Barcelona 

This theme is more personal, Its about a trip in 2018 and someone i've met there.

Nothing new to the sun right? When you travel you meet new people all the time but this was a bit more exceptional.

'The Girl with the cordas shoes'.      

Without knowing from each other we traveled on the same day to the same place with the exact same reason : working on our self. I always was a verry timide guy that was living for his sport and decided to change that by going to a new place, by myself to challenge myself.

So what do you do on your first day? You go check the beach. I literaly JUST arrived when we crossed, started talking and without realising we started our journey together. Soon we discovered some points that sounded verry simular.. 

We spent the whole afternoon laughing our eyes out and by the time the evening felt, we decided to split again. Because we where there to solo travel offcourse.

..1h later she knocked on my hotelroom door, and i still have that image fresh in my mind how she stood there. From there on the rest is history.

We where laughing for the whole place i guess and we connected. I had never felt this kind of connection before, and even until now never had that again. So much in common. Her humor, her way of thinking was just SO the same. We would live in the sky from there on.

'Speaking the same language without speaking the same language.'

Our friends in the city gave up on trying to convince us to join them, they must have seen how my eyes where glimping when i told them i could'nt make it for lunch. My try-to-look-innocent face wasn't realy helping. So from there on Barcelona was ours. We kept on choosing to hang out with each other every day and our stalkers in the background became one of our inside jokes. One of many.

Let me describe how 2 first-timers just been released in the free world sounds : 

The colors red and green (with a little bit of yellow) became ours, and team Red and Green came to exist. I had a boat, we changed in green monsters after 12, but before we where nice, we had a house at the beach, we owned the W-hotel, we maked shure the russian spy's didn't listen to us, we had a lot of people working for us (as we where super rich), we dranked 7,5/10 scaled sangria's, saw pink elephants, we kissed on the titanic song, and Rose learned Jack all about the vegetarian restaurants in the city. Jack was taking pictures of his princepessa, if we would have passed by an 'un safer' neighberhood she walked closer to me, as the trafic lights ALWAYS! turned green when we arrived holding hands, and i learned about how much i liked abbraccia's. She had never skate before, so i went buying her a board in our colors offcourse and after a 4h long unboxing video (because we where also verry famous youtubers) we went skating at the beach for the full 5 seconds. (it was quite an experiance..) The amount of confidence in each other we created at such a short note was special. We started talking in our own language at the same time, as the 2 big weirdo's as we where. 

The way we connected, was unique. It was one of the most spontaneous and real things i had ever experianced and Team Red & Green one of the strongest teams i had ever felt. Still don't know yet how that girl skated just like that over my big wall back then. For the first time in my life it wasn't about motorcross, not about the racer, just me as myself with another person. Who turned out being super cool as wel. The amound of energy i felt from meeting that person at the right time was huge. I had found my other 'artist' and it was not about racing this time. Just us being one of a kind.

In between all the fun i could have some deeper conversations with her, and thats something i like to do. We seemed to share the same vision about life. I have this kind of conversations a lot with my father now, it was something i never had with my ex partner i was with for 3,5 years! As she had more this thinking in boxes mentality that sociaty tell us to have.

The last day i could realy experiance something that was real. If you see pictures from our last minutes together you can just feel the emotions. I must have give her a piece of me there and visa versa as she was always there afterwards.

Nearly missing my flight because we stayed together until the verry last second and without realising i already was, i went back home with a ring and a ventura stone. An armbracelet, a vegan juice in my pocket and a memory of a lifetime combined with a comfidence level of 1000. 

I will always remember coming back from Spain being teached more about talking Italian then Spanish..

Few fun facts : On our flight to there we both had booked the seats next to each other (but on another plane). On the way back i remember changing my spot last minute to the other side of the plane and guess what.. AGAIN she had picked the same row! It was so randomly. I can say a whole list, but a lot of these things would'nt even nobody beleve. 

We both lived a few weeks afterwards in a totaly Red an Green (with a little bit of yellow offcourse) world, with a LOT of elephants popping up. Even the pink ones.. As people where chearing for us, by wearing our team colors. It was wonderfull, It realy was. We where living in another world for a while, and just like that we where dancing each others ventura stone in our rooms.. (For the people that knows me better, wondering why i sometimes wear this giant elephant ring? This might have something to do with it..). 

