We are all seeing the rise of Artificial Intelligence in every aspect of life—science, art, psychology, socialization, and more. But I'd like to focus on art.

Art is an expression of different emotions. It is breathing for the soul. It allows raw human feelings to burst out. Art is life.

Now, I have been seeing a lot of AI videos and pictures everywhere, and every time, it feels like chewing plastic. Can we please draw the line here?

I was scrolling through Pinterest yesterday, and I kept seeing lots of AI-generated images. I couldn't even find a realistic one I could choose from. Pinterest is a place of pure human aesthetics, where pictures tell a story and others can read that story and feel it.

Now, with AI images everywhere trying to replace art, it feels like the life is being sucked out of it. The natural is being replaced with the artificial, and I believe everyone knows how that story ends.

The future generation is being done a great disservice. They will no longer grow up seeing pictures painted by humans or videos of people expressing themselves. They will grow up watching plastic.

Every time I look at an AI-generated image, I feel nothing—yes, absolutely nothing. Why? Because a robot cannot replace human feelings; it doesn't have any. It can be programmed to know how to paint or make videos, but it can never understand the depths of art.

I love art with every fiber of my being. Art takes many forms, and I can say I'm in love with each of them.

Artificial Intelligence can be told to write books, poetry, and even films, but trust me, it will never be the same as when humans do it.

Call Artificial Intelligence evolution or whatever you like, but evolution should not try to erase what has been there before. They can exist together, but separately. Let each remain on its own side, because once one crosses into the other's place, there will be an imbalance, and we will all feel its effects.

I know I'm not being dramatic because, honestly, nobody would enjoy seeing an AI-generated picture hanging on the wall of an art museum. I certainly wouldn't go to that section.

Artificial Intelligence has made a marvelous impact, but I think it's time we started putting up some boundaries. Don't ask AI to generate a poem for you; write with your childhood trauma, your joy, your grief—like an artist. Don't ask AI to generate a picture for you; paint with every feeling in your heart. Don't ask AI to generate a script for your movie; write it yourself so that even you can feel it.

Let's help the younger generations see the beauty in human emotions. Let them see that they are products of creativity and creators themselves.

It would be a shame to live in a world where talent dies because nobody uses it, and art fades because it is being made by a robot.

Everyone wants a friend, someone to share a meal with, someone to wear matching outfits, someone go to the movies and keep us company, very cute no doubt. But ,I want something deeper than that , something stronger,more meaningful.

I first came across the word "Kindred Spirit" from a movie and that word didn't feel ordinary to me ,I looked up the meaning and I was really stunned ,but , I'd like to give my own definition of it .A Kindred Spirit is one whose connection with you can be felt from across the universe, whose bond stretches as far as infinity,a soul that loved you even before knowing you .

Kindred Spirits often share your view on life and share similar paths to you , your souls share a familiar destiny.

Now I'll tell you why I don't just want a friend,I want a kindred spirit, for someone like me ,my life isn't something that can be defined in one word and it's not a life that everyone has .

I'm a childfree by choice and a spinster who has a dream to travel around the world, explore different places, experience things , volunteer in different organizations,and archive my dreams as a Microbial biotechnologist who specializes in soil microbiology,live as researcher and have a company of soil probiotics. That's the kind of life I want to live , doing what I please and living on my terms .

I want to share this ride with someone, someone who wants the same or at least someone whose journey is similar to mine, they want to live big and love loud ,I have friends and I love them very much, but,each of them want to settle down and I understand that their families will be their priority ,I can't tell them to pack their bags and come to Hawaii with me in the name of "living" , their family is their life and that's totally great for them.

I am a free spirit,the jolt of life has to be flowing through my veins that's what makes me feel alive. I fantasize about a Kindred Spirit, someone who will go on adventure with me , we'll share our lives together, look at the stars together at night on some random beach, try different foods ,go to parties, sit in silence as we hold each other, take photos on a plane we decided to get on on a random Tuesday , visit all the wonders of the world,go sky diving,go on dates and sing karaoke till we are exhausted, and just live in the present

Two souls living as one ,hearts beating with the same rhythm, with minds that sync with the same rhythm, navigating the seas of life as Captains of our lives,my heart is theirs and theirs mine . We know the patterns on each others palm, read each others silence and carry each others joy and pain.

That is what I yearn for , to go through life with someone who is more than a friend,a sister would be the closest word to it . We'd grow old together and reflect on all we've done in our lives and with a smile on our face we'd say we lived one hella amazing life.

The line between the sea and the land is so thin ,one step you are out, another you are in.

The ocean and land are two parallel lines begging to touch, despite knowing the disaster it'd bring when they do

Two sides of a coin that should remain seperate ,not by choice,but by need.

A bird and a fish in love ,sounds like the screaming birth of tragedy, the bird stands on the shore ,the fish lies on the river bank .

One cannot stay with the other nor learn the depths and vast of their worlds .So they are stuck wondering and wishing "if I had gills ,I'd swims forever", "if I had wings , I'd fly into the sun with you ".

Standing eye too eye with desire seen burning in their souls , holding it back no longer the Fish says"I will come up to shore , even if I die let it be in thy wings,wings I wish to have, wings that have kept us apart,thus is how I'd want to go ,for the seas is filled with millions of fishes like me , but tis you I seek" .

