Love is much more than pure romantic love, but it’s in romantic love that our hearts are smashed wide open, and we start feeling rather than thinking our way towards life.

Goals are not only necessary for us to survive and live, but also to blossom and live great lives. We tend to default to comfort and rarely want to leavethat space and as such live average lives instead of extraordinary ones we were supposed to live.

Lincoln Community School gave me the opportunity to have a powerful conversationwith the teenagers. I always enjoy my time with teenagers, as their exuberance is alwaysa reminder to how our life should look like and how alive we should feel.

I realized that people respond better when we infuse our words with a more passionate showing. The more feelings we add to what we are saying, the better the connection. The more engagement we add to our interactions, the better we live.

My talent is that I’m curious and courageous enough to ask the big questions. I’m open-minded to accept new learning’s, read, and never be satisfiedwith one idea. This search takes me into some kind of timeless awareness of who I am and where I am.

I am sure in the coming years I will uncover many new aspects of my self. I will expand on the practices that I’m doing now.

Yet, for now, I know I’m on the right path and am enjoying the journey to my authenticity.

Every day, I look forward even more to becoming who I must be.

One time I had a wonderful run under the rain and immediately feelings of freedom, lightness and that “close-to-nature-bliss” enveloped me. Earlierthat morning, I gazed out my window and noticed the way the rain danced onto the grass. I could see all this as if it was in slow motion, the dropsgrowing in size and dropping gently, almost asking for permission to land.

When adversity hits us, we start to ask questions. The harder it hits us, the deeper our questions become.

Sometimes, those questions end up being unexpected gifts that take us where we need to go next — where our souls demand we go. We tend to run

away from these difficult questions. Our thinking is based on our fight or flight mode that is deep-rooted in our reptilian brain and questions that

confront our way of life disturbs that part of our psyches