The Island

We are all fans. Building and building and building up our idols but in doing so we are forgetting about our own foundations. Loneliness isn’t just a melancholic experience – it can also be superfluous exacerbated positivity, in my eyes.

I see the times fly by… From the last fall to the next one. One mindset knows all – all there is to know is known and this dulls my world. So I turn that off – I live with one eye open instead of all three. I know it sounds weird to you but it’s me. And I don’t live for you I live for me unless you’re a part of me – like my family than it’s different and you’ll see. I protect them just as they protect me.

And honestly, protection is all we seem seek in this modern world. Look at the world from the top to the bottom. The homeless seek protection, the underprivileged want more money, the middle class want more holidays, the wealthy want less tax, the famous want less paparazzi, the insecure want more self-esteem, the envious want more whatever and the greedy want more of everything.

And that’s apparently normal. It seems that it’s simply the way it is.

That is, of course, until we give up everything.

Until the day comes that we give up everything we are always going to be lost in our greed.

Give up greed.

Listen to your heart. It beats for you.

Learn to love yourself before you lose yourself in hating yourself and then trying to love yourself by falling in love with something or someone else and thinking that you’ll be better off with that thing.
You wouldn’t be here if you couldn’t survive with what you’ve got already. You don’t need anything else. You can be tricked into wanting something else, but you can never be tricked into needing it. If you don’t get that new accessory – your heart won’t stop beating. If the other person doesn’t fall in love with you, you won’t spontaneously combust. But if you stop loving and you stop being compassionate and understanding and if you start to live like you have no soul then you will start to die – and you’ll be dead long before your bones rot and your body becomes another part of our Earth.

Until you realise that you are the most perfect and most beautiful and almost indescribable gift this planet has ever known than you will constantly be looking for something else and you will never feel satiated. Believe in your potential.

Think back to the time when the world felt perfect – when everything was in its place.
I think of childhood. As children, we weren’t hit by the media telling us that we were flawed and lacking materialistic things, we weren’t made to feel inadequate and small. Fuck that.

Once you realise that you are equipped to deal with this world than your whole life will change. You will stop making excuses, you will stop running away from the problems, you will be proud of who you are and what you are capable of. And you won’t be scared. You won’t be scared of falling, you won’t be scared of making mistakes – mistakes won’t ruin you now – they are the building blocks to knowledge and truth. Instead of letting mistakes crush you – use them, use that experience to build a bridge over troubled waters, to make a staircase to elevate yourself, use your mistakes as lights that lighten the path you have taken so that you may always look back and know where you have come from. Think of achievements the same way except the light is stronger.

And when you reach this point of believing in yourself – and in humanity, then you will have scaled mountains, traversed countries and crossed oceans.

And at the end of this major journey you will find yourself at the island. You will see

Stars dotted amongst the swaying trees.
butterflies dancing daintilly around them,
the young soft breeze seduces the sun and it sets beyond the warm horizon,
brush strokes melt the canvas as the water gently laps the golden beach.
Birds hum and call, a large throbbing bird song, meditating in the jungle,
bare stones and small pebbles line the path of love.
Cold drinks, every colour of the rainbow and more stand keeping guard.
No ignorant man shall step foot on this land. Only pure, enlightened minds can roam free.
Mellow yellow bamboo at every corner, holding up life and greenery, floating in the air.
The heavy warm wafts of salty sea breeze. Cold beer and moving music. The sultry start of a serendipitous slumber. Here lies the pure pleasure, where the beautiful brave live and let live.
Deep serenity. You and me, myself and I. All of us here, in my head, this island of bravery, intelligence and knowing. Pure personal bliss, a simple truth floating above a cataclsymic ocean of lies.