Book: Notes on work on cruise ships, harsh everyday life and unusual adventures on board

“If you stop and listen to yourself, you can hear a lot of new things,” she often said, mysteriously looking into the distance. With every word she said, she taught me to trust life and my inner voice, relax and be filled with peace. In order to learn how to create your new reality from a state of peace and purity.

I felt like a child in front of whom an immense city with restaurants, theaters and swimming pools stretched out. A city with a thousand inhabitants, in which there was a place for an American millionaire from a two-room apartment, and a Filipino sailor who does not see the sea from the hold of a ship. A city where hundreds of nationalities worked and lived side by side. The city, which had its own rumors and gossips, omissions and grievances, birthdays and anniversaries. The city in which I was to live a small life of eight months.

The island of Saint Martin was magical - woven from the sun and stardust, sea breeze and fine ocean sand. An island with the taste of Pina colada on his lips.

Surprisingly, even in fierce storms, the sea was always calm inside. The harsh waves struck fear on the tiny ships only on the surface. And in the depths there was always calm. I tried to learn this from my eternal teacher - the sea. Learn to maintain balance and humility within when waves are raging on the surface.

I believed that the people we meet on the path of life are not accidental. I believed that before our earthly incarnation, we agree in advance about the lessons that we will present to each other. And the very feeling when the eyes meet and the heart is pierced by lightning, which we call love at first sight - this is the memory of the soul.

The city on two continents was inspiring. There was something magical, elusive, bright in him. With the morning wind from the Bosphorus, with a flock of pigeons at the mosque, with the smell of chestnuts and corn at street vendors. On the dusty streets of Istanbul, in bright showcases with colorful lamps shining in the sun, in the sounds of music from a Turkish cafe near the tram tracks - love lived there.

The sea did not let go so easily. It permeated the heart and did not allow to go far. The sea could not be betrayed. Once signed in the service of him, it was difficult to renounce him.

The famous "positive thinking" is not just nice words. This is everyday work. The same as training muscles in the gym. To see results, you need to train constantly for a long time.