CREDO

(Credo means "I believe" in Italian. What you believe in places you in the world. It reveals who you are in this moment of your life.)

Credo. I believe. I believe in opening your arms wide and breathing in every little particle of life thrown your way. Not like the saying, “absorb everything like a sponge,” because one, you can’t absorb life, it’s too big, and two, sponges are usually bacteria ridden. Who would want to be that? Rather take life in the way hawk takes in the desert skies, both the sharp, icy blades and the winding warm currents flit through each of his feathers. I believe in seeing people. But really seeing another. Not yelling “hihowareyou” over your shoulder at someone you call a friend, but that you’ve only had coffee with them that one time 14 months ago. Seeing with all of your senses the way that you saw your mother when you were a child-- holding her hand at the grocery store, laying down next to her and feeling your breaths in matching up with her breaths out, not ever thinking what “masterfully intelligent” thing was going to come out of your mouth before her last word curled out of her lips, and sitting comfortably in her silence. I believe in treating yourself with kindness. Working to improve yourself in ways that will make you more able to love and choosing to love the things about yourself that you can’t change, simply because they make you, you. I believe in always having something around you that makes you uncomfortable. Being in control and feeling good about everything is fine. And that’s just fine, if you are fine with fine. But I believe allowing yourself to feel uncomfortable awakens your senses. It will make you question yourself and your actions and your motives. It will push you away from monotony and into new adventures. And I believe that it is in those new adventures that your next friend, your next dream, and your next self await you to come find them.