Explore the Change

My coffee wired brain keeps me up at night with the memories of last years mistakes and this years opportunities. Change has scripted itself through the clouds and it sways through the air in which I breathe. Change is scary to me not because of leaving behind what I've come to know. It's scary because of what I don't know and what lies ahead on the luminously frightful path. My mind pulses like a blender at the very thought of the future and the different challenges I will be faced with. As John Green said in his book Looking For Alaska "we use the future to escape the present". That quote has stuck with me like a scar from the moment I read it. Even though the future can be in a year or five the future is also now. My thoughts are in the future, we're all living in the future scientifically delayed from the present. Change is the future, and I want to be that change. It's useless to worry about change because it's inevitable like the sun coming up every morning.
Adventure isn't about fearing the dusty road.  Explore the change that is bound to happen and the future that is occurring right now. Explore the thoughts that feed your mind each night. Explore the unknown and make it known.

- Sophia Safdieh

Be Zen

Adventure is a word that can be interpreted in many different ways.

Define Adventure: an exciting or very unusual experience.

​When one says they want to go on an adventure, what do they really mean? Do they want to escape and fly away to a place where the hot uv rays will beam on their skin, and act as their therapy. Do they want to try a new restaurant, one that is known for its excellent food?

An adventure can be from simple to as far-fetched as you want to make it.

I find that adventurous people are so focused on moving forward and learning new things, that when something bad happens they don’t stumble, instead they make it part of their dance. The dance of an adventurous soul is one that goes to its own beat, a beat that is immeasurable and unique.

Although they are so steadfast on making their mark, sometimes the dance can overpower them and a small storms hit them like a tornado. It engulfs their passion and life, immersing in them thoughts of hatred.

That was me today, the world seemed cold and bleak. My mind was out in the world seeking adventures but physically I was trapped and unable to move.

Until Sophia looked at me and told me, “Be Zen,”

And Zen I shall be…

-Florence Catton