Her sad feelings after her emigration to Ibiza have to do with homesickness and fatigue. Lucy misses her best friend, with whom she shares everything. “It wasn’t until I left that I felt how much our lives were intertwined,” Lucy tells the magazine. “It really felt like I was in love.”
Not only her best friend, Lucy also misses her colleagues and eldest son Dean terribly. “He went to study in the Netherlands. It was really hard for me, all of us, not to have him around us every day anymore. So there I was, in Ibiza, with a feeling of sadness. Or actually it was melancholy, like Dinand aptly characterized it.”
Lucy is at a loss with herself, she explains. “You live with your family on a beautiful island. You have the luxury of being there for the children this first year and letting them land here. Why are you not happy? I really felt like a spoiled brat.”
Ultimately, Lucy begins to settle in Ibiza. She thinks it is ‘a gift’ to live there. “The island gives you what you need. For myself and for my family. After two years here I see that they finally feel at home with friends, hobbies and school.”
On the island, Lucy learns that being in a hurry doesn’t pay off. Time is “the most important gift” the family has received from the move. “More time with and for each other. When we still lived in The Hague, I was often in the car at 5 o’clock in the morning to get to the office in Amsterdam before traffic jams. So that I could hopefully be back before dinner, which often didn’t even work. Now we eat together every day.”
Read the entire interview with Lucy Woesthoff Jan.
2023-09-12 12:46:37
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