Life is not a big picture. Framed and polished, hanging on the wall to bring a little color to the door walls in a mundane home. Life is this small moments like these: the moments when you’re driving with the windows down, or curling up with a book when the rain swallows the outside, or shoving your face with fast food at 2am with people who matter; long flights, and fireworks, and screaming the words to your favorite songs at the concert. This is it. This is all. A million puzzle pieces that don’t quite fit right together. But this is life, and I intend to live a life on my own terms. A life that scares me, a life filled with radical movements and leaps of faith off cliffs into unknown places, and people, and ideas. Life’s going to beat you up, the sun will set and leave half-moons under your eyes and you’ll be okay. Drink hot coffee to warm your heart when you’re alone, and find comfort inside of yourself. This is your home. Make reckless decisions, awful mistakes, and learn, and grow and just live. 'I don’t live in either my past or my future; I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival; because life is the moment we’re living now.'
Words by Hannah Gogan, quote from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho