Love is all I am sure of

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I am so eclectic to the point that it is really overwhelming for me some days. I have no one set or style of thinking, loving, creating, exploring. I see beauty is everything. A piece of me can vibe with any scene, place, lifestyle. I can see myself doing almost anything in life and I will be okay with it as long as I am living from my heart space. I always challenge myself to keep love as the priority in whatever I do. Sometimes I confuse myself. I’m all over the place. I suck at decision-making. I can admit that I still don’t really know who I am, because everyday when I wake up I feel that I am looking with new eyes. Through undefined eyes. I see from every perspective. Which is why I can feel such deep empathy for so many other beings. I feel that I am a mess sometimes. I look at others and wonder how they can be so stern in their decisions. It’s because they know exactly what they want, and I don’t! I want nothing, yet I want everything. I am a contradiction. The concept of polarity chills me to the bones because it resonates so deeply. I am channeling this inner indecisiveness as fuel to confidently explore all that I can in this short life and to impact as many people as super-humanly possible. I have accepted that I have no definition. If you talk to five different people that have met me, they might all say different things about me. But one thing that they will all say in common is that I love hard. I am a being of love. And on the days that I don’t feel it as much, I will still challenge and remind myself that before I was anything, I was loved. And I hope that everyone I encounter during my navigation through life will feel that. It is a process and a challenge, but it is one that I am committing myself to. I feel this sense of responsibility to share these feelings. If I leave anything here, no matter what I do, I want it to be love. And that’s the only thing I am sure of at this point in my life.

The Struggle is Real: Battling Through Self-Love

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I struggle because I am naturally a constantly emotionally available person. I will make myself emotionally available at any place and at any time, even when it is not reciprocated. It is counterintuitive for me to be any other way. If I get a phone call at 4am, I will answer, even if I have to be awake by six. I will stay awake all night with someone to talk about their struggles. I will make them tea and try to create a comfortable environment that they can look forward to returning to. I always hope that they will return.
I believe in the good of people, or at least I really want to. I am never prepared to give up on the hope that we are all natural lovers. So I will do almost anything to get a spark of that feeling being confirmed. Sometimes people will come forward with blatant Ill-intent. My soul feels it, my third eye sees it, but I still want to be there for them. I still want to witness the possibility of their growth. This is the “benefit of the doubt syndrome” to the fullest. I can even feel when people are using me, and I still want to help them feel fulfilled in any way I can because I believe that our emotional exchanges will be beneficial to us both. I paint a picture of an idyllic present, sometimes ignoring the blood on the canvas. I try to paint over it. I believe by doing that I am transcending it. But sometimes it’s best to let the blood stain the painting and recognize it as a part of the masterpiece. If blood had splattered, it is not my job to clean it up. No one can undo the past, I can only control my perspective and use that to determine the fate of the future.
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In 2015, I started learning a great lesson, which is to embrace all of life’s moments and recognize it as a temporary contribution to the unique masterpiece that is life.
The hardest thing for me is letting go of people that do not care for me; the people that make feel like less. The ego tries to sneak in through overthinking others actions. It diverts my attention from self love focuses more on wanting others to like and enjoy me. Insecurities. “Why did this person make this face when I said this?” “Why didn’t this person text me back?” “Am I not beautiful enough?” “Did he see my burn mark?” “Did she notice that I used that word incorrectly?” “Did I come off too strong?” “Was I too invasive?” “I probably talk too much”. My brain shifts from my mind, to the perspective of what others may possibly be thinking- the harshest of judgments. Ones that are most likely, self created…from a place of fear. This is not a productive way to think. It stunts the growth on my own path and starts spinning around in circles aimlessly. This is what happens when you become overly invested in everyone you share a space with.
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As an empath, and somebody who is prone to harboring other’s energy, it can be difficult not internalizing their journeys, but it is vital to do so. It is difficult for us to take anything lightly. But we can not be bound to others without first being bound to ourselves. I dream of a world where I can give incessantly…eternally…without running out of things to give. I want to give so much that it is painful when society, people and thought patterns make me feel like I can’t. I want to do more, give more, inspire more, create safe spaces, have others love me and love them back fearlessly. But the truth is, that giving can be draining if you are giving it to lost causes. Giving can be draining if you are giving from an empty soul. Giving can be ineffective, if your heart is not full with self-love. Just like we must pick our battles, we must choose carefully what and who we give to- ideas, people etc.
2016 is the year I have declared for cultivation. I am prioritizing spending my energy on cultivating an honest, pure, healthy environment for myself. I will make tea for my damn self and take myself out on little cute ass dates. I will cultivate an environment where I can give to myself shamelessly and productively, as the giving energy will always return to me. I believe that focusing on this goal with make me stronger, more powerful and more clear in what I really desire to give my energy to. I can no longer be the yes-lady, the always available lady, the always someone you can count on lady. You can count on me, when you deserve my energy. Because when I give, I give it all.
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Protect your heart.

