wandering the world with a melody in my heart.

Most people are convinced that as long as they are not overtly forced to do something by an outside power, their decisions are theirs, and that if they want something, it is they who want it. But this is one of the great illusions we have about ourselves. A great number of our decisions are not really our own but are suggested to us from the outside; we have succeeded in persuading ourselves that it is we who have made the decision, whereas we have actually conformed with expectations of others, driven by the fear of isolation and by more direct threats to our life, freedom, and comfort.

~Erich Fromm

Point Nemo is one of the most isolated places on the planet. It sits in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, about 2,700 kilometers from the nearest bits of land. That makes it the spot on Earth farthest from any coastline.

Because of that distance, if you’re floating out there, you’re actually closer to the astronauts on the International Space Station, orbiting about 400 kilometers above you, than you are to any person on land.

It’s sometimes called the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, and the name Nemo comes from the Latin word for “no one.”

The area around it is so empty that the nearest “neighbors” are usually satellites and space debris re-entering the atmosphere, since the region is often used as a spacecraft graveyard.

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

Under wisteria showers, she blossoms with quiet grace and soft wonder. ✨🌸

If your soul is not ready to surrender to another soul, don't tell anyone that you are in love...!!

The strongest version of you isn’t the one who never feels alone but the one who feels complete even when no one’s around. 🤎 ❤️🧡

Hello my coffee loving peeps! ☕️💕

a beautiful spot to drink a cup of coffee!! ☕️