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[travelleroftheglobe]

The Art of Healing

We all deal with pain differently. Some of us talk about it, some of us pour it out in the form of art, and some of us naively try to escape from it. Fools. You can drown yourself in work, distract yourself with books and music and movies, travel to a faraway land where no one knows your name, your story, your pain and surround yourself in a sea of people speaking a language you don't understand but you'll still come across someone whose scent reminds you of a memory you had suppressed, you'll still come across a colour that reminds you of someone's eyes, you'll look up at the moon and it'll take you back to another place, another time. You can run but you can't hide.

So run.

As far as you can, as fast as you can. Run like a wolf. Run like a fool. Run until your feet bleed, until your heart bursts, until you freeze from the cold, until you can't find your way back home.

Run.

Run.

Run.

Until you simply can't anymore. And then get up. Feel your pulse. Feel the pain. Even if it hurts like hell. Especially if it hurts like hell. Feel it in your chest, in your veins, in your tired, tired heart.

And that's when you'll slowly, eventually, heal.

[divinespairings]

the wolves will come again

[livs-cooke]

[bearsofair]

1.01//8.01

[early-sunsets]

That is true strength. [insp]

[msmarvel]

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

[halfbloodprince]

Why is it that when something happens, it is always you three?

[sakura-haruka]

Everyone is scared of something.

[quotemadness]

“They may not have loved you, but they did change you. They taught you. They grew you.”

— Bianca Sparacino

[travelleroftheglobe]

I didn't want to come back. Maldives was the perfect escape from the city life, traffic, pollution, responsibilities, rude citizens.. basically from reality. I found it surprising that even though there isn't much to do on an island, I was reluctant to come back. The thought of returning to the life of roads and not boats was unpleasant and I despised the fact that my holiday was ending. It is also one of the very few places I've visited that I wish to return to someday. Until next time.

[travelleroftheglobe]

Taken whilst embarking on an exciting journey on a budget airline. The most bored I've ever been on an airplane.

[travelleroftheglobe]

How I Met Your Mother is one of my favourite shows in the world. The first time I watched it, the ending broke my heart. The very foundation that the show was built on - The Mother - was not who the story was about. It almost felt like a betrayal to have us root for characters who weren’t going to end up together. Years later, today, I just finished re-watching the show. And I have a few pointers on watching it as a 23 year old and not a teenager. 

What you don’t understand when you start watching this series is that you are not signing up for a sitcom, you are signing up for drama, life lessons that believe it or not actually stay with you, heartbreaks and belief in destiny. 

From the moment Ted and Robin lay eyes on each other, there it is. Destiny. Fate. Timing. Everything. The moment after which life as you know it will never stay the same. When they meet and go on their first date there is obvious attraction. But Ted falls harder than Robin does which messes up their dynamic. After a while when they start dating, they break up because they realize their relationship has an expiration date. Eventually when they’re both on the same page years late i.e. Robin is finally ready for a serious commitment, she falls for Barney instead. Even at Barney and Robin’s wedding, she almost doesn’t go through with it thinking about how Ted is a better fit for her. Moreover, when Ted finally settles down, Robin realizes with more certainty than ever that she should have ended up with Ted. 

“If you have Chemistry, you only need one other thing. Timing. But timing is a bitch.” - Robin

This quote above explains the entire dynamic of their relationship. The timing between the two is always off. Whether is due to other relationships, career or frame of mind; timing has always been a bitch to them. Until the end of the show that is - when Ted and Robin are finally single and have achieved everything they wanted to in life. There he is, with the same blue french horn. And there she is, looking down her window with a smile on her face and tears in her eyes. 

Ted and Robin were endgame from the moment their eyes locked. Call it destiny, coincidence or their own life choices. They were meant to be, but they just had to go about their own way to finally realize that. And this is why, watching HIMYM as a 23 year old didn’t break my heart at the end, but rather made me realize that there are things that happen that are beyond our control. And we cannot rush certain things nor foresee them, sometimes we just have to keep doing what we do and hope and pray that the universe is watching and in the end, we will end up where we are supposed to.