Page 10 - Revelation

Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

Svetlana Seryogina
independent of place, time or somebody's wish. From the earliest days of my
conscious existence our enormous old garden became the favourite place of my
everyday games. Until now I remember, in the minutest detail, the feeling of that
unique child's delight which I always experienced running out there on a sunny
summer morning! I submerged into that extremely familiar and at the same time so
mysterious and ever-changing world of smells, sounds and absolutely inimitable
senses; the world which regrettably grows and changes as we grow and change, and
later we have neither time nor strength to stop and listen to our soul.

We constantly speed along in a wild whirlpool of days and events, pursuing our
dream and trying to "achieve something in this life" at all cost. And gradually we
begin to forget (if we remembered it at all) how strikingly beautiful a blossoming
flower can be, how marvelous the forest smells after the rain or how sometimes
incredibly deep the silence can be and how our soul exhausted by the everyday race
needs just a simple rest.

Usually I woke up very early. Morning was my favourite part of the day (which,
regrettably, totally changed when I grew up). I adored hearing the way the still sleepy
earth woke up from the morning coolness; seeing how the first drops of dew sparkled
still hanging on tender floral petals and then fell down like little diamond stars at the
lightest puff of the breeze. I relished watching LIFE waking up to meet the new day.
This was truly MY world. I loved it and was absolutely sure that it would be with me
forever.
At that time we lived in the old two-story house surrounded by an enormous old
garden. Every day my mother went to work and my father mainly stayed at home or
was out for trips because he worked as a journalist in a local newspaper the name of
which I regrettably do not remember. Therefore almost all day I spent with my
grandpa and grandma, my father’s parents (as I knew later, his foster parents).

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