a chase that can only be lost.

When I remember the early days with my son, seeing his wide open eyes in awe for the tiniest things, or in my daily work with kids to find access to their very core, there is always this moment of magic, this letting go and jumping in. Like a door that opens and with one tiny little step, the whole bustling superficial day work is gone and that one little tiny step allows to enter a world so rich, so wondrous, so colorful, so saturated with joy and laughter.

And this is where true value, true wealth lies. This is what remains in the heart forever, what nourishes the soul. When talking to people who consciously face the end of their life, one can so often hear: “I should have listened to my heart and do more of what it wanted instead of trying to get rich or please others”.

So yeah…