THOUGHTS: It’s Not About You, It’s Them

The truth is that for the majority of times, it isn’t you.

5 Striking Realizations of An Exchange Student in Montreal

A semester or two ahead of you in Montreal, your plane banks to the left giving you an exhilarating view of Mont Royal and Mont Tremblant in the distance as you descend into Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. Over the next few months your life is going to change and what an adventure is it going to be!

‘Rum & Coca Cola’ in a Montreal Loft | THE STUDENT TRAVELS | Montreal Adventures

We could be anywhere in the world, however the music we are all jamming to in the background seems to sell out our location as Trinidad or Tobago. The stickiness of our skins does not beg to differ.

Where in the world are we?
Montreal, Quebec.

THOUGHTS: Our Obsession With ‘Forever’- Relationships Not Having To Last

“Some things are better left short and unadulterated; it is what it is and what it was is perfect.”

Thoughts: Life is Everything At Once

Life is chance and coincidence. It is serendipity and bad timing. It is living and embracing momentarily intertwining paths while wishing for friendship sustained.
Life is worth living.

Pixels: The Best Moments Cannot Be Captured

You got the shot of the winning goal but did you see the player’s son’s look of euphoria? Did you see the best mates empty beers on each other as they beamed as bright as the sun? Today I got a wonderful shot of our …

Pixels: Grenada, North Coast, Beach Day & Nature

    I’m dreaming of experiences in lands far away.  I’m embracing the moments in this fleeting existence. I’m utilising the library of knowledge that I’ve gained. We all came from somewhere and we are all heading somewhere. It does not matter that we have …

Thoughts: Even If We Can’t Find Heaven

If you listen to mainstream pop you have possibly heard this song.
If you use slang you have possibly made the statement, “I’m going through hell.”

 

If you live in a fairly conservative religious society, all of the grannies, grandpas, mommies and daddies are switching the station, rolling their eyes and shaking their heads in disappointment as this easy to sing along with jam is aired. Perhaps it is because the idea of not finding heaven and being in hell with someone is such a serious situation that we can’t talk lightly about it.

Which sucks because the song makes a fairly (very) controversial statement to represent commitment in a relationship. Meanwhile we have G-Eazy letting us know that he is not looking for love he is just looking for sex. So many songs speak of these relationships with shelf lives so short that they don’t even make it to the shelf. Sure flings are fun but they aren’t productive in terms of the bigger picture. That is, in the sense that it is a lot harder to raise a stable, contributing member of society who will perpetuate our species from a relationship where there was not a long term fondness, interaction and care between both partners before life was created.

Most people believe in a heaven or equivalent nirvana; it is practical considering the hardships of this life. Heaven can be equated to not only the good times but that end goal of success that one may work towards or contemplate throughout the day. Unfortunately heaven seems to be elusive so often. Instead bills, loans, cancer, long term illness, hardships and disappointment are frequent visitors in this life. What did the first three weeks of January feel like? It felt like hell. I lost more than I was willing to part with.

Sticking with another when things are dismal, gloomy or downright terrible is such an important attribute that I think the lyrics of the song are used in a manner than can be justified. If heaven and hell exist, our only way to conceptualise what they will be like is draw from the highs (the heavens) and the extreme lows (the hells) that we face in this existence.

Here is to sticking with those chosen people through hell.
Here is to loving them in the good and in the terrible.
Here is to being at your side.
Here is to joy and agape if we ever find heaven.

Much love,
Rusharella
Ps. I hope you find heaven.

 

 

Thoughts: Picking a Leaf to Kill a Tree- Life

Things could be a lot better, a lot a lot better.

Pixels: 2016= 30 Days, 4 Sailing Trips, 3 1/2 Hours in Tobago, 2 Lost Loved Ones, 1 German Junge, No Hope

It’s just a section of the highlight reel. It isn’t always sunshine and blue skies. Don’t base the quality of your own life off of your perception of those of others. Life is however, whatever you make of it.