Day 284. Somewhere I belong

   Every now and then I find myself some place where I belong. The kind of place you want to go back to until you've breathed it all in. The kind of place that reminds you who you are and what you're longing for. 

   This beautiful one reminded me how much I love summer evenings... the calm of the lake, the frogs performing their usual mating concert, the little insects dancing in the cool sunset light and the loved one by my side. This place just screams Perfection. And today I've had my share of perfection therapy. It was just me, my dear one and the lake. No worries, no noises, no nothing. Just us:)

Day 240. Heaven is a place on Earth

   There are places in this world that make you feel like heaven is a place on Earth. Valea Draganului is precisely one of them. 

   You know, they don't even have to be very special and wow. For me, it's enough if there are different shades of green in spring, leftover pine cones and mountains covered in snow in the distance, the smell of fir trees and a lot of birds singing, just like it was today. 

   Let me tell you what happened. Usually my parents take me to a place in the middle of the nature during the weekends. And sometimes I wish I could just stay at home and watch a movie instead. Today was just like that, but now, at the end of the day, I am thankful for it because we discovered this beauuutiful, new place very close to the Dragan dam where we always go. We were amazed by the fact that in all these years it was right under our nose and we didn't see it. It was so beautiful and I loved it so much there that I decided this was one of the best days of this year! Discovering it filled me with energy that will least for weeks and the joy of having seen a magnificent place God blessed us with.

   The sun was shining and I loved laying on my back and watch the clouds pass and then walk around and enjoy the beautiful scenery while taking pictures. All in all, being there was very relaxing and meditation appropriate. So much that I realized perfection is much less than we think of it. It's not a utopia as long as we believe. And I believe today I reached perfection. Actually the place did:)

   You know, people usually expect to see waterscapes or landscapes in Malaysia, Hawaii or the Alps to call them "pieces of heaven", but you really don't need that to be amazed by nature and by the power of God. It's enough if you go where I went today and see what I saw. Because I'm sure you'd be as amazed and as happy as I was at the end of the day:) 

   So let's try to visit our own country first and be open minded to discovering such little pieces of heaven just like Valea Draganului:) 

Day 238. The perfect illusion

   You know that moment when you randomly go in a store and see something that seems perfect for you? 

   You're amazed when you see it but you don't have the money to buy it right then so you go home daydreaming about coming back and getting it next time. But after some days, when you do go back to the store and see it again you realize you had the illusion of perfection and that, in fact, the thing is not as lovely and amazing as you remembered it. 

   The next step is being disappointed or relieved (depending on how much it costs) because in the end all this "game" brings in a lot of tension. Sometimes you realize you don't need it right then, but you have an irresistible feeling you want to own it. So when you go back and confront reality you realize you were just temporarily blind.

   Today I felt just that. It's not the first time it happened to me and I realized it might occur because our whole life we're trying to find little pieces of ourselves and this kind of encounter is exactly what we need to feel complete... it's like trying to solve our own puzzle. So we're searching for the other pieces. Every time we find one of the right ones we're in 9th heaven, but sometimes the pieces are very similar and it's easy to be misled. That's when "the perfect illusion" happens:)

   In the end, you win some battles, you lose some battles. Today I was relieved. The dress was too expensive:)

 

Day 195. Happy, happier, happiest

   They say perfection can't be reached, that's some sort of utopia we only guide on, right? Well don't call me Dana if today wasn't a perfect day:) Wrapped in sunlight and mild temperature, clear sky, fluffy clouds and The International Day of Happiness:) What more do you need? 

   Is spring here yet or is this just a trailer to the actual movie?:)