Ladies and horses

The dressage horse

When calls the Heart

“When calls the Heart” sounded, to me, like a pretty silly TV series title. When I first noticed it on Netflix, I expected to rapidly shift my attention to something else but decided to give it a try regardless.
I was surprised to see the TV series grow on me so quickly. Its whole story is centered around a small town, far away from the busy streets of overpopulated cities. The atmosphere of community reminded me how much cities miss this ingredient. The nowadays cities where you go on a bus not knowing a single person, where you don’t have to say hello, where one can get lost in the crowd of the main shopping streets, it all has, for me at least, a rather emptiness to it.
Sure the series of “When calls the Heart” might not be entirely realistic to those days, when life was very hard, but the main message of making a difference in someone else’s life, of helping each other, of being part of a community, is loud and clear and that is the essence for me.
This essence of being part of a community, of knowing you make a difference is what is important. And unfortunately I feel this essence has been greatly diluted in the big cities we live today. Where everyone is so independent, where people who are neighbors in apartment buildings don’t know each other, except maybe for the eavesdropping. Cities where showing off is a norm , showing new fashion, new car, new makeup, new tattoo, new anything that’s in style. A showoff that covers a need, a need to matter in a world so huge.
“When calls the Heart” takes away this feeling of insignificance for a moment, and opens a world where people matter to each other, where good deeds bring people closer and make a community stronger.

It’s series where characters and their lives can be interesting and entertaining without them referring to sex all the time.(And I’m making reference to the FRIENDS series here). I believe not having to make use of such topics, to entertain the viewer, is a big strength of “When calls the Heart”series.

Overwall it’s a great series and I would recommend my friends to watch it.

PS: Those ladies have some great dresses. See some styles here:

Dressing styles of the characters

Watch trailer here :
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Long time no see Ezio

I haven’t payed attention to this blog at all for a long time but that should change. I have no topic in mind yet so the post might seem chaotic and unrelated but for now lets start with a video game.

I am not a big gamer, more like a noob in the gaming world but there is one game that got me hooked, which is Assassin Creed.  It’s a pretty famous series and has a lot of fans. I even read about some cosplay group which makes costumes from the game, which seems like quite a hard but rewarding work.

My story with Assasin Creed series started from Ezio which is one of the main characters in the series. I started playing Ezio when he was travelling to Constantinople, the today’s Istanbul. I chose to start with this game instead of starting with the earlier series because of the location. I loved visiting Istanbul and I found it to be a beautiful city. The game did not disappoint  when it came to environment and city architecture. The old Constantinople of Ezio’s story was as full of history and oriental atmosphere as I wished it to be and Ezio’s climbing skills added an entire new perspective to the city.