One Apple A Day #513 - no man's land
It was almost the end of the day when we finally cross the Chilean border. The sun's light was already fading from white to gold. We thought, like with the previous borders that we crossed, that the Argentinian checkpoint was a few minutes away, just behind the turn. We were wrong. We drove for a good 15 minutes that looked like an eternity before we found the first sign of the border to enter Argentina. Fifteen minutes in no man's land.
It's a powerful feeling to know that you are in space between spaces. In our lives, every space is owned by someone, or it is dedicated to something. The threshold between spaces is so thin that you can't really stand on it and take a pause.
We exit something to enter something else. We finish something only to immediately start something new.
But that day, we've been in no country for a while. A space that doesn't exist and yet it is so real. And now I realise that it was also the sunset; that space in-between the day and the night.
There is magic in no man's land.
Next time that you are crossing a threshold take a pause and breathe in the energy of the space in-between.