I am 43, and over the years I have learned for sure: Easter is not just about Easter eggs and Easter cakes. It is a time when you want to be closer to your family, share good things, and remember what is truly important in life.

One of the brightest, kindest and most heartfelt holidays is coming very soon - Easter. This is a day filled with special meaning, warmth, family traditions and a real spring miracle. Today I want to tell you what Easter symbolizes, how it is celebrated, and why this holiday is so important for millions of people around the world.

I once thought that my destiny was here, in Ukraine. That love would come by itself, in my city, among familiar faces. But the years went by, and the men around me either became tired, or withdrawn, or simply did not want the love that I believe in.

Easter is one of my favorite holidays.

It's not about perfect muscles or expensive perfume. It's about those little things that somehow turn on something inside - completely unobvious, but very feminine. Here are my personal weaknesses:

When I look at the pictures taken by me or for me, I catch myself thinking: a photo often says more than any letter, voicemail, or even a tete-a-tete conversation.

Sometimes I just sit and type words that I'm not ready to show anyone. This is not for a blog or social networks, this is for me. My notes store unfulfilled desires, untold stories, emotions that have not yet come to the surface.

Every day Easter is getting closer, and I have more and more warmth and expectation in my heart.

Soon Easter is one of the brightest and most heartwarming holidays.🤗❤️‍🩹

💛Have you ever held a frying pan in your hands and felt it looking at you with a challenge? Like: "Come on, show me what you can do." I felt it. Especially in those days when cooking seemed like some kind of higher mathematics to me: too many actions, strange ingredients, some modes, timings... easier to order a pizza, right?😥😥

Hello! 🌸 Yes, yes, I am talking to you right now, to that very man who, perhaps, has visited a dating site more than once, clicked on profiles, read a couple of lines in a profile... and still doubts. Is it worth it? Isn't it a waste of time?💋😏

There are things that men rarely talk about openly. Not because they do not feel it, but because it seems like there is nowhere, no one to talk to, and no need to — after all, "a man should cope on his own." This phrase, which is so often heard since childhood, becomes armor. And under the armor is a living, human heart that gets tired of being strong around the clock.

This year, I’m not celebrating Easter in a noisy city, surrounded by supermarkets, traffic, and busy social media feeds. I’ll celebrate it in a remote village, where the streets are paths winding between wooden houses, and the biggest news of the day is someone’s rooster crowed before everyone else. Everything is different here. Slower. Warmer. Cleaner.

Plans, plans, plans... We love making them. Some people buy a diary with beautiful quotes, some start an Excel spreadsheet, some even draw mind maps. And then life comes and says: — Oh, you've already planned out your year? Great. Now I'll... tweak everything a little.

Listen, let's be honest: young people may not know where they put their apartment keys, what a tax return is, or why they need to sleep on time, but they have two things that make them invincible - hope and enthusiasm.

Life, as you may have noticed, is not always a party with a buffet and good Wi-Fi. Sometimes it looks more like a TV series where the scriptwriter has clearly switched to black humor and coffee without sugar. But! It's not all that bad. After all, we have three magical saviors: laughter, sleep and hope. Without them, we would have long been sitting in the corner, talking to the vacuum cleaner.

Easter is not only a bright religious holiday, but also an amazing time filled with warmth, comfort and, most importantly, family togetherness. This is the time when the house is filled with the smells of baked goods, children's laughter, bright colors and... a little flour on the nose (well, how could it be without it? 😄).

Easter is not just about traditions. It is about the soul.

Love is a journey where you constantly discover each other anew.

It is choosing yourself - not selfishly, but truly, carefully.