It has been more or less four weeks since I last wrote on this blog. One moon it is, then, even if not quite. Somehow, that seems more attuned with the adventurous theme of this blog than the similar period of 1 month. The moon has always been the companion of adventurers: travellers, dreamers or poets, and has marked an evident rhythm in time since the days when early man begun studying the sky.
Curiously, it was not by design that I let this much time pass between posts. That was rather more a consequence of being on holidays abroad and then preparing for a new stage in my life: a change of job. Still, I can’t help but wonder at how this void of one lunar cycle marks a valley in my life, a separation of two different professional experiences.
As of today, I have started working at Artos as a Software Engineer in the Blockchain development team. I also left a workplace in Surrey for a permanent position in the City. As I crossed the Thames this morning, and admired the incomplete skyline of London with its tops hiding within the fog, I felt the energy of new beginnings, of crossings from an old world to a new one, of coming uncertainties, mysteries and the challenges to uncover them.
I couldn’t help thinking of Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth, of this blog, and of the journey I started. And I realized tales can be read at different levels: I thought my threshold into the adventure world had been the day I published the first post in this blog; that the adventure would be as much the learning as the writing about it; and that the main challenge would be the commitment to keep writing for a public. But today, as I crossed that bridge and felt the buzz and palpitation of London and its people, as I realized I was now another cell of the city’s lifeblood instead of a simple visitor, I experienced a more visible crossing, and a more visceral threshold: my adventure now has a focus, the ambiguity in my first steps has been resolved, my work will be the learning and the adventure. The journey now begins in earnest, with new Mentors and Allies.