A pure heart is the most wise.

Growing up I didn't have a lot of idols.

Except for until later, when I entered my teenage.

The first public figure I ever looked up to, or idolized.... was Tyra Banks.

It was something about her radiant and humorous presence that I absolutely adored.

Personally, I love getting to know people deeply.

As much of a pain in the ass a human being can be, they are equally fascinating, and an entire universe in themselves.

As I kept following more of Tyra Banks and what she had to teach, spread, and enlighten within other women... the more I observed her, the more I liked her.

Not only was she always a bundle of joy, and an uplifting presence for women she mentored... she was also someone who had a bold outlook that was so contagious that she effectively made others around her adopt the same boldness.

Being the supermodel she is and being the businesswoman she is, she was all the things you see in a person that lead from a place of purity. Sassy yet gentle, bold yet soft, endearing yet frightening, all at the same time. She knew when softness was her ally and she knew when toughness was supposed to exchange seats with it.

That's what I love about media. It connects you to kindred hearts oceans away from yours.

When I grew a bit older, in my early twenties on one of my dull afternoons where I had plenty of free time to kill.. I was browsing through Netflix for a documentary to watch, and I thought I didn't know anything at all about Princess Diana so why not watch that one, because it would be completely new information for me to soak in.

And I was in for a very pleasant surprise.

I was 24 at the time. And while watching it, there were so so so many moments where I could feel like there are parts of me that resonate with so many parts of her. When that happens to you, be it because of a public figure or a new person you have crossed paths with... any recognition of commonality between you and the other is always a magical experience. It makes you love yourself more. It makes you feel much less alone. And a lot more curious about how many others are out there that fit into the same tribe.

I love this woman.

She was a badass with a good heart. She did so much for the world, while often being perceived as naive and uninformed -- the whole time, not only was she very well aware of what she was doing, but she was always ten steps ahead of everyone.

It does not come from an ordinary person to uplift humanity at such a massive level, and all while maintaining the purity of her heart.

Her power came from pureness. And not from a place of chaos or fear, like many world leaders.

And that is what made her the legend she is. While her own life was not an easy one, she made the lives of countless other people, easier. And she left the world a much better place than she found it. And if that is not wise, I don't know what is.

An excerpt from one of her interviews

I was called sensitive many times growing up..... but it isn't the weakness that the less informed parts of society make it out to be.

Simply put, it means you sense more... and when you sense more, you know more. It is a very big advantage to have, in a desensitized world such as ours.

I have also been confronted either directly or indirectly by people for being too raw in the selection of memes/ content I share, things I talk about online or even in-person. But as far as I am concerned, it is not just about social media for me, or about having a platform. It is about expression.

As an artist, before you paint or write or sing or sculpt or dance.... at the base of it all, what you are first doing, is expressing.

And, authentic expression and exploration of the self is what really makes you who you are destined to be.

Creation of a world of your own, in any of the arts.... is a constant journey of becoming.

When I was younger.. a college mate of mine from the fashion school I went to.. told me I should "only draw happy things". Another friend of mine once told me that he didn't want to go watch the movie Joker because he was not interested "in the sad stuff."

And that is exactly what is different about pure hearts.

They instinctively know that embracing the full spectrum of human emotions is what makes you more of a human and not a lesser version of it.

Now.. I was always someone who wore her heart on her sleeve, since the very beginning. I had no idea that as an adult I would eventually take the path of being an Artist, but the trait of being my own unapologetically raw and real self, was always present.

It was not pretty. Lol.

When you lead your life from a place of purity in your heart, you come across very often, as someone naive...someone weak... or ignorant. You grow up feeling misunderstood only to grow older & realize that being misunderstood is the greatest gift one can have.

If you fit the description of the things I mentioned above and are perceived as someone naive, it is usually because you are living a life very different from the ones misunderstanding you.

When you are uninterested in pitting yourself against other people, when you don't participate in competitive behaviour, it makes you appear innocent to most eyes. But the reality lies in knowing that competition is a form of weakness.

When you are someone who is confident with a silent inner knowing and not because of strenuous external efforts, it can make you the misunderstood one in the room. And more often than not, you realize that's only because you are in the wrong room.

In my time spent at work or in different institutions outside of work, and in my years of actively following and studying global news (I do much less of that now, for purposes of personal peace)... one thing I see over and over again is that hate comes very naturally to most people in the world and often people don't need a reason to hate.

In one of the most widely existing forms of hatred on global scales; is hatred stemming from a standpoint of difference - whether it is difference in skin tone or caste/religion or financial class.

But if you look around, hatred also stems from a standpoint of similarity. For instance on a smaller scale you will see it play out quite commonly amongst colleagues. It's people with similar passions, professional interests and characteristics, working towards similar dreams, and yet are often separated by hate. Not to be cynical but while there are many wonderful things about our specie and our planet, hate does seem to have a much stronger and wider presence. And it clearly does not depend on factors of difference or similarity. It just is.

I am told often that I have a tendency to be heavy/intense/deep.

I used to shy away from my own self at first. But the adult me doesn't shy away from talking about these things. The world after all is a marvelous place with all it's beauty and all it's ugly. Might as well dive deep, than remain on the surface.

Hatred... being a major theme on our planet.... seems to be targeted even more so towards pure hearts.

"A pure heart is the most wise" is a reality and a phrase that exists because of a very valid reason.

It's because pure hearted people are not running their show from a place of Earth based mass mentality. They are living their lives out from an ethos of something more attuned to the Cosmos.

And that intrinsically makes you someone who is relatively in a more evolved state of being and operating.

And look at the Cosmos. It's like most pure hearted people. Twinkling yet combustible. Lol.

When you are a lot more separated from your ego, you land into a state of having a wider lens to observe and hold in, the weight of your own humanity, not just others. When you meet yourself at a greater depth, you meet others at their depths too. Often without even trying.

When you are pure hearted, you are used (often) as a means for insecure people to further boost their sense of self, mistaking your silence for naivety. Only for them to eventually realize they were running in a race all alone.

While most people with pure hearts are usually born that way... the real struggle they face is in thriving in a world where you are not seen as someone thriving, as long as you maintain your purity. And that is the problem with pure hearts.

They are brave souls who maintain their standards, their values, in the face of all the ugly realities that co-exist with them. Which is not a sign of weakness. It takes huge balls of steel to maintain the goodness of your heart, when you become aware it is not a trait rewarded by people and their behaviour.

So if this blogpost resonates with you.. from my heart to yours: please keep it this way, for it is an infinitely richer life than the ordinary! :)

And if this blogpost does not resonate with you much, but it reminded you of someone you know, while you read this: protect them at all costs.

Because a pure heart is indeed the most wise.

And we should make sure they are not a dying breed.