My life has been rather intense. Sometimes it has been so much excitement that all I could wish for was some peace and quiet. So when the phone rings and a marketing person for a lottery starts by saying: - We all dream about travelling to some exotic place. Don't we, Pia? My response is: - Nope, not me!
After one such phone call, I think it was in 2005, I started to reflect: - Am I without dreams? There must be something I would like to do, some place I would like to go to?
At first I couldn't think of anything, anywhere. But then it struck me: I want to swim with dolphins!
So I nurtured that dream for some years. At one point I almost arranged to go to the Dominican Republic to swim with Dolphins there. I started to dream about it at night. It became a real dream!
But then, one day I realized that my son needed the dream more than I did: So I shared the dream with him and I started nurturing his dream of going somewhere and swim with Dolphins. We almost managed to realize the dream in January 2008, when we went to California for three weeks. In the end it didn't work out.
But I was determined not to give up: So on April 20th the same year, Filip finally got into the water with Dolphins at SeaWorld outside of San Diego. It was a great day. And strangely enough, even if I wasn't even near the water, it felt like a dream came true.
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