I turned from a hopeless Romantic to a realist after watching the Talk that Alain de Botton gave on Romanticism and later reading his books , '' On Love'' and '' An Emotional Education '' . Crossing the bridge from Blind Optimism , to an understanding of the unfair world and the beauty of melancholy as means to sustain life in hard times until the rain passes. Childhood trauma and generally all types of traumas make us believe the most ridiculous things about ourselves , about who we are , what we deserve .. the most unreal bizarre stories .. and we believe it and it dictates how we live every day , how we carry ourselves and what the limits are for our hopes and dreams ..

I have come so far , but it often feels like i haven't taken a single step , Like every failure or set back is a disaster or ticking bomb that will go off any minute ... To counter act all the negative self talk and negative belief that overwhelms and paralysis me .. I need to feed my mind and sprinkle a bit extra love , extra belief in the possibility of greatness , extra Romanticism .....🙊ops yes i said Romanticism .. I think the Beauty of Being human is the ability to Hope ... its crazy that we are always surprised when things go wrong , that we get sad and cry .. we know for sure and we have learned form the years of being in world that bad things happen and that we should almost expect that they will .. that life is the YIN and Yang .. but we each carry inside us a child like hope that we will be met with only the good .. it is this stubborn hope that keeps us going and makes life beautiful ..

Are you a Romantic ?

“It is the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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