Peace, Love and Storytelling

Spending christmas alone this year has given me a lot of time to really reflect and look at the holiday season from a different perspective. So as I sit here balling my eyes out because I'm sad and alone let me tell you a couple of the things that are going on in my mind. 2017 has been a pretty weird year for me altogether but this christmas season has got to be the weirdest for me. While most college students are going home, traveling, or just away from school celebrating these joyous times... I'm here in Gainesville... alone . Before having to make the executive decision to stay here due to insufficient funds and the need to work the day before and after Christmas, I didn't think about how hard it would be to be away from my family. I mean holidays are meant to be spent with your loved ones. Sometimes thats family, sometimes thats friends. Either way these days are meant for you to be surrounded by people who love and care for you the way you wished people were all y

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak. -Buddha Picture captured while soul searching in nature with Kaileb [Photocred:  @atlienpoet ] I've been putting a lot of thought in the person I am and the person I want to be. Ya know.. soul searching. And what I've come to find is that more than anything, no matter where I'm going, or where i've been I want to be happy. Genuinely happy not that fake happiness I have to tell someone about when I'm going having a hard time. What i've realized though is that being a good person and doing kind, genuine things for others really brings me that sense of satisfaction that I've long been craving. Supporting people is something that I've done for a minute now but have come to find that it is an important part of who i am. It's what makes me feel good. I don't really know what soul searching means exactly but from what I've read on it its basically when someone takes deep consideration into their

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.  - Dr. Suess I listened to a couple podcasts by the Brilliant Idiots and another podcast by Joe Rogan the other day and really got inspired to write about honesty. Now there is a lot I can say about this topic but i'm going to try and break it down into two categories: honesty with yourself and honesty with others.  There's something about comparing ourselves to others and "fitting in," that just seems like the most comfortable thing to do. But when it comes to understanding who it is that you truly are, the most important question you should be asking is are you being honest with yourself? It's easy to say "yeah, of course I'm being honest," but really think about that for a second. When is the last time you've done something that you've been completely sure of about doing or saying? Now hopefully you said  today