I said ...”It’s ok! I just want to see that Maria gets the best help we can provide us” ... cause she was a single mother ... with 3 small kids.
We had to help her unconditionally.
In the end ... we succeed to take Maria to a train to Vienna ... and all of us were happy cause we succeeded to guide her ... maybe to a better future. When i arrive home am hearing my wife:
“Who is that girl?!
She was so nice to Maria.
Bought things for the girls and also gave them money before the train left.
Am glad you found her ... to help” I was shocked.
She did not know who was in fact ... Melinda.
I smile and say ... “That was Melinda”
“You mean that Melinda??!”
“Yes ... that Melinda. Melinda is a soul and she proved it
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
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ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
today”
Annoyed my wife could not believe what i did to her: “So i stayed the whole day in her company, not really knowing who she is.
But ... yes indeed ... the bitch has a soul ... even a great one.”
I was laughing behind my wife’s back ... but i was laughing cause i saw how the Universe arranged the things so that my wife can re evaluate what she named a “bitch” ... but was in fact a soul ... a great one.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
68
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Truth be told we don’t know anything about unconditional help ...
neither when we need to help, but also when we need to be helped
I went again to the railroad station to see if i can help the ukrainian refugees.
This time i was with my wife and children.
First and second time when i was ... people looked weird at me ... not understanding why i want to come and help. Most refugees are ladies with their children ... and maybe is strange as a single man to come and say that will help them. There were even 2 ladies from Police taking my id and interrogating me ... why i do that?!
I just wanted to help ... but they could not believe me. Today ... i go ... and we say one more time that we want to help people coming from Ukraine.
Explain them that we have 5 single beds and the lady from there said : “Perfect! I have 4 persons for you! Let me find a translator and i come back!”.
She comes with a lady of about 50, but also with her son of 15 and her daughter of 24.
A guy of about 65, which was their driver was also with them.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
69
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
We show them pictures with the location ... and the first question is ... “How much does it costs?!” I could not believe it.
I had zero credibility in front of those persons which i wanted to help.
But we continue explaining that is for free and we just want to help them.
.... and nothing more.
In the end ... they decide to come with us.
They follow our car and arrive at the location.
The food was ready ... and someone else also brought them pizza.
I present the place ... and i see them relaxed now. They could not believe we help them for ... free ... and i realize that we don’t know almost anything about helping or being helped ... especially in an unconditional way.
You might hear lots of things about ukrainians and romanians ... but we’ve never been friends before.
We are neighbors and i even dare to say that we even disliked a little bit before the war. But guess what?!
The Universe arranged the things to become friends ... but it will still take a while till we will realize that we can count one on another.
And i continue smiling ... while meditating if i really know what “unconditional” means.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
70
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Life goes on ... no matter what is going on
Christine called to ask me to take 2 ukrainian girls refugees from the railroad station to the hotel, but i was too busy .... so i called my friend John to come and replace me.
John is the CEO of an american corporation from Bucharest, but is the kind of person that would do anything to help ... especially the ladies.
He goes to pick them up and i receive a whatsapp message right away ... “My God! You have no idea how beautiful those girls are.
Thank you my friend”.
Ivanna and Anna goes at the car and instead of taking them right to the hotel, John decides to take them to a city tour. And i am sure that an american can present Bucharest in a much better way ... that i could do as romanian.
Being so friendly ... John connects right away to the 2 beautiful ukrainian young ladies.
But he is totally surprised seeing them smiling, asking question about the city, then about America ... and then one of the just asked:
“Listen John! We will stay in Bucharest for one more week and we need to take care of our hair and nails. Can you make us the arrangements for that?!
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ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
It’s quite important for us.”
John smiles and ... promise he will take care of everything ...
and then takes them to the hotel and leaves.
He calls me and says: “I loved to make Bucharest City Tour for those 2 young ladies ... but they did not told me anything about bombs or ... the war.
Is just like they had no idea about what was going on ... and all they were interested in was to take care of they hair and nails ... which is a little bit ridiculous ... i believe.”
“Well John ... what we don’t understand is that life goes on ... no matter what is happening.
Sometimes we can’t reset our thinking, not even in dramatic
situations ... but at the right time we will see the message
the Universe is sending to us.
We must not judge anyone.
Somehow we need to help those people from Ukraine ...
unconditionally.
There will be the whole spectrum of people coming to Romania .... and all we will need to do is just help and guide them on this journey to a new life.
