"We don’t live in anything else but our poor, beautiful, magnificent feelings,and every one that we offend is a star that we put out. "
Hermann Hesse
“Love is not sighs on a bench, and not walks under the moon,” as the poet Stepan Schipachev believed, but as has long been scientifically proven, the biochemical affects of our body. When we want something, we produce the neurohormone dopamine, which pushes us to exploits and leads to achievements. And when we get what we want, another hormone is synthesized - serotonin, which gives us a sense of joy and satisfaction. The higher the release of neurohormones, the stronger our feelings.
Yes, for some, love is just a series of victories and defeats, someone turns beautiful feelings into a psychophysical addiction .... But we know that love is much more than any definition, and includes a huge amplitude of forms.
With the onset of spring, I again wanted to chat on this always relevant topic, and, paying tribute to the direction of our magazine, somehow try to connect high feelings with a country that opens up new opportunities for their experiences.
Last Friday, waking up from the sunshine, timidly looking through the thick curtains, I smiled and felt - a typical day off will be special today. Ahead was a romantic brunch in one of the most fabulously beautiful places in Dubai. Later, on the open terrace overlooking the sea, leisurely enjoying aromatic coffee with forbidden buns, to the tweets of local birds, I thought how wonderful and wonderful life is ... Somewhere else there are cold and raging snowstorms (the article was created in February), and here the sun shines so gently, people play golf, and we walk holding hands, admire yachts, splash water from decorative fountains and take pictures on the grass ...
Remember the “Hitch Method”: life is measured not by the number of breaths taken, but by the moments when breathtaking from happiness? This Friday was filled with such moments, because we "caught" them together all day.
Each, of course, has its “secret” places where the moments of happiness are most well caught, but I am most pleased: late breakfast at the Dubai Creek Golf & Yacht Club, the entire Park Hyatt Dubai hotel, at any time of the day, evening swimming in the pool Jebel Ali Resort, walks along the Al Qasba canal promenade in Sharjah and a promenade in the Jumeirah Beach Residence area, as well as sunrises and sunsets with champagne at Al Maha Resort.
Ways to please your partner, and thereby make him happy, are endless. You can, for example, dedicate verses to the chosen one, offer a hand and a heart, in the end, let him please you with a gift. As you know, the best gift, if not a book, then made by yourself. And it is not necessary to be a professional artist or a seamstress-minder for this. Everyone has their own quirks and ways of creative expression, but I liked the option of self-painting dishes in the Ceramic cafe (Mall of the Emirates). Firstly, the process itself delivers a sea of fun and positive, especially if you do it together (see paragraph 1). Secondly, you never know exactly what will happen in the end, and thirdly, this surprise will surely please its owner for a very long time ...
Well, flowers - to the girls, of course, no one canceled either. Only here is it also important to consider personal preferences. It is one thing to hand a basket of standard roses from Spinneys supermarket, another to cut her favorite snow-white tulips yourself ... even if not in the garden, but in the store, but only to one you know. And give it just like that, for no reason.
For readers, I’ll tell you a secret, I already found that shop with tulips - Gardens Center on the street. Sheikh Zayed Road. And for special occasions when you need bouquets collected by professionals, there are shops with an excellent selection of colors and accessories in the Mall of the Emirates and Deira City Center shopping centers.
Once I decided to learn how to dance tango. At Community Theater, in the Mall of the Emirates, they gave lessons. We were divided into pairs, placed facing each other and asked one of the partners in each pair to close their eyes. So we had to move in a circle, and those who were with their eyes closed - back forward. This exercise helps you learn how to feel the rhythm of a lead partner and how to “hear” which leg it starts with. Of course, I constantly peeped and turned back - it’s not so easy to rely on an outsider .... It turns out that not only an intimate, but also a deeply psychological dance is tango.
No jokes, but in life, not every couple in love or couple will pass this test. Which of us will be the leader, who will be the slave? Can you trust me? What about you? Eternal questions that you can try to solve with a bit of humor - on the dance floor. The main thing is to be prepared for the fact that today she will learn to trust you so that she goes back forward and with her eyes closed, and tomorrow she will come to visit without warning. And not for the sake of verification, as you might have thought, but simply because you sincerely believe in your love and genuine joy from each of your meetings.
Summarizing what has been said, I note that behind the vanity of everyday life, the instability of the financial situation and many other distracting and annoying factors, do not forget that there is a place for romantic relationships in life, although now is not the time of Shakespeare. And there are many places for romantic meetings and private conversations, even in such a large city as Dubai. You just need to carefully look and listen. And then the city, caressed by the skies and possessing such treasures as a magnificent mild and sunny climate, magnificent beaches and a warm sea, a myriad of cozy cafes, restaurants and clubs in the open air or with magnificent terraces, gardens and parks, will tell you what love is ... And even if you consider yourself to be the last romantic of the century that has come, for your loved one a long-awaited recognition or a seemingly fleeting sign of attention will tell you more about your feelings than you might think at first glance.
Spring, it's time to think about romance ...
