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“I woke up to a series of messages asking where is my next blog post from the other side of the Pacific Ocean this morning. LOL, I am so lazy I can’t even.

So tonight, after the cocktail in the gallery, I changed the plan of going to The Avengers Endgame, and hit “Adele” Playlist button instead of Daft Punk.”

And now it’s the end of May, and I did watch The Avengers Endgame, The Big Bang Theory finished too, and Game of Thornes, but not my post!

I won’t bore you with my excuses because Beyoncé got things done too, and she’s like sooo busy.

Here it goes, the actual body of this post begins!

My friend A is an actual angel on earth. The rainy day I arrived in Vancouver without the suitcase, he already bought an outfit for me, just how thoughtful!

It was one of those nights that I didn’t sleep at all and cried like a baby after a phone call, he immediately took my jacket, saying let’s go for a walk. I really thought it would be a walk around the neighborhood, so I didn’t shower, no makeup, puffy eyes and dark cycles, you name it. And we came back around midnight…

Stanley Park

I stayed in a lovely cozy apartment on a charming little street called Alberni, and right at the end of the street, locates the biggest city park in North America, Stanley Park.

Stanley Park is a work of wonder by nature. It was not built by a landscape architect or designer but rather the evolution of a forest and the urban space over the years. You would be amazed to see the trees here that are easily a hundred years old. I still think I want to be a tree when I come back next life. You can just stand tall and look over the lives under, all that drama would have nothing to do with you. How great is that!

There are trails everywhere in the park, people would really use their lunch break and come to jog here. At a cross in the middle of the park, A asked me to choose a path, surely he was not just asking about the directions here but in life too. I walked to the left and A smiled, “I knew you would choose this one.” He pointed out the name of the trail on a stick that I did not notice before.  It engraved  ” Lovers”. I might be incredibly naive and hopelessly romantic, but that’s the path of life I choose, and I would forever follow. Who wouldn’t?

Love wins.

Always.

The Seawall

I would be lying if I told you the path was easy, the walk was not challenging at all. It was actually a long hike with downhills and uphills. Again, there are many different paths inside the forest, it’s your choice, and decision lead you where you want to go. We came out to the lookout point, where you can see Lion’s gate bridge and the West Vancouver across the ocean. We then went down to the beach. Yes, people, Vancouver has beaches! The one we went to called “The third beach”. I like the name, it’s very Canadian.:) I love the fact that they are using the old maple tree trunks as the tanning seats! So original and environment-friendly.

If I haven’t said it before my friend A is an actual Angel. He talked to me when I needed him to speak and remain silent when I needed to be left alone. I did some thinking. When you sit in front of the grand ocean, you always just have some kind of enlightenment, an epiphany if you will. I later went down further and stood on the rocks when the ocean waves come again and again to erode them, and we know that after a thousand years of erosion, the rocks would be gone, vanish. The ocean might turn to the mountains and we would just be the dust in the wind.

I crossed my fingers and noticed the ring on my right hand was missing. I was so sure it fell into the ocean and the waves took it away. That triggered the tears, and the tears dropped into the sea, salt water met salt water, they belong together, and I started to believe, started to accept,  started to truly let go, started to grief, and more importantly, started to gain the courage to begin again. After all, we are all alone in this world, each one of us. Maugham figured out long ago, we need to walk our own paths, alone.

 

I consider Vancouver a very romantic city, they have their Seawall, Skytrain, Sea to Sky Highway. Just listening to those names make me want to embrace nature more than ever.

It was a warm sunny October day in Vancouver, everything looked like diamonds under the sun. It was so beautiful that a girl from the city where she always dresses up for, didn’t shower, makeup, had the most wonderful and meaningful day with her bare face, and a naked heart.

She understood now that coming back to the past can’t really trick the time, when she goes back home, where there’s the future, she already know what to do, and that’s something she learned from the past, a past she took a 13 hour flight for, and it was absolutely necessary.

That.

All photos my own shot in Vancouver, Canada.