#almostthreemonths

Ok, so I haven't posted anything in forever and that's not good. I'm really looking forward to posting some new pictures from my trips to Paris and London, and also from my birthday, etc. SOON (:D)... BUT, before I do that I just need to get this out there:

Throughout my time spent here in Belgium I can’t help but notice a growing trend among the people I’ve come into contact with. So many people have this innate need for everything to be labeled; classified as black or white, put in a box and all neatly tied up in a bow. We all have this desire more or less, for things to make sense to us with no loose ends or gray areas. This is because the unknown is scary; even if we aren’t consciously aware of this, the state of not understanding something unnerves us. It sets off almost like a little tick inside our brains that is the catalyst of all this craziness. I think that being curious is a wonderful thing. It poses an opportunity to learn and experience in a unique way, and leads us to answers we didn’t even know we had the questions to. However, sometimes “finding answers”, strict black and white, apples and oranges is really difficult. And sometimes trying to force a thing or idea into a specific category puts a damper on the very thing that makes it what is and makes it special and wonderful. I don’t know if I’m making any sense but I feel like I’ve been seeing people left and right struggling to classify things as “right” or “wrong” and completely missing the point of it because of their incessant search for “the answer” when all they need to do is accept things as they are. Some of the most beautiful things in life are the things that have no scientific explanation and can be interpreted in many ways. I wish people would learn that gray is ok and that you aren’t stupid for not having the answer to everything.