LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

Isn’t it beautiful how love and destiny orchestrate their little song-and-dance? Cindy had just completed her master’s degree and had returned to her native Germany from Copenhagen only to found out that all her peers had automatically adopted the mindset of being grown-ups and were systematically embarking on the sensible path of getting jobs, building up their careers and earning money.Why Cindy on the other hand, had opted for a volunteering job at an NGO, which is something most people do when they are a little bit younger, perhaps fresh out of college. And even stranger, out of all the options available, she'd applied for opportunities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan or Georgia, the one in Europe, in that order of preference. She would be gone for a whole year.Her choice of opting for those places was not at all rational and she have no idea why put that region on her radar in the first place other than perhaps curiosity about little known post-soviet era countries.She would be ste

He volunteered in a dog shelter in Turkey for a month and had a short relationship there where he experienced cohabitation for the first time in his life. He’s soul was asking more questions and the universe was giving him the opportunity to discover the answers within himself . He was able to look at things in an unorthodox light and this enabled him to learn a lot from that experience. His time in Turkey was coming to an end and his aim was to do Vipassana, a ten day silent meditation retreat, which was taking place in Armenia in May, about a month later. He actually had many other reasons to go to Armenia besides this retreat. His roots are Armenian and he had been playing with the idea of setting up an eco-village one day which was one of the main reasons that he had started volunteering in eco-villages in the first place and he had people who could help him if he was to do this there. Plus, it’s a great communist country and also very affordable. Anything was possible!Meanw

Gerard opened up so fully, so deeply that it caught Cindy off guard. She would never have thought someone she just met would open up this way and go this deep.He had told her about his ideals, about living a moneyless life and how he’d sometimes had to sleep in his tent because of his beliefs. That was what floored her the honesty in it, the truthfulness, being so straightforward and not disguising any part of his experience, admitting what he’d been going through, especially the part about having to be without a roof over his head sometimes. Cindy was trying to digest everything.When you take the decision to step away from the system and live moneyless, you have to be ready to walk the talk and accept all the things that might come with that. Life won’t be so kind and easy on you and you need to face reality and accept it. No one will come to you and say here are a hundred bucks, you have to be realistic.Cindy thought to herself It was not just the openness and the story itself, i

Cindy was realizing that her attraction towards him was that everything checked out on paper and was picture-perfect—he was very connected to nature, was a responsible person with a stable job, and just fit all the criteria that someone normal would go for. And She didn’t want to admit to herself that She was not looking for something normal.Cindy has been meditating for years and this was something that She held very dear to her. She had never shared this thing that was such an important part of her life with him and he had never cared enough to inquire about things that made her tick. This was already a red flag on both counts but She had completely ignored it. Meanwhile, on the other hand She just couldn’t help but notice how different things were with Gerard. Although they had only just met, everything about him, their connection, their conversations, that surreal click them both felt, everything was so palpable, so incredibly real. It wasn’t just a casual crossing of paths, the

They were now back in the city walking towards the busy Pekini street where he was going to see Cindy off to the bus. Just before she got on the bus he said to her, “Cindy, you have asked me many questions and I have given you everything that you have asked for. Do you still have questions?” She said, “No.” He said, “I believe you now know everything you need to know to establish something with me. I’m just waiting for your message to tell me if you are in with me. If it’s a no, the black-and-white applies for me, I don’t do gray.” The black and white is really how he live his life, so give him white smoke or black smoke—done! It was up to her now. She was fascinated when he asked her that, She loved it! But She was also very confused! The fact that he was only going to be here just one more month and She would need to stay a whole year longer was very present in her mind.It was also confusing to her as She was still officially in a relationship. No matter how increasingly un