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I have known him for years. This good friend of mine. Always got me out of trouble. Since the age of Nine. Welcome to the free world, we say to each other. As we graduate from University throwing hugs at everyone we see. Our first real time we saw each other since graduating was in Paris for our friends Wedding. We caught up the next day at Cafe De Flore. I’m getting married in Berlin in three months he told me. The look on his face was difficult to read. Even for a friend I have known since before I would buy laced shoes. How are you so happy? He asked me. I have been out of work for a while now and been having a hard time getting employment. “I am married to the my best friend, I got the promotion I wanted, but I am missing some part of myself, why am I not happy?" Want to count something with me? When I wake up in the mornings, after making tea, I count. I count my blessings. There is more to life then anything we can ever imagine but the key to finding happiness lies within our eyes, our spirit, our mind. Know how lucky you are to wake up, simply waking up is a gift, start there. I saw him two and a half months later in Berlin. I asked him, have you been counting? I was late for work a few times he replied as we laughed. Our talk at Cafe De Flore really gave me a perspective of my life I have been missing, thank you. The next morning I had an interview in Berlin. I was headed to get coffee and breakfast when I got a knock. It was my best friend with breakfast which was a basket of blue berries more than I could count "Part of a healthy breakfast” he says. “A thousand blue berries should do the trick" I reply. He says "no, the counting we will do together while having breakfast” I never heard anyone count their blessing or have someone listen to my blessings. I got the job, thanks to having a healthy breakfast with my best friend, Instead of drinking coffee in the Cafes of Berlin.
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