I'll Stay With You...

Everyone has different goals, different end results that constitute what they deem 'the good life'. It is these differences that keep us from losing our purpose - if each person wanted all the same things are we really individuals at all? But in these diverse beings is an innate longing, a need one could say, for a few main things.

We all search for love. We search for happiness. We  search for comfort, and ease and practicality  We all look for and find these things in different places, but the search is universal.

We all long to be appreciated, for the work we do and for being the person that we are. At the end of the day, no face we put on is what we want to be most appreciated for.

Each person deems happiness to require different things. To some, the pursuit of knowledge, of creating new things and discovering new ideas is what constitutes happiness. To others, beautiful cars and expensive homes are a means to happiness. No matter the path taken, we all are searching the way we know best.

I find the more time I spend thinking, the luckier I feel to have had the upbringing and the schooling that I did. I was taught from a very young age that the most important things, and the best way to really come into yourself as a person is by learning to give. We are all born with the innate capability to want and to need, but to sacrifice and to give are learned traits that don't come naturally. These things take time, they take practise and they take a lot of learning the hard way about how much it sucks to be on the receiving end of being denied this.

In terms of love: maybe searching for love is our problem. Maybe this is something that comes when we learn to love ourselves. and maybe, just maybe we just have to be patient and wait it out. I am the first to admit that this prospect sucks, but the most unexpected things are usually the best.

My thoughts, whatever they're worth, for the night

- xx, Kelly.