My way 2006. Original pencil drawing, 40x29 cm Private collection

Once upon Hemingway said that happiness comes in different shapes and who's the one to recognize it. The only secret is to find out what makes you happy. There are small and great wishes in your life, small and great dreams. Every dream becomes great dream and every wish becomes great wish if it comes true. The only question is how to find happiness in labyrinth of life because of many highroads and cross-roads? In the open sky, our guide will be sun, in the open night, the stars will guide us but how to find your way in the darkness without stars? Only you, silence and darkness. For some people it is easier to find their ways in dark and silence. They see in the dark only what they want to see and they hear clearly themselves heart beating and the whispering of their wishes in silence. At the moment I write this, I'm trying to remember the beginning of my way, but I can' t. The ways have no beginnings and ends, they gather, they split, but everyone goes somewhere. Even when you come to dead-end, you can allways turn back and you are again on the new way. I remember my childhood and the morning by the window when I was thinking so long why everybody go and rush somewhere? Where do they arrive? Why birds fly all the time and where they fly? Why the rivers flow somewhere, why the roads follow rivers? I remember my sweetest dream, when I didn't want to wake up. I had wings and I was flying, so far, everywhere - left mountains and seas behind myself and get back to them again. I hadn't felt my body, only happiness without limits. I've dreamt again the same dream and one day I quit looking for my way. I found out that my way is inside me, without marks, without direction, endless. My way is my freedom. My happiness is my liberty. My way is my happiness. And I'll go wherever I want. Perhaps to follow some bird if it's feathers have enough colours, perhaps to follow some boat if the open sea is great enough, some train if there are no tunnels. I'll go to follow my wishes and I know I'll be happy as long as my way is inside me.
( "My way", author Suzana Stojanovic, 08.11.2006. )