By: Chriselle Correia 19 March 201920 March 2019 LettersHome, Journal, Love, Love & Relationships, Love & Romance, Love Is, Relationships, Thoughts, Writing, Writing & ExpressionLeave a Comment

When your person feels like home

Home to me has always been where I grew up, an address I remember almost instantaneously. And in the last few years, it’s mostly been a memory decked with stills of my childhood and young adult life. But the more I think about it, considering, the attachment isn’t with the house itslef but with those that make it home – family, friends, pets, moments. Home has always been these peoeple that ease every question and worry by really being around you with no barriers and restrictions.

By: Chriselle Correia 1 January 201920 March 2019 Honesty Hour2018, Gratefulness, Gratitude, Lessons, Life Lessons, Love, New Year, Resolutions, Thankful, Thoughts, Writing1 Comment

Bye, bye 2018.

They say the way you spend New Year’s Eve marks how you spend the rest of the year. I looked over the water, drank some champagne, laughed with people I love and then laughed some more, FaceTimed with my better halves around the world, watched the fireworks and held onto my love with gratitude. If this…

By: Chriselle Correia 13 December 201817 December 2018 Honesty Hour, Writing & ExpressionChristmas, Christmas Spirit, Christmas Wish, Faith, Family, Hope, Journal, Living Away From Home, Love, Thoughts, WritingLeave a Comment

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Christmas has always been about more than the presents under the tree and the lights on the streets. It is about family and friends around the table, it is about celebrating our faith and the gift of love and forgiveness from God. It is about the joy we share with every Carol sung. It is about the memories made over baking sweets and granny’s Christmas pudding. It is about every tradition from the past and every new tradition you create as you grow older.

Hello November

Fifty days to Christmas and a week over to the new year, this is my favourite time of the year. The days are getting long and the breeze is getting warm. As I walk down pathways covered in petals, the horizons are a blur. In the distance, I see a Christmas tree, golden and green. It is covered in lights, and wishes and dreams.

Be the life of the party

Look back to your past on a Monday, look upon tomorrow on a Tuesday, reach ahead for your future on a Wednesday, but slow down on a Thursday, be still on a Friday, and be thankful for the present on the weekend.

By: Chriselle Correia 3 October 201817 December 2018 Honesty Hour, Writing & ExpressionDear Diary, Existential Crisis, Note To Self, Quarter Life Crisis, Self and Relationships, Self Care, Self Love, Self-discovery, Thoughts, Truth, Twenty Something, WritingLeave a Comment

Wake me up when September ends

To be in an existential crisis can feel very daunting and confronting. Recently, I found myself questioning the hope for tomorrow. What if we never reach the future? What if our future and everything it entails is the present and that is all that will ever exist? My boyfriend often talks about the life he envisions for our 80s. It’s adorable to think that someone would do everything they could today to promise you a beautiful tomorrow. What about our terrible twenties and terrific thirties and frightful forties or the fantastic fifties?

By: Chriselle Correia 26 September 201817 December 2018 Honesty Hour, Writing & ExpressionAcceptance, Home, Life, Ramblings, Relationships, Self Care, Self Love, Thoughts, WritingLeave a Comment

What is self-care?

Sometimes self-care is writing or drawing. Sometimes it is fighting for what is right for you. Sometimes it is saying no. It could also be travelling to a new city alone. Sometimes it is doing absolutely nothing. Self-care is also telling yourself it’s okay to make mistakes; it’s okay to not know. Sometimes it is letting people see you for who you are. It is also not being ashamed of being weak. It is also accepting that you are strong.

By: Chriselle Correia 26 September 201817 December 2018 Honesty Hour, Writing & ExpressionAcceptance, Anxiety, Blogging, Feelings, Gratitude, Grief, Life, Love, Mental Health, Musings, Sadness, Self Love, Thoughts, WritingLeave a Comment

Why do we go looking for pain?

Food for thought from one of my favourite humans, “Why does figuring and coming up with what’s wrong in our lives or even creating situations that make our lives seem bad come more easily to humans?” I don’t know. It just does. Lately, I have become more cynical about everything and everyone around me. My…

about: once upon a chai / Chriselle Correia

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As someone rightly said, “Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage.”

