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When I asked my mom about death she gave me an answer I will never forget.
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I was little, but grown up enough to pose uncomfortable questions. At times, before voicing them to the adults, I'd think for days or even weeks over the matter, trying to find the answer myself, in my own imagination.
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That year I was may be 7, may be 8. The worry about death was creeping in slowly. I wanted to understand, how can it be, that when somebody dies, everything ends. I was trying to imagine how it might feel, on a physical level, when you are living your life, with all of your feelings, emotions, relationships, and then suddenly ... There is just nothing.

My family was not religious and I was looking for an answer on a very simple, physical plane.
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So, I came to my mom, and asked: "Mom, when we die, does absolutely nothing happen? That's it? Finita la commedia?" Mom, who was at that very moment planting some flowers in her garden, replied: "Why do you say so? Of course something happens. So many things happen. When we are gone, we become part of the Earth. And then in that soil a flower grows. And then a cow eats that flower and grows. And then a child drinks milk from that cow and grows. And it never stops. You see, in reality, we never die, we keep living, just in a different form." __
Two days ago a mother of my dear friend passed away. Each time I look at my friend, I see so much of her mother. For the first time I fully understood, what the answer of my mom really meant.

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#lifeanddeath #lifecycle #momslove #oceantherapy

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There is no such country - India.
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Or, let me better say, there are so many Indias, and none of them is defined by the borders of the states.

People ask me: how is it, to travel in India, how is it to live there? And I want to ask back: I'm not sure, which India are you talking about?
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The geographical story of our Indian family is unqiue, and it allowed me to have a glimpse at the parts of the country, and the culture, that are far from the media radar. I first landed here 13 years ago, with a fellow Globetrotter @oksanabukiy and every time I kept coming back, I discovered a completely new country.
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This time I visited the state, that tops the list of India's most loved tourist destinations: Kerala. Against the popular travel route we took a train and headed North, to a less discovered part, and it was the best decision ever. We were rewarded with endless forests, empty clean beaches and villages, still following (to a big extent) the traditional way of life. I dare to say, I might have found a place, where I'd love to live.
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PS. This picture is taken in the popular region of backwaters, Kottayam. I dreamt of getting the feel of this place after reading "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy. This book is so gorgeous, It's been 2 years since I read it, but the imaginary is still alive in my head. In the real "setting", though, the key ingredient was missing: the Moonsoon.
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#incredibleindia #keralagram #keraladiaries #myindia #kerala🌴

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I want to tell you about the bravest Traveller I know.
They say, we create our own reality. But when it comes to what family we are born into, there is surely a karmic, or a destiny-like aspect to it.
Given a chance, she might have opted for a settled duo in a quite estate, in the suburbs of a perfectly organized country. Yet she finds herself in a bus, and a rickshaw, and a scooter, and a tractor, jumping over waterfalls [a day before an earthquake], driving through the mud roads [though calling them roads is an exaggeration], flying over islands, sailing through the duck kingdoms.

She doesn't question why somebody lives differently, she doesn't wrinkles her nose at the lack of comforts. She doesn't doubt that she belongs everywhere and feels equally local wherever she appears.
Wild jungle oranges and Moscow garden apples receive equal respect from her taste buds, and licking a chilli is as exciting as feasting on a plate of plain millet - when the mood is right, of course 😉🤪 I won't know why this courageous Traveller chose us as her family. But I'm thankful for watching her grow "on the road" and being able to share the biggest passion I have: to experience life, without filters.

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