advice from Blanche de Richemont

The point of view of Blanche de Richemont, travel writer

Dear Pascale, perhaps over time you feel more fragile and therefore less strong in the face of the unknown. Don’t let this feeling take hold in your life, otherwise it will clip your wings. While reading you, a memory came back to me. I had met a very slender young man who told me that late one evening, while he was walking alone in the empty streets of Paris, a woman, seeing him approaching from a distance, had hastily changed sidewalks. Troubled and hurt by the reaction of this passerby to him, he admitted to me that, for the first time in his life, he had wanted to hurt someone as if to justify the apprehension he had been experiencing. ‘object. Whenever fear comes to grip you, put love in its place, advises the Dalai Lama. Love for who you are, what you do, what you experience. Your confidence in life makes you strong. Age is an opportunity to grow in consciousness, in wisdom, in inner power. Walk fearlessly on the paths you love. While remaining careful. Bad encounters can also happen around the corner. So it’s better not to think about it too much and live fully what is essential to us.