Maybe something karmic is happening in there ... but as you see those 2 girls don’t care about the war ... but about their future in Lisbon.
Or maybe they read lots of books about motivation and know how to focus on the positive, not on the negative side of the story.
You see ... we should learn from them and understand that life goes on ... no matter what is going on.”
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
72
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
There are times when understanding the other
side is better than ... defining them
I believe a lot in the concept of analyzing, defining and then
redefine whatever we don’t like in life ... but i also believe
that sometimes we must simple accept reality ... just as it is.
I mean ... everything is happening on the scene of life is
happening with the knowledge of the Supreme
Intelligence ... which theoretically means ... that there is an
important reason why the things are happening the way they
do happen.
Being involved in helping the ukrainian refugees that are coming from Odesa to Bucharest ... i was surprised to see lots of people around me defining them in one million ways . I heard the romanians admiring them that they are optimistic
.... but i also saw too many judging the ukrainians that they
are just ... continuing their lives .... in the way they were
used to live in Ukraine.
And ... one morning a lady that came to the place that we arranged for the refugees ... calls and ask for a ... hair dryer. A very simple request ... but my wife, which is usually pleasant with them ... suddenly became annoyed.
“What the hell is going on?! Do they believe they stay in a 5 stars hotel?!
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
73
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
We try to help them ... but i believe they just over react” I was smiling.
“How much does it costs a hair dryer?!” .. i’ve asked.
“We just need to help them in a unconditional way .... and
don’t judge any of them”.
I was smiling ... cause i realized that the lives of those people were changed by force ... by the Universe. They were not ready for this overnight change with the war ... and we were not really ready to help them ... in an unconditional way.
In the end ... i just asked my wife to buy a hair drying, which by the way ... was ridiculous cheap ... and satisfied that lady that needed it.
It was all ... a lesson.
For both sides.
The lesson of a change that looks ... dramatic for ukrainians ... and the one of understanding how we should help those people ... without judging, defining and expecting something in return.
It was ridiculous for me seeing that a ... hair dryer ... which is a very simple request for someone used with some normal standards of life ... to stop the relationship that we have with the hosted ukrainians.
As i see today ... both sides are still acting in a silly way ... but maybe a time is needed for ... accommodation ... and also to understand how we should better act on the stage of life.
The refugees need help ... and if a simple hair dryer can cut the connection we have with them ... we just prove that we
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
74
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
act as ... idiots.
It’s a perfect time to guide ourselves ... to the a much higher spiritual level.
Maybe ... infinite love and understanding is the best path that we should have ... in our minds.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
75
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
And the question is ... when it
comes about the ukrainian refugees .... should we also help the rich people
... or just ignore them?!
Well ... the philosophical question that i have in my mind is actually ... is it a sin to be rich?!
Or maybe ... practicing the opulence, just because that person is rich ... is the real sin we need to avoid in life?! Well ... we all know that a person having a white or black skin, intelligent or stupid .... poor or rich etc etc ... is still a soul.
About a year ago ... i had a fire at one of my houses that had been rented to someone.
The firemen came right away .... but they acted so silly that i
thought the whole complex of 15 houses which was there ....
will burn.
When everything ended ... because i told them that they are the most stupidest firemen from the world .... their colonel
asked me .... “ Do you expect me to be empathic with you?!
You own lots of houses.
I simple don’t care about you.”
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
76
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Well ... i felt ... really disappointed hearing how a fireman is thinking seeing how the house of a real estate investor is ... burning.
And ... i tell you the truth.
I simple hated him ... but at least i could define the guy as a honest person ... cause he actually told me what he really thought.
Later on only 1-2 people asked me if i need something to help me fixing the damage done by the fire.
I saw ... no compassion around me and i really felt disappointed.
I did not really needed anything at all .... but i felt so
annoyed and disappointed to see .... no support around me.
In the end ... i just smiled ... understanding that i’ve been defined as a wealthy person, owning lots of things ... so why should they bother with my problem, cause i could solve all my problems ... alone.
Yesterday ... i saw a movie with a romanian guy that went to the ukrainian-romanian border .... to help a little bit the refugees.
He came with water, juices, sandwiches ... everything he could buy from his money ... just to help.
But once arrived at the border became totally annoyed of what was going on.
He suddenly saw all types of Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti and even ... Rolls-Royce.
And the guy was explaining with a huge indignation .... that
he could not believe what he saw.
