"Our dreams are formed in light of our possible horizons."

I recently read a column by Marie Robert that began with this proposition, to which she added "it is difficult to imagine something whose existence we are totally unaware of!"

This introduction piqued my interest to read on:

“Imagination! This quality present deep within each of us, which is not only used to write essays in eighth grade, but which is especially used to invent one's life. […] Imagination that is worked on, by reading, by discovering, by learning, but above all, by confronting ourselves with everything that is not us, by mixing us up.”

I'm writing about it here because these words resonate so much with my own experience and with what I observe in the people I support.

Twelve years ago, as part of my job at the time, I took a training course during which I projected my life ten years into the future. I expressed it in the form of a vision, intended to incorporate my aspirations, ambitions, and dreams.

When I look back on this vision from twelve years ago, I realize how much my personal aspirations were influenced by the norms of my socio-professional environment, by my beliefs, by my outlook on the world, and by my self-esteem.

I couldn't have imagined then that I would invent a very different life for myself, one that, when compared to my vision of twelve years ago, seems infinitely more beautiful in terms of meaning, alignment, creativity, and contribution to the world.

Søren Kierkegaard said: "Our life is well understood upside down, however, we must live it right side up."

For my part, I know that I have opened the horizons of my existence by leaving my socio-professional framework, my usual comfort and my "beaten paths". By going for walks, by meeting new, different people, by listening to new stories and by treading new paths, to meet myself and finally open my inner horizon.

One aspect of my life today is to transmit and share by offering, through woaching, the opportunity for everyone to walk with themselves in contact with nature and different people.

I do it because I know that "it works." Because I've experienced it, by looking "backwards" at what I've done in recent years, and I observe it by looking at what the people I support today are experiencing "rightwards."

Whether it's a day, a weekend, a week, on a hiking trail or in the desert, the time each person gives themselves is a break that helps open their own horizons to invent their own lives.

François Thouret