Journey
To meet my unmet family, that's all about discovering the world.
A bird itself is not free.
Freedom has its own wings.
They cannot change my lifestyle.
They care only if it's correct while I care if it's beautiful.
One's journey should not be measured by its distance of physical transfer, but its degree of soul shaking.
Healthy self-respect creates love for others.
Unhealthy self-respect creates love for oneself.
When people cannot cultivate healthy self-respect, they cultivate self-love in order to protect their mentality.
Self-love only exploits other people's goodwill continuously.
Today it is too easy to be trapped by their self-love since not many people are able to teach how to cultivate healthy self-respect.
One of the remedies for excessive self-love is to destroy one's identity by meeting new people and learning new ways of living.
Sometimes a simple smile is needed more than noble religious teaching or political horse-trading for a peaceful world.
While desiring to settle and take root in one place peacefully like a tree, dreaming of having wings and flying freely like a bird at the same time.
This is a human contradiction, and this is the human beauty.
To love, to hope, and to believe have been proving what we humans are.
No matter how tough life could have been, people have never stoped loving, hoping, and believing to not lose their humanity in the history.
At the same time, because to love, to hope, and to believe are the actions that can be done beyond reason, they have been driving people mad and insane too.
It is up to us which way we go. To use our ability to love, hope, and believe as a trigger to destroy whom we do not love, hope, and believe.
Or to overcome this difficult era of violence by loving, hoping, and believing anybody even if it seems crazy.
Don't be a victim of past. Past is not to punish us, but to encourage us.
Don't be a slave of future. Future is not to control us, but to motivate us.
Be true self in this moment, and we are alright.
When people cannot make a decision in what really matters to their life, I would say that they might need to stop asking around what they should do among grownups, but ask children instead.
Unlikely grownups, children do not give us an advice based on benefit, legitimacy, nor social expectations that adults tend to care too much.
Children care if they like it or if it seems fun to them, and that is actually the answer to what we really should do. Life is short, enjoy every moment as a beginner.