Life Goes On

Words are gone, Feelings I'm not sure. World's all grey, Sand full of snow.

There was never really an us, There was only you and me. What we thought we once had, Was just but a sweet dream. I was never really meant for you, Nor you were destined for me, The love was just a thought, Just in our fantasy.

Everyone has her favorite books of all time, books that made a great impact to one's life... Mine are these and the list might still get longer as time goes by. (Please excuse if the title links are in German, I am now living in Germany and I read more in this language nowadays in order for me to develop my German skills.) FICTION Myths of Classical Antiquity Victor Hugo's Les Miserables The Picture of Dorian Gray 1984 Alice in Wonderland Cecelia Ahern's P.S. I Love You Cecelia Ahern's The Year I Met You Sterntagebücher Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy To Kill A Mockingjay Go, Set A Watchman Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper Dean Koontz's The Door to December Sophie's World The Old Man and the Sea One Hundred Years of Solitude   NON-FICTION Ich bin dann mal weg: Meine Reise auf dem Jakobsweg

"Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it." Lyra’s Oxford

I've been living for quite a long time now here in Germany. I've met different kinds of people, separated in a not-so-good ways with some of them. But despite all the bad experiences, there are a few who stayed and I am really thankful of them, for being there for me through my ups and downs. They may be only few, I can even count them with my fingers, but they are more than enough. They are the kind of people I am most comfortable to be with. I don't need to pretend just to be accepted. I can tell them everything that I think and feel and still rest assured that I am understood and accepted. With them, it is fine to be crazy and they would just laugh and say "typical Anne".

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ―  Oscar Wilde ,   The Picture of Dorian Gray

Today I feel grateful for the teachings my family and my school taught me. They shaped me to a person I am right now. My mom had always told me as a kid, that not because we have more food on the table and that I go to a private school, means we are rich. Surely, we are blessed, but what matters the most is my character as a person. So she taught me to choose friends who will accept me for who I am and not for what I have. As a kid, she let me play outside with our neighbors' kids and my cousins. We would run around, roll down the hill, play hide and seek, get mud on our faces. This way, my family taught us that we are equal. That none in our village is richer nor poorer. We are all rich because the whole place belongs to us. The vast field is not my uncle's field, but our field where we sit under the mango tree to eat its fruits, and fly our kites or play tag. (We just need to make sure his cows remain within the fences.) I was taught that money is not everything. That happine...

It feels so good to be surprised with these beautiful flowers. It makes me feel more thankful that I am able to experience another spring and eventually another summer. Thankful for my husband who did not give up on me. Because of him, I am able to live more years and experience more seasons!