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If you think about it, life is a game.

All the challenge that you go through in life are like the quests that lead you to the final boss. Which is...possibly God?

Everything that happens to you, whether it's small or big, it's a quest that needs to be completed before you move up to the next level. As you progress throughout the game, the quests become more difficult. And with difficulty comes more points, meaning you get more experience.

All of us are playing a different game with the same set of rules and possibly the same final boss.

-Book Part 2-

"What a man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task."

"If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon."

"Painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is."

"In some way, suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

"To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic."

"The burden of unavoidable happiness is increased by unhappiness about being unhappy."

"The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way to self-management, perhaps to cure."

"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into more arbitraries unless it is lived in terms of irresponsibleness."

'The truth is that man does not live by welfare alone."

-Book Part 1-

"He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."

"Suffering in an of itself is meaningless; we give our suffering meaning by the way in which we respond to it."

"We are never left with nothing as long as we retain the freedom to choose how we will respond."

"Yes, a man can get used to anything. But don't ask us how." (reference to concentration camps)

Abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior."

"At such a moment it is not the physical pain which hurts the most; it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all."

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last if the human freedoms- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"

"One could make a victory of those experiences, turning life into an inner triumph, or one could ignore the challenge and simply vegetate."

"There was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer."

Growing up I used to find quotes extremely cheesy. Probably because of the dramatic use of the "emo" backgrounds with glowing text in Arial Narrow font overlapping them.

Last year however, I made an acquaintance in college whom I've only ever exchanged two words with, but managed to get their number. Their WhatsApp status(yes, a quote from a WhatsApp status changed my life, feel free to laugh because I would too) said something in the lines of the following:

"We have two lives. The second one begins when we realize we only have one."

And I kid you not my jaw dropped. I had this sense of euphoria rushing through my body. The hair on my arms spiked up. Basically, my mind was blown by these 15 words.

This quote means a lot to me and it's what has kept me going. Life is beautiful and sometimes it is difficult to disregard its many flaws. But we really do have only one life, so why not we do the things we like, hug the people we love and explore endlessly.

Remember that all you need is one person to believe in yourself. And that person is you.

Why is it that we seek for approval from others to pursue what we desire most? Perhaps its the comfort that comes with "hey, I believe in you". I'm here to tell you that believing in yourself is the only necessity to chase whatever it is you want. Don't wait for others to come by because life doesn't work that way. Turn your life around.

Being loved is such a beautiful feeling. We get excited when their name pops up in our screen, when they remind us they love us be it with words or actions.

But to love is much the opposite. It is so easy to love another until their negativity floods the room. It is so easy to love them until they don't hear the message you are trying to convey. It is difficult when they listen but don't hear you. It is difficult when they talk but not communicate.

Because they remind us that there is a bigger universe out there. Billions of galaxies and milky ways and planets and moons; you name it. They remind us that we don't really matter. Nothing really matters. You didn't submit your homework on time? Doesn't matter. Someone boke your heart? Shrug it off, it doesn't matter.

The universe is so beautiful. The world is beautiful, it's just got this really ugly side to it. But if you look closely, it can really be wonderful.

Nothing matters, so why not we grow to be content with our lives? Do what we actually love. Be a nice human being. Hug your mom. Smell your pet's fur. Nothing matters and it is all so beautiful.

Why does everything needed to be guarded with four walls? Or maybe that's just the impression we get. I noticed that I have been lacking motivation to create anything the past year because I felt the need to follow the rules that govern art. I would love my photography but doubt uploading it just because I didn't use the rules of thumb. This had happened to everything I've been creating. Poems, art, crafts, whatever it be.

But then I realized...the walls are not even there. Literally, these rules that have been created for us to follow, we don't necessarily have to follow them at all. We should feel free to create and explore and upload and be open to compliments and criticism. All of our work is unique. None of it is perfect. Not even the best of the best. We're all absolutely beautiful in our own ways, and so is our art.

So here I am, writing. Finally. After so long. There are no walls. And even if there are, I'll break them down and move past.