Santorini is a vibe

Sonny boy matches with the vibe

Santorini is a vibe.

It is white crusty cave hotels along a slope with gleaming pools and jacuzzis and blue tipped churches. It is a sea which captures the skies in its depth and in turn throws out magical shades of cerulean and azure.

Santorini is, of course, it’s hype and commerce; its alleys, cobble-stoned and winding, are adorned with views of the most breathtaking kind as also quaint pretty shops selling oddities which make you fall in love with the useless.

But that is what beauty is infamous for. For a lot of people. Why do I pay good money for mere beauty? What is practical about things which look good - and add to apparently nothing? Why travel miles to just see, in person, what I’ve seen a million times in magazines and movies?

I can only talk about the serenity I get whilst sipping tea and watching white yachts cut across the caldera; I can only mention the gratitude I feel in my heart for watching the impossibly gorgeous sunsets whilst standing in a pre-medieval fortress and finding tears find their way down my face.

As Jason Silva said “Beauty is an altered state of consciousness, beauty is an extraordinary moment of poetry and grace - beauty cracks us open. And as Leonard Cohen said - it is through our cracks that light gets in.”

The cognitive resonance of beauty is life-changing.

I know I am being swirled in the commercialisation of aesthetics in Santorini. But I pay for it, I pray for it, I let it be. For I go back thinking well of life, myself and the universe.

If that’s not good payback, what possibly is?

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This gorgeous poem to end with!

Poet: Linda Pastan

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