...το καλοκάιρι μου

The most extraordinary things appear on the horizon when you least expect them. Sounds like a cliché but, as years pass by, it seems to me that the confirmations of this saying hide around each and every corner. It also seems to me that real-life dreams can only be dreamed once you dare to walk on the street with your eyes closed and selfishly concentrated on just one thing - your happiness. Weird it is, to close your eyes in the middle of the crowd and walk, but I

believe that then in that moment you can experience the joy of dreaming awake. We rarely stop to care about ourselves. We deserve to be occupied just by ourselves sometimes, right? :)

Well, this was my summer. The only summer that I slept through even though I spent not so many hours actually sleeping, if that makes sense in any way. :)

I am still trying to figure out at which point I let myself forget about the rest of the world. I erased all the worries that I had on my mind... I stopped the time and enjoyed myself …

The one who believes in fairy tales, such as myself, never gives up on thinking how everything that happens in life is surely meant to be. The sea offers such a dazzling vista once it starts waking up with the sun… Covered in beautiful colors of sunrise, alongside the beach of Ierissos, the sea had given to me the most beautiful present I could have expected. A memory that will last forever. There will probably be many more sunrises, but not like that one. That one was special. Snuggled in a Greek hug with feeling of gentle touch of morning breeze on my cheeks, I experienced a sheer bliss… It was certainly one of a kind. Was the feeling mutual? That I have yet to discover. I would like to think there was more to it than just the beauty of the nature I was surrounded by.

The paths on which we walk are unpredictable. Each day brings us the joy of unexpected and encourages us to embrace the unknown. The odds are we are never going to experience the same moment twice. Τα Πάντα ῥεῖ, says Heraclitus. It will be either us who will be changed, or it will be the time which knows for no pause. Every moment we stop to think, we forget to cherish that fleeting present we have. I guess we would all feel much more relieved if only we lived more and thought less. Things that we regret in life are things that we never did. “What we remember the most are the things that never happened”, says Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I would add to the sentence, that we remember the most the things that never happened but could have happened while we were trying to make up our minds on whether we should do something or not. Alongside with those are the things that happened to us in the moments we decided to embrace.

This is the time for us to live. To figure out who we want to be. To enjoy every moment of a crazy ride. To stay up awake the whole night and watch the sunrise. To take a swim in the sea at night. To sing in the shower at the risk of driving the neighbors crazy. To lie in bed when you feel like watching cartoons all day. To laugh until you cry. Or to cry until you feel like laughing again. It is the time for us to do the things we want to do. To drink watermelon Bacardi Breezer and eat gyros. To play basketball. To get wasted with your friends. Do not contemplate about big life issues, about divine truths. They will all catch up with you later in life. Now, just enjoy it.

Everything happens for a reason. I just need to find mine. And I will. In due time. Maybe next year in Ierissos. Maybe here in Belgrade. Maybe on some other place in this small world. We are the writers of our own stories.

Don't go around the world saying that the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain

Do what you want to do. Живот је само један. :))))