Title: Meteora, Greece — Where Time Learned to Pause

Date: 30/12/2025

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High above the plains of central Greece, giant stone pillars rise like unfinished sentences. On top of them sit monasteries — quiet, weathered, stubbornly alive. This place is called Meteora.
It doesn’t shout history.
It lets history breathe.
Monks once climbed ropes and ladders here, carrying faith, food, and fear. They weren’t escaping the world; they were choosing distance from noise. Even today, silence feels heavier than sound.
From below, the rocks feel impossible.
From above, the world feels small.
Meteora reminds us that humans have always searched for higher ground — not to look down on others, but to hear themselves better.
Some places don’t ask to be photographed.
They ask to be felt.

Rajat Sarmah
Assam, India
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