Sometimes, something happens that makes you step back and appreciate the simple beauty of being alive. You have to take a look at everything and put it all back into context because life is so highly strung and frantic that we often lose sight of what's really important.
In the past 3 months, several things have happened that have forced me to consider what a miracle life is, what a wonderful blessing it is to live and breathe and think and do. It just makes me realise that, although some consideration of the future is needed, it's so important not to get lost and caught up in the stress of exams or the pressure of a busy life. Eventually, impossible though it may seem, those things won't mean a thing.
I think at the core of who everyone is, at the core of what it means to be human, everybody craves the same thing. Beyond knowledge or truth or happiness or even meaning, everyone needs love. It's this need that makes us so beautifully fragile and so easily hurt. Its definitely a cliché to say love is all that matters. But I think it kind of is. Love as a verb and what we do with it is the only thing worth anything as far as I can see. Everything good in the world is always appreciated with just a little bit of love, surely.
"My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes, and oh my friends
It gives a lovely light."
- Roald Dahl
This is my favourite quotation because to me it talks about the importance of the loveliness and goodness everybody gives out in life, no matter how long that candle burns for.
I love life.
God bless always,
Anna x
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