Alone Is my Grand Holiday

Of all the relationships and adventures I have endured in my never-ending search for love these past 4 years…
‘Alone’ has been my greatest rendezvous of them all.
It is my everlasting love.
My grand holiday.
When one falls in love with oneself
She never has to wonder what the other is thinking nor does she have to compromise.
She does not have to anticipate the future
Nor distress herself about the past
Her presence is her never-ending present.

A quirky Danish Uber driver picks me up from the bus station.
I asked him
‘If money wasn’t an issue what would you do with your life?’
He said he’d write a romance novel about his immigrant parents and how they fell in love and migrated across the world to find a place where it was safe for a Danish man to love a South African woman.
‘What about you?’
‘Exactly this’ I say as he pulls into my air bnb in the countryside I got for a steal during Covid to write my 2nd book proposal and record for the next 72 hours.
Exactly this.

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