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.