Pandemics, like the current one, with coronavirus (COVID-19), can be scary and can affect us emotionally. That is why it is crucial to stay informed, but there are other things we can do to maintain our well-being during such periods.

Here are some tips to help you, your family and friends, take care of mental health at a time when there is much discussion about potential risks to physical health.

Keeping a virus under control, especially one as contagious as the new coronavirus (SARS-COV2), is a rather complicated process, which is based on knowing how the virus is transmitted. Essential measures should be taken to limit the spread of the virus, such as social distancing and healthy habits regarding hand hygiene.

According to WHO (World Health Organization) representatives, the new coronavirus is transmitted from one person to another through:
· Direct contact with a sick person
· Spread of infected respiratory microparticles into the air when a person with COVID-19 infection sneezes or coughs
· Touching the contaminated surfaces and then touching the mouth, nose, and eyes

I had a wonderful childhood, to be honest during the communist period in Romania. I do not remember, as a child, to have received Easter presents. I do not know if the Easter Bunny came to the country after 1990, or we imported this custom together with other international holidays, just like Valentine's Day. So, somewhat constrained by their surroundings rather by conviction - my parents decided that I should also receive something; if the whole group from kindergarten received something from the Easter Bunny, in the end, Easter just like Christmas is all about forgiveness, generosity and, voila, many gifts.

February is the month when love is literally in the air! Balloons, strawberries with chocolate, little heart shape, roses, everything is red and lovely. Not even the cold outside can stop us from taking long romantic walks.

I think the problem of New Year's resolution ideas and the fact we don't get to stick to them is this – we don't set up our resolutions early enough. I know everyone is different, and you won't need to have the same 2020 goals as your neighbor, but I still think that doing it early enough will give you enough time to properly think about and pick the realistic ones and stick till the end with your choices.

In almost every journey I took I forgot certain tips that I wrote here, on this blog, for you guys. So dear readers, if you see me doing otherwise than what I have advised you to do, please don’t get mad at me! After all, we’re all human! Stick to what I am trying to teach you and you should all be good!

Sometimes I stop and simply reflect on how much we have evolved along the line. It was a long and dark winter night when Vlad and I sat together and decided that I need a blog to write down what I experience through photography, and that requires far more than just a caption of an Instagram post. I had so much more to say and that was just the perfect way to do it. I remember how we used to watch tutorials and we how were getting annoyed because of not being able to figure out how to justify the text.

In order to avoid that weird situation when people start asking too many personal questions, I simply decided to share most of my personal life here. This way, nobody will start thinking that I have God knows what super governmental secrets. So here we go :