Jellis Vaes

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

Removing yourself from the familiar and opting for the unfamiliar opens up the unknown. And within the unknown there are questions we have never asked ourselves; experiences we have never imagined; lessons we have never had a chance to learn. What we ultimately need when we are stuck within a bubble, is change. Another perspective of seeing and knowing what is possible. Traveling will open that up for you. The world will play its role; all you need to do, is pack your bags and allow it to happen.

Traveling solo is an incredible _ life changing _ journey, which I can recommend anyone to undertake. It__ the fear of being alone that prevents many people from daring to take the step to go on that journey. But as with many things, within that fear you__l discover the greatest triumphs.

If you know why you are here, if you have a reason _ a purpose, you know why you are born _ you know why you are alive and you will feel alive. Purpose is THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the world to have.

I honestly think that depression, unhappiness or the feeling of emptiness is more a lack of amazement about life than anything else.

It__ true that no one ever said life would be easy, but it__ also true that no ever said you had to do it alone.

There is a whole world out there, waiting for you. A world filled with opportunities wherever and whenever you want to grasp them. And whether you do or you don___. well that is totally up to you.

If there is something that I have learned from my time on this planet of ours, something that I can share and that I know to be true, it__ that we disconnect ourselves from nature and the wilderness too many times. Our birthplace. Our home.

If you feel unhappy, sick or depressed, spend more time in nature and you will come to see the colors of life, you__l come to experience the amazing changes that this world can do for you. The wonder of the purest and most honest beauty there is, one that is not here to define anyone or anything, but simply to let you see why this life is so worth living.

Problems, struggles, difficulties, whatever you want to call them, are normal. In fact, each and every person you see walking on the street, sitting in the metro, working out at the gym, wherever, is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Problems are the most human thing about being a human, and are one of the few things that each and every one of us has in common.

Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.

Your scars are unique gems that contain opportunities for both personal growth and to help save the life of someone else. However, you can only realize these when you fully claim who you are. And to fully claim who you are also means recognizing, and taking ownership of the scars that come along with the rest of you.

There is not one single thing you cannot do if you are able to see fear for what it truly is. Life is full of choices, and one of those choices involves fear. You can either let it control you, or you can learn to control it.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

There is good to be found within anything bad. Even within the death of your own father.

Don't waste this life being sad, angry or depressed as you just don't have as much time as you think you do.

We are constantly taught in both in what we read, and what we see on the TV be it consciously and subconsciously, that being unhappy is not normal. Every time we read or hear about how we should be feeling happy, and how we need to go about it, and for whatever reason we aren__ at that moment in time, well, you feel that__ something must be wrong with you. __hat__ wrong with me, I should be feeling happy in my life, but I__ not. Every article I have read says all those steps on how to be happy, but they don__ seem to work for me, I am still unhappy.__ou come to see unhappiness as some kind of problem with you, with your personality. Something not normal at all. But it is. It is very normal. It is part of every human being, it is a part of you, it is part of who you are. You__e got to first of all understand and acknowledge that feeling unhappy is nothing but normal and it isn__ something you should be afraid of. It only means that your emotions are functioning well and are taking care of you by keeping you up to date with the truth.

You either live to become an anchor of inspiration for those around you, or you live to become an anchor for a lesson for them. Whatever you become, it is entirely up to you to decide.