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It’s time

janelas da minha cidade
 
 
After all the pain,
after all the tears,
my feet woke up on the floor, cold and sweat,
my face, half asleep, didn’t move, couldn’t move…
My eyes, wide open, were starring at the ceiling…
 
I crawled for a while.
 
Then I turned my body,
my (d)tormented body against the wall.
 
The mind spoke, I should get up,
stand up and move,
and I did it,
I did it…
without knowing that I was me
that me was I
that my mind was mine
that me, my mind and body were but one…
 
I could barely stand, but I stood,
gazing around, absent, hypnotized,
not recognizing myself, nor the place I was in,
and that sense of strangeness invaded me again…
once again
 
a stranger at my place
(that was me)
 
Could I feel?
 
I moved my fingertips, my hands, my arms, my shoulders.
I shook my head again and again and again!
 
Yes. It all lay there, in my head,
in my mind,
in my soul.
Deep within my soul. Oh, could I find it!
Oh, could I, at least know, where it lay!!!
My soul.
Or whatever the place is where feelings hide.
 
How long had I been asleep?
How long had I been awake?
How long had I been absent, hiding in my grief?
 
It’s time I started to move.
It’s time I woke up.
It’s time to take a long bath and wash this pain away.
 
It’s time.
 
A new day is waiting for me,
a new sun,
a new moon,
a new rain.
 
It’s time I moved.
It’s time to go.
 
It’s time
It’s time
It’s time
 
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Posted by on 27 de March de 2013 in Feelings, life, poetry

 

“Não passo de um ser que apanha os cacos…”

E hoje mais um pedaço de mim se quebrou. Mais um. 

Há muito que não sou inteira. (Haverá alguém inteiro?)

Eu, pelo menos, sei que o não sou e assumo-o. Não finjo, não escondo.

Não passo de um ser que apanha os cacos, os cola com cuidado, por vezes; outras com alguma violência e raiva, até reconstruir o vaso.

E o vaso que sou eu lá se vai aguentando, às vezes com ar mais tosco, outras vezes com pedaços que descolam e caiem de novo, outras vezes ainda com um adereço ou outro ou com umas pinceladas de cor fresca e nova de renovação.

Mas sou e serei sempre um vaso retocado que de intacto só tem a história. E a verdade dos seus relatos escritos fruto duma memória demasiado memória. Um vaso cuja alma foge por entre as fissuras para apanhar ar ou gritar bem longe para que ninguém a ouça.

O pedaço que hoje se quebrou doeu demais. 

E entoará alto e baixo em mim durante muito, muito tempo. Talvez nem se cale nunca.

(…)

Se me distanciei fisicamente da minha família há muitos anos atrás, desde que aos 18 entrei para a Universidade tendo a consciência de que não voltaria, foi principalmente por uma questão de sanidade mental. O optar por viver longe, trabalhar longe, não significa que tenha deixado de me preocupar com os do meu sangue. Muito pelo contrário. Nunca os senti nem vi mais presentes do que eu.

Se a vida deles não é aqui, onde vivo, (como fazem questão de me lembrar!) a minha tampouco é lá, mas eu acudo e corro sempre que há problemas a resolver. E estou presente de corpo e alma. 

Por que me dizem “não tenho culpa que tenhas ido viver para longe”, usando isso como justificação para tanta coisa?! (Pelo menos quem mo diz, di-lo. Não o esconde. Não o diz pelas minhas costas.)

Agora sou eu a precisar de ajuda e é visível e notável com quem se conta. E de que forma se conta. E não ter um ombro livre para chorar sem que nos diga “só trazes problemas” é triste demais!

(“Cresce, Celestinha! Apodrece, se preciso for. Mas sozinha estás, sozinha és, e há muito sabes que só contigo podes contar.”)

As pessoas esquecem-se muito depressa de tudo. Do bom e do mau. Eu não. Talvez resida aí também uma enorme diferença de formas de ver a vida, de se ser grato, de se respeitar, de se impor respeito. De se defender os que se diz amar, de amar, quiçá até.

(…)  

Quando se nasce com uma doença do foro emocional que poderá nunca vir a manifestar-se, mas nos roubam logo a infância, estamos condenados, à partida, para que tal se verifique.

