Life, hope, lifestyle and everything beautiful
On Thursday, having ten minutes to spare between classes, I ran off to get my poison, soda, to a nearby funky corner store in San Francisco. It’s one of those corner stores right in the heart of the homeless and drug dealing quarters. Few would go out of their way intently to shop there, but […]
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Our hearts inevitably break as we go through life. Our jobs, friends, lovers, let us down. They leave us or disillusion us, probably from the high expectations we place on them in the first place. That’s far from being bad, though. That these things happened means that we had hopes and were positive and brave […]
Read More…Three years ago I was a loner, a fearful woman who wouldn’t dare expose herself to any public event without getting a migraine that the tension of meeting people provoked. Now, three years later, life has taken an amazing turn, at long last, for the better.
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Some chapters must be closed so we can go ahead and move on to the next. No, it’s not easy, but who said life was easy? As M. Scott Peck says in his book “The road Less Travelled,” “Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great […]
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We have come a long way since this old picture. My sister, my caretaker, my mom, my daughter. We play so many roles in each others lives.
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Don’t you hate the sentence starting with: “If only…?” Damn! I have ‘t used this expression in the past tense in decades. “If only I had not drunk myself silly…” What belongs to the past must stay there, but should be kept as a reminder of what not do gain! Like hitting your head against […]
Read More…Today everyone is happy out there, religious or not, celebrating Easter in some way. For kids it’s really about the easter egg hunt! While others will go to church and celebrate in their own way the “gift of life.”
Read More…Does what people say, match what they do? Lowering our expectations, might lead to a happier life! We expect so much from people that we are inevitably let down. We hold onto people’s words and promises without checking if, in fact, their words match their actions. Then, we are caught by surprise and often feel […]
Read More…We hide, we stick to our little routines and don’t dare step away from our orderly lives, often out of sheer fear of the unknown, of taking the wrong path, of being frowned upon by others.
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Don’t you wish you had been given a little instruction book on life at birth? Yet, this might also kill it for us. Our high expectations in our youth, our dreams and hopes would lack luster. We just have to go along with it and make our way blindly. There is no right path, we […]
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