*...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.

*An uncertain certainty*

Isn't it ironic,
How life works...?
Everything is iconic,
And stirred up in talks...

We live, what, maximum 110 years?? If lucky perhaps... 
And what do we do for almost a whole century of existence? 
We live...
But how much do we actually know about life?
Isn't it funny that we go around life, guessing, estimating, wondering, forecasting, assuming, and believing? 
How much can one single person truly know about life? 

Just like Socrates had acutely uttered the phrase "Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα" which translates to "The only thing I know is that I don't know anything", we don't know much about life. Heck, we don't know much about us, nor our species. We are learning in the process, or that's what we want to believe. But all the knowledge out there is not meant to be collected in a single individual. It is divided and shared, and meant to be used when needed, personally or collectively. "Knowing thy self", is one of the hardest tasks in our lives, and it takes great efforts, internal battles and of course, time. And knowing thy self, is just the first step to understand life.
 

Let's take for instance the weather... We always go around guessing and predicting, but even with the best possible satellite technologies we can't be certain. 

What about the economy of a country and its future? Nothing certain there, either. You can closely study the Greek bankruptcy case, or Ireland's, or Cyprus', or Spain's; or the situation in the Middle East, North Africa, North America's East coast, and so on, but won't be able to predict what will happen, or if it's going to happen again (as history proves)... And these situations are caused by humans, right? Then how aren't they able to know what will happen if they do X instead of Y?

And what about the rationally absurd world of statistics? How many millions of funds have been spent by companies and others just to figure out what people like in a certain moment, what would they think, vote, eat, drink, watch, listen to, buy, need, want, etc...? And are they any close to the true answers? NO. There is no such thing as an average person or the "mean". That's just mean to tell you, the truth. :) If, for example, we have someone who is 20 years old and 1.80m tall, and another person who is 60 and 1.60m tall, their average would be a person who is 40 years old and 1.70m tall. But that person is actually a ghost figure, and doesn't literally exist. But companies do consider that person to exist, and many times base huge amounts on campaigns to attract that person, or simply create it. That's a waste of money, just spent on guessing... 

Betting who will win... 
Guessing if they like it or not...
Forecasting how the sales will go... 
Assuming every one agrees and understands... 
Believing we know the person next to us and ourselves...

The flip of a coin

And the goddess of Luck.

Will we ever be certain?

Before we are conscience-struck? 

Life is truly ironic in that sense. We don't actually know a lot of things, but we sometimes deceive ourselves that we do, in order to feel proud and capable human beings. We don't deeply know and understand the people around us, nor the animals, nor the plants, nor our planet. We analyze their behavior most of the times, and make assumptions based on that. 

And we don't truly know ourselves. And that's a good thing, to a point. To the point that we are eager to find out more, while maturing, and thus become wiser (at least some of us:). To know our self, we must test it in as many situations as possible; put our self in the position of other people; accept, appreciate, and admit who we are, and why. And always have friends around us to give us feedback. After that, we will probably have more certainty at least about us, in order to potentially add another grain of knowledge of how life works, and most importantly, Y.