Self-Love is the Best Love

Loving yourself takes work, but it initially starts with a simple decision. Often times, we look for validation outside of ourselves. We want so badly to be liked and loved by others that we are willing to compromise who we really are for this acceptance. When you rely on outside sources for your own validation, this can lead to you never truly discovering your own uniqueness and what makes your existence in this world special. Not loving yourself can also mean settling for less- consciously or subconsciously. I often see individuals settling with certain partners, jobs, or group of friends that aren’t beneficial to their journey. They don’t realize how deep they can tap into their potential. When you don’t love yourself, it becomes easier for others and society to control and manipulate you. We all have a divine purpose for being here and we owe it to ourselves to discover it. If we are all here just to live out other’s expectations, we’re not living life to the fullest. Loving yourself is the most basic and crucial part to living a beautiful and purposeful life.

Do not ignore your mission by not loving yourself for who you really are. At first it may seem difficult because it is unfamiliar and others may react differently to your changes. When this happens, things that were there all along are just revealing itself to you. Your purpose was always there but it was clouded by fear and expectations, You are shedding away false perceptions of you and getting closer to what really matters. The process of becoming you again and loving you is very precious. With time and commitment to the process, you will become more and more comfortable with this part of you- your true self.

Since I can remember, I’ve always felt like I was different. I could never quite put my finger on it, but I never felt like I belonged. I wasn’t comfortable around groups of people, with all of those different energies. I never truly related to them…we didn’t laugh at the same things, wear the same clothes, or have similar interests and ideas. I felt like no one ever really knew me for who I was. I had intentions that no one could read, but I wanted them to. I cared so much about others opinions that I wanted to prove myself to them. I wanted to show them that I am normal and that I could be their friend. Now, looking back, I realize that this was the beginning of my own ignorance to self-love. I didn’t feel the love in me, so I wanted to feel the love in others. I was a people pleaser. I adapted my personality based on the crowd I was around. I didn’t want to stand out. I just wanted everyone to be comfortable around me. Years of not catering to my needs and ignoring who I was lead to a bit of an identity crisis. I was all over the place. I was on a constant search for distractions and I would let anybody and anything do it. I gave away all of my power in my desperate attempt to create a false identity. It got so out of control that I eventually crashed.

The crash, or rock bottom, is something I will always be grateful for because it ultimately plunged me into the ongoing journey or self-discovery and self-love. Not to say that there was just one, clean cut crash (I crash very frequently) but this crash led to more aggressive changes and the implementation of discipline to get out of this limbo. I had to force myself off of social media for a few months, to detox from all of the distractions until I gained the ability to to see clearly. I am a mutable sign by nature, so I am very prone to “giving in”. We are sometimes too flexible. There’s nothing wrong with mutability as long as you are grounded in who you are, but I wasn’t. I let my surroundings define me and I realized just how uncool that was after it got very intense. There are endless things to discover about yourself and the world around you, but it can be viewed from your essence. Once you’re grounded in your essence, you can try on different shoes while still being able to come back to yours every time. We are always changing and that’s a part of the beauty of life, but our purpose is solid and a constant aspect that we should be true to. Learning that loving yourself was possible changed my perspective on life. It was the first step I had to take that led me into discovering the limitless of life.

Let me just say that self love definitely requires plenty of work, and any kind of real work requires discipline. It takes making a choice everyday to discover you. Now there is a difference between truly loving yourself and blindly loving yourself. Blinding loving yourself can lead to a superiority complex and a feeling of never having to improve. Blind love is a comfort zone and an illusion. There is always room for improvement, and blind love tells you that there isn’t. This settling mentality can lead to you neglecting your self work and living in an easy place. In any strong relationship the presence of trust is mandatory. Trust is built when there are challenges and, just like how a friend has to gain your trust by proving themselves in a hard time, you must also gain this trust for yourself. You can hang out with someone when things are simple- watch TV, go out for fro-yo, etc. But a true friend is someone that pulls through for you when circumstances becomes challenging. Overcoming these challenges is what ultimately strengthens bonds. You must strengthen the bond with yourself to love yourself greatly and getting through personal battles will help to build it.