All these things are good memories wich makes life beautifull. But i do beleve the way we connected, going on from there. Evolve together in the same direction working as a team? We should have conquered the world by now. And let it be exactly my plan. 

I beleve this is the kind of combination you need, to do it. She showed me how beautifull life in a good team can be.

A few weeks later i stept in a relationship, a lot under influence of this story wich i'll explain in the next theme. And as i'm not the guy to text to somebody i like while im in a relationship i realise i wasn't there enough for her afterwards. 

I recently wrote about it, It's something i learned from being on the road for a big part of my life. : 

' I was wondering today about what i liked so much about Chupitto and what it was that made us feel this connection the way we experianced it. And i think i've found it. Even though we where laughing all the time and enjoying our holiday together and seperated, we felt calmed in each other. Natural. It felt so normal, warm and at home at the same time. Like she said : 'its like being at home, without being home'. 

If we just had met, or where together for 30 years, it was that feeling. But in a good way.. (maybe we where already reunited from 500 years ago? who knows..)

Don't want to make this to big, but i must admit she was able to bring me peace and calmed in my head like i had never experianced before.

She was there to teach (maybe).

At first i was so fascinated about Motorcross. Always thinking about it as i wanted to become the best, that was my dream. Then it was training and going for that goal. Everything for that goal. And those where stressfull years, verry stressfull. Later it turned out i wanted to be more social, so i was going in to developing social skills the way i did as with going for a sports goal : training, training and full focus. (It was the only thing i knew right..) 

I shure didn't go out in the club for fun. (never realy liked it btw). A bunch of people getting drunk, pretending they are happy doing loud and wild had never maked sence to me. (Doing it at home in your kitchen like me does.)

Then i wanted the newest helmett, then i wanted a faster bike, then a hotter girlfriend, then this, then that,.. never enough, never rest. And all that dissapeard and felt into place when we where together holding hands walking and discovering the place. 

I wasn't interesting in looking at other girls, I wasn't buisy with the criminals in the city.. We where just on our own planet with 2. Nobody was also bodering us, as if they saw it we where home. Just me and her. 

The last 2 years i did crazy things again, like non-stop working going for a financial goal. The people shortest around me knows what i'm talking about. Can't help it, its just me. For now i've made the goal for this year so i took a brake to think about everything. I do had to calm down. She has been doing this in those 4 years so we are not at the same place anymore. She has been taking that time for herself, growing and evolving and i'm not there yet now. Because i was stuck in something where again, i didn't found rest. I haven't been evolving enough to be there, so this is what i'm gonna do now. And maybe, maybe not.. we meet again on the same planet.'

As you could read, this was a verry personal writing. The way she was able to cross every line of my wall that easy is still a mistery for me. Writing this, i do feel this is more then just an 'ego' trip to. She learned me to connect with something more then just 'lust'. And sometimes the way things go, and the way she can sneak in my life until today i feel like we where send there together with a reason more then just a fun time. And i'm still finding out wich one. Maybe i missed something? Maybe i'm overthinking it? don't know.. Time will tell us both.

So lets enjoy this exceptional story with some fashion for now. All inside jokes are invented by us and you can find them on the items one way or another. Therefore this is not only my line, but one of ours. Enjoy. Team Red and Green. 

As this is just released for a select group to get to know the story of the themes better, From mars '23 when this collection will be ready and released completely the personal writing will be replaced with: 

'I realised we are all looking for that feeling, a feeling, a connection and a flow where everything comes from itself. Natural. 

When you feel like conquering the world with each other. Because its possible to speak the same language without speaking the same language. Team Red and Green.'

I recently saw a movie, 'Otto Montagne'. Wich is a belgian movie, spoken in italian with our numbers on it. It took my attention for that reason and i had to see it. It didn't dissapoint me. 'True connection is something, when it happens it strikes roots in the ground. And its something that waits for you.'

i do am comfident we'll meet again. If we realy are like an 8, even if we are both on a different place right now doing our own piece of the 8.. We will always meet again in the middle. I do beleve everything happens for a reason. (credits to the movie 8 mountains)

We had created our own team sign, as we accomplished something we gave each other a fist followed by a 'psssshhht'.

So i'll end this page with a fist followed by a 'psssshht'. - Abbraccio.