Peace, Love and Music

Tumblr and life

I’m sitting at my dining room table, listening to Janelle Monae, browsing my dashboard looking at all these lovely pictures of models, designer clothes, mansions, beautiful oceans, blah blah blah. 

Someone posts something about love. About people not caring anymore about personality, but only about looks. 

And I mean, if you live in a world like, say perhaps Tumblr, of course you would thinks so. 

It’s easy to get a peek at the most beautiful things people have ever taken pictures of, or the most beautiful pictures. You rarely see text posts, and if you do, they are just answering questions. 

People no longer believe they have the time to read, to learn, to actually see a person for who they are. 

I fell in love with a person who, 6 years ago, when they first approached me, I wasn’t attracted to at all. 

As I grew to know myself spiritually and practically, I opened myself to the things I needed in this world, and not the things I wanted. I grew. I am still growing. I’m fully aware that I do not know everything, that actually, I hardly know anything, but what I do know is myself. 

And as we are growing in our relationship, I am learning him. I am growing in him, and he is growing in himself. He had to go through things in life to appreciate where he is now, the man who he is now and the woman that he happened to fall in love with. 

But if we didn’t look past our outside and journey within, if we didn’t believe  that there was more to each of us than our looks, we wouldn’t be here. 

What happened to people believing in anything they don’t see?

What happened to people having faith?

Don’t you think if we had faith, we wouldn’t have to cover our flaws with designer clothes and pretty things because there is a void?

I know the value in well made things, that’s why I’m talking to you from my MacBook. That’s why I have a fairly nice watch sitting next to me. 

I love and enjoy pretty things, but I don’t need them to fill a void in me. I don’t need them to make me feel pretty, really, I don’t NEED them. 

But we’ve gotten so confused as to what we WANT and what we NEED in this world.

I just felt this needed to come out of me. Even if no one reads this far…

maybe I should insert a picture and tag it under #couture #chanel #fashion #bokeh #makeup  

I’ve seen the statement so many times, We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience. 

To me, that means more than anything else. 

Experience life, believe in something other than what you see. Understand that there is an amazing world outside of your community, computer, mind, Tumblr, iPod and self. 

Respect it, nurture it, believe it, grasp it, love it, encourage it, engage it, understand it, be in awe of it