Don’t get too comfortable. Consistently challenge yourself. Overcoming the challenges will lead to trust.

Benefits of loving yourself:

Loving yourself allows for you to love others better. You want to enable those that you care about to feel the same love flowing through you, so your spirit becomes contagious. You do not reflect insecurities off of others because there are none within yourself. You can have honest interactions with others because you are honest with yourself. When you are not acting from your essence everything is an illusion- a false simulation of reality that you created out of fear/insecurity/lack of love. Real relationships with others are not co-dependent. Sometimes when we don’t fully love ourselves yet, we look to others to love us for us. Being with someone to fill a void is using them and that’s not what true love is about. Self loving fills this sense of emptiness and allows for healthier interactions with others.

When you IN love yourself, you are aware of your self worth and are more prone to designing a life that you know you deserve. You have more focus because you know what you want. You are able to say “no” more to all that doesn’t serve you. You can reject job opportunities, romantic prospects and certain lifestyles if not relevant to your worth. When you love yourself, you do more of what you really want and need.

When you love yourself, you treat living things with kindness and respect. Those who have not yet discovered the love from within, inflict pain on others. Hurt people, hurt people/animals/the planet.

When in tuned with self-love, you do things that are better for your health. You protect your temple because you know how special it is. You honor your mind, body and spirit. You do not let just anything into your temple that could damage or disrupt its flow.

As you are loving yourself, you are continuing to build confidence everyday. You know the importance of alone time, and in this alone time is when you learn new things about yourself. You plan for the near future and set out to achieve your goals confidently.

When you are comfortable in silence, you are on your way to harnessing the great power within.

When you love yourself, you let go of the need of attachments. You don’t need anyone or anything. Everything special in your life is a complement to your journey, an asset that you are grateful for but know could change at any given moment in time.

In true self-love, evil spirits and negativity may attempt to bring you down, but will never succeed. Self-love is the most powerful tool within that we all have access to. Anything can feed off of fear, but great love and confidence makes it look like a tiny speck on the road.

When immersed in self-love every challenge is a stepping stone or opportunity for improvement. Struggles are opportunities, mistakes are to be learned from to make you stronger. You are not too hard on yourself when faced with challenges because you know that it’s all a part of the game. Whatever comes out of it will make you better if played well 😉 Because you love yourself, everything will always be okay. Even in struggle, things are still falling into place.

Pushing Through Anxiety Attacks

If you are a human being, you have probably felt some anxiety at some point in your life. Because the future is always unknown, it is natural to anticipate what will happen next. However, anxiety attacks are an unnecessary by-product of anxiety that a lot of people struggle with. I grew up with anxiety and, starting around 6th grade, started suffering from anxiety attacks. I was nervous about getting older- my body changing, switching schools, and new responsibilities. My first anxiety attack put me in a hospital. After that, most of my anxiety came from fearing having another attack- it was a fear or fear. I entered a cycle that seemed impossible to get out of because I was enslaved at the thought of having another anxiety attack. So of course, if I felt the symptoms of what I recognized as an attack coming on, it felt like there was nothing I could do to stop it. Anxiety attacks were ruling my life. They were taking away from moments that should of been filled with happiness and joy. Anxiety was a dark cloud that followed me everywhere, threatening me that it would attack again. I was a little girl that was becoming debilitated by anxiety. I saw a lot of doctors and therapists and none of them really helped. Some would recommend the paper bag technique when hyperventilating, deep breathing, and going to your happy place but none of them ever spoke upon shifting my outlook on how I viewed anxiety attacks. All it takes is a shift in your mindset to stop anxiety attacks. All battles must be overcome starting form within.

I recently stumbled upon a website called ‘Panic Away’ when looking up ways to overcome my fear of flying. They talked about how anxiety is not a bad or dangerous thing, it is simply a discomfort. I watched a very helpful video that demonstrated a woman going through an anxiety attack and the different stages that she went through to control it. Most don’t believe me when I say you can get rid anxiety attacks forever in minutes, or less. I have not had anxiety attack (it’s been about 6 months) since implementing these simple steps.

