2025

This year, again, was rich in different experiences, both positive and negative. Negative experiences changed me and my life. Positive experiences left me with hope and good memories.

Even though 2025 began with the painful experience of my mother's passing away, there is life after death both for her and for us. It was difficult to accept her death and all of the cancer experience, but that situation taught a lot. 

All official steps with documents went smoothly and very quickly. I should admit how everything was organized in Germany I liked (sounds weird talking about death), but all processes were very modern and European. All of those steps I did not feel despair or agony or even death itself, everything was organised in such a way that a person could feel gratitude and love, thought that life existed afterwards…. Even though that was a very new and torturous experience for me, I am very thankful for everything.

Death itself is not a single event, but a sequence of events that unfold like a chain reaction after….

We needed to find a new apartment for the father and arrange everything for his relocation. We met a Ukrainian priest who was with us all this year helping us to go through every step of grieving. We met a Ukrainian community from our Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Hof, Coburg, Bamberg, and Würzburg. I quitet my job, found a new job, changed my visa status to Blue Card, relocated to Karlsruhe, found a new apartment on Karlsruhe, and of course there was a funeral and we decided to do it in Rehau, the city where my mother lived for the last years and felt herself like a free deer (Reh in German, that is why the city is called Rehau). 

Every single step of change was difficult and full of uncertainty, but even in these uncertainties I tried to find happiness and purpose. 

I travelled a lot: Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Switzerland, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom. I visited Seven Sisters Cliffs in England and the English Channel, as well as the North Sea in Ostende, De Haan, and Sankt Peter Ording. These places became my meditation and purification. 

I would like to thank all the places I have visited and all the people I have met. They helped me to survive and live.

I am thankful for my sister for being with me all the time and all my life trying to make me better revealing my hidden talents and potentials. 

I do not expect anything from 2026, I allow it to be….