They say right things happen in a right time. The truth is, I’m feeling a little lost. In life. In general. It’s called “quarter-life crisis” or something like that. Seriously, it exists!
On the other hand, I’m lucky enough, because my life and gives me an opportunity to travel. Just to clarify – it's not like going on holiday. This time (I can’t still believe ) – when I’m writing this post – I’m actually in an Aircoach Bus, going from Dublin to Cork. So, in next few weeks I gonna see lots and lots of Ireland. Only a week ago I knew nothing about this country and now I’m almost in love with it! Seriously! It’s not even about the country (I know it has beautiful nature, but I just landed an hour ago, so had no chance yet to see it) – sooooo, it’s not about the city or landscapes or architecture – it’s first of all about PEOPLE. Honestly, I’ve been to a couple of places on Earth (not much, bus still) and I have never ever seen such friendly people. And they are friendly in a frank way – no fake smiles, I’m telling you :)
It all started back in Poland, when I was applying for a visa (normally this is always pain in the neck), so when I called the Embassy and asked about the status, I was kind of shocked by the way they treated me – I got answer to each question I asked and when I came to Warsaw to pick up my passport, the lady there recognized me by my face. She was like “Oh hi, Mrs. Solomiya”, which really left me speechless for a sec.
Today an immigration officer chatted with me for 15 minutes, asked everything about Ukraine and five times wished me a pleasant visit. Then my baggage was a little bit lost (not lost, it was just Mia being blind) and the guy from Airport service went with me, picked up my bag and handed it to me, which was so cute. I left the Airport and was looking for a bus to Cork, literally everyone around was asking if I need help. I didn’t have a ticket so when I found the bus I had to ask a driver if has a seat available to sell for cash. And there was this guy (looked like Dannny De Vito) I approached him and smiled to start the conversation, and he was like “giiiiirl, why are you smiling? Is this because I look like hamburger?”, and when I asked about the ticket he told that for me he’d always had one :) All these little things were just so sweet and made my day.
Partly it gave me a lot to thinking, when it comes to this my “uncertainty” about my life – the key is just so simple! Positive attitude is just everything! When you’re grumpy and everyone around’s grumpy – how the hell can you be happy and comfortable? But even if your day is not "your day" – if people around are so nice, you just can’t feel bad! You just can't :)
The world is so amazing, if we think about it. I feel a little blessed to have a chance to see it and so many countries to come in nearest future (fingers crossed).
And now, I gonna post more often because I’m feeling excited to share with you some Irish spirit :) We gonna do Cork & Clonakailty (small city with beautiful nature) and Dublin in next 2 weeks, so come visit my page from time to time.
p.s. I’m not on vacation, buuut it doesn’t change the fact, that I’m going to use maximum of the opportunity to see, discover and experience everything here
p.p.s. After I wrote this text in a bus yesterday a lot of funny things happened. For example when I came to Clonakilty, it appeared that there's no taxi after 8p.m. so some people (a coupe over 60) that I met in the street, just gave me a ride to hotel, that was so nice! And then today... when I got back from work to hotel - a printed e-mail was waiting for me at the reception - it was from a lady I talked to in the bus (e - she was wishing me nice stay in Ireland and advising one hundred things to do here :) Was just lovely. I will for sure text her back :)
p.p.p.s. Just a little bit of Ireland below :)
