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Who, what, when, where, why, and how do you believe?

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By Taegan F Belief is what I believe to be the most powerful force in the world. The unexplainable creative flow and belief go hand in hand and work together in an alchemical way. Feelings hold different weight, and belief is light and fast, like the colour purple – which is associated with royalty and wisdom. The Vedic’s believed in a chakra system, different energy points running through the human body like little wheels taking in and spinning out energies. There are 7 most popular ones and at the one at the base of the head is most known as the crown chakra – it is purple and represents higher consciousness, interconnectivity, and universal wisdom. It is known to carry belief is to know the world. To know reality. Believing in anything is fuel for life itself. Belief explains the power of religious groups. Bringing people together with a shared belief amplifies the effect of that belief. It gives a sense of community and purpose. Even if you don’t follow a religion or have spiritual...
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Can You Feel It?

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By Jayden Kyryluk   "What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. "  - Gautama Buddha    Nothing I have done is who I am. This self-image I have so strongly built up for myself through relationships, travels, experiences, accomplishments, and interests do not even equate to a particle of dust when the true drop of my being is found in the ocean of cosmic consciousness. This ego mind clings so hard to the self-imposed, to the created self and outer public image. It believes that is what it is. Who I am.    The harder I try to cling to the image of myself and build it into something I may believe in, the further I travel away from my true being. I can feel it. Can you? The more we search for who we are in external things and satisfactions, the further we distance from the true definition of ourself found within. I look back at my actions in building up an image of who I want to look like rather than...
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Location: HMGJ+2P2, 194302
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Absurdity & Time

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By Mackenzie Kyryluk The absurdity of life is at times lost on me. I wake up, day after day, to a new opportunity, yet the same. Each living soul around this world is given the same time each day. We are defined and constricted to the sense of time our ancestors have bequeathed us. On the other side of the flowing river of time, we are each given an equitable allocation of this undefinable resource. What is time? Imagine you're given the task of explaining this concept to someone with no prior knowledge. “ One second is saying Mississippi out loud, a minute is 60 of those, and an hour another 60 of those, but in a day there are 24 hours, that makes a day, and in a year there are 365 of those, but every four years there are 366. ” Yes, it follows the angle at which the sun moves around the Earth and the time it takes for the Earth to make one full rotation around the Sun. Is it not also a wonder that within that time it takes for the earth to make its ‘full year’ journey, it also sp...
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Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Access Theory

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By Jayden Kyryluk   Access Theory: How fear, experience, and confidence form a self-reinforcing cycle of human growth.   UNKNOWN → EXPERIENCE → ACCESS Access is the freedom that follows familiarity. It's the ability to act, move, or connect without fear, after transforming what was once unknown into lived experience. Life is about experience, but you begin it with nothing. Every new experience, however, brings the freedom to do what was once the unknown again without fear. New experiences bring access to the fruits of it. Meeting a new friend, a once unknown person, in a different city gives access to that city and person. Going to a new school is a leap into the unknown. A student learns from the experience, then ultimately gains access to the fruits of it, such as a job only accessible from the obtained degree, friends met along the way, or the independence of living on their own for the first time. Without undertaking the experience of school, its fruits would never have be...
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Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Take Hold of Life

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By Jayden Kyryluk  You can’t wait for things to be perfect before you start living your life. That dream of “things aligning” before doing what you really want is a distant desire of the same ilk as that new car you want. If you want that car, you have to start saving for it. It won't just come to you. Life doesn’t pause for anyone; it doesn’t wait. It continues to flow, and it is up to you to move with that flow or watch it go by.  Waiting is a fool's game. As you sit there watching others live their lives, you may wish it was you. You may wish you had their opportunities or life experiences. Life will not come to you. You have to grab it. If you want something, you have to stand up, right now, and take that first step. You want to write a book? Write the first word. You want to run a marathon? Put your shoes on, and go for a run. You want to learn a new language? Start studying. These things do not magically happen. A first step must be taken, a spark that electrifies everyt...
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Location: Barcelona, Spain
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Foreign Love Affairs

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By Taegan F The missed connections. The intense short lived burning passion. I’m not talking just about a romance with someone foreign with a different mother tongue, or the lingering eye contact you make with someone across a cafe as you have your daily croissant; as the eyes are the only way you can really communicate anyways. I mean the aching desire and longing love for olives that your motherland can’t even dare to replicate, the engulfing admiration for architecture that you pass by with every little step and grieve as you go to the next street, the next city, and the next country. I mean the playfulness of using a broken language with someone who laughs at your ignorance, the way the stars are slightly shifted in the sky, the grass that really is greener on the other side, the richness of an orange and the way its aroma bursts into the air, dosing you in its perfume as it fills your tummy. I mean all the knick’s and knacks you couldn’t justify buying but will always remain fond ...
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Expect the Unexpected

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By Jayden Kyryluk   Prepare for everything, most importantly the unexpected. Devastation—that feeling that we’re absolutely crushed and shocked by an event—is a factor of how unlikely we considered that event in the first place. So expect the unexpected. As Seneca said, “fortune falls heavily on those for whom she’s unexpected. The one always on the lookout easily endures.”
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Location: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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