Notes from a Time Traveller by Elke Stevens

Just a few days ago, I set foot again on the Orkney Islands, and this time, something feels different. There’s a lightness in simply going with the flow, a new rhythm that I’ve come to trust as I learn to live with this new version of myself, the one who smiles again, who dances quietly to the tunes in her head, and who no longer feels the weight of a world she wasn’t meant to carry.

Looking back, it almost feels as though I was once possessed by something foreign that wasn’t truly me. It’s strange to reflect on it now, how I had become a stranger to my own heart. But whatever that was, it no longer follows me here. Instead, I feel an unfamiliar freedom, a quiet sense of release, like the land and the sky around me have swept away the old burdens and left space for something new to grow.

I can feel the shift; this chapter of life is waiting to unfold, and for once, I’m not afraid of what’s to come. Maybe it’s because I’m learning to trust that life has its own way of revealing things in time. I’ve let go of the need to control the outcome. What will be, will be, and that’s enough for now.

©️ Elke T.B. Stevens 29/09/2024