Happy always looks good on us!

You pack your thoughts in boxes only to unpack them after a few moments, repeat everything countless times and in the end, you don't even get to them? Mamma mia, is this a sort of cloudy mind?

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Breathe and continue. That is no problem; a small collection of quotes from others can shed some light on this. You see, this is not "my" personal collection. I don't own these words, walls, benches, or cups, so it could be considered a fake collection, right? We will blame that foggy mind, turn a blind eye and jump into the world of these little moments and quotes that have been piling up in my phone for the past few months. I will not mute myself. _{I guess.} 😂

Strange... the day I finally made a decision I had been putting off until I was ready, we went out to eat with a friend. The coffee came with two packets of sugar. Coincidence, perhaps.

Si la vida no te sonríe ¡hazle cosquillas! - If life doesn't smile at you, tickle it.

Solo si te atreves a tener grandes fracasos, terminarás consiguiendo grandes éxitos. - Only if you dare to have great failures, you will end up achieving great successes.

So what do you do when you only see zeros in front of you?

They are just one step away from the highest single-digit number anyway... At least, it looks like that in this photo of our new suitcase; or is it just an illusion?

Speaking about illusions... here is the next one.

Petrer, la ilusión siempre vuelve. The illusion (here this could translate as excitement) always returns.

Piano keys? 😍

Peculiar flowers grow in the same park (in Petrer) where I saw the piano keys bench. They have some messages for us.

Cuídame y te daré color. - Take care of me and I will give you colour.

A cocktail can make you imagine things that are not real.

No estoy mayor. Soy vintage. - I am not old. I am vintage.

As why someone would write on their walls these words? I was puzzled! S.O.S.? Interpol? 🤐

Let's run from here, not to lose our real selves although we can sometimes feel like this. Wondering what was happening with the one who wrote it..? I found it (just the writing, not the person who lost her/his real self) in the city of Teruel.

However, in Altea, two people go against the world.

Tú y yo contra el mundo. - You and me against the world.

Inside the hunting blind seen in this post, a wider collection of quotes and messages can be found. Here I bring some. Spanish speakers have an advantage here because everything was written in Spanish.

Piensa como un adulto, vive como alguien joven, aconseja como un anciano y nunca dejes de soñar como un niño. - Think like an adult, live like a young person, give advice like an elder and never stop dreaming like a child.

Nuevamente vuelvo a encontrarme
en donde me perdí,
una luz en el camino es lo que necesito para alumbrar mi vida.

Once again I find myself
where I lost myself,
a light on the path is what I need to illuminate my life.

Strange world we live in... people get lost but it's good that they find themselves again in the end. 😀

The city of Santa Pola gave me this message:

Tengo más cenizas en mi corazón que en el cenicero. - I have more ashes in my heart than in the ashtray.

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On my way to the grocery, I see this message. Ok, when in the grocery I have to look for the banknotes 😂 but back on the street I see the light. 🌞

The final "item" that should finish this collection-not-collection is definitely this cute box with a nice message: Happy always looks good on us! 🌼