In Love with Life: Summer of Fire

Hello my dear friends,

I was and still am a little bit quite out of online world. And I am so happy about it, computers and all online distractions give me headaches and turn me into a somehow robot. But I thought I will drop few lines here and give a bit of the update.

Once I left Austria it felt so weird, I have been living in remote mountains for a year and I have realised that my normally very developed social skills got worse. It was strange and draining to be around many people again but within little time I got back to my normal self.

I went to Slovenia for 5 days to visit my dear friends and absolutely fell in love with Ljubljana. It was so good to be surrounded by culture and action again. I found Slovenians very friendly and curious people. I chatted lots-like a butterfly going from one flower to another. It was so good to meet new people again, it was so good not to think about all the crazy social distancing, masks and all that.

I loved Ljubljana for it’s vibe- small city with so much going on. I met local urbans- people so passionate about activism, politics, art, culture- I loved that. For the last months I was hanging out with sporty people so it was quite a big difference in topics and vibe.

And then masked, sprayed and pretending to care about all these new measures about Covid I left Austria for new adventures, different life chapter.

It felt good I must admit. Not because I wanted to leave Austria or anything but because I was following my heart that was yearning for unknown. It felt good not to have home again, to get my dirty traveller’s identity back, it felt good to hear different languages floating in the air and to arrive in a melting pot- Athens.

Greece greeted me with intense heat, the fire that burns through your bones and I liked it. Chaos outside, intense fruit and veg colours on each corner, sugary and syrupy desserts melting in the shops window sills, greeks taking life slow and not worrying about too much order. You know how much I appreciate that in cultures.

For the past 3-4 weeks I’ve been back in my beloved Thai yoga massage centre Sunshine House to volunteer, to meditate, do yoga, chant, sing, play, touch, swim in the sea. A complete retreat for my soul. My heart that has been a little hardened by the mountains cold breeze, I must say, is opening. I feel happy, I feel good, I feel content and present. Future exist and somehow not at all in the same time. But it feels good not to know. I can hear you asking for how long this gonna last, and I truly cannot answer you. For now it feels good and right exactly how it is. And about later, hm, we shall see.

Keep your hearts burning with love and fire and if you ever manage to be around this beautiful part of the world- let’s see each other.

Love you all ❤

Ligita