“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not”

Do you think everyone is exactly what you see? Because what you see, is not always what you get.

We’re all pretending to be something that we are not. When we shouldn’t be.

But why lie? Because we won’t be accepted? Because people will laugh? Because we will be left standing alone?

Rather stand alone than stand with those supporting a lie.

If we all tried to be who we really are in front of others, then maybe the world will start to feel real again.

Living a lie to save yourself from hurt, just leads to a whole other kind of pain.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Because at least then, you only have yourself to answer to.

Mandela Day

"One must have heroes, which is to say, one must create them.

And they become real through our envy, our devotion.

It is we who give them their majesty, their power, which we ourselves could never possess.

And in return, they give us some back."

Happy Birthday to the legendary, Nelson Mandela.

The Logic of Feelings

The beauty found in the complexity and uniqueness of the human heart is almost unmatched. Every moment of our lives is scented with some emotion, some feeling, that lingers on into our futures; leaving us not with the perfect memory of the moment, but of how we felt in that moment.

Some think that to feel is to be weak, but to feel is not to be weak; it is to be strong enough to be true to the heart that is intrinsically human. Some of the most beautiful things in life cannot be described or documented, they can only be felt.

The mind may give up, but the heart forges on because that is who we are. Feelings come and go like the clouds in a windy day’s sky; and so they should not define who we are or what we do but steer us in the right direction to where we are supposed to be. “Listen to your heart” might be clichéd, but it is sometimes the best advice to follow.

The way we feel might not always be logical, but to feel is always logical. We do not feel because we are human, we are human because we feel.