Pick-Me-Ups of the Week #7
I know, I know I'm terrible - I haven't posted one of these in weeeeeeks. I'm really sorry!! Given all the travelling I've been so so blessed to do, I haven't really had time to do Pick-Me-Ups. But, that is no excuse!! So here I am today, as promised. I promise I will pick you up and try to inspire you today.
This summer has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Most of it has been up in a high, but recently I have been falling down. I feel a little twinge in my gut, like someone has just hit me really hard in the stomach (this is Great Books summer camp all over again lol). I really really hate growing up, and a part of me is really really fucking nervous for college. I hate the idea of starting over, and I hate that I have to look at snap stories and I don't know my best friends' friends anymore. :( That makes me super sad and feel so weird.
I really really hate losing friends.
And on that note, it's time to be picked up!! :) here we go!!
#1
This is Etretat. This is where Claude Monet famously drew his paintings of the boulders in pastel colours and blotches. His technique is extremely unique and captures not only the beautiful view of the rocks and islands, but also the feelings he was going through at the time - how extremely mellow the view made him feel, or other times the longing he felt for better times. I wondered if Monet ever felt the way I felt while I looked at it too. It was one of the most beautiful sights I've seen, as it also reminded me that God is crazy cool in the way he can create magic and nature to look like this - against laws of gravity and beautiful from whatever point of view you look at it. I am so lucky to be alive.
Etretat was a quaint little town that honestly reminded me how I wanted to live in one of these cute little towns in Europe for a whole year, cut off from society, cut off from people I know and focus on doing the things I love - cooking, writing, and travelling. Maybe I'll meet locals and we'll become best friends! But it reminded me how being by myself can be really powerful, and how little corners of the world are still waiting for me to discover them.
#2
A quote -
"Believe through revelation instead of reason."
Simple quote. One that doesn't seem quite significant. But the thing is, it is so important. Our world is so scientific and based on fact and logic. It is based on what makes sense and what seems the most logical, and we only believe things because those things are proven to work. This makes our world a more sane, sensible world.
But fuck that.
I'm not sane. I think I knew that the day I was born. I am not sane. I do things out of impulse, I chase things because I believe in them, in myself and I make so many mistakes. So so SO many mistakes. I trip and fall all the time - literally and metaphorically. But I guess that's just what makes me the crazy person I am today - and I absolutely love it. The thing is, we spend so much time and effort trying to find reason and trying to give facts and evidence to help prove and justify our points. But what if one day, we said fuck it, I don't need any proof, I believe in this because I believe in it, because I had a revelation.
Believe through revelation instead of reason.
Believe in God because you declare it. Because you realised it. Because you want to. Because the things unseen, you finally see it. Believe in what you have faith and hope in. Because only that way, will you believe in yourself. So many things in this world cannot be explained. And thats the beauty of it all. We can't explain why certain things happen, why miracles occur, why diseases go away without being scientifically proven. You just have to believe that there has to be something better. You must believe in what you do, if you want someone in your life, go and get them. If you want to chase that dream of yours, go and get it.
Believe through revelation NOT reason.
#3
1 Corinthians 13:8
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
Other qualities may end, but the quality of love never fails.
Remember that.
My aunt just got married in Paris this week, and I've been living lavish enough to go to this amazing wedding. During the ceremony, the pastor read from Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 13:4 - 7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
That's the kind of love I want to be able to have. Perfect love. Recently I've been thinking about the mistakes someone made and hurt me, I've also been thinking about my mistakes and how it was made and hurt this person. For the first time in my life, I believe that the past is the past. That if I really love this person, maybe none of their mistakes matter in the long run. Because at the end of the day, I make mistakes too. I make mistakes out of fear and hurt. Which is what I spent the whole year doing. Mistakes are made, and maybe they make us more insecure, but one day we have to learn to forgive. We learn to love people and yourself unconditionally. We learn to choose to let things go and let God do His work.
Love people unselfishly, forgivingly, truly, and kindly.
You are never alone.
- teeny, tiny&terrified
This summer has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Most of it has been up in a high, but recently I have been falling down. I feel a little twinge in my gut, like someone has just hit me really hard in the stomach (this is Great Books summer camp all over again lol). I really really hate growing up, and a part of me is really really fucking nervous for college. I hate the idea of starting over, and I hate that I have to look at snap stories and I don't know my best friends' friends anymore. :( That makes me super sad and feel so weird.
I really really hate losing friends.
And on that note, it's time to be picked up!! :) here we go!!
#1
This is Etretat. This is where Claude Monet famously drew his paintings of the boulders in pastel colours and blotches. His technique is extremely unique and captures not only the beautiful view of the rocks and islands, but also the feelings he was going through at the time - how extremely mellow the view made him feel, or other times the longing he felt for better times. I wondered if Monet ever felt the way I felt while I looked at it too. It was one of the most beautiful sights I've seen, as it also reminded me that God is crazy cool in the way he can create magic and nature to look like this - against laws of gravity and beautiful from whatever point of view you look at it. I am so lucky to be alive.
Etretat was a quaint little town that honestly reminded me how I wanted to live in one of these cute little towns in Europe for a whole year, cut off from society, cut off from people I know and focus on doing the things I love - cooking, writing, and travelling. Maybe I'll meet locals and we'll become best friends! But it reminded me how being by myself can be really powerful, and how little corners of the world are still waiting for me to discover them.
#2
A quote -
"Believe through revelation instead of reason."
Simple quote. One that doesn't seem quite significant. But the thing is, it is so important. Our world is so scientific and based on fact and logic. It is based on what makes sense and what seems the most logical, and we only believe things because those things are proven to work. This makes our world a more sane, sensible world.
But fuck that.
I'm not sane. I think I knew that the day I was born. I am not sane. I do things out of impulse, I chase things because I believe in them, in myself and I make so many mistakes. So so SO many mistakes. I trip and fall all the time - literally and metaphorically. But I guess that's just what makes me the crazy person I am today - and I absolutely love it. The thing is, we spend so much time and effort trying to find reason and trying to give facts and evidence to help prove and justify our points. But what if one day, we said fuck it, I don't need any proof, I believe in this because I believe in it, because I had a revelation.
Believe through revelation instead of reason.
Believe in God because you declare it. Because you realised it. Because you want to. Because the things unseen, you finally see it. Believe in what you have faith and hope in. Because only that way, will you believe in yourself. So many things in this world cannot be explained. And thats the beauty of it all. We can't explain why certain things happen, why miracles occur, why diseases go away without being scientifically proven. You just have to believe that there has to be something better. You must believe in what you do, if you want someone in your life, go and get them. If you want to chase that dream of yours, go and get it.
Believe through revelation NOT reason.
#3
1 Corinthians 13:8
"Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
Other qualities may end, but the quality of love never fails.
Remember that.
My aunt just got married in Paris this week, and I've been living lavish enough to go to this amazing wedding. During the ceremony, the pastor read from Corinthians.
1 Corinthians 13:4 - 7
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
That's the kind of love I want to be able to have. Perfect love. Recently I've been thinking about the mistakes someone made and hurt me, I've also been thinking about my mistakes and how it was made and hurt this person. For the first time in my life, I believe that the past is the past. That if I really love this person, maybe none of their mistakes matter in the long run. Because at the end of the day, I make mistakes too. I make mistakes out of fear and hurt. Which is what I spent the whole year doing. Mistakes are made, and maybe they make us more insecure, but one day we have to learn to forgive. We learn to love people and yourself unconditionally. We learn to choose to let things go and let God do His work.
Love people unselfishly, forgivingly, truly, and kindly.
You are never alone.
- teeny, tiny&terrified
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