to feel the sun

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• tranquility •

 

Tranquility, for me, is intimately connected to happiness. And happiness, for me, is intimately connected to water.

 

Any water will do. The ocean (my warm, clear waters in Porto Santo, or the big and bursting waves of Cape Verde), the river (summertime splashes in the Douro or the Tua are my favorite!) and even showering, and the warm introspection it provides — it reinforces the knowledge that water is one of my biggest sources of joy.

 

Being an anxious person, I've grown used to balancing out happiness and whatever is worrying me that day. I've learned to shy away from bad thoughts and to do my best to ignore them, but if you ask me what my idea of tranquility is, the answer is always going to be the same: by the ocean. I'm so unbelievably lucky to live in a city by the sea, and be able to see a a sliver of it from our apartment — to feel the blue in the air when the wind blows from the East, and to see the clouds forming over water, to feel the sun on my face and the freckles prickling under my skin, waiting to come out. I'm never as happy as I am in the Summer, and that big blot of blue is an untouchable part of who I am. It's unbelievable, how much it affects my moods, my state of mind and my levels of calm and of peace. And how it is, in its turbulence and fervor, my place of tranquility.

 

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