Inevitable death - The topic no one likes to talk about :)

I told myself at the beginning of this year that I was going to blog more, yet i find myself not knowing what to blog about. A thought occurred to me today though; "One day we will all cease to exist" People die, it happens literally all the the time. Call me insensitive but it's factually a part of life because at the end of life always comes death. Death is inevitable. This is a quote from one of my favorite movies (It's also a book just fyi) 

"There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does."
-  John Green, The Fault in Our Stars   

Just think about that for a minute now i'm not just typing this just to type; there is a point to it. From the moment we are born we are already dying, while some of you may find that depressing I find it quite inspirational..  What if we didn't ignore the fact that eventually we will all die? If we know that tomorrow is not promised to us why don't we live like it? I mean sure we're breathing and stuff but actually live as in;  Not keeping feelings bottled up or not letting fear cripple you from achieving your dreams. The kind of living that i'm talking about will be defined differently for everyone; to some it's travelling and seeing new place and experiencing new things, others working towards that job you want, Turning your dreams into reality no matter what; I could go on and on about scenarios but that would take forever and i want you to evaluate in your head what "Living" is for you personally. 

Until next time, Maria 

I'm home - continued

So, I did say I'd post pictures and such about my trip so we will start with this (the quality isn't that great due to the fact my phone broke right before I left for china) ;

This is when we flew over either Antarctica, Canada or Russia, I can't remember but I do remember how incredibly beautiful it was haha!

Next we've got when I flew into Hong Kong..

After we arrived there we found our driver and after a long wait at the border made it into China... we got to the hotel about three or four hours later at midnight.. i was exhausted to say the least.

This was the view from the room (We ended up switching rooms later due to construction)

This was right outside the front doors of the hotel

Pictures taken on the island

Having tea at my parent's friend's shop (If you ever find yourself on Shamian island visit "Susan's Place" they have some really neat stuff!) 

I unfortunately got really sick while I was there (Im not used to being in such humid weather haha) but apparently tea fixes everything so the next day we visited their Shop and I drank tea all day..  Voila the next day i was fine so to this day I swear Chinese tea fixes EVERYTHING.

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Pictures from the hotel 

After two weeks of being there my trip came to an end and I honestly I thought i'd be ready to come home but that was not the case.. I joked and told my parents they could just leave me there.. China is such a Beautiful country and I didn't want to leave. The Last day i was there we had walked back from the market and I was just thinking about having to get on the plane tomorrow (What a dreaded flight it was) and go home when I looked out the window to take one last picture of the view we had and the sun was relatively shining; for the first time since i had been there i got to see the sunshine.. it was so pretty. I remembered that

 "all good things must come to an end but new experiences await" and I have many other places to travel too (Even though China will always hold a special place in my heart). 

The next morning at a lovely (Insert sarcasm here) time of four in the morning we got up, packed up, checked out and met the driver to drive us back across the border and to the airport in Hong Kong; as we waited at the border I thought to myself 

"Goodbye China, i'll be back eventually"

Until next time, Maria