About me

I am Madalina Chelmus and I was born in a small city in Romania. 

I am 30 years old and the answer is no. I am not having any existential crisis! (laughing) 

I lived for more than five years in Spain, then I moved to Germany, where I also lived for almost six years, and right now I am living in the beautiful Lisbon, an amazing place to be.

As you can see, I love to travel and meet new people. I am an extremely positive person, with a lot of energy and an incredible desire to discover new things, but also sometimes quite dreamy. This might be a good thing, but it can also be a negative one.

Knowing several languages help me a lot in interacting with people and, also in developing a relationship. It was also a plus to be able to move from one country to another and to find a job almost immediately. 

I was not scared of changing jobs, or at least I tried to deal with the changes in the best way possible. I strongly believe that experience is more worthy than a piece of paper.

You also need to experience different things until you find something that you enjoy doing. The things I missed during my childhood made me want to work as much as possible to have enough. But we do not live to work, we work to be able to enjoy life.

I decided to start writing this blog, first for myself and then for the others. To introspect my own life, my own experiences and, what I have learned so far and where is it that I can improve.

Second, for the people out there who can feel identified with my stories, my way of seeing life and, my thoughts. I started writing with the idea of creating a communication channel between me and the people who will read this so that people do not feel alone, there is always someone there who has gone through or is going through the same thing, and can always learn from the stories of other people, those we share or those we hear.

The important thing is not what you write, but what you feel when you are writing and the way you are writing.

The stories that I will be sharing here with you are crucial moments in my life which completely changed the way I am, the way I think. 

By sharing stories, you can bring people together, different people but with similar experiences.

Somewhere, somehow, from someone I heard: “They are not unique dreams, there are dreams we can share with others!”

If by reading my stories, my experiences, my reflections, gives you an impulse to change something, motivates you in some way, awakes a desire in you to change something, then it was worth writing it.

Even there is a possibility of being judged by some people, I will take that risk!

“…why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?” – Plato

     From Lisbon with love,

 Mada!

P.S And this is not the last stop . . .