Today I fell in love

Today I fell in love.

As I woke up at a friend’s house and I stared into the world, I saw how beautiful life is. Every little aspect of life is perfect. Even the imperfect is perfect. 

Even though while in Brazil I’ve felt that humanity isn’t what I expected it to be, I have also felt how good people are (even if savage at times). When I started planning to move to Brazil a year ago, I never thought I would encounter such beautiful souls in my journey. I never thought that people would hold their arms so widely open and welcome me so lovingly into their lives.

Every person I come across here has no obligation to me. They aren’t family or family friends. By societal terms, they don’t have a duty to make me part of their family and lives; yet, they do. They greet me with warming smiles and gentle looks. They are interested in who I am, where I come from and how I got here. Most of all, they want to share their happiness with me and make Brazil my home by opening their doors widely and saying ‘Take a look at my life. Come with me and explore this magical country’.

And with people like this, I fell in love with life. I feel how good people are.

As I lay by the pool, staring into the dreamy blue sky and listening to the birds sing, I think back on the hard-times of my life where everything was bleak and grey, and I look at where I am now in the world. I see that now I am living everything I ever dreamt of and I fall in love with the most beautiful thing of all: life. I fall in love with the thing that gives each and everyone of us an opportunity to grow and evolve, an opportunity to discover who we are and, most of all, an opportunity to be happy and to love.