*...In Realife...*

I LEAVE to LIVE...
To build a future;
For my dreams.

Swim fast,

Breathe deep;

Find out what life really means.

There are millions of reasons not to leave, not to take the leap.
Fear can dictate most of them. Fear most of the times wins the battle. We need safety, or the need to feel safe.

What does it actually mean, to leave your home? Leave your family behind? Everything that you love and loves you; the very bricks that created you; the seeds that gave you roots? What does it take in courage and character to rip the roots off? To walk away from what your heart and memories keep dear? How much does a dream cost? Till how far should one go?... 

I tell you, to change your life in few moments is so overwhelming that your thoughts can't keep up with your heart's rollercoaster feelings. It's like a sky, that stages a dance between the sun and the clouds, one leading the other endlessly. You take off and you fly high, become part of that dance. Really, where did you leave your heart? Where did you leave your mind this time? What do you expect from the new life's stories to tell you? What will you write in your new life book?

The pages are empty... The space is yours to paint with words and images. That can really stress you, but it also gives you all the freedom to express your thoughts, deeply or abstractly. But remember this... Never look back! You should open your eyes and gaze acutely ahead, stare forward. Contemplate as well as observe: the truth is hidden from the empty gaze and is truly found in the details and in the simple things and the simple moments.

Life is a huge and very detailed PUZZLE... we only see a handful of pieces each time, and we might never even get to see the whole picture. Many don't even realize they are collecting pieces for a PUZZLE... And In Realife, some pieces might be lost, might be confusing, might not match, might be ugly... Most of the times, we probably want to paint a different picture, and refuse to see how things really are; what life and the universe has for us.:.

What we should always remind ourselves is that this PUZZLE that speaks for us is placed on a canvas called "Happiness".  And for myriads of moments, the canvas won't be easily visible or accessible, due to the great pile of little life pieces covering it, casting it overwhelming to make sense. But the philosophy of the PUZZLE is to unscramble the pieces, match them, and reveal the big picture. And always keep in mind, that happiness is always there, being the foundation to build your life... 

...In Realife, the difficult part is that you don't see or know what the final picture will ever look like... And that is why it is a cunning play, to let our heart paint another picture instead of the actual one. It tricks our subconscious eyes, and that's how we can miss out on myriads of images that are right in front of us, but we can't or refuse to see them.

So, let's LIVE to LEAVE all the blindness behind; open our eyes wide, and get to know, really understand life and accept all that it revolves around. Let's listen to it dictating us what to challenge in us. Let's love it, even if it tests us constantly. Let's allow the tears to drop, the smiles to radiate, the breaths to deepen, and the mind in new places to nest; places full of adventures and questions to answer.