La Vie Boheme

“You are not just a drop in the ocean, you are the mighty ocean in a drop” - Rumi

There are things in our life that we just can’t determine or change ourselves which makes the idea of freedom an illusion or non-existent. When you think about it in terms of what you already know about yourself you will begin to realize all of the factors are already determined in your life. The world keeps on shaping us, telling us we can never be who we are, nor live by our own rules, as they keep on bounding us by limits and “What will people think of you” sentences.

When you think deeper try and put your life in front of your eyes, are you satisfied with the outcome? Is this the way you want it to be? You can be who you are without being scared or afraid, it is never too late to start finding ourselves and this will be our own Bohemian experience.  Bohemian is an expression describing the person who lives by a free spirit, with a unique attitude, lifestyle and imagination away from the society’s conventions. This is what this page is all about, being bohemian is being spontaneously living your life.

If you are reading this then you will relate to the feeling of getting your favorite magazine and start hopping through the pages, the way you jump when you hear your favorite song in the radio that urges you to dance to its melodies, and how you lose yourself in your painting while creating art that speaks for you whenever you want to be heard. It’s the small simplest things that makes us awestruck by life’s wonders.

We are carefree, loving deeply and having the most of our lives living forever young by heart. So create art, even if it means making your room crowded by the shattered paint. Listen to music, read the books and watch the movies that you like. Do it without shame because what you like is part of your soul. Then why even hide it? Bohemianism is all about discovering and loving yourself the way you are.

Express yourself in every artistic way possible, everyone is born with a certain creative nature, let it out! Every greatness started with some courage and willingness, what one person calls smears of paint, other calls it art! The most important thing is to abide by your own rules, put your own limits, nothing is higher than the sky and no authority is bounding you from fulfilling your destiny.

Now is your time to create some little magic for yourself, spice up your life by your passions, live without regrets, and make the most of your time. If something goes wrong never freak out; those grades, that accident and this loss will soon disappear and what will remain is how you reacted and the legacy that you created. Look at the bigger picture, outside of your box, the world is moving very fast with lots of opportunities, are you ready to run after it?! You are never too young, or too late, you can always create your own start and shape your own destiny!

 This piece was published in Teenstuff Magazine June 2014!

The Power Of The Word

When thinking about everything, we can say that we get indulged in life in a way that we often forget ourselves, we can pass a whole day living by the habit not by the action and life takes us into it's own paved path, but are we interfering in the process or just moving along?!

Walking around in the streets I found myself annoyed by the noise of cars, the humming of people and the waft of air that loosens my hair. I remained silent and continued on walking, a full day spent without saying a single word to anyone, just wanted to enjoy the silence.
Walking around studying people and places I saw a tree that as old as an era and holding lots of memories on its branches while remaining forever sturdy. I saw children laughing, people fighting and nothing really caught my attention to the details of life around me.

Frankly speaking, being quiet has its perks and is not at all a great thing but there is this inner solitude and an incredible amount of thinking going on that cannot necessarily be verbalized into words. It's like when no one is around me, I have this freedom that I can do and say as I please without the judging eyes of the crowd or comments of certain friends. I can watch a heart-stopping movie or cuddle up with a book, I can be carefree and lazy and feel all this vibrant energy approaching me progressively and I can be myself without explaining and answering annoying questions. I found out that I don’t have to deal with people and their constant bickering or hear the commotion in the hallways of college. But yet, I feel stronger. Silence has given me an emotional strength that no other human can give to me, it has taught me that no matter what happens I can raise my head high and walk like nothing matters, The source of my strength came from my ability to concentrate, listen, observe and learn within being silent and free.

On the other hand, being silent for the past few days taught me the importance and power of the word. Words are a miraculous medium. They can bring those mountains of thoughts from inside our heads to outside. Words can break hearts; words can shape lives. Words have the power to topple kings and governments.
Only one word can bring two people together, and one word can separate nations, words has the power to do wonders and silence has the ability to turn vulnerability into strength and wisdom.
"She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately the power of speech"
That's how I can relate and connect silence with words, you can be forever silent but whenever you speak a word you have the power of speech, the power to change the world and the power to be who you are without being scared to show it to the whole world.

Well speaking about both silence and words and after giving it a thought I wanted to combine both in one miraculous word and indeed I found it, silence and words can be found in the beauty and calmness of "Reading".
Reading is a world full of words that turns into adventures, it's where the author speaks to you and only you, and it's where the book becomes your moment of silence and life at the same time.
In reading we find ourselves living a million other eras and billion lives, we can travel through time while we are just sitting on the chair holding a book and we can express feelings or emotions even when we are silent.

"I do not read for I have renounced life, I read because one life is just not enough for me" - Abbas Al Akkad

So silence can be strength and words can be power, but reading is both strength and power combined, as a healthy mind is nothing without a great amount of knowledge and craziness altogether.