Acrescendo a isso, o facto de sermos dotados de uma sensibilidade extrema, faz-nos ter uma a visão do mundo “à flor da pele”, sentida “noutra dimensão”. Tudo o que vivemos atinge proporções desmesuradas: quer o bom, quer o mau. E quando as nossas experiências de vida traumáticas predominam … a nossa doença não faz senão despertar e evoluir. E esta revela-se das formas mais estranhas, atingindo proporções psicossomáticas e levamos anos até que nos acertem num diagnóstico! Se é que já o fizeram com a necessária precisão que as coisas da mente são muito delicadas… Fosse a mente um braço, uma perna, um coração, até… Seria algo palpável, visível… A mente, porém, é um belo solo com uma grande área por desbravar!

À nossa volta ninguém se apercebe, até porque é a nossa família que queremos sempre proteger. A família que devia ser o nosso porto de abrigo e que não cessa de nos bombardear com problemas e nós não queremos ser nem trazer mais um. Aos nossos pais nada contamos. A mãe carrega o peso do mundo e o pai não serve de força impulsionadora, muito menos de conforto para ninguém. Nunca serviu.  E lidamos com tudo sozinhas, com a terrível dor d’alma que não sabemos onde se situa; se soubéssemos arrancava-mos essa parte do corpo, com toda a certeza!

O tempo passa, a vida torna-se bem madrasta e temos um medo terrível dos condicionalismos que uma bipolaridade nos trás. E esse temor advém da consciência e conhecimento da natureza da doença e da nossa enorme lucidez. Sentimos a vida condicionada e tememos os entraves que surgem, começando pela vida profissional, pelos relacionamentos interpessoais, pela vida familiar que deixamos de construir, acabando no receio maior: a solidão e o abandono num qualquer sanatório.

E abrimo-nos e confessamos o nosso pavor, até porque ninguém encara esta doença com a seriedade que merece, muito menos a nós mesmas que tendemos a brincar com ela e a desdramatizar. É então que, no meio das nossas lágrimas e soluços, obtemos por resposta de alguém em quem tanto confiamos: “Se calhar estavas lá bem melhor!”

Não doía tanto se não viesse de quem veio. Não doeria tanto. Resta-me o consolo de pensar, desculpando, que a ignorância é um mal terrível! A influência e o deixar-se influenciar, também.

Tenho muito a agradecer à minha família. Por me ter “obrigado” a manter longe. As moscas, de facto, não se apanham com fel. Foi desta forma que aprendi a ser “EU MESMA”, a não me deixar levar, a ser mais forte. A não obedecer nem me humilhar perante os homens. A não desculpar as suas fraquezas, nem as suas faltas de respeito, atenção e cuidados. Tive na família uma boa escola de machistas e fiquei vacinada para a vida. Julgam que não me lembro de nada só por serem bem mais velhos… Como se enganam, os idiotas!

Tornei-me mais agressiva, também. Mais dura. Teve que ser. Neste mundo precisa-se, e a minha família… oh! É um microcosmos deste planeta desumano e frio! Eles não me merecem! Estão a anos-luz de me conhecer, de saber quem eu sou, de perceber o que me vai na alma!  Se já procurei entendê-los?! Mil vezes já os analisei, de trás p’rá frente, da frente para trás, verdadeiras análises psicológicas, explicando isto, aquilo e o outro, entendi, perdoei, mas nada desculpa a frieza, a falta de sentimentos e de carácter. E esta eu não aceito. 

Injusta, eu? Não. Tenho simplesmente amado demais. Mas eles não querem amor. E o que eles querem não tenho para dar. Nem daria, se tivesse. Nunca me vi nem verei rodeada de interesseiros. Shuh p’ra lá!

(…)

Perdoa Mamã, mas não quero acabar os meus dias como tu, sendo a imagem de alguém que sempre deu demais. Que sempre se consumiu demais. E a quem deram tão pouco. Não vale a pena. As pessoas não valem a pena. E, apesar de muitas coisas que ainda faço serem em tua homenagem e por respeito à tua memória, desisto. Não me respeitam o suficiente. É que, sabes? Uma mentira dita muitas vezes, passa a ser verdade. E se for dita com a pose adequada, tanto melhor.

