Élan Vital.

Rove around with your arms wide open and your heart taking pleasure in the surroundings. Stay wild and live freely, do what makes you happy and don't stop. The earth's beautiful and boundless; don't stop exploring it. Swim to the depths of the ocean and climb to the highest mountain. Pour your heart out onto those pages of your diary and maybe pass it on to strangers, your words do hold the power to move places and people. Dance naked in your own company at 3AM to your favourite song, celebrate your quirkiness. Journey to places you never dreamed, know what it is made of. Live for sunset skies and the first rain. Go make somebody smile, help somebody out with a chore, each of us has a lot of love to give to this world and believe me, it'll come back to you. Laugh. Cry. Let out those emotions of yours in their most honest, authentic way. You're beautiful with them, you know? Push yourself to the points you never imagined and be proud of yourself when you look ba...

I had been running around in circles, away from the city light and far from people's eyes, pulling out from the mayhem that surrounded me, and the one that had been rising within me. I'd been pacing about to seek the answers to questions I didn't understand. I'd tear myself apart by the ends of the universe, just to look at the big black hole of nothingness staring right back at me. There was this longing to be set free, pull aside this flesh and soul, the agony and confusion and to taste the sweet escapade. They said there's a cabin up the hills, known for it's beatific spirit and the power to make one feel whole. They said it's gloom-ridden and devoid of negativity. So I just rushed up there. Anxious. Yearning for peace. I knocked hard on the door, no answer. I tried again but all I could hear was silence screaming back at me. So I decided to wait until somebody came by. Hours went by and I had been waiting. I was losing my mind. Everything felt like...