Let it happen. Feel the anxiety fill up your body and recognize it for what it is- something uncomfortable that you are experiencing that is completely harmless. Observe the different feelings occurring throughout your body because of the presence of anxiety. Tell yourself things like “my palms are sweaty because I am experiencing anxiety” and “my heart is beating out of my chest because of anxiety”. Immerse yourself in the moment. What makes anxiety worse is when we resist new bodily feelings, resistance causes panic. There is a burst of adrenaline traveling through the body when it experiences anxiety, so the body’s reaction is its wait of stabilizing you. It is a survival instinct. Accept it, be grateful for it and don’t let it scare you.

Challenge yourself. Know your own strength and that you can handle much more than what anxiety is presenting. Challenge anxiety to bring you more of these uncomfortable feelings. Ask anxiety for more! We sometimes do not realize how capable and phenomenal our bodies are. We can push ourselves to climb mountain tops and women go through birthing another human being. When you push yourself beyond limits, not only will it prove to you your own strength and resilience, but it will make anxiety seem like a tiny hurdle in the long run. I know that you can handle it 😉

Release and let it go. Accept that different feelings are a part of life. Because life is filled with so many changes and exciting things, there will probably be some moments where you will feel anxious. That anxiety should take nothing away from your confidence. In fact, you can use anxiety to propel you forward even further. You can be an alchemist and transform anxiety into a healthy and productive energy. Anxiety is normal, but you do not have to go through anxiety or panic attacks. When you feel one coming on, you have the power to control it or let it control you.  Live in the moment. If you experience anxiety, accept it…when it goes away, release it and don’t look back.

Panic Away: http://www.panicaway.com/

10 Reasons why you Should Never Feel Inadequate

overcoming-inadequacy-21473584Ever feel like you have no purpose? Like you are a waste of space? Ever wake up lacking inspiration to even get out of bed? Most people have had these feelings before, but just because you feel them, does not mean that they should be validated. Life is filled with challenges and we sometimes do not realize that even our thoughts and feelings can be testing us. Why do we get tested? To get better. I’m writing to remind you of just how great you really are.

1. You are here. Alive. Pushing on. You woke up today. Your heart is pumping blood. You are breathing in oxygen. That within itself is a huge blessing many of us overlook. Waking up to a new day is waking up to endless new possibilities that the universe believes you are deserving to explore. What a great gift it is, that you are worthy enough to receive.

2. There are beings here who love you. Your existence lifts up someone’s spirit. Whether it’s a family member, friend, tree, stranger at the library, pet, child, lover. Someone here has been impacted by you, and that is reason enough to feel good about yourself.

3. You are doing your best. Stay focused and things will make sense with time.

4. You have great purpose beyond the surface of how things may currently seem. You have the opportunity everyday to tune into your divine purpose and make choices that will allow for growth and betterment. Even if you haven’t done it yet, if you are reading this now, it means that you can.

5. You have survived through things you never thought you could survive through. You are strong and that strength has inspired someone (even yourself).

6. You have made a ton of mistakes and were smart enough to learn lessons from them. The lessons you learned is great knowledge that can help you move forward into taking on the new challenges life brings and now you have the opportunity to make better choices next time. That is growth.

7. You have the opportunity to learn something new everyday. The universe is expanding which means there are never ending opportunities for discovery.

8. There is no one in this universe like you. Your gifts, vision, and purpose are all unique. You are your own person with your own mind. This journey is solely yours and you are the only one flying this spaceship. You have the power to manifest the magic that calls unto you. You have been given this responsibility because you can handle it. You are here for a reason..never forger that.

9. Your existence alone has shifted the universe. You have your place in this space that no one else occupies. Your existence is powerful.

10. You have still been given the gift of a new moment. Even if you feel like you may have wasted time and are not as far along as you would like to be. A new moment means new opportunities to create new beginnings. The universe is constantly letting you know that it is not too late.

If you do not matter, do you really think that you would be here? Have you been showered with these gifts and treasures because you are undeserving? You are on a beautiful and rewarding journey, and that does not go unnoticed. You can let go of victimizing ways of thinking. Change your perspective and change your life. You have the ability harness the great power within to manifest your dreams into reality.

You are worthy. Remind yourself everyday. 

