31/01/2025
Dear All. 🔥❤️
Friends, Followers, Fans and fellow petrol heads.
We are taking a break…
I hope you all have had a good start in 2025 so far, may 2025 bring you lots of joy, pleasure and beautiful moments to remember.
I hereby want to share some thoughts and feelings about the past, the present and the future of the Burning Hearts Community.
At the end of every straight-ahead sunny highway you will end up at red light, where you have to decide, whether to turn right towards “maybe” – turn left towards “the unknown” or go straight ahead, staying on the path you already know…
Well for me it’s time to take a detour from the road I know…
It has now been a good year’s time since we had our last opening weekend in December 2023, and closed our store in Odense, the following months was for me, spent on disassembling and packing down the shop, the keys to the building was handed back to the owner 1’st of April 2024. During that Søren and I, was also in the process of making ends meet, agreeing on all the terms and conditions regarding me taking over full ownership of the Burning Heats corporation. Completion of the contract had been an ongoing process for about a year. Finally in mid of April 2024 everything fell in to place. That being the reason for the late announcement of the ticket sale for BHF24. I simply didn’t want to start sale before everything was in place and completed.
Things take time, and we spent the time we needed to finish the process the right way.
It was for me some very busy months, mostly single-handed.
It was also a rollercoaster ride of mixed feelings. On one side the sadness about ending an era with the shop, missing all of our lovely customers, the good talks in the shop, even missing the weird locals that came by week after week, telling the same stories without buying anything, just because they felt welcome, and needed someone that would listen to them. Our friendly neighbors, the local shop owners, the daily work with craft of trade, the whole feeling good vibe that has always surrounded our shop. All of the learning and being able to meet so many kind and friendly people during the years. Words can’t express how lucky, privileged end grateful I am feeling.
The same goes for all of the people whom I met through our events. A huge thanks to all of you, each and every one of you are special, thanks for your support and kindness during the years.
I haven’t regretted one single minute spent on the Burning Hearts family.
-Everything that catches the sun, cast a shade…
Or in other words, everything comes with a price.
For the last 20 years I have been self employed, one way or the other. During those 20 years I have had, dreams, ideas, goals that have been following me on the side the whole time, while working like crazy. Work motivation for me has always been with the heart, and never for the money. And it still is. But that also means, that I have always put myself I work situations that involves countless, and thousands of unpaid workhours of interest.
I have never been forced to do so, always done it by my own free will, I’ll guess that’s just my work dna.
The past 6 years working with Burning Hearts is no exception, and then add working 50 Saturdays a year. During my time with Burning Hearts I have had a second job 2 days a week, which make it a 6 days a week work pattern.
All this work comes with a price, and for me the price to pay has been time, not having the time to do social stuff, not having the time to build bikes/cars/mopeds, attending to events going to concerts, visit friends in the evening, getting things done at home. And most important not having the time to follow up on my private dreams and goals.
Closing the store gave me some time on my hands, and I am so fortunate that the job I had on the side, offered me more working hours when they heard that I would be available.
So for the first time in 20 years I now find myself in a worklife/sparetime balance of 3 days work, 4 days off, and 10 weeks yearly vacation.
Time on my hands, has given me the opportunity to take a step back and look at things from a distance. Look at the perspective and look at my priorities.
I love making events, but making BHF25 and other BH events in 2025, will be postponing my dreams and goals another year.
And I have reached a point where I think the price is too high.
Dreams/Goals/Ideas
This is just one of many…
For me social is key, the past 15 years I have been dreaming of turning some of my estate into a bar/live venue/wrenching community. Something I have collected things to during the years. On the 28’th of Dec. 2021 a part of the dream came thru. The right bar environment was up for sale. With 2 days notice I gathered 5 of my good friends, and went to the far north of Jutland to an old beach hotel and disassembled the bar, it took us 2 days to take it apart, load it on the truck and bringing it back home. At the time I wasn’t near ready with the location, and still I am not.
But I said to my friends that it would be a 2025 project. Not promising that it will be fixed and ready in 2025, but that the work with restoring the facilities should start 2025.
That’s a promise I will keep! In respect for their effort, and in respect for myself and my personal dreams.
More about this will come later. When everything is settled, and work is progressing.
Hopefully in the future this will become a social venue for all of you lovely petrolheads.
Last but not least.
Thank you all for reading, I hope to see a lot of you out there during the year.
Yours sincerely
Kristoffer.