“Where are the poor families that they show us on tv?!
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
77
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Where are the kids crying?!
Well ... all i can see at the border with Ukraine are the most expensive cars from the world. It’s like an international car show.
Nothing to do with ... people that need help.
The value of those cars is at least ... 3 billion dollars.
Don’t watch tv anymore!
It’s all a lie”
I smiled.
The guy was really annoyed that he did not see any Opel or Skoda ... which are used a lot by ordinary people from Europe ... and was asking all the romanians why we should bother to help the ukrainians.
I realized it’s all an episode similar with the one i had one year ago when i had the fire at my residential complex. This guy was judging all those people that were running away by bombs.
So ... all the ukrainians are rich people?!
But ... should we ignore all those rich people ... running away by the war?!
Should we judge all the men that left Ukraine in very expensive cars by offering bribe to the ukrainian army from the border ... just to let them out of the country?!
Well ... i read over the years lots of spiritual books ... and i finally understand what Sadhguru, Dalai Lama, Pope Francis and many, many others said ... about unconditional help ... without judging that person ... not even for a second.
And i laugh one more time, cause i also hosted Ivanna ...
that was a rich lady from Odesa ... which explained me that
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
78
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
she wants to go in a place where she will not see the other refugees .
I totally understand the indignation of my compatriot ... that saw the cars with a total value of 3 billion dollars ... but at least once in a life time ... we should stop judging people. Being rich ... is not a sin.
And yes ... i agree that opulence is an ugly sin ... but in the actual circumstances .... we should see the message behind the message.
I do own a very ugly car ... and old Skoda.
I also own a limousine.
And i also own a beautiful Mercedes from 1977. But i also used my money for buying train tickets to Vienna ... for people coming from Ukraine that ... i did not know who they are.
I don’t bother to judge them, cause all of them should be helped in the actual circumstances ... no matter who they are.
Giving advices to the romanians and also to the other nations
... that we should pay attention at who we help ... is just ridiculous.
Maybe is the right time as the Pope or Dalai Lama to come to Bucharest and teach the romanians what means unconditional help ... or infinite love.
Cause you see ... first of all a refugee ... rich or poor ... is ...
a soul.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
79
We had to help her unconditionally.
In the end ... we succeed to take Maria to a train to Vienna ... and all of us were happy cause we succeeded to guide her ... maybe to a better future. When i arrive home am hearing my wife:
“Who is that girl?!
She was so nice to Maria.
Bought things for the girls and also gave them money before the train left.
Am glad you found her ... to help” I was shocked.
She did not know who was in fact ... Melinda.
I smile and say ... “That was Melinda”
“You mean that Melinda??!”
“Yes ... that Melinda. Melinda is a soul and she proved it
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
67
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
today”
Annoyed my wife could not believe what i did to her: “So i stayed the whole day in her company, not really knowing who she is.
But ... yes indeed ... the bitch has a soul ... even a great one.”
I was laughing behind my wife’s back ... but i was laughing cause i saw how the Universe arranged the things so that my wife can re evaluate what she named a “bitch” ... but was in fact a soul ... a great one.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
68
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Truth be told we don’t know anything about unconditional help ...
neither when we need to help, but also when we need to be helped
I went again to the railroad station to see if i can help the ukrainian refugees.
This time i was with my wife and children.
First and second time when i was ... people looked weird at me ... not understanding why i want to come and help. Most refugees are ladies with their children ... and maybe is strange as a single man to come and say that will help them. There were even 2 ladies from Police taking my id and interrogating me ... why i do that?!
I just wanted to help ... but they could not believe me. Today ... i go ... and we say one more time that we want to help people coming from Ukraine.
Explain them that we have 5 single beds and the lady from there said : “Perfect! I have 4 persons for you! Let me find a translator and i come back!”.
She comes with a lady of about 50, but also with her son of 15 and her daughter of 24.
A guy of about 65, which was their driver was also with them.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
69
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
We show them pictures with the location ... and the first question is ... “How much does it costs?!” I could not believe it.
I had zero credibility in front of those persons which i wanted to help.
But we continue explaining that is for free and we just want to help them.
.... and nothing more.
In the end ... they decide to come with us.
They follow our car and arrive at the location.
The food was ready ... and someone else also brought them pizza.
I present the place ... and i see them relaxed now. They could not believe we help them for ... free ... and i realize that we don’t know almost anything about helping or being helped ... especially in an unconditional way.
