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Cafe s'il vous plaît

There's no denying it, Paris is one of the most beautiful places in the world. As I sit at a corner cafe and people watch while smoking a cigarette I wonder, what if I would have never made it here. Fear is unfortunate something we befriend in order to stay relevant. As we share our dreams and goals while sighing in disbelief we feed ourselves this notion that whatever we imagine is distant but what we really are doing is feeding our fear and sipping comfort while doing so. We become so attached to things, people and places that we do not realize that we are settling for comfort and gladly ignoring our dreams. It's important to be content but not always be complacent, a few years ago a friend abandoned me at the airport. We had a round trip ticket to Paris and she was not getting on the plane for reasons I do not want to recall. The flight she cancelled was not only her's but mine, imagine my surprise when I arrived with my luggage in my hand and no ticket. "NO, you ar...