Macedonia to Turkey
Reality is a funny thing.
for the past 13 days ive been traveling between realities...
Macedonia is a land lost in time....a stone bridge divides the old Skopje and the new sides of the city but the division is much deeper than this bridge....on one side you have the traditional bazaar, swarms of people, and old museums and on the other side you have a huge mall wıth designer clothes and fancy restaurants and people dressed up everywhere....yet they arent that different from each other...you can stand ın the middle of the brıdge and see the mountains circling the land...protecting her....
After two days we traveled to Ohrid, Macedonia and stayed in a hotel on the lake....one of the most peaceful places ive ever seen...next door to a monestary we spent 8 days working and partying like we do and all the while the lake flowed....the birds chirped and the wind blew crisp air into the curtains in our balconies....and the sun welcomed us every morning telling us it was time to go to bed....and time flew by and life went on
then 15 hours in a bus through Bulgaria led us straight to our Mecca....İstanbul, Turkey....and as i write, i sit overlooking the Bosphorous....the Blue Mosque to my left...the Aya Sofia and the Palace loom along the horizon....and the cars and the people swarm below hurrying to their next place....this city is truly Amazing....with history in every stone on the ground and stories filling everyones eyes....this place has moved forward while holding onto its past and landed a delicate balance between two worlds....
4 more days await us....4 more realities...and the universal truth is that reality is whatever you make of it...whatever you want it to be....and that creates beauty...and beauty can be found everywhere....
