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'On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

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I came across this link while I was reading through one of the posts my friend wrote and I found this article to be particularly relevant. :)

Leave yourself alone for a minute. Lie down on your bed or couch or patch of grass or whatever and stretch your arms out as far as they can go. Reach out with your fingers, palms down, and absorb the underlying solidity of your surface. Feel your cells settle and feel still and grounded. Don’t move until you’re ready.  

Take the time to notice things. Take the time to really look at things. Develop a relationship with the things in your periphery and consider where you are in relation to them.

Listen to music that gets you, songs that seem to have been written specifically for you. Read books that have the capacity to do more for your well-being than multivitamins or therapy.Don’t think about the fact that it’s just a happy accident that a certain song relates directly to your life, or a certain book seems like it was written by your omnipresent best friend. Listen to it, read it, let your heart fill with it and feel immersed and safe.

Listen to someone else. Just sit there and let them talk it out. Absorb their words and consider them, really think them through. Make the conscious effort to understand another human being. It’s harder than it sounds but it will change you.

The world is probably still happening.

Acknowledge that not absolutely everything sucks. Yes, there are about a hundred things wrong at the moment, but there are probably also a hundred other things that are not wrong. In fact, regardless of how minuscule, some things are probably going right. It’s not about not allowing yourself to feel like shit because you live in the first world and have a microwave or rich dad or whatever, it’s about a healthy dose of perspective. Go easy on yourself.

Turn off your shit. Shut your laptop and bury your phone under something. Just stop for a second and acknowledge willed solitude. Acknowledge how it feels to not have people buzzing for attention from all angles at all times. Suspend yourself in the silence and focus your attention on things you routinely ignore. Or just ignore everything if it’s too much to handle at the moment, whichever feels better and makes more sense. Acknowledge your world and exist in it.

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It was a good day today, although I felt really tired from all thats been buzzing around us. And, all constitutes just tests and tests.  I understand that I'm tired but I'm not complaining. I'm going to have a good rest tonight.

While I was walking back home, some thoughts ran through my head.

Life is like a rhythm, a long string of notes that chart the progress of the bar that extends itself continually on the song sheet. Like in piece of music, there has to be fast rhythms, slow rhythms, boring, exciting or even, a moment of pause...

Everybody lead a different life, thus we have different songs that lead our hearts. There is nothing great to compare about. And, there is no such thing as a 'perfect life', or the 'best rhythm'. I may not understand it, but I know it.

Perhaps some may have found the right beat to their life, started at an earlier stage than others, wrote more pages of interesting music. I used to have this secure feeling of the note I shall put next, the steps that I shall take, the goals that I make and eventually achieve.

But, currently in this "exceptionally demanding phase of my life", which is totally true, I don't feel safe anymore. My song sheet seems like a mess, sometimes with marred with numerous holes, sometimes with a bunch of notes that are haphazardly placed; that characterise the busy life we lead (not just me). It isn't nice and pleasant and happy at all, but this is part of the rhythm. part of life. part of that song that has to be extended. part of the now,. part of what can determine a much more interesting future which I long for.

"Part of the meaning of life is to have highs and lows. A life that was constantly happy was not a good life" - Loewenstein.
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