Dream Silas
Bio
I love to write about love, the beautiful, and the natural world.
Stories (31/0)
Loving Unconditionally in the Digital Age
It’s good to love. It feels good. It is good. I am a loving person and I am very lovable so I give and receive a lot of love and I look forward to all the love I will give and receive in the future. I have felt at odds with myself a few times in my life when I felt like loving someone, no matter what, was too painful and maybe even impossible. Even though I thought this, I still had a strong sense of the truth in the back of my mind that didn’t go away. I knew it was right to love anyway. It’s who I am. It’s who we are. It’s said that the human soul is made out of pure love. I believe this undoubtedly. It’s actually quite beautiful to think this and to entertain it even if you do not fully believe it.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Humans
The Loveliness of Traditional Partnerships and Having Soul-Integrity
Honoring Myself I am always honoring myself. I honor myself by letting myself be the person that is strongly coming through me at all times. I always feel a greater sense of myself completely excited and ready to express itself through me. I listen to this greater sense of myself and I allow her to come through me and show me who I truly am, what I truly want, and my ultimate purpose. This allows me to see where my attention naturally flows and allows me to indulge in, or more so, incorporate different aspects of myself into my personality. Honoring myself is extremely important to me and I do not give too much thought to how it reflects itself in the physical world or how people react to me honoring myself. I’ve always been more to myself anyway, so I value my own opinions over anyone else’s. But even if I feel or perceive society to be going in a completely different direction than I am, I stand still in where I am at the moment. This took a lot of courage on my end to gain this sense of security within myself but now there is absolutely no going back.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Humans
After a "Failed" Forever Love: It Is Good to Love Again
The Meaning of Forever Forever is the endless, eternal now moment. Forever is now, was the now that was then, and forever is the now that will be. There is never a moment where forever is somehow gone or ends; it is perpetually here and it is perpetually now. When the one you love confesses their love for you and the two of you agree to love each other forever, it can almost seem like a great lie as you look back and reflect on the relationship now so very distant. After a failed forever love, "forever" takes on a meaning of betrayal and seems to hold no real weight. But I'd like to introduce you to the refreshing truth or at least what I know to be true for myself and my life.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Humans
Sweet Corn, Watermelon, and the Grand Orchestration
I was so upset when I "had" to move from upstate New York to southern Pennsylvania. I put had in quotes because it is true that we always have a choice but at the time, my options seemed incredibly limited. I moved here in March and I could not wait to escape. For 3 months straight, I kept trying to devise a plan that would take me back to New York and let me start living the life that I thought I wanted...
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Humans
A Promise of the Sweetest Tomorrow
I remember reading a passage in a book titled In Search of Lost Times where the author, Marcel Proust, describes a scene where he eats a little madeleine cake and is immediately thrown into an involuntary memory. In his memory, he is eating madeleines with his aunt on a Sunday as a young boy. He argues that taste and smell are heavily connected to memory and from my own lovely experiences, I can agree. For me, a simple blueberry pastry is tied to a crowd of my own complex emotions and beautiful memories. That pastry is my petite madeleine. There are three memories that I'm abruptly thrown into now whenever I take a bite of a warm blueberry pastry on a cold day.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Feast
How I Transformed My Closet Into a Fully Functioning Office: "Cloffice"
With the influx of many people working from home, I thought that it'd be a fantastic idea to share how I transformed my small walk-in closet into a mini office that I love. The idea to put an office in my closet came to me quite suddenly as I struggled to find a place to keep all of my documents, writing utensils, and books that I've been collecting throughout quarantine. I have also been trying to find a quiet place to consistently work on my writing and other projects. I have concluded that I work better and I am more productive in my own little space dedicated to work. So this was a perfect idea and I was extremely excited to execute it. After further investigation, I realized that there is an actual term for this closet office idea that I was thinking of; a cloffice. The term cloffice, most obviously and cleverly, combines the words closet and office. Immediately after learning of this new concept, I searched Pinterest for cloffice inspiration. Surprisingly, there were not many cloffice pins that interested me. In fact, there were only a few cloffice pins in general.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Lifehack
- Second Place in Slasher Classics Challenge
All American Bad Boy: Why 'Scream' is the Ultimate Slasher FilmSecond Place in Slasher Classics Challenge
The seductive yet sinister voice, the long black grim reaper-like gown, the big black boots, the malicious mind games, and the terrifyingly long stretched-mouthed and stretch-eyed white mask are enough to induce great fear in anyone. This was especially true for me as I watched Wes Craven's Scream movie for the first time at seven years old. There was something about the ghost face persona that pulled me in as a viewer, and I felt both absorbed by the scenes unfolding before me and absolutely frightened out of my mind.
By Dream Silas3 years ago in Horror