Mantra: Reflect | Detox | Restart

Reflection

This past month has been monumental for me in so many ways. It seemed like a lot of major events were happening all at once. I am getting laid off from my job this week, I have been dealing with emotionally draining people, my next door neighborhood recently passed away and I have hurt loved ones out of my own frustration and confusion. I started to lose myself again. Things were so non-stop and I didn’t really make time in my schedule to just sit alone in silence. I didn’t give myself the necessary space to be me. Recently, things have slowed down a bit and I am reconnecting with my center. Yesterday was my first full day back from a lovely vacation and I didn’t have anything to do, so I sat in silence. The longer I sat, the more material I had to reflect on. The longer I sat, the more intense the emotions were that surfaced. From the greatest depths of my soul, things revealed itself. Clarity. Everything began to connect in my mind. I realized the great significance of all these occurrences in my life. I didn’t realize how fast I was going until I actually had the chance to slow down.

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Now that I have had time to reflect, I must recognize the meaning or lesson behind this experience and simply let it go. I refuse to feel guilt, regret, or dwell in the past. It has happened and I recognize its rightful place in the past. One of the most unhealthy things we do to ourselves is hang on to the past and dwell on what no longer serves us. I am feeling nothing but gratitude to be entering this new stage of growth in my life. I will not stunt my growth by hanging on. When you do this, you compromise your potential to be bigger- think bigger, be bigger. I must rid my mind and temple of unhealthy perspectives, regret, guilt and insecurity. These are all things that the conditioned mind wants to grasp on to, but I feel confident tuning into the greater parts of me (my center). The conditioned mind represents the small me. The mind represents my potential. My soul represents my absolute and magnificent power to be GREAT. Like any detox, the experience may be draining and trying, because of the intensity of detachment. But this is the necessary stuff that makes us stronger in the long run. I know that the struggle is temporary and it will get me closer to love.

“Let go of feelings of regret, Let the past have its place behind you. Move on swiftly into the magic of a new moment, a new day, a new beginning. Let go of fear.” -Me

Restart

Tabula rasa. Clean slate. The full moon is occurring right now and mercury is also in retrograde. A lot is currently resurfacing in my life, they are the things I am being reminded of that truly fascinate me. These resurfacing gifts are my current purposes. I am going to enter this new phase nurturing them, feeding them and allowing them to grow. I will not abandon them. I will enter this phase without fear of the mandatory release- the illusions that cause confusion and conflict. I will enter this new phase boldly and creatively. I will make choices that will elevate my spirit. I will treat my body well. I will exchange gifts of love and knowledge with others. I will keep past knowledge close, but I will refuse to look back. I will transcend negative, small feelings and thoughts into positive reinforcement and love for myself. When I acted small, I let go of the bigger picture. This great, beautiful and blessed journey is my life and I refuse to undermine its capacities by living small. I am going beyond. Boundaries are merely conventions.

Reflect. Detox. Restart.

Unhealthy dynamics | Hurting the one you love

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LISTEN UP:

A relationship should never equal co-dependency. A prosperous relationship requires everyone involved to first love and be secure in themselves. Love is such a great power that lives inside all of us. We can activate it or leave it idle. Sometimes, we choose not to focus on this deep aspect of ourselves because we’re not ready to face it. However, being in a relationship brings these depths to surface and we cannot hide from it. When we do not embrace the love in our souls, when we resist, when we close ourselves off; we suffer. Chaos erupts. The deep love in you may seem far away, but it takes that first dive into the depths to really start living- lovingly and healthily.

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When you have yet to fully love yourself, but are in a relationship, you will probably tend to reflect insecurities off of your significant other. Maybe you will pick a fight out of thin air, ask them ridiculous questions, force them to spend time with only you, or get jealous for no reason. This is unhealthy and it is not fair to the other person or YOURSELF. When you allow this detrimental pattern to continue that means you are consciously not giving yourself the time, space, and attention needed to discover/be your true self. Most likely, your intuition tells you to end the pattern but your conditioned mind feeds off of it. The conditioned mind AKA the ego loves attachments. It loves ignoring intuition, soul and spirit guides. It feeds off of these external disabilities and it is what creates irrational fear. (And yes, I do believe there are different types of fear). When you do not embrace the love and “fake love” through irrational fear, you are putting a huge burden on your partner who just wants to love you. That person should not have to take on your battles as they are still their own independent self going through enough as it is. We all change and grow everyday and these hurtful relationships completely stunt our growth and prevent us from living/loving fully. So now you are not only hurting yourself, but also this person who decided to take the time, effort and energy to commit to you. You are now taking something away from their journey and your own.