Estou cansada. Cansada de lutar em vão contra comodistas e hipócritas! No final, fica tudo bem e o único alvo a abater sou eu! E… dá para acreditar?! Até para os meus irmãos sou uma forasteira na minha cidade. Só que eu hei-de ser de onde muito bem entender! E quem decidirá em breve quem são os meus irmãos, se os considero ou não, sou eu! (…) Mas… voltar para aquela terra, a minha santa terrinha como lhe chamo, que de nada tem culpa… Nem morta! As minhas cinzas quero-as lançadas ao mar, se possível. Senão… também não importa. Já nada sentirei.

E se eu porventura acabar num sanatório ou algo do género, não ousem ir visitar-me, ouviram bem?! Não ousem! Não vos quero lá. Nessa altura será muito tarde para visitas de “alívio de consciência”.

Não me têm feito mais nada senão mal. Porquê?! Que vos fiz eu?! Toquei-vos nas feridas? Descobri-vos a careca? Ou disse tão simplesmente o que não queriam ouvir?

Quanto a ti, pai, lamento. Lamento que nunca tenhas tido personalidade própria e te deixes levar como as folhas pelo vento. Lamento tanto que gostes de ser enganado. Não me ouviste; nunca me ouves. Agora é tarde. Agora já é tarde e perdeste-me para sempre.  E o nosso último encontro foi a coisa mais triste e lamentável desta vida. Não te reconheço. Já não és o mesmo homem. Como permitiste que te manipulassem assim a ponto de me quereres agredir, algo que nunca fizeste na tua vida?! As verdades doem não é? E ninguém mais tas diz. E não estás demente, nem senil, bem sei. Estás com ódio de mim. E és um homem sem palavra.

(…)

Se houver alguma réstia de justiça nesta vida, a única em que acredito,  ela não há-de ser tão cruel assim… Nem há-de passar-me uma rasteira duas vezes… Não deste tipo!

 E não me venham dizer: “Há sempre quem esteja pior!” que isso, perdoem-me, mas não me ajuda em nada. Tal como o meu mal, não ajuda os outros. 

Estarei a ter pena de mim? Claro que sim! E porquê?! Não tenho direito de ter?! O mundo cai-nos em cima, desaba tudo e não podemos lamentar-nos? Revoltar-nos? Não temos o direito de dizer:”Não aguento mais! Já chega!”

Há dois verbos que não existem no meu dicionário pessoal: “prometer” e “resignar”. Não os conjugo. Não sei fazer isso. Não consigo. Quando souber, talvez esteja já em estado pré-vegetativo ou pré-alzheimeriado e os entoe em voz alta como cânticos…

 

Celeste Santos

 19 Set.2012

“Painting of madhouse garden”, Vincent van Gogh

 
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Posted by on 20 de September de 2012 in Feelings, life, loneliness, my family, my roots, the other me

 

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Moving away

Every move I make to empty my drawers and put my things into bags I feel I’m about to cry. 

Taking the books from the shelves and putting them once again in boxes

makes me want to caress them,

go back in time

to good old days

to bad old days of pain and sorrow…

I wished I just closed the door and left.

I wished I could not have to leave

Not now

Not now when I feel so damn weak and vulnerable

So angry and hurt 

deeply hurt from those who call themselves “my family”.

My father.

The rings are gone, I’ve lost them.

Now I only have my fingers

It’s ok

It’s ok, kid

But all I want is to have some sleep,

I feel so tired and sleepy, 

and I have to pack loads of things,

a whole apartment full of clothes, books, furniture, paintings, music, films, kitchen stuff, plants….

I’ll have to pack everything except myself and Lilly, my dog

And seem not to able to get there… to the end of it… to get ready to leave…

And I’m in a hurry!

I have to hurry up!

Oh, Gosh! 

Every time I change my toothpaste’s place,

I feel I’m about to lose a bit of myself

and when I take it back home

I leave a bit of my own self behind…

Sometimes it’s great when it’s worth leaving behind a part of you…

’cause you’re taking so much with you, as well…

Maybe I’m just being too scared and foolish and selfish

Maybe

I’ve lived at this place I’m used to call mine

(well, I was paying for a mortgage) 

for 11 years.

Now I’ve lost it. 

But it no longer hurts. It is just an apartment.

At least I have me.