You might hear lots of things about ukrainians and romanians ... but we’ve never been friends before.
We are neighbors and i even dare to say that we even disliked a little bit before the war. But guess what?!
The Universe arranged the things to become friends ... but it will still take a while till we will realize that we can count one on another.
And i continue smiling ... while meditating if i really know what “unconditional” means.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
70
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Life goes on ... no matter what is going on
Christine called to ask me to take 2 ukrainian girls refugees from the railroad station to the hotel, but i was too busy .... so i called my friend John to come and replace me.
John is the CEO of an american corporation from Bucharest, but is the kind of person that would do anything to help ... especially the ladies.
He goes to pick them up and i receive a whatsapp message right away ... “My God! You have no idea how beautiful those girls are.
Thank you my friend”.
Ivanna and Anna goes at the car and instead of taking them right to the hotel, John decides to take them to a city tour. And i am sure that an american can present Bucharest in a much better way ... that i could do as romanian.
Being so friendly ... John connects right away to the 2 beautiful ukrainian young ladies.
But he is totally surprised seeing them smiling, asking question about the city, then about America ... and then one of the just asked:
“Listen John! We will stay in Bucharest for one more week and we need to take care of our hair and nails. Can you make us the arrangements for that?!
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
71
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
It’s quite important for us.”
John smiles and ... promise he will take care of everything ...
and then takes them to the hotel and leaves.
He calls me and says: “I loved to make Bucharest City Tour for those 2 young ladies ... but they did not told me anything about bombs or ... the war.
Is just like they had no idea about what was going on ... and all they were interested in was to take care of they hair and nails ... which is a little bit ridiculous ... i believe.”
“Well John ... what we don’t understand is that life goes on ... no matter what is happening.
Sometimes we can’t reset our thinking, not even in dramatic
situations ... but at the right time we will see the message
the Universe is sending to us.
We must not judge anyone.
Somehow we need to help those people from Ukraine ...
unconditionally.
There will be the whole spectrum of people coming to Romania .... and all we will need to do is just help and guide them on this journey to a new life.
Maybe something karmic is happening in there ... but as you see those 2 girls don’t care about the war ... but about their future in Lisbon.
Or maybe they read lots of books about motivation and know how to focus on the positive, not on the negative side of the story.
You see ... we should learn from them and understand that life goes on ... no matter what is going on.”
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
72
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
There are times when understanding the other
side is better than ... defining them
I believe a lot in the concept of analyzing, defining and then
redefine whatever we don’t like in life ... but i also believe
that sometimes we must simple accept reality ... just as it is.
I mean ... everything is happening on the scene of life is
happening with the knowledge of the Supreme
Intelligence ... which theoretically means ... that there is an
important reason why the things are happening the way they
do happen.
Being involved in helping the ukrainian refugees that are coming from Odesa to Bucharest ... i was surprised to see lots of people around me defining them in one million ways . I heard the romanians admiring them that they are optimistic
.... but i also saw too many judging the ukrainians that they
are just ... continuing their lives .... in the way they were
used to live in Ukraine.
And ... one morning a lady that came to the place that we arranged for the refugees ... calls and ask for a ... hair dryer. A very simple request ... but my wife, which is usually pleasant with them ... suddenly became annoyed.
“What the hell is going on?! Do they believe they stay in a 5 stars hotel?!
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
73
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
We try to help them ... but i believe they just over react” I was smiling.
“How much does it costs a hair dryer?!” .. i’ve asked.
“We just need to help them in a unconditional way .... and
don’t judge any of them”.
I was smiling ... cause i realized that the lives of those people were changed by force ... by the Universe. They were not ready for this overnight change with the war ... and we were not really ready to help them ... in an unconditional way.
In the end ... i just asked my wife to buy a hair drying, which by the way ... was ridiculous cheap ... and satisfied that lady that needed it.
It was all ... a lesson.
For both sides.
The lesson of a change that looks ... dramatic for ukrainians ... and the one of understanding how we should help those people ... without judging, defining and expecting something in return.
It was ridiculous for me seeing that a ... hair dryer ... which is a very simple request for someone used with some normal standards of life ... to stop the relationship that we have with the hosted ukrainians.
As i see today ... both sides are still acting in a silly way ... but maybe a time is needed for ... accommodation ... and also to understand how we should better act on the stage of life.