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A twenty-something, still learning about life.

Spring cleaning

By: Chriselle Correia 3 September 201817 December 2018

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Moving has been an experience of self-learning and discovery, with its own challenges. For the most part, it goes by in a blur. You make checklists and strike off to-dos. You’re so busy and focused on downsizing, you forget you’re also expanding. You’re expanding your life, again.

To grow in grief

By: Chriselle Correia 22 June 201831 December 2018

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When you lose someone you love, you don’t simply grieve their loss. With them, you lose yourself and parts of those around you. With them, you lose friends and family and partners you thought would continually stand by you. With them, you lose light. With them, you lose love. With them, you lose a piece of kindness from your whole. With them, you lose faith in the Almighty. With them, you lose a version of life you were prepared for. With them, you lose a piece of life too.

Love isn’t perfection

By: Chriselle Correia 4 June 201817 December 2018

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Love is a myriad of moments and emotions and stolen smiles. It is text messages and the kisses he leaves on your forehead, it is fears enveloped in laughter and kisses mixed with alcohol. It is holding a new pair of hands and walking in the rain. It is sharing a box of nuggets in the park and studying together by candlelight. It makes you live and helps you forgive. What it isn’t is perfection. In fact, it is anything but. Often, it can be flawed but most other times it is beautiful, just like this moment—covered in light, content, committed, warm, delicious and cuddly.

Gigs & Guitars

By: Chriselle Correia 31 May 201817 December 2018

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I can’t remember the last time it was as easy to feel at home with someone you hadn’t ever met before. In between Pancake Parlour, the Coldplay concert and the 229 patio, I found two of my best friends. It’s one of the best stories to share as far as serendipitous friendships go – from attending concerts as strangers to living together as soul-friends.

Note to self: Greet your stranger

By: Chriselle Correia 3 May 201817 December 2018

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How are you, human? How are your heart and mind doing? Are we feeling okay? Was it easy to get out of bed this morning? What are your dreams made of? Bare your soul to me. Tell me beautiful, tell me.

Solitude

By: Chriselle Correia 28 April 201817 December 2018

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Today, I am grateful for knowing I am comfortable in my own company again. Six months ago, I hit rock bottom and felt very alone to the extent that I feared my own company. It was easy to blame it on the gloomy weather, old carpets and ceiling falling apart over my head. In hindsight,…

Note to self: It’s okay for relationships to fade

By: Chriselle Correia 15 April 201817 December 2018

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Every person we meet has a role to play in our lives. Some to teach us who we are, and some to teach us who we aren’t. This one is to all those friends whose lives crossed paths with mine. We may not still be friends but you’ve made a difference in mine, and I hope I did the same for you.

Serendipitous strangers & small talk

By: Chriselle Correia 14 April 201817 December 2018

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Getting to know someone for the first time is like diving into that delicious molten cake from your favourite Friday night restaurant. You start out with some vanilla ice-cream, move on to that warm layer of cake, and finally dive straight into that rich molten chocolate. Each element tells its own story while you’re unravelling all those flavours. A lot like new friendships and getting to know someone. It’s all in the details; in the stories.

Can we give love another chance?

By: Chriselle Correia 21 March 201817 December 2018

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As millennials, we find ourselves at crossroads because we’re told or seem to believe that love is hard and impossible. Sure, it involves compromise and is a work-in-progress. But when you think about the person you share this love with, it is meant to feel and be beautiful. It is the people you share this love with that often makes it bittersweet. If you or they didn’t find to make it last, maybe it wasn’t love? It might have been something good, just not love. So don’t give up on love and don’t give up on yourself.

Note to self: Time is too short

By: Chriselle Correia 21 March 201817 December 2018

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❝ Sunsets are proof that there can be beauty in goodbyes — Beau Taplin The sky paints hues of warmth that speak to my being despite the chaos and voices in and around me. Knowing that someone somewhere is watching this beauty unfold with you, is reassuring and beautiful. Wait, stop, hold on for a…

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