The Bird says "No ,you wish to explore the deep oceans with me ,tis shall be my command ,I cannot breath under water ,but how far I can go shall be enough for me ,not far enough to satisfy you,but far enough to touch my love world even for just minutes."

Fish refused ,it saying "I would rather let this desires remain unfulfilled than imagine a world where Bird doesn't exist",Bird refused as well, saying "it would rather allow a world where Fish exists out of its reach than a world where Fish doesn't exist at all"

So ,thus two lovers lived in their hearts ,a place where both could feel each other without ones certain death .

Bittersweet love , both willing to drink from the same vine and die side by side , hand in hand

‎A place people go and never come back.

‎Do not go to close ,stare not,for once you look too long , you will fall.

‎Used in place of the word "loneliness", except,it sinks deeper, that feeling in your chest that feels so hollow, leaves you feeling empty,like there is not a heart to be found in that hole, despite hearing it beat.

‎Such a feeling is to be avoided they say,turn the music up so you do not hear it ,laugh so hard that you cannot feel it .

‎Pay no attention to it's demanding scream,turn a blind eye to whatever it  shows you,distract thyself they say.

‎"Stare to deep and you will drown",the warning everyone told me,but,my curious mind never stopped visiting it gates and wandering how deep the fall is.

‎I asked questions to what lies below ,but no one seems to know the answers.

‎Frustrated with the desire to feed my curious mind,I ignored every warning,I went beyond the gates,I stood by the edge, and I dared to look.

‎As I stared into the eyes of the abyss,it stared back at me.

‎As I listened carefully,I heard the screams of all my fears ,my doubts,my regrets,my pain ,the feelings I tried to push down,all of it ,as the echos bounces off the walls and coming back to me I recognized each one of those sounds.

‎Then a still voice pierces through all the screams ,and whispers,"I am all the things you have run away from,all the things that have been left unspoken , and everything you have refused to accept about yourself.

‎Standing there,still stunned by the revelation brought to me,flashbacks of all the times I refused to confront my fears,all the times I sulked in regret,and all the times I laughed too hard to mask the pain came flooding through my mind.

‎I no longer ran ,I sat with those voices in silence and looked within myself so as to truly understand what they were.

‎Step by step ,day by day ,I found pieces of myself i never knew, patterns carved in my mind and scars buried within .

‎And so began the journey,the Journey of self discovery.

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Now ,life is an interesting journey filled with ups and downs,from our childhood to our adulthood we all face challenges that can either make us or mark us , having a friend to go through this life with is one of the best things that can happen to us .

The human nature is by default flawed and we are all aware of this,we tend to make mistakes as friends even if we don't mean to ,our flaws get the best of us sometimes.We ought to be there for our friends when things go south,but we also need to know when to draw the line.

So when do we draw the line? When do we know friendships begin to feel like a burden ? .Some people are In toxic friendship but , because of the love they have for their friends they still stay even if they are being drained,this is unhealthy.

Yes ,we are to be there for our friends during ups and downs in the friendship ,but downs mean ; sickness, financial issues, emotional problems, etc .Downs don't mean; manipulation,gas lighting, betrayal, jealousy , disrespect etc .

Whenever a friend of ours possess some of these bad traits,we tend to hear things from them like ,"I was raised this way ", "it's because of childhood trauma" , "It was a mistake" ,"I'm having a bad day " . Don't get me wrong we all make mistakes and say or do hurtful things, but when it becomes a pattern,a habit or a behavior we should know when to draw the line.

Maturing as individuals means we should un-learn and re- learn things so as to be better people,when a friend continues to cross boundaries, disrespect you , betray you and you confront them on it , typically they apologize and we believe that they've learnt their lesson.

But , what happens when they continuously repeat this behavior ,it shows us who they truly are ,look at patterns not just the "sorry " ,when a behavior is repeated it's no longer a mistake, it's now a habit.The moment we realize this ,we owe it to ourselves to begin to set boundaries or in worst cases cut them off.

Friendships are meant to make you a better person, it's meant to comfort you,be a safe place and feel like home,when friendship starts to feel like a maze where you have navigate your way through ,start feeling like you are walking on Egg shells ,or you begin to shrink yourself so that they feel comfortable that's no longer friends, let's call it for what it is , "a burden"

Life is already hard enough as it is , choose people who make life lighter , and when your friends begin to cross certain boundaries continuously, know when to draw the line

No doubt that the things around us greatly influence our happiness,when I see food I instantly become happy,when my favorite show is on a smile sneaks onto my face , when I get a text from my favorite person my heart instantly leaps.

But, what happens when those things are taken from you ? , will happiness go with it ? .Many times we base off our happiness from things around us and forget that happiness is within us .

Now on the topic of happiness being subjective,as our faces are different so are our preferences, what doesn't make you happy makes another leap in their heart .

My idea of a happy life looks like this; quiet morning , dressing my bed , getting kisses from my pets , making breakfast and going for morning works .

This might be boring to some ,some prefer loud and crazy , while others slow and quiet. You see the diversity, happiness has no rule book , it's a choice, it's with in us already,you are the only one who gets to define what happiness looks like to you

You don't get to judge another person happiness, our minds are as vast as the sea ,no one is alike , just because you don't understand their happiness doesn't mean it doesn't make sense. Respect people choices , don't try to convince them otherwise,if you do this you are doing a great disservice to humanity, mankind was never meant to be limited

Whatever you choose to love ,love it with all your heart 💜