BEING HUMAN
A Guide to Living Deeply
The reality of relationships is often kept under wraps from the public eye as we each put our epic portrait of ‘normal love’ forward. We can all taste the beauty of love by debunking the narrative of normal we will finally find freedom. We learn the lessons of love by living through the complexity of it all.
The holidays often bring forth a sense of thankfulness and appreciation - the grandness of it all. Yet, it’s the itty bitty, overlooked things you should be most thankful for - those day to day delights. The tiny, beautiful building blocks of gratitude that warm your heart far after the holidays. This is a letter of appreciation to the things that touch our lives but most often go overlooked.
There's no clear-cut way to give college advice. Before stepping into it, it's a world filled with so many question marks. It's a world where you can envision walking through a new routine but all of the feelings and faces surrounding you are out of focus. The bodies and backgrounds are blurred. This is because you can't paint a scene without the right tools.
Love stories are so often simplified into a short and sweet narrative. A montage of happy moments that end in happily ever after. That’s not what love is though. Relationships are a portrait of love that can’t and won’t be painted within the lines. The reality behind relationships stretches miles further than the highlight reel of Instagram.
This is the era of instant gratification - Amazon Prime, hookup culture, Netflix autoplay. This is the era of options - Yelp, swiping, hell, the internet itself. We're swimming against the shifting tides of technology and endless options. It's an easy current to get caught in.
All of our lives we go on waiting for the day that we get to break away from our pasts, to escape our childhoods and join a new and improved realm of adulthood- as if it’s that easy…as if going to college makes us adults. So we run away as fast as we can, searching for ourselves in new places.
