Three stories I told to Semen

by Elizaveta Minaeva (Russia)

I didn't expect to find Russia

This story has the name: three stories I told Semen when explaining why love is the only significant thing in our life. The first story was about Cuba. There is such a public group in Vkontakte - Vandrouki, they accumulate all the information about cheap flights, hotels and package tours. And one day I saw an extremely cheap tour to Cuba there, it was extremely cheap even for a student, and I decided that since I had some time and money, why can’t I fly to Cuba right tomorrow? And I flew to Cuba. I have never been to Cuba, but all I need for an excellent vacation - just ocean, beautiful sunsets and several mangos per day, Cuba could cope with it. By that time I had not drunk alcohol for four years. Since before the age of 16 I had drunk so much, that in 16 when I suddenly was excited by yoga, I stopped drinking at all. And before by Cuba trip, it was already four years free of alcohol. In Cuba I bought Cuban rum, maybe even not for myself, I just bought it since I was in Cuba and the rum bottle was rather beautiful. I came to the beach with that rum bottle and saw a wonderful sunset, that was the most beautiful sunset in my life. And then I decided to drink this rum under the most beautiful sunset ever. And when I drank half of the bottle, and even though by that time I had not drunk for more than four years, I was not too drunk, I was almost not drunk at all. I looked at the ocean and the most beautiful sunset in my life, and then a sudden thought came: does the ocean has along and cross sides? And I decided to experiment: I decided that I would very slowly go into the Ocean, and if the water level is over the knee, then it is the alongside, and if the water level is lower - then it is the cross side. I went into the ocean, and when I was already up to the waist in the water, I understood that the experiment methodology was incorrect. Then very carefully and very slowly I turned over and went back to the ocean shore, and when I reached the shore, I saw the sand, just the usual beach sand and I saw God in that sand. And then I suddenly said: Hi God! I have finally found you! Now you have no opportunity to hide, though, in fact, I cannot say that God has hidden especially from me. And then I felt that everything in this world is God (when I say God, I mean love, God, and love is the same for me, absolute energy, an ideal substance). And then I felt that I am God as well. And this best sunset in my life, and this rum bottle, sand, water, air, and even my iPhone - everything is God. And that was July 2018, and that was my first meeting with God and my first real meeting with myself. The second story was about my first mystery experience and the third story was about my love for theater actor. But these stories I will tell you when we meet in the Caribbean.