Sunday, April 10, 2016

People grow apart and that's okay

I've always thought of friendship as something unbreakable. For me true friendship was a bond that lasts a lifetime. A friend is someone with whom you share your experience, your pain and happiness, your darkest secrets and whatever else comes along. 
However, what I didn't realise for a long time is that sometimes people grow apart and that that's okay.

Each and everyone of us develops their personal interests during growing up and sometimes it can happen that your interests are so different from your friend's that this whole friendship thing doesn't work for the two of you anymore. 

Personally, it took me a lot of time to comprehend this and come to the realisation that loosing a good friend is something we all have to deal with at some point in our lives. Because I was in denial that my friend and I weren't what we used to be, I kept holding on to the friendship for longer than I should have. It felt like I kept trying to breath even though I was about hundred feet under the water already.

Then once our friendship was over it was that much harder for me to deal with that. I kept hoping that maybe it's just another meaningless quarrel, something we could get over, but I didn't have the will to keep fighting and that should have been my clue. I should have understood that it was better for me that the we weren't as close as we used to be because at least back then we were still talking.

I think that when someone has been in your life for such a long time it's like losing a family when things come to an end, but there is a quote that I like to repeat to myself whenever I feel like maybe things shouldn't have worked out like this. The quote goes something like: "When someone causes more tears than smiles, no matter how much you love them, it's time to let them go."

This whole post have been one long mess, so unorganised, but it something I wanted to get out for a long time. I think that now I am finally ready to admit this and write it all down. Losing a friend is something that isn't easy to deal with, but sooner you realise that there's nothing to feel guilty about, that sometimes people just grow apart and that it's nobody's fault, the better things will go for you from that point forward.

I feel like I've grown so much since that event. I've made so many good friends along the way and I am happier than I have ever been, so I really can't complain about how things have worked out for me. 

Sunday, April 3, 2016

How Supernatural captured my heart

I remember saying in one of my posts that I would talk about Supernatural one day, and this day has come.

I am a big sucker for series and I've been seeing so many post about Supernatural on Tumblr and Instagram, I decided to check it out. I was absolutely thrilled to find out it has 11 season so far, because my favourite 'sport' is binge watching series. 

In two months Supernatural has managed to capture my heart completely and here are few reasons why.

1. It's the best combination of horror, fantasy, drama and humour. By humour, I mostly mean sarcastic remarks which are of course my favourite kind of humour. 

2. I love mythology which is a big part of the show. I think my love for mythology comes from my childhood when my mother used to read me stories from the greek mythology while we were in Greece for holidays. We would lay on the beach and she would read me about Hercules or Odyssey or Prometheus or other heroes, and I listened to her with my mouth opened and my imagination working like crazy. It's a great memory.


3. The brotherly love between Sam and Dean will be the death of me. It's why the whole series works so good. Because we would all like to have someone who was prepared to go to hell for us, someone who was prepared to die for us and someone who loved us so unconditionally as these two love each other. 

4. Destiel. I started ship it mainly because of the social media, to be honest, but now there's no chance in hell you'll convince me those two aren't in love. 

5. They are not perfect. I love how Sam's and Dean's decisions aren't always the right ones. No matter how hard they try to save the world and be heroes, sometimes they just mess up everything really badly and I think that makes them more relatable, more humanlike. 

6. Even though a lot of things that happen on the show are based on the Bible, it makes me happy that they include other religions, other gods and mythology from different cultures. You get to see Greek mythology, Japanese mythology, Egyptian gods etc.

7. A cast can contribute so much to the popularity of a show and the cast of Supernatural has definitely done an amazing job. They are all very likeable and willing to do almost everything for their fans, which I believe can sometimes be exhausting even though it's a big part of their job. They are also running so many campaigns to help improve people's lives that it warms my heart and makes me love them even more.

So, if you are, by any chance, looking for a new series to watch, I would recommend you try Supernatural if you haven't seen it already. And even if you have, it's never a bad idea to re-watch a series, is it?