And if I was nothing, I would have nothing.

Life has never been easy for me. 

It is being really hard right now.

And it will carry on like this for quite a while.

Why me?! Why not?

I do not tend to ask such questions.

I took my risks and I failed.

I’m moving. Another apartment is waiting for me. Smaller but nice.

I won’t have such a view, this great view to the sea of mine,

to my deep blue, sometimes grey, sometimes green sea.

I’ll have another one. Another landscape not that far away,

but quite different.

Not so astonishing, but fresh and nice.

From the 4th floor I’ll see the river and the mountains.

And the sea is also nearby. Five minutes away.

I won’t  see it from my place, but I’ll feel it. 

And I’ll try to picture my sea flirting with the sand

and holding her in his arms. 

I’ll also remember their secrets and the way they share them,

at day or night,

while the sun warms the waters and dries the sand,

while the moon watches them all alone

dreaming and promising to love each other till the end of times.

Sometimes the sea has to leave and I know it,

but the sand never gets unhappy: she knows he’ll be back soon.

I’m beginning once again, I don’t know what.

A new life? No. There’s no such a thing.

You can’t start from the zero; you can’t erase the past.

I don’t want it either.

I’m moving. And breaking free from this home is something good.

It is sort of a renewal.

I felt here first too lonely,

then too depressive,

then too misunderstood,

and then too damn painful.

The latest years, ironically, have been the quietest ones,

the most peaceful ones,

just me and Lilly, again,

my best friend: my dog.

And here I’ve found out I’m my best mate.

After all no one can live our life for us.

And no one would. 

Only our mums (I speak from mine) would live our pain for us.

Oh, yes, she would! If she could!

And I’ll always go back to this sea of mine

to this sea that stole my heart and to which I belong

sea-sand-sun

sometimes sea-sand-moon-sky and stars

in total harmony

and me and Lilly walking at the seaside

or along the waters

Lilly running happy

Lilly swimming, while I lose myself between my watching, 

contemplating and thinking,

till I listen to my voice calling for her: “Li, It’s time to go!”

September, 16

C.

“Der Schmerz” (The pain), Jacqueline Ditt, 1998, original painting Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on 16 de September de 2012 in Feelings, life, poetry

 

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‘I had a baby’, Sinéad O’Connor

1. The song

I Had a Baby”- Sinéad O’Connor

2. The woman and the singer

Sinéad O’Connor (sketch)

Sinéad  performing while pregnant

Sinéad O’Connor and one of her kids.

3. The song’s lyrics

 ’I Had A Baby’

I had a baby and he looks just like me
A bald headed baby, he’s been the makings of me
His eyes are so blue, just like you
But you haven’t seen him
And I don’t know what to tell him
I don’t know what to tell him!

I had a thing with a man and he wasn’t mine to be with
I woke up one June day with him up inside me, hey
That did excited me, and I was crazy
I was always crazy!

But I had a baby…

so I’m never sorry!

He’s been the makings of me
And when he asks, I’ll tell him
That you love him, but you can’t be here
And when he says why
I say, I don’t know why
Because I don’t know why!

You should suffer instead of me
Over shit that’s because of me
I wish it wasn’t so crazy
broke my mind tell this time

But I had a baby, so beautifully
He’s been the makings of me

I had a fling with a man who wasn’t mine to be with
I woke up one June day with him up inside me
That did excited me, and I was crazy
I was always crazy!

Album: How About I Be Me (And You Be You) (2011)

4. The song’s message:

 

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‘A message’ to my dear blog followers

 I dedicate this post of mine to all my blog followers. Once in a while it’s time you thanked people for being, simply for being. I may sound a bit hyperbolic or rather romantic. I’m all that, yes, among other things. But being thankful has nothing to do with romanticism or exaggerating feelings.

I’ve learnt from my Mum to be thankful: to God and to those who do us some good and help us to live better and to feel happier in this path of life. I do not usually thank God, I must confess. And I kind of ‘envy’ Mum for that. A little faith in something ‘above all’ would certainly help me a lot throughout hard times and GOOD ones- God wouldn’t certainly like to be handled as “blackmail”, nor would like to be remembered of only in the darkest of days, being called for as if he was 911 / 112 over here), but I simply can’t do it. 

