The World According To Leo

There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living!

I havent written in a while… I’ve been busy. But i have so much on my mind that tonight i felt the need to write something again. I felt the need to tell the world how grateful i am to be me. Here i am, sitting outside on my patio… Candles burning in hanging lanterns and on the bistro table i’m sitting at, the light of a citronella lanterns flickers away the possibility of any mosquito coming near me. We all dread those little fuckers… The sound of the night is accompanied with a soft piece of opera - O Mio Babbino Caro - playing in the background. All else is quiet. So is my mind. Those anxious, sad, angry, upset feelings that i felt a few months ago are gone. I now feel content. I now feel what i’ve been telling myself all along - “It will get better”. And it does. Yes, i still have moments where i think of you but they’re getting fewer and further apart. Is this what ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ does? One moment you were my world. The next moment, BAM! In ...

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. And letting go is the only way to move forward.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you. Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next! Unknown

Is your idea of me really what I’m about? And does it matter? A few days ago I met someone who I briefly met once, a few years ago. After some idle chitchat, the conversation started getting a bit more personal, and this person started describing their first impression of me, which he created in his head a few years back. He described me as shallow, aloof, self-absorbed, a label-queen, someone who only hangs with the A-list, who only shops at Woolies, lives from restaurant to restaurant… and the list goes on… I was initially taken aback by it but proceeded to defend myself to tell this person who I really am. As I was sitting on the grass, barefoot, with a beer in my hand, I told this person that I’m actually just a small-town boy who just happened to live in the big city. I’m down to earth, loyal, sincere, honest, well-read, well educated, I like walking barefoot, I drink beer from a bottle, I wear T-shirts and jeans and I spend time with people who are real and sincere. I do o...