AMERICAN HEART MONTH

Mapping the Positive Sum Mathematics of My Heart

How strange is the ‘Quantum Multiverse’ within me

Rui Alves
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Published in
9 min readFeb 17, 2024

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Photo by Skyler King on Unsplash

I’ve been to many places and lived in many spaces, yet none compare to the warmth of being right here—where my heart truly belongs. Right by your side, my love.

In my quest to find my way back home, I journeyed far and wide, feeling like I belonged nowhere, until I rediscovered my path and realized the best part of me resides in you.

“home is where the heart is”— aphorism by an unknown author

Before coming back home, I was a digital nomad, a “ronin,” a vagrant “wave man.”

Trying to find my way back home, I traveled everywhere, belonging to nowhere, until I found my space in a place of love next to the other half of myself, as Plato explains in the Symposium.

My heart was split in two, and I’ll keep looking for my better half through the many universes within and beyond.

I’ve hung the same sign on the wall in all the houses where I’ve lived abroad. A gray piece from a French store called Maisons du Monde. The gray lettering on ever-so-white walls reads, “Home is where the heart is.”

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Rui Alves
BELOVED

Language teacher, linguist, life coach, published author, experienced editor, and book awards judge. Empathic digital ronin, musician, and alchemist of sound.