ElenaDragan's blog

The years pass, they leave behind dust and a lot of longing.

We all carry in our souls another soul that we once met. Some of us have the strength to recognize it, others hide it behind smiles and the routine of the day. But, we never wonder how hard it can be or how many souls a man carries inside him.

I still don't understand why a cross that you carry in secret is thought to be easier to carry than one whose tears are visible on a person's face...because carrying an unconfessed, unfulfilled love within you is a cross for a person. And the arms of this cross embrace your heart and soul so tightly that with each passing day you will breathe harder, you will smile less, until you no longer believe in your love. And nothing kills the soul like the sword of the one who renounces love.

Nothing in this world is more important than the moment in which we are now, nothing in this world is more important than the present moment, the one in which we live now. We are in a daily rush where we try to do as many things as possible, we try to please as many people as possible, we try to be flawless with our boss, wife, friends, mother, father, grandmother, neighbor from 2.

We are trying to gather as many people as possible on Facebook, we want a new house, a new car, a new trip... possibly to the moon. And with all that, we are quite dissatisfied because we are missing something. The joy of living life and not just being a simple witness to it. This joy that the moment can offer, the current moment we are living.

I did an interview with one of the most interesting contemporary Romanian artists, Sasha Meret, who spoke directly about this: