I've Learned That You Cannot Make Someone Love You. All You Can Do Is Be Someone Who Can Be Loved. The

I've learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to them. I've learned that no matter how much I care, some people just don't care back. I've learned that it takes years to build up trust and only seconds to destroy it. I've learned that it's not what you have but who you have in your life that counts.

Omer B. Washington

You know when it's 2 a.m, I am all alone, have nothing to do, and just can’t sleep at night, it is so easy to think about how much I want to see you, be around you, and wish the time would stop when you are around. I hate that no matter how many times I say  or text "I miss you", it is just never enough. Sometimes it makes me want to stop thinking because it hurts, and I know it hurts because there is nothing I can do about it.

My personal consciousness

Homeostasis and Allostasis

The word homeostasis is derived from the Greek words homeo, or same and stasis, or stable and means remaining stable by remaining the same. Homeostasis is conceptualized as a state of being in which all systems are in balance around a particular ideal “setpoint”. Claude Bernard, a nineteenth century French physiologist, believed that the various vital physiologic mechanisms of the body had as their goal the maintenance of a uniform and constant internal environment or milieu intérieur, for the body. In 1988 Sterling and Eyer introduced the concept of allostasis in recognition of the complexity and variable levels of activity necessary to reestablish or maintain homeostasis. They described allostasis as the ability to successfully adapt to challenges. In order to survive an organism must vary all the parameters of its internal milieu and match them appropriately to environmental demands. Like homeostasis allostasis is a derivation of the Greek words allo, meaning variable and stasis, meaning stable. Therefore this term accentuates the role of allostatic systems in maintaining the organism’s stability by being variable. Allostasis is a dynamic process that supports and helps the body achieve homeostasis; homeostasis from this perspective, is seen as a steady state. In essence the organism’s overall stability is accomplished through change. (Taken from "Pathophysiology" 5th ed) So just like the human body system, we all need to adapt through challenges in order to maintain stability and well-being in life. We all can learn from this concept of homeostasis and allostasis to continue living. This world we live may be cruel, but I believe that God created us with the ability to succesfully adapt to challenges (or Allostasis), to remain stable (or to get homeostasis).

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My mood today

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

Shane Koyczan (via lazypacific)