All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm
Enjoy the silence
I am sure you know these lyrics if you hear the melody with it. They are from Depeche Mode’s phantastic song “Enjoy the Silence”. Who or what is “in my arms” is certainly not subject of the conversation here :-), however the reason for my “silence” the last week has been that, well, we are working on something. “We” in that context are some smart folks and me (hoping to get smart through them :-). “Something” is a service which can help making the internet an ubiquitious commodity as much as electricity or water, and on top provide some beneficial connectivity among those who use it.
That’s why I came to Rovinj, a pittoresque fishermen’s village in Nothern Croatia, the homeland of my mother, so to speak “my motherland”. People often ask me: “Where do you actually feel at home?”. My standard response is to quote the Latin proverb: “Ubi bene, ibi patria.” - Where it is good, there is your home. Being a bit more precise and using some sort of inverted selection, then I can rule out Germany as being my “home”, although I was born and grew up there, lived there for around 30 years. Yet, I feel a bit emotionally detached from that country. India, yes, I definitely like, it’s a great country where I feel deeply inspired by the dynamics happening at the moment. Also, I could definitely imagine living on for a longer time in there. But to call it a “home” would be again overstreched.
Croatia, whose language I obviously speak fluently, is something which could become at least a “home” with all the deep-rooted emotional anchoring. Especially, when I come to Rovinj where people have known me for 30 years, there is such an honest and genuine friendlyness as well as warm-heartedness, that it is somehow this feeling of “coming home”. Especially here, where I had studied for my “Abitur” 16 years back, and started to learn for my pilot license 4 years back. So there are great memories, and there is great inspiration.
So back to the topic: As we are going through iteration and iteration to refine the service we are working on, I am somehow hoping for the magic kiss of inspiration from the Spirit of Rovinj. Glad to share more in 3 to 4 weeks on what we are working on. Till then, we are in the how you’d call it today “Stealth Mode”. I will post as much as I can, as much as the time allows. Apart from that: Enjoy the Silence.
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