I wonder, what the word “passion” exactly means
Something you feel excitement for like supporting your favorite team or singing Karaoke?
Something you are eager to do like following your dearest celebrity on social media?
Someone, or beloved animals, you desire to be with whenever you can?
Jakucho Setouchi, a woman who loved writing throughout her life, closed her 99-year-long book on November 9th. She was merely one of the celebrities that I would occasionally glance at on the media until she was brought up in a conversation with a friend last year when I mentioned my passion for writing. “I loved, I wrote, and I prayed,” is the phrase that Jakucho chose for her gravestone, which describes how she lived in brevity.
Since when I was a teenager
I’ve been asking myself, repeatedly
Why I’m here
In this room, in this house
On this street, in this city
In this country, on this planet
“You may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer and Physician
“To find your Light, start with asking yourself why you are here.”
Ko Takamine, Japanese Poet/Writer
I write,
not because
I’m into literature
I write,
because I want to
connect with people
I write,
not because
I simply enjoy writing
I write,
because I want to
heal wounded souls
Right beside my heart, I finally found you
Sitting there for all time
Now I can talk to you in my heart
Whenever no one’s around
Now I can share with you
Whatever I find beautiful here on earth
Now I can feel us together
Wherever I go, when I need you
On a vast sand dune
With a perfect wind blowing
Like back in the old days
Trying to fly a kite up in the air
First try… it fell
Second try… it fell again
Third try… it went up for a while but dived into the sand
Fourth, fifth, sixth… endless trials
5:50 a.m. – Couples, families, friends
Sitting on the sand, quietly, looking out the ocean
Tides making soothing sounds
Take us to another level of consciousness
Under my feet, the heatless, solid sand
Leads to the tidy water
The water reaches up to a sharp, uninterrupted horizon
Above that, soft, indefinite shapes of clouds hovering
Gibran said, joy and sorrow are inseparable
When you are in sorrow, its counterpart, joy, is sitting aside hiding
For you to experience
When you are in joy, vice versa
The sorrow that a Highly Sensitive Person goes through
Can be fifty times more intense, severe, and unbearable
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”
Kim Culbertson, American Young-Adult Novelist
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
Marie Curie, Polish Physicist/Chemist
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