My aunt says people come into our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. She explained it to me as, people come into our lives either to teach us something important, to play an important and specific role in our lives for a certain time, or to stay with us forever. I’ve always liked that because it somehow makes it easier to understand the purpose for the different types of love we feel, at the different times in which we experience them. It lets us understand the reas

Weltschmerz is a German word that loosely translates to "world-pain" in English; it's used to describe the kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind. It attempts to explain a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness. The Butterfly Effect is the name for the phenomenon whereby a tiny localized change in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, somewhere down the line. ** I’m always preaching m

In the past year I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be an artist. Can one become an artist? Is one born an artist? Are we an artist simply because we make art? Or is it more about a state of mind and having a certain consciousness about the world around us? Is it a lifestyle first, or a perspective on life that inevitably grows into a lifestyle over time? I don’t pretend to be an expert on art—I’m actually far from it. So that’s never what this blog is ever going