The refugees need help ... and if a simple hair dryer can cut the connection we have with them ... we just prove that we
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
74
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
act as ... idiots.
It’s a perfect time to guide ourselves ... to the a much higher spiritual level.
Maybe ... infinite love and understanding is the best path that we should have ... in our minds.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
75
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
And the question is ... when it
comes about the ukrainian refugees .... should we also help the rich people
... or just ignore them?!
Well ... the philosophical question that i have in my mind is actually ... is it a sin to be rich?!
Or maybe ... practicing the opulence, just because that person is rich ... is the real sin we need to avoid in life?! Well ... we all know that a person having a white or black skin, intelligent or stupid .... poor or rich etc etc ... is still a soul.
About a year ago ... i had a fire at one of my houses that had been rented to someone.
The firemen came right away .... but they acted so silly that i
thought the whole complex of 15 houses which was there ....
will burn.
When everything ended ... because i told them that they are the most stupidest firemen from the world .... their colonel
asked me .... “ Do you expect me to be empathic with you?!
You own lots of houses.
I simple don’t care about you.”
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
76
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Well ... i felt ... really disappointed hearing how a fireman is thinking seeing how the house of a real estate investor is ... burning.
And ... i tell you the truth.
I simple hated him ... but at least i could define the guy as a honest person ... cause he actually told me what he really thought.
Later on only 1-2 people asked me if i need something to help me fixing the damage done by the fire.
I saw ... no compassion around me and i really felt disappointed.
I did not really needed anything at all .... but i felt so
annoyed and disappointed to see .... no support around me.
In the end ... i just smiled ... understanding that i’ve been defined as a wealthy person, owning lots of things ... so why should they bother with my problem, cause i could solve all my problems ... alone.
Yesterday ... i saw a movie with a romanian guy that went to the ukrainian-romanian border .... to help a little bit the refugees.
He came with water, juices, sandwiches ... everything he could buy from his money ... just to help.
But once arrived at the border became totally annoyed of what was going on.
He suddenly saw all types of Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Bentley, Bugatti and even ... Rolls-Royce.
And the guy was explaining with a huge indignation .... that
he could not believe what he saw.
“Where are the poor families that they show us on tv?!
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
77
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
Where are the kids crying?!
Well ... all i can see at the border with Ukraine are the most expensive cars from the world. It’s like an international car show.
Nothing to do with ... people that need help.
The value of those cars is at least ... 3 billion dollars.
Don’t watch tv anymore!
It’s all a lie”
I smiled.
The guy was really annoyed that he did not see any Opel or Skoda ... which are used a lot by ordinary people from Europe ... and was asking all the romanians why we should bother to help the ukrainians.
I realized it’s all an episode similar with the one i had one year ago when i had the fire at my residential complex. This guy was judging all those people that were running away by bombs.
So ... all the ukrainians are rich people?!
But ... should we ignore all those rich people ... running away by the war?!
Should we judge all the men that left Ukraine in very expensive cars by offering bribe to the ukrainian army from the border ... just to let them out of the country?!
Well ... i read over the years lots of spiritual books ... and i finally understand what Sadhguru, Dalai Lama, Pope Francis and many, many others said ... about unconditional help ... without judging that person ... not even for a second.
And i laugh one more time, cause i also hosted Ivanna ...
that was a rich lady from Odesa ... which explained me that
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
78
ONE DAY … ONE SOUL
… destroying and rebuilding ourselves
she wants to go in a place where she will not see the other refugees .
I totally understand the indignation of my compatriot ... that saw the cars with a total value of 3 billion dollars ... but at least once in a life time ... we should stop judging people. Being rich ... is not a sin.
And yes ... i agree that opulence is an ugly sin ... but in the actual circumstances .... we should see the message behind the message.
I do own a very ugly car ... and old Skoda.
I also own a limousine.
And i also own a beautiful Mercedes from 1977. But i also used my money for buying train tickets to Vienna ... for people coming from Ukraine that ... i did not know who they are.
I don’t bother to judge them, cause all of them should be helped in the actual circumstances ... no matter who they are.
Giving advices to the romanians and also to the other nations
... that we should pay attention at who we help ... is just ridiculous.
Maybe is the right time as the Pope or Dalai Lama to come to Bucharest and teach the romanians what means unconditional help ... or infinite love.
Cause you see ... first of all a refugee ... rich or poor ... is ...
a soul.
Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
79
