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When It’s Right, It Just Clicks

On Friday I went to renew my reader’s card at the French Cultural Centre at the Foreign Literature Library in Moscow. The most wonderful thing happened: the librarian who greeted me remembered me. I hadn’t visited either Library, or the CCF since 2003, even my specs are now of a different shape, and yet she could still remember me.

I think this is one of the most signicant signs (sic!) that you belong to the place. I left with a photobook about Bretagne that inspired me to compose my first cycle of poems back in 2000, and a monograph by Roland Barthes on Photography.

You can also tell things are right when you think of opportunities to do (or make) them, and gateways just open.

This evening I did an interview with a Russian composer, and one thing he mentioned was having had his inner “ears” blocked, when he was in his teens and struggled to understand what to do. So, to get himself out of that predicament he decided to stick to doing what he’d been doing for the last 10 years, which was music. He is now preparing to his first international tour.

If you cleared your inner “ears” but the going is a bit tough, take his story to heart and get going. If you’re unsure what to do, try thinking along his lines and see if the opportunities come out of the blue.

When it’s right, it just clicks. Paul Arden used this as a name for a chapter about Kodak, but this is precisely what happens when you choose – knowingly or not – the right path. Whether you believe in God, Nature, or just free will, there is no better example that either of the three does exist, and it manifests itself when you happen to make the right choice. That is – the choice that helps you best to explore your gift and to be useful to people.

Author: Julia Shuvalova

Julia Shuvalova is the author of Los Cuadernos de Julia blog. She is an author of several books, a translator, and a Foreign Languages tutor. She lives and works in Moscow, Russia.

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