“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
Thank you for bringing my inspiration. Grateful.
“So here’s to all those summer nights when my feet hit the sand and the waves break my fall and all my friends around me out number the stars.”
Too being invincible.
Too moving with the music.
T0o staying out late and long nights.
Too letting everything else slip away,
so you can be completely engulfed in the moment.
To0 friends, new and old.
Too feeling younger then you really are.
Too laughter...
the sweetest of sweet sounds.
"In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.”
The Lucky One
"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."
It's a far distance from the person that I used to be,
but yet similarities arise on a constant rotation.
The process of becoming a better version of self,
well how does that happen really?
A cycle of death , rebirth, adjustment,
Taking the waves and the storms that batter the sandy shore,
but renewed hope with the morning sunset.
Understanding that senseless tragedies.
Understanding the darkness of a cruel sadness.
Understanding the unjust stealing of an innocence.
Understanding untimely departures.
Understanding the proverbial battle of the human condition.
Why do we hate and belittle others, struggling to come into themselves as we are?
Why do we excuse behaviors of some individuals and not of others?
Why do we turn our heads away from those who need our help?
Why do we turn away from ourselves, becoming our own biggest enemy?
Why do we battle our weaknesses and embrace our insecurities?
Why do we live in a small zone of comfort, encased in a fictional bubble?
Why do we not tell the people we love, how much they mean to us?
Why do we hate people for who they chose to love, and keep them from their happiness?
What is the most important is self reflection...
let us gaze upon own lives and make adjustments in the way we live.
The choices we are making that are making unhappiness.
The behaviors that perpetuate insecurity and hopelessness.
Let' us learn to love ourselves and take a stand to guard and protect an individuality.
Let us then learn to love others with the same integrity and honorable nature we love ourselves.
Stop expending energy on hate and fighting to break down the hope of others.
This is simply distracting you from becoming a better version of yourself.
In the face of senseless tragedies that occur every day, unexpectedly,
take a moment and appreciate everything you have,
appreciate everyone you have in your life.
Don't take it foregranted.
It could be gone in seconds....
The balance is to learn to find connections with others.
Do a random act of kindness, expect nothing in return.
Laugh and celebrate strangers triumphs, sympathize and mourn with strangers tragedies.
But let you be only responsible for your own actions.
Anyways,
a surprising but very welcoming spring of inspiration,
stemming from love.
Always beginning with love,
which creates the desire to maintain
as a bold, honest, enduring individual.
Becoming reacquainted with a self that has experienced
heartbreak, transformation, exploration...
I'm forever grateful to my yesterday self for enduring the trials of life,
and teaching my tomorrow self how to live life better.
Breath it in deeper, taking risks, gathering hope, pressing past fear, battling sadness,
and loving harder.
I want to look into your eyes years from now,
remember the way the music sounded, the way we danced and laughed,
the way we were when we knew we were invincible.
The hope we shared in youth,
the resilience of warriors...
I want to have that forever,
and remember the summer nights,
the fireworks lighting up the night sky,
the sunsets on the beach,
the way the moon looked behind the clouds.
Knowing that I had the support of an army behind me,
and through the stretch of endless possibilities ,
that i would be okay.