Boulevard of broken dreams

Recently I am often drawing comparisons between my past and present with almost no promising vision for future. But even more, I am drawing comparisons between my past and my pre-past. By pre-past I mean my life before three years and four months and by past (which is somehow linked to my present) — after it. Many things happened over this time and the “past” I am talking about has had quite negative impact on my inner world making me highly downbeat on this life. Continue reading

Singing the soul’s lyrics: Elvis Presley

I have never been good at expressing myself in words. Every time I try to put my ideas into words that will form a sentence and make me understandable for the rest, my mind seems to be unable to perform that task and not being able to find the proper words from the large net of my mind I end up appearing a stupid and silly person in the eyes of people Continue reading

Purifying the soul

The coming two months will be quite challenging for me, a challenge I am undertaking quite consciously and with a strong wish driven from within. It will be a short period of self-exploration, of getting rid of ghosts around me, of facing my mistakes and correcting them, of confronting my fears and overcoming them, of forgiving myself for certain things and doing my best to forgive those who have ever hurt me, of forgetting the worst of nightmares and ignoring the artificially imposed Continue reading

Love letters

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Photo by Ani Babayan

It was Valentine today and although as far as I remember me, I have celebrated this holiday only once in my life and presently, it is at bay from me and has nothing to do with me, I love seeing people happy, loving, caring and bouncing.

The picture created by the couples in the streets is so great. As they say, you are never old to love, so by couples I never try to imply only the young. There is something magical in seeing elderly people walking hand in hand with a rose and smiles.

Love is beautiful and it’s even more beautiful when it’s expressed in letters. Let’s see what feelings the love letters and poems of famous people convey. Continue reading

Shallow Bittersweet Recollections

Photo by Ani Babayan

It’s been a while since I last wrote anything, while on my mind all the ideas and thoughts that usually come along at night when I am embraced within myself keep on composing stories and poems, which I am usually not being able to bring together.

But it’s more a matter of selfishness than inability, since my selfishness doesn’t allow me to share those thoughts with anyone but me. My level of selfishness in this regard has always been on top as I consider those moments the ones during which I create my masterpieces but I prefer them to lie with me rather than with anyone else. Continue reading

2012 in Pics: MY Major Events

Photo by Ani Babayan

Photo by Ani Babayan

Since I am leaving for some period of time and won’t be able to be part of the events of the people that were in my 2012 through 2013 I decided to post some pics with people I treasure and of events that took place in the past year. This post is also meant to express my gratitude to everyone involved in my life; thank you for who you are and who you make me with your presence, words and attitude. Hopefully, I have brought smth good into your lives too.

New Year 2012 – Celebrated with friends and most importantly, my family! Continue reading

The Beautiful Armenian Bride

Photo by Ani Babayan

Photo by Ani Babayan

I am perhaps one of the few ones who have seen one of the most beautiful Armenian brides in my life. You know I have seen thousands of beautiful girls who in no way appeared as beautiful in my eyes as the girl who got married a few months ago. You might think it was her makeup or her dress that made her beautiful. I say no. She was beautiful because she was immensely happy and was conscious of what she was doing and therefore the bright sparkle in her eyes was way more powerful than that of a most expensive diamond. Don’t wanna talk much about that, instead will post some pics as a proof of what I say. Continue reading

It Happened Many Moons Ago

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Photo by Ani Babayan

It happened many moons ago. A boy was born to a woman who was destined to bring him up on her own. The father was not with them but the boy had a grandpa who taught him everything for which the boy was to be thankful in the rest of his life. Perhaps no one has ever grieved for his grandpa as much as he did after the wise man passed away.

The boy was a wonder-child. He grew up having read every book in their library. At the age of six he was more advanced than any other child of his age. He was gifted, and he didn’t know that with time when he would later in his life become just an ordinary person among the rest, there would be a girl for whom he would keep on being the wonder-boy. Continue reading

Unknown Reasons…

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Sometimes the people you run from are the ones that seem to haunt you all the way throughout your life. These are not the people who you hate but rather who you love but with whom you just can’t be because of reasons that are unknown and yet so powerful. You know only one thing – that without you they’re gonna do better, happier, luckier,,, that they’re gonna smile,,, one thing that’s missing when they are with you because those unknown reasons just don’t let the lips perform that simple lip movement because in reality even that smile that today’s being so masterly faked needs energy coming from the soul. Continue reading

A Trip to Nagorno Karabakh: Pics

Sometimes you need to have mood for doing something; even when there is great desire but no mood you will either never do it or do it so slowly that it will seem to have no end. It’s already a week I wanted to write and describe my trip to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) but unfortunately I have no mood. Instead I decided to post some pics. Just several brief notes:

  • First, I went to Qashatagh, the largest and yet most neglected city of Nagorno Karabakh, which is mainly populated by people from Armenia. The nature is splendid, the people are awesome and they all warmly received me, which was very surprising for me. A t least now I know that the legends and myths regarding the hospitality of Armenians are not just a myth but the reality.

There are two options to get to Qashatagh – minibus and taxi. A trip by minibus will cost you 3500 Dram one way, while a one way trip by taxi will cost you around 18.000-20.000 Dram. Continue reading