Happiness is around the mountines

Once, on the shore of a picturesque lake, there was a small house. This house seemed to be a bridge between two worlds – a world of peace and quiet, and a world of incomprehensible sadness. Inside the house lived a girl named Ariana. Millions of stars were reflected in her eyes, but inside her soul she felt emptiness. Her heart was filled with longing, like a boundless ocean on which she sailed, looking for freedom and happiness. She dreamed of unfathomable miracles and real happiness, but she constantly felt that it was slipping away like the wind in her palms. Ariana often went to the mountains, to the peaks, behind which, as the legends said, true happiness was hidden. With every step she took, she felt closer to him. She climbed steep slopes, overcame abysses and obstacles, ascended higher and higher. One day she got to the highest mountain from which she could see everything around. Dawn lit up the world, and Ariana saw the beauty of the earth stretching under her feet. Mountains and valleys, forests and rivers, everything was hidden under an atmosphere of peace and wisdom. But she never found happiness. With sadness in her eyes, she went back down to the house. She returned to her cozy room with books that told about happiness, about the mysterious expanses of the earth and the swift winds. But all these stories seemed to take her dreams even further, beyond the next horizon. As the years passed, Ariana tirelessly searched for her intangible goal. One day, when she went on a new journey to the ocean, she felt how every drop of salt water leaves a gentle touch of past times on her skin. The sun was sinking below the horizon, and she continued to wander along the coast, the smell of salt filled her every breathing cell. And so, on the highest hill, Ariana stopped and looked into the distance. Her heart stopped – there, beyond the horizon, she saw valleys and mountains whose beauty is incomparable. The happiness she felt at that moment filled her heart. And now she knew that it would always be beyond the mountains, far away, in fact, like any unknown.