It’s part of me to tell people, close people around, what they mean to me and how much I love them. Furthermore I’ve learnt to do it whenever I feel like doing it, spontaneously, also to others who are not that close, but who(m) I value, too. One never knows when tomorrow is (not) too late for that. 

And you people, in a way anonymous, in a way virtual, have shown to be a lot more PEOPLE than tons of others I do know ‘in flesh’ and to whom I have been talking to for ages! You come by, read my posts, comment on them when you have time or wish to do so, leave a positive thinking a message, a simple wink and…help me living. Better. Happier. You UNDERSTAND me and through your honest critics I get to know me a lot more. This is a way of self-improvement, too. 

Now…highly important!!!!

You people, dear fe(o)llow  bloggers, have been helping me to love you. In a way, you’re already part of me. In a way you’re family or even beyond blood family boundaries, not always necessarily the best ones, nor the ones we’ve dreamt of. You belong to the family we choose for ourselves.

I’m familiar with Ion Vincent Danu‘s art, writing, inner conflicts, love and dis-love for van Gogh, his ‘hero’ of almost a life(…),  with Barb‘s ideas, writing and apparently serious personality (…), with Jessica Accardi‘s posts and sensitivity (…), with ‘thebrightoldoak”s poetry,  rather foreign language good knowledge (…), with Daniel Kons young art, heart and soul, but rather mature and critical world view (…), with Hélio do Couto´s young spirit at 74, a non-educated, kind and tender Brazilian man trying so hard to get into touch with the outside world (‘Internet betrays me all the rime’, he says, kidding, once he writes as he speaks, and it’s hard on him to be fast enough) trying so hard to find relatives back in the grandpa’s homeland (Portugal, my home country)!), and (forgive me those who I do not mention personally, but who I’m getting to know as time goes by)…  all this simply, entirely and gratefully fills and fulfils a great part of my life. The sharing part, the sharing of writing, of ideas, feelings, emotions, opinions (…), of being read, of having feedbacks.

I can not say but thanks. I wrote for years in my mother tongue and only in it. And my dear Portuguese attracted no one. Were (are) all Portuguese bloggers asleep?! (…) In a country that calls itself “the land of poets”, it occurs to me ‘we’ are only lovers of the dead ones. And once dead even the ‘poorest’ of poets become the best. For a while. Then we get back again to the “old references”, or we “worship” those who come out of nowhere in the middle of a storm as a revolution, but even those are politically and carefully picked up and remain untouchable icons, are taught at school with the wind of change, or with the wind of unchange and… who dares who propose others?

Probably ’cause I posted mostly poetry, my soul’s mirror, no one noticed my blog. Maybe it was my fault: I’m far too demanding out of … I’d better not conclude my thought! well, no one really has to like my writing nor my mental diarrhea.

Till the day Ion Vincent Danu ‘discovered me’. Out of nowhere, there he was, with an astonishing, lovely comment, a Canadian painter of Romanian roots who found out on “wordpress” something written in a language similar to his mother tongue. And he got the gist of it! How come?, I thought. And so it seems to be: both languages have lots of similarities. ‘Cousins, they are’, says Danu. 

I thank the English language as well! The one I’m in love with since the very “green years” of my childhood when  it came to me through music and through the lyrics I repeated, or gave a try, inventing a lot… Oh gosh! The words I made up… so many words for my “by-that-time-English language-dictionary”! Apparently It seems to have worked.

Leave you all this message, together with music to warm, feed and cheer up your souls. I couldn’t find a more appropriate one “to close my post with a golden key.”

Coldplay

 

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Road to Happiness Movie

“If you can’t find happiness inside yourself, you’ll never find it in the outside world, no matter where you move. Wherever you go, there you are. You take yourself with you. This is the essence of happiness—learning to find inner contentment in any situation.”

via Road to Happiness Movie

reblogged from: http://reinventingmyselfinto.com/2012/06/word-snob/

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MY OWN OPINION ON “BEING HAPPY” AND ON THE ‘MOVIE’

I don’t really think there’s a road to happiness as an aim of life. Somehow everyone answers “I want to be happy” when asked about the most desirable “thing” in life. However I don’t believe that such a state of “being happy” really exists. It would have no sense at all as a goal of life. Once reached, fulfilled, what would one live for?! 