The Time Theory

Everything in life has a theory behind it, an explanation to what's happening around us, it takes time to figure it out but if you try to give it a thought you will see that it was in front of you the whole time, because the closer you look the less you will actually see. Some theories are obvious, like Newton's rule of gravity, yet others are hidden waiting for us to find them. Now, I'm going to play a little game here guys, let's see theories merged with addictions!

My first theory would be "The Time", looking at the whole picture you will see that in our existence time is an ultimate addiction, it always reveals the truth yet hides secrets and keeps on dropping them with the running of seconds, it can drive you to insanity while watching the hours ticking by and life running in front of your eyes and it never stops to help you or wait for you, instead it keeps on watching you fall down...

It's the thing that controls you, you find yourself lost between the minutes that passes by and with every second a part of you dies, you miss lunch with your kids or movies with your family....Out of nowhere you lose yourself to the ticking minutes, with every hour the train leaves to a whole new journey without you.

We are slaves of time; it rules us in such a fashion that scares us. Time frightens our stability and dares our actions, we find ourselves lost and unable to understand it even though it is the most fundamental component of our existence, yet we keep on underestimating it...The melting clock challenges the stability of time, as it vanishes before our eyes. We discover by time that we can't relieve our past, but we can dare the future. As time passes by we find the beauty of life standing in the background, falling behind as we are running after endless hours of what we think is more important. For us all time is an obsession, it's the thing that controls our lives, without looking at the clock you feel lost and unaware of what's around you.

Don't you just wish that time can stop, that you could live in a moment forever without worrying too much about how many hours left for you to say goodbye and leave?

Some moments in life need a pause button, others need a fast forward so that you can have a glimpse at your future and what it holds, while most of the time you wish there was a rewind option that can make you go back in time and change some facts or do things differently.

We all are obsessed with time and how it goes by, but the main problem is that we don't even know how to make use of it, only time can change the world, it can take us to places we never even knew it existed, places only found in our hearts. Every minute is precious, make a difference and discover your impact in life. You need to know why exactly you were born into this world, use every minute to make a change. Love your family, your friends and your work, make use of every single second and do a positive ripple, it's the thing that keeps you going on forward and leaves your name in people's hearts...Be your own "Clock" use your mind like the running seconds, and mostly live your life because trust me there's more to the world than your eyes can see, and always remember that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder...

This article has been previously published in TeenStuff Magazine, if you have any thoughts or feedback share them with me on #ObsessoHolics

Winter Wonderland

  Small freezing crystals fall from the sky, blanketing the earth in a soft white snow. Far away lays a land that goes by the name “Winter Wonderland” somewhere different than everything else in the whole world, glistening white snow, falling from the dark grey sky, creating layers, making the front yard look wonderful, and the trees appearance is never a problem. The dark branches contrast the white snow while the rooftops are covered with a sheet of glistening crystal making them sparkle.


 The wind has a piercing feeling beautiful being far, but painful when it's around you, the sun is barely out and the sky soon becomes a light grey. But when the soft snow begins to fall, it transforms to a baby's blanket across the land, it covers everything, makes everything so bright and alive. I stood there watching families under blankets in one bed and kids playing around with snow with their smile never leaving their face, and suddenly a tear ran down my face…

 I tried to distract myself by looking out the window and watched the little specks of snow float till they reached the ground, the smell of winter crisp air filled the sky around that even fire can’t erase it away…I decided to grab my coat and go outside to have a glimpse at life in my own eyes, as I stepped on the snow I felt it crackle below my feet leaving my personal imprint on the world. It began to swirl around me as if I were dancing along with it. Everyone around me was bundled up from head to toe, wrapped in scarves and coats, hands with mittens and toes with boots. The children were playing everywhere; building snowmen, fighting with snowballs, and making snow angels across the new land. The sound of laughter, screams, and cheers filled the air with a pleasant mixture.

Deep in the crowd a little girl caught my eyes, walking in her mother’s hand and trying to catch snowflakes before they reach the ground, she wore the exact same dress as the one buried somewhere in my closet and had a heart full of innocence.

 A smile was drown on my face as soon as I recognized her, I jumped to the rooftop and dangled my hands to the air like I used to do as a little girl, the wind started taking things into action and it sent my hair flowing behind me, it was the closest thing I had to flying. I sat down looking at the sky and feeling the weight of the world being removed from my shoulders.


 Coming back to reality I looked down at the girl and smiled back thanking her for bringing me to life, for re-uniting me with the innocence that was corrupted by the universe, and it’s like she understood me, she winked and vanished in the air, my breath turned to ice as I made my way back to my window. I took my cup of hot chocolate, my favorite book and I sat down next to the fire forgetting everything about life and hopping inside one of my old fairytales. Winter Wonderland is the time of laughs, cheers, tears, screams and most importantly memories. It's always remembered never forgotten.