The Romanian Country Side
Something I love so much about the country I live in is the country side in general. Quite often times i head to my old grandparent’s house. While my grandparents were still alive I have to say the place was vibrant with life, they were incredibly hardworking and the garden always had loads of vegetables, we have a grape vine to this day that we take care of and we produce wine from, we also had a lot of farm animals. My grandma worked until she passed to keep the garden rich and the animals fed. My favorite part about the country side when I was younger were the heaps of cats that collected around our house due to us feeding them and caring for them. The attic of the house is still always filled with new born kittens as it’s a warm shelter for them to gather. When I was young my parents wouldn’t let me own a pet, something that changed when my favorite, most loving cat passed away and my mom decided to buy me a kitten, and so being so in love with animals and cats overall I would be spending time outside, running around with my furry friends, feeding them and playing with them all the time. I remember I used to cry my eyes out whenever we would have to leave and I wouldn’t see my 13+ cats for a few months. I used to beg my grandma in tears to take good care of them and feed them well until the next time i came to see them. After my grandma passed away things didn’t feel the same since she was the main caretaker of the entire place. I have known two dogs in my life. The first one was a german shepherd who was so adorable and sweet, he was the most gentle dog i know but he was always kept at the entrance of the house, tied up, which is terrible for an animal and we tried to not make the same mistake with our second dog. The dog we currently have keeping the yard and house safe is a huge black dog who has also been tied up after our german shepherd died but soon enough after my grandpa passed as well we set him free to roam around the yard and spend time chasing after the cats that remain residents of both the house attic and the yard. He’s a very friendly dog tough he did hurt a few cats since being country animals they don’t play around when it comes to food but other than food they don’t have much to fight over and as muxh as I love my feline friends and i took care of the two kitties he hurt I could not blame the dog as he has spent so muxh of his life hungry and thirsty in a small enclosure chained up. I sometimes get bored being there all alone feeling like there isn’t muxh to do and feeling overwhelmed by the house as it gets quite dirty being an old big house and not having anyone living there anymore, but something that made my view change on how i felt about the place was going there with my friends. It was wonderful to spend so much time with them in a hige house just to ourselves, making our own food and basically living together. The place changes completely when you have the people you love around. I have always loved spending time with my significant others if i had them walking around the small river and laying in the grass, staring at the many stars that cover up the sky during the night and having endless discussions about the world under the old tree behind the house. The nature stretches out completely covering any sign of modernity and it’s truly wonderful waking up and drinking coffee while looking up at the most breathtaking sight of mountains rising in the horizon. The air is clean, and it’s always so quiet I always feel like I can think straight when I’m outside on the balcony at night listening to the silence overtake it all and looking for shooting stars in the sky, not to mention the beautiful sunsets that always peek through the clouds at noon.
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