Six years in Cyprus

You see things in life

And you’d be surprised what you see

Life, your whole life is changes

You go through changes in your life

One second you’ve got it made

Next second you’re down in the dumps

And it goes back and forth throughout your whole life

One second you’ve got the most beautiful girl in the world

Next second you don’t even have a girlfriend no more

And it goes back and forth and back and forth, you know

And this is life man, it’s changes

This is what you gotta go through throughout your whole lifetime

Never

Never

Land

(c) UNKLE, Robert Alan Weiser

I am writing this post on a plane returning home to Cyprus from a short trip to Abu Dhabi.

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And I’m reminded of another plane exactly 6 years ago when my family and I moved to live in Cyprus.

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The photo was taken on 31 August 2018 when Taya and I disembarked at Larnaca airport with nothing else but two children, four suitcases and a cat.

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Was it scary?

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A little bit.

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The world was a different place six years ago: kinder, more carefree, cheaper and much more convenient, but even then it was a leap into the unknown.

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Did we know what was in store for us for the next six years?

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Of course not!

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First meeting hundreds of new interesting people, discovering new opportunities, business growth. Then Covid… Then war………

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The last two and a half years have been extremely difficult emotionally, energetically, financially.

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As an entrepreneur, I learnt what it is to fall in business, not just grow.

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And I learnt how to survive and overcome that too.

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I’m optimistic about the future. I know that the world does not stand still, that no situation can be preserved — neither good nor bad.

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It is hard during the illness, but only by getting through it, you can recover.

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We’re all waiting for change. We’re all waiting for peace.

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So I take care of myself and my family and keep going: one step at a time.

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And I keep saying to myself:

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