Valentine's Day Card

(One could say this to a person or in front of a mirror and it should equally be valid.)


I love you because the universe has seem fit to bring us together, even though we are, separately, already self-contained and complete human beings.

I love you because I am not desperate to love you.

I love you because I am not lonely, and yet still adore being with you.

I love you because you call my bluffs.

I love you because Hallmark has absolutely no idea how to say what we feel.

I love you because if I spoke to you in cliches, you would laugh in my face.

Bliss Liner Notes: Listening to Advice

Additional dissertations on Bliss:

You will realize that those who are living healthy lives are usually the ones least likely to give you advice. The healthy need not counsel the healthy.

It took me a while to realize this, but it seems that since I was born everybody has been telling me what to do with myself.

What makes me laugh now is realizing how many people are not doing what they would love to do, are not living the life that would make them truly happy even though they know that they can change their lives if they wanted to, but for some reason have decided not to, and they remain miserable because of it.

And they’re the ones telling me what to do with myself. Now that’s funny.

I’ve decided that I will not listen to what miserable people tell me. And the next time someone tells me what to do with myself, I’ll reply with this:

"Go fix yourself first, then tell me how I can fix myself."

That’s another thing that I realized. People like to give advice because they don’t have a clue as to how to fix themselves, and maybe they’re hoping that if they help me fix me, they’ll figure out how to fix themselves. If you look at this approach from a sideways-slanted, squinting your eyes and standing on your head angle, it sort of makes sense.

Not.

The few people I’ve met who are living healthy lives, for some reason, never gave me much advice. If anything, I learned from them by observing them. Our conversations were about constructive things, positive things. Happiness.

When someone comes up to me and asks for my advice on something as grand as their life, I tell them:

“You have to make your own choices, and decide what is healthy and unhealthy for you. What is healthy for me is not necessarily what is healthy for you, so I cannot tell you what you should do. After you decide what is healthy for you, act accordingly.”

Bliss

This is a letter to my newborn self. This is not about what you should do, but what you will do.


One day, you will realize that you are happy. Not because you have everything, but because you have abandoned the need to have everything.

You will spend all your energy walking your own path, and not be distracted by trying to walk someone else’s path.

You will stop measuring your worth against that of others, because your worth is immeasurable. There is no measuring infinite against infinite.

You will realize that anywhere you are at the moment is just as fulfilling as anywhere else you could be. You will realize that it is much more affordable to be happy right where you are.

You will stop being angry because it is a waste of energy.

You will stop being fearful because it is too limited.

Addiction and escape, like misery, loves company.

You will find that envy is created in the mind, and does not exist otherwise.

You will work hard but be surprised when you are rewarded, because an expectation is a promise you give to yourself without control of its fulfillment.

You will realize that those who are living healthy lives are usually the ones least likely to give you advice. The healthy need not counsel the healthy.

You will not be hurt when disparaged because you will not give anyone permission to do so.

You will seek transparency because it is unburdened.