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It is not fair to look to another person to fill a void. It takes your own self-love, which in turn equates to self confidence to fulfill you. When you’re confident you don’t need outside sources to validate you. In my last post I spoke about freeing the soul. Once the soul is free in a relationship, it becomes about sharing freely…not ownership, fear, etc. If you have met your soulmate, but aren’t where you need to be spiritually to really love them healthily, perhaps look into taking some time a part. Contrary to popular belief, I do not always believe it is necessary to end things cold turkey with that special someone. I do believe there are alternative ways to “break-up”. To truly mend things, it would take a lot self-work and discipline at first as you would need to create a new flow. There must be a shift. Although it is possible, making sure you each have that time to prosper individually is vital, especially when you are young. If you ignore these vital steps, things may become more difficult in the future. Go on a trip. Sit in silence. Meditate. Take yourself out on a date. Figure out what you like. Flourish creatively. Do something crazy. Detach. Go to the woods. Spend weeks, months, however long it takes getting close to yourself. Be independent. Make soulful living a top priority. Come up with a master plan. Look inside yourself. Be the unique person you were blessed to be. Go deeper. Be better. Do it for you.

Do it for the love…

Imprisonment or breakthrough?

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When we have yet to be liberated, we can allow outside sources to imprison us. Whether it’s a relationship, a job, society, or religion. When the soul is free, you make an internal decision to not let anything have that kind of power over you.

When you truly recognize who you are in the deepest sense, you gain the power to protect your spirit. Many occurrences in life may seem to try to bring your spirit down, but we have the power to control where we go. Occurrences are temporary, they are in no way the final answer to what our lives will be. We can elongate those feelings that accompany these experiences by dwelling in the past or we can acknowledge the lesson and use it to make us stronger when moving on. Nothing can take away our power of choice unless, of course, we choose to. I know there are unpredictable things that happen that are out of our control, but we can always choose how we perceive it. They are usually outside of us, but we choose to internalize these battles as something that is a part of us, some of us don’t realize that it’s still a choice! It is just one decision that can be the difference between suffering (dwelling) and freedom (letting go of what doesn’t serve us).

The choice is yours. Always.

The Butterfly Effect

Have you heard of the butterfly effect? Wikipedia defines it as “the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.” In other words, some small occurrence (like a butterfly flapping its wings) can lead to a significant shift on a larger scale. Something I do today that seems insignificant ultimately plays a role in the present condition of the universe. All of our actions are contributing pieces to the puzzle- nothing in the universe goes unnoticed. Everything connects.

I am going to reference a few scenes from one of my favorite movies, Mr. Nobody. It features Jared Leto as Nemo Nobody, a boy who lives through every possible outcome of his life per decision made. The film displays examples of the butterfly effect and cause and effect. In this clip, Nemo’s potential father slips on a leaf and his potential mother runs to help him. They lock eyes, fall in love and create a baby together- Nemo. If the leaf did not fall in that exact location, or if he stopped to look at his watch for a mere second, they would not have met in that moment- thus substantially weakening or eliminating the potential for Nemo’s life. Notice that it begins to rain a few seconds after they meet. If it started raining earlier, or he crossed the street a moment later, they would have put their umbrellas up and go about their days without even noticing each other. The gaze between the mother and father is what locked in Nemo’s fate.

Do you ever think of how easy it could have been for you not to even exist? What if your parents never met? Or your parent’s parents? It’s something I think about all the time. But then again, I think about how cool it is that I am here, right now. I feel honored that I have persisted through natural selection. And I would not be here if those things that make me who I am had not persisted as well. There is a reason why my parents met and everything before their existence happened. It all conspires to this very moment. Us. I think we should take advantage of this time and create positive butterfly effects. When I see smiling faces, I get inspired. When I get inspired, I feel better. When I feel better, I make better choices. When I make better choices, I touch people’s lives. When I touch people’s lives, they touch other’s lives. You see where I’m going here? Collectively we become better by harnessing the power of cause and effect/connectivity. My point is that we all have the power to change the world by improving our choices. Sometimes we make a choice that goes against that little voice inside of us. What if we entered a groove where we were constantly making decisions from this place? I look at us as the chosen ones and with great power comes great responsibility.

How will we use it?