BUS TO BALKANS: DAY 2

Thoughts:

• Sleeping is overrated
• Looking homeless attracts even weirder people 
• Pizza is a good nutritious diet
• No reason to make plans; you'll end up doing something else anyways
• People are amazing

 BUS TO BALKANS - DAY 1

Thessaloniki, Greece

Holy Meteora, Greece

In the middle of 30-million-year old rocks, drinking wine on the edge of a huge drop, hiking, climbing and talking about life with people I had just met a few hours earlier; the sun was shining on us and I was the happiest I have been in a long time.

Meteora Monasteries, Kalambaka, Greece

Sweet November..

Sunrise from my balcony this morning.. Priceless.

Perspectives.

Street art by Achilleas, Athens

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don’t know. ―Paulo Coelho