On my second day in Macau, when I was deciding where to go next - maybe India, maybe Malaysia and then India... - I got an email from my dad saying something like:
"I tried to call you. Call me as soon as you can..."
I felt there was something wrong. I called him and he gave me some devastating news. Alice, my 3 years old lovely niece, had been diagnosed with Leukaemia. She was in the hospital, about to start the treatment.
A traveller lives with a different mindset. Strange, unexpected things happen all the time, and one gets used to it, embraces it! The traveller in me made me calm and focused when I learnwd about Alice. I had to go back, to be with my family, to help them however I could. So I booked a flight from Hong Kong that night. The uncle and brother in me was so confused that he didn't know what he was feeling, nor what he was supposed to feel (a strange feeling that followed me all the way to Porto). I wasn't even sad that I had to finish the trip, all I knew I was feeling was serenity and a feeling that I had to keep it together in order to be able to help my family back at home.
So I calmly, quietly got a boat to Hong Kong, and then a flight to Porto.
A new travel was in front of me, in front of my family and, specially, in front of Alice. This was hard! Very hard! But she bravely went through it, showing us how brave one can be!
Now, exactly 7 months after this strange event in Macau, probably the strangest in my life, Alice finished her treatment with success!
Now I really feel a closure in my trip! When I look back I can't even describe how big all of this was! How beautiful, how bigger than life this was! So... now it is time to start making plans for whatever will come next... Who knows some more travels soon...
Ah... Definitely some more travels!
Looking for ferrets at 4am in a hutong somwhere in Beijing... somewhere...
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