Love & Perspective

The topics are Love and Perspective. I thought about this after wishing a few acquaintances happy birthday today and thinking, "Wow, I actually could completely love this person, have them as a best friend, lover, coworker, roommate anything!" I shouldn't say I thought this, I more felt it. Emotion guides our thoughts  and while I'll be the first person to say that emotion often clouds proper logical judgement, I also believe that it has just as much potential to empower productive and positive passion.

Literally everyone around me continues to affirm to me how ineffable the beauty of the human experience is. Individually, and i truly mean individually there is something special, meaningful, unique and interesting to be learned and experienced from every interaction you have. You just need to look at it the right way. It's all perspective for me.. In the last year I've changed a lot about my life, and it came after taking one of the hardest emotional hits I've ever taken. there is light to be found in the darkest hour. The same darkness has transformed me into an ambitious, insightful, positive and motivated individual who loves everything about himself. And that's the best position you can be in to love others, you have to love yourself first :) and you should. The more I learn about people the more I love about them. Watching people grow physically is amazing however the feeling you get watching them grow as an individual is again, ineffable. I used to get teased a lot for "falling in love a couple times a day" and I recently realized it was just that from an early age I've been able to appreciate things about girls that most don't see or don't value. That very often gets confused with romantic love, because people these days don't just call a girl beautiful unless they want something physical.. I'm getting to a place though where I can love, everyone. It's so easy to love, try it. <3

"Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it."
-Buddha

"Be a reflection of what you'd like to see in others. If you want love, give love. If you want honesty, give honesty. If you want respect, give respect. You get in return what you give."

"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.

YOU GET TO CHOOSE."
-Wayne Dyer

The following quote is long, however awesome (and set the original tone and reason for the blog post):

“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called 'the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment—not discouragement—you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.
"Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You’ll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living.

I'll leave you with one more quote that I've known for a year now without being able to put into words..

“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conductive to your goal.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

#GROE