I saw a life worth living after an art show in the Bahamas.

by Brittany Wagley (United States of America)

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Theres something about the journey of coming out of depression, or at least the journey of experiencing theres more to life, even in just the small things, the things that just make you happy. For me, seeing the beautiful among the terrible sparks some sense of euphoria because I believe like my favorite artist, Van Gogh, theres something euphoric is the high, the rise, the creation in such a dark and gloomy world once you actually looks at it as a whole. In the 81 days of manic Gogh had he created an art piece for each day drawing the beauty out of the bland before taken the life of a gloomy old sold one painting in his life time man before people really appreciated what he had to give. He made 81 paintings to showcase around his life before suicide. When you take a step back, at least for me, really observing everything and making truly the most out of every moment, and you look around it's like you can physically feel the beauty as it swells up your eyes with tears. You see the most God awful inspiring beauty fuzzy feeling in your stomach goosebumps on your arm heavy and light weight all at once when you see nature and culture in different ways, ways that make you believe that there is a meaning to all of it and that your years of terrible experiences were only to make you to a point that when You experience something new, something old, something that brings you joy and in even the simplest of things, that something making it all connected, it's just that you have to be the one to chase those connections. You have to close your eyes and picture exactly what you want to experience and make it happen. It's like i see this city, so full of vibrant life and beautiful colors, you see each paint stroke of life of how life decided to bring you together with anything that brings joy to your inner self. The red cabana roofs, colored with bright beautiful turquoise, baby pink and vibrant lilac purple strips of buildings finished off with sidings and windows and every which combination the architecture mind could conjure up with what's only a beautiful piece of art existing, manipulating the environment and atmosphere in way that artists can do. In a way that's designed to not only capture the tourists and locals eyes, but to make those of us that experience deep issues that then followed by the manic high that Gogh experienced. The manic high that can make irrational decisions but once learning to control the deep emotional stability and only get to experience pure bliss in the beauty of the world, your world, no matter where it goes or what your soul gets to partake in at any giving time. The Things That Make You Happy. For me, it's the cultures, anywhere, the people. It's the music, its dancing and feeling just joy in moving around, connecting with people all over for no reason but to move poetically. Its experiences and memories and laughter with others. Its experiencing what I can only describe as my Van Gogh Manic high, that For just awhile I can meditate or open my eyes, really open them and see the world like piece of art brush strokes or still life photography just because of how beautiful it is, this creation is. It takes away from all of the bad things, the things I know in the world that are still unfair, terrible, greedy, disgusting things that causes me to lose hope from time to time,.The world is a beautiful place and I'm not afraid to die. I'm happy to experience the things that give me hope to keep going, to keep thriving to take exactly what is mine, my life and my pursuit of happiness and no mercy to those or things that dont fit on that Even the dark days. The days I remind myself that everything can be connected, through energy and hope to enjoy life, to enjoy the artwork, the story, the puzzle, the reason, to be whatever you truly want to be.