Happiness is a rather deep feeling, an almost ecstatic one, that we experience just once in a while. It is very different from joy, gladness, satisfaction, pleasure or even contentment. Happiness can embrace all these feelings  and others can be still added to the ‘list’ our positive emotions! That’s why we simply couldn’t feel and be happy all the time. It wouldn’t matter how hard we tried: we just couldn’t. Our human nature doesn’t allow us to stop fighting, to give ourselves to passivity, to stand still and say “I’m happy now. I’ve reached my goal of life. (It sounds a bit like as if we were ready to tell: I can die now.)” Our essence is unsatisfied itself. Mine at least is, as far as giving and getting are concerned. I’m far too demanding, first and above all from myself. And it seems never to be enough. Nevertheless I feel far more comfortable in giving, in loving. That’s my sea. 

Fortunately we’re not happy all the time. And someone who tells it, either lies (to himself, above all) or is unconscious. Or too simple a person to even think about the meaning of “being happy”. No wonder ” ignorant” and unconscious  people are usually the happiest ones! Knowledge, wisdom and the entire conscience of things around and inside us don’t set us free to be so.

I can say “I’m happy for you!”; “I’ve had a very happy day”; “Gosh! I’m so happy now!”, (and this is my viewpoint on the issue from the very beginning of my comment, I reinforce the idea, without making an absolute truth out of it – there’s no such concept!) but this “Being happy forever and ever” only exists in fairly tales. And even these can have different readings and funny, remarkable endings! This reminds me of a German fairy tale, “Die Froschprinzessin” (The princess frog)  - I’m not quite sure about the exact translation into English-, whose story is not relevant for what I mean but its ending that goes like this: “They got married, had tons of kids and lived happily ever after. And if they haven’t died yet, then they are still alive.”

From fairy tales that feed the dream world of kids and that we read them before falling asleep back to happiness that keeps us wide awake, alive and kicking, in a sort of “state of grace”, how would we value it if we “had” it all the time?! It’s certainly safe and sound to “taste” a bit from all “flavours” from the world of feelings. They belong to us, are part of us and it’s only feeling (them) that we can decide which ones make us feel good. We can’t avoid them: they are part of life and nature as rainy, sunny and stormy days, but we can learn how to deal with them. And we can LEARN from and with them. 

Our life is sort of a road. And we never know what we’re going to find at the end of it. Sometimes we drive too slow; sometimes too fast. Other times we must choose between left or right or we simply drive straight on. Quite often we get lost at unknown places, where the road-signs are not visible enough or when we’re not careful (n)or focussed. Then we need help. Some of us almost go mad trying to find it on the road map; others prefer to get out of the car, take a deep breath, look around and walk towards the nearest soul we get a glimpse of in order to ask for help. After a while we listen to ourselves laughing out loud in-between what’s about to become a non-ending talk. Before turning backwards on the next roundabout, we still get some time for a coffee and while we get into the car and listen to that “See you! Drive safe!” we realize we’ve made a friend out of a stranger in the middle of nowhere. Often we must drive the same way twice, meaning an almost nervous breakdown or a change to notice what we missed the first time. Our arrival is always unpredictable: we never know the exact time; we never know how we’ll arrive (mad at us for getting lost? Tired? Angry because of all that traffic jam? Furious for not having left home earlier? Pleased for having met someone new? Glad?( We’re not that late!) Happy? (I’m home! I’m OK.! Someone I love is waiting for me!); we don’t even know if we’ll get there. Desirable is not to think too much about it everyday, otherwise we’ll live much too scared and this means  we won’t live.

There’s no road to happiness but you can find happiness on the road. It’s a bit like saying: “It’s not happy people who care about others, but it is caring about others that you feel happy.”

Trying to keep the kid alive inside ourselves in adult age is a secret to keep a young spirit and an open mind. We are cheerful, sweet,  tender and trustful. Mad sometimes, as well. But a certain doses of madness is essential to our own emotional equilibrium. We laugh as much as we cry. And ( highly important!) we don’t hide our emotions. So bitterness doesn’t grow up inside, nor a stone takes the place of our heart.

And we feel happy more often!

:-D

 
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Posted by on 19 de June de 2012 in Feelings, Kids, life, opinion

 

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