Hello, after a two year long silence. I spent a couple years listening
more and talking less. I completed grad school, where most of my writing
efforts went. I am pursuing a career utilizing my clinical training. I moved to
a beautiful country getaway, where I feel centered and refreshed every day. After
6 years of single & independent style dating, I have a live-in partner with
whom I am building a life. Thinking about what improved in life over the past
years and what I learned, these 7 principles emerge:
- Keep it simple. Focusing on the present and daily connection with a few people is simple but really allows for deep, rich moments. It makes life endlessly interesting.
- Have clear values and a sense of self that setting and others’ perspectives cannot strip from you.
- Independence is great. But stop trying to do it all on your own. Actually trust people and allow them into your world. Most people are awesome.
- Be willing to be humiliated. Own your ineptitude. Stop trying to impress. Enjoy failure as a learning experience.
- Laugh all the time. At everything. Life is hilarious.
- Stop sweating the small stuff. It’s really just about your own hang-ups over your own internal struggle. No one else really sees your struggle or makes it a big deal if you don’t.
- Be you. Be weird. Insist on creatively
flourishing. My partner calls it “not letting me wilt.” Feeding my creativity
has been abundantly helpful to my feeling of contribution to the world.
Photographer: Gustavo Lacerdas, Albinos Series
http://knowledgeequalsblackpower.com/post/40934997866/brazilian-photographer-gustavo-lacerdas-albinos
