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Snowy roads

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muditā

(noun) An untranslatable Sanskrit word, muditā is described as the feeling of happiness on behalf of someone else. Muditā connotes one of the most sincere and purest manifestations of happiness. This joy comes from an established sense of self, where a sympathetic or vicarious joy exists and you get pleasure from others’ well-being as opposed to envy.  (via wordsnquotes)

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Gabriel Scanu

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Pangnirtung, Nunavut | Canada (by Jason Pineau)

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When you’re travelling on the well trodden path, it is so easy to not question where you’re going or how you are learning. There is a simplicity to your journey, no small side paths that you place a curious step onto, no large roadblocks that cause you to have to find an alternate route, no one that leads you anywhere except along the original and well worn road. There may be mystery and lessons learnt along that route, and they will stretch you, teach you, quash you and build you, but you’re still on that well trodden path, aiming for each milestone you reach along the way and with the goal of ending up in a certain place. And aware of it or not, almost everyone has walked that same journey, before you, alongside you, or at least began it with you. Sometimes we don’t even notice the other people that are walking along side us, figuring out where they’re going and following this same big path, because as human beings we can be encompassed in our own journey, story and direction. That path, the one of the masses, is the “if you keep up with this, you’ll do very well” path, the “you’re on the right track, just keep going” path, the “We’ve all been there, you’ll make it through” path. It’s the no questions asked path. 

But what about the other directions? The small tracks that are overgrown and rocky? The paths that haven’t even been formed yet? The ones that require continually pushing through branches, stepping over fallen tress and shrubs, and clambering rocky heights? The the path not well trodden, the path that, when discussed, is responded to with dozens of questions and little understanding. If those paths are difficult to get onto, hard to walk, challenging to discuss, and seemingly pointless to the masses who walk on that of the well trodden, how are we, those who verge away from the masses, to be understood and accepted while we walk away from them?

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Hallstatt, Austria by James Relfdyer

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Put your hand on a stove for a minute & it feels like an hour, Sit with a beautiful girl for a hour & it feels like an minute. This is how Albert Einstein defined Relativity,

But I believe that youth is relativity. That you could spend your 20s inching along safe in social constructs, Or you could spend your days in new towns, new places, with new faces, chasing new destinations,

So do you live your youth slow & painful? Or fast & free?

This is the theory of youth. (Book Coming Soon)

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You will meet many types of people in your life. You will meet delicate flowers, raging oceans, quiet forests, towering mountains, and colourful skies. You will meet thunderstorms, you will meet lightning. They will knock you down, they will leave you breathless. You will meet sunrises, you will meet gardens. They will give you light, they will take you on adventures. Explore them. Get lost with them. They all have something to teach you. 

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Davenport, California

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On the darkest days, when I feel inadequate, unloved and unworthy, I remember whose daughter I am and I straighten my crown.

(via hecallsmelovely)

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