Love is...

Something’s happen when you least expect it. You don’t think about it. It’s just sort of on the back of your mind in the bottom of your priorities. As you focus on the daily struggles of life you forget about it. But then out of nowhere you come across it. You look at it in the eye and it awakens you. Awakens your soul. You start to feel again. And you realize in that moment your infinite. That all that time you were a soulless being roaming earth with no emotion, no purpose. Your doubts, unsureness, insecurities, problems vanish suddenly and you know that after this meeting of 2 souls your life is complete.

In the Bronze horseman, Tatiana meet her soul mate in the most unexpected circumstances. When her world full of darkness and no hope brought her Alexander. He was not only her light but her hope for living. The uniting of 2 souls becoming one. That is what love is.

Love is to feel again. Love is to see the light. Love is to hope. Love is to never give up. Love is to love everything. But most importantly, “Love is, to be loved,” said Alexander, “in return.”

Favourite Quote: 

Tatiana: "Alexander, were you looking for me?"
Alexander: "All my life.”  

Following Your Dreams

“Follow your dreams.” 

Everyone has dreams and hopes. We all crave for the dream to come true, we strive for it, breath for it even. But that does not mean that dream is going to come true. Some people grow old without any of their dreams coming true; others obtain everything by falling in their palm of their hands.

I have dreams too. I have hopes too. I believe people should follow their dreams too. But the problem is I don’t know how. What happens when you cannot see light at the end of the tunnel? What happens when there is no path? Do you settle for something less?

The Alchemist opens you to the path of your dream. It allows you to see the light. It gives you a reason to hope, it gives you the choice to choose the path to your dreams.

Read. Believe. Follow your dreams. 

...a Great Perhaps

We are all looking. We are all waiting. We all need that "something".

When I look back on my past, I feel like I have not achieved anything. Not one single thing that I set up for myself when I was leaving High School. I was so focused on to achieve my goals and reach my desires, I wanted to so much, that at the end I'm still where I was 6 years ago. Looking and waiting for that something, that great perhaps.

We all want it. We all crave for it. We would die for it.

Love. The one thing that has the power to heal and hurt at the same time.  Love is the mutual feelings shared between two people. The uniting of two souls. When one side "loves" and the other does not that is called unconditional love. It is not the unity of souls rather the disengagement of your own soul from yourself. And that is what hurts a person most, because you lose your soul in the process.

All of the above were my own thoughts and feelings after reading "Looking for Alaska". I understood Miles (or Pudge). I knew how he felt. I could relate to feeling worthless, then worthwhile and then losing that feeling altogether, that at the end you feel nothing at all. I understood his regrets and him praying for forgiveness. When reading, I was Miles.

Hopefully one day someone look for me. Heal me. Make the future brighter then it is now. And that is what keeps me going, that little bit of hope inside....that little hope that Miles has throughout the book.

Favourite Quote: "Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it;s beautiful."

Letting Go...

Sometimes in life there are moments when you wish that you can delete a memory from your life forever. But you can’t. It is not a sad memory, opposite even. It’s usually those happy memories that bring you sadness. It’s the loss of happiness that makes you unhappy. You can’t turn back time and re-live that memory ever again, nor can you be happy ever again. People come, people go. But when memories are made they stay forever.

Sometimes very rarely life gives you a second chance.  A second chance at happiness. Do you take it? Or do you throw it away? If you take it, there is a great chance that you may lose that happiness once and for all. If the pain of the first memory was ruthless, then losing the second one would be worse. Love and happiness may fade but scars never do. But then there’s the chance at happiness again if you do take it. Do you risk the chance of forming greater scars with this acceptance at happiness? Or do you protect yourself from greater unhappiness by declining this second chance?

“By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept,” is just that. It is a book of love and second chances. It’s about forgiveness. It’s about scars and longing. It’s about loss and findings. Most importantly it is about healing.

Sometimes I wish I could throw away my memories and pain away, so I can finally forget. Forget pain. Forget sorrow. Forget tears.

We all look for love. We all have lost love. We all don’t believe in love anymore. With this book I realized true love means surrendering. Setting free of “the other” to find oneself. To love is to let go.

With one of the greatest ever opening paragraphs in a book I have ever read this book in one word is just beautiful.

“By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything falls into the waters of this river – leaves, insects, the feathers of bird – is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.”

Finding Oneself...

When I was in high school my favourite subject was English. Subtly, my favourite teacher was also my English teacher. Knowing I love reading, one day she gave me a book. “The main character in this book reminds me of you. You are a prideful, strong and most importantly honourable young lady. I know you will love it,” she said. 

This is my first post and I wanted to dedicate my first post to my teacher, Ms Ellen, who gave me the book and made me realise that being strong and kind comes from within. That innocence is the key to life. That family is the most imperative to oneself. All of which the main character, Griet, inhibits and what Ms Ellen must have seen within me to make her give me the book.

Sometimes a book comes into one’s life forever. You remember the first time you held that book, where you were when you were reading, what it made you feel and sometimes you even change after reading that book because it allows you to self-reflect and ponder on life. Girl with a Pearl Earring did just that. 

Based on one of Johannes Vermeer's wonderful work of art, Tracy Chevalier transcends the “Girl with a Pearl Earring” into a truly magical story. 

Favourite Quote:

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”