When the cold ocean calls !

There is no place like home, except for the beach 🏝 

I've wondered a few times, how would a beach town look during a non-summer season. To my satisfaction, I was pleased to meet a cold ocean and a quiet city this November. 

Water was cold and temperature were low but the views were incomparable. Instead, due to less hustle bustle on the beach I got ample opportunity to get close to the ocean and take it all in the beauty of this free and enormous source of energy. 

This was a very last-minute adventure that our family took to Ocean City, MD and we were extremely excited to have a beautiful view closer to the waves. Most days I got my share of the beautiful sunrise ❤️

We truly got lucky and got a chance to cover the Fenwick island lighthouse during our morning coffee run and the night came with a beautiful surprise to a cute town, Berlin which had Xmas on steroids :)

Fenwick island
Fenwick Island Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the Delaware/Maryland state line. The structure dates back to 1858 making it the oldest lighthouse in the state of Delaware.

Berlin MD - Ice Ice baby 2020
Every year, this town hosts an Ice sculptures festival on the roads of a very beautiful old school town. The people were high on Christmas spirits and all the shop were beautifully decorated with trees, polar expresses and miniature towns while serving hot cocoas. 

Just cause it’s that time of the year, I got to dress up in my pair of denims more than I like but my distressed look kept me comfy and stylish in the cold weather (where I took my jacket and mask off every time I took a picture 🤣)

But thankfully the weather was super friendly and it didn’t bother us much to walk on the streets in slightly breezy cold winter night.

Since the name calls for it I can’t discount the good feeling of walking barefoot on the sand and it took all the reality away for a while :)

One more thing which was noticeably exciting for my family was to completely enjoy the boardwalk, sea side eateries and a short stop at Assateague island to check out wild horses 🐎 

  

We had a fantastic time spent at ocean city and it motivated us to do more and more trips whenever we can because when the ocean calls ... you got to be there ❤️

Do more of what makes you happy !!❤️

But first, what is happiness ?

IMHO, happiness is a choice that we make everyday. So it’s a matter of what you experience and the emotions you go through in that fleeting moment -  that defines your happiness. 

The source of happiness could be a person, place, thing or a feel good sensation in any of our senses (what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste). In most cases they are just the medium of how we felt in a moment and which probably would have left a beautiful memory and we called us being happy! You can say that the aftermath is also a pleasant emotional state which is full of contentment, gratification and pure joy. Just how these words bring a wave of positivity in our mind, happiness is simply a mindset.

Still the question remains what makes me happy ! The more I think about it, clearer it gets to sort things in the right way and come to terms of what really really makes me happy. 

True happiness to me - is enjoying your own company and living in peace and harmony with your body, mind and soul. For being truly happy you neither need other people nor materialistic things. And it brings other dimensions to you such as being confident, brave, vulnerable and honest. 

But truly, Happiness is always a result of personal effort. Sometimes you may have to work hard for it and fight for it. Sometimes you have to talk to yourself and insist upon it and even manifest it. So once those hard earned rewards are found we may have to put in effort to sustain that. Just like if loosing weight made you happy, you need to work hard to maintain it, if getting a promotion made you happy, you need to work hard to excel in it, if being in a relationship made you happy, you need to work hard for it to bloom - be it your kids, partner or friends.

 

And when you don't know what makes you happy - just TRAVEL :)

The devotion that comes from the heart in the process of finding your reasons of true happiness and enjoying the consequences is a brilliant experience in itself so that’s why YOU must make that mighty effort and DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

Once you’ve found them, then all you need is to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever and enjoy every moment with a spiritual enlightenment. 

But something will go wrong all the time🤦‍♀️, at that time the important thing is to standup to your choices and not repent a single thing ❤️