“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end” – Ecclesiastes 3:11

I often stop to think about how priceless each word we share is, how every laughter is a stroke of paint on an eternal canvas, how our pulse, this flesh and soul that we carry are testaments to life. There’s a routine thing my mom does every night before she goes to sleep, she checks and makes sure that all the doors are locked, and every night she does this, I think about time in two ways, as a circle based on routine and repetitions and as a line because time is forward moving (at least in our reality) and nothing is done exactly the same even when it is done again.

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again” – Ecclesiastes 1:9 Time merely reveals things

There’s this desire to feel and understand the world deeply: by love, by the stars, by staring into another’s eyes, by music, by science and poetry, philosophy and language, by moments of joy and laughter and sorrow maybe, by the hugs we give to a friend when there are no words to say, by books and art and communities, by silence and the things we pour our hearts into…our heads into… our thoughts… our days, by our imaginings and our creations, by God – the deep force of the universe. But I think this could come at a cost, feeling the world deeply means being vulnerable to be affected by it; how can one be light and weightless in a world that’s heavy with conflicting ideologies, poverty, diseases, war…? I think “lightness” lies not in denying these facts but in knowing that beauty still exists, regardless and that there are limitless possibilities to our existence.

So seek beauty, seek love, give your heart to that which moves you and to those things that make you stand still. Never lose your wonder, even when you close your eyes.

How to feel the world in your heart? Embrace the possibility… and try.