Living and loving

Two essential elements of life. In the scientific community, you need life to love and love to live. It’s crazy. Life itself is crazy. Overwhelming. While figuring out what you truly want from life, love will pop up. Love will find its way to you. You never really prepare for love. But sort of prepare for life. Regardless of what life throws at us, we have a picture of the kind of lifestyle we want to live. We have an idea of the ideal person for us. The best of education, the perfect job. Yunno! We have all these pictures in our head. And one day, we met someone. This person fits every idea of the ideal person we want. The better half we crave. It’s just insane. This person comes and your whole world changes. You finally meet your human diary. Your best part!.

And it all begins…. The butterflies in your stomach. The thrill. The excitement. The contentment.The joy. Everything changes.

A part of you suddenly feels complete and alive. Love is exciting or maybe it’s just the feeling of knowing that you have something and someone to look forward to. Someone to lean on. Everything again just changes. I have felt like this and at different points, the same feeling seems different. It’s a bit too complex to explain but I’m pretty sure everyone gets it. You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be kind.

You never know where the results for all these characters will come; sometimes, the lemons life throws at truly meant for lemonades. Except sometimes, it can be false. But just like the popular saying; “you reap what you sow”. Yes. That’s right. That’s true and that’s very correct.

Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.

Don't just learn, experience.

Don't just read, absorb.

Don't just change, transform.

Don't just relate, advocate.

Don't just promise, prove.

Don't just criticize, encourage.

Don't just think, ponder.

Don't just take, give.

Don't just see, feel.

Don’t just dream, do.

Don't just hear, listen.

Don't just talk, act.

Don't just tell, show.

Don't just exist, live.

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.

Getting too intentional about this conversation. It was meant to be just a write up, tried to make as fictional as possible but it’s hard because it’s real. This feeling is real. However, I’ll leave my readers with this great quote that has helped me understand and navigate this life better. I hope it helps you too.

“Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away”

Thank you and see you next time.

Xx:imet