Life – Page 10 – On Life, Hope y todo lo demás…

We will always have Paris…

This is something we all have: the ability to keep memories frozen to later retrieve them and smile. Not to hold them tight and grieve in pain about the losses, but to calmly remember the gains and good times, let them go, and put them neatly back in the box for later enjoyment.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Life’s wake up calls.

A jolt, a jumpstart, a sharp turn, an awakening, a strike of lightning, a slap in the face… Life’s wake up calls are numerous. You can choose to ignore them and keep doing what is not working, or take the chance, wake up and get on a new life-track.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

If today sucked, there is always the hope of a better tomorrow.

I’ve learned this last year that no matter what, tomorrow can bring something better than whatever today took away. Maybe it robed me of my optimism, things didn’t work out as expected or something went awry.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Alone…

by Laura Basset Carbonell

We forget to live when…

We rob ourselves of life when we forget to live.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Change sometimes just means accepting who you are.

I’ve spent a great deal of my life trying to change. Feeling like I was medium rare and not well done. Now, after five decades I’m finally the person I want to be.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Starting over.

When the night closed in and she turned to walk away, she did so very slowly. Trying to make sure her steps didn’t turn into a mad run.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Giving up on stupidity.

We all do stupid things, which we are well aware we are doing and just hope, in time, they’ll turn into intelligent things we did. But the truth is that often those things stay stupid and with this awareness we should stop.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Finding your very own hero.

We all need guidance and someone to look up to. A roll-model that paves the way and teaches us something we don’t know that might push us on. We do that since childhood. Our parents are our first heroes, and from then on we keep looking for those inspiring people who we’ll try to imitate.

by Laura Basset Carbonell

Time and making every moment count.

As I go through last year’s credit card statement to figure out my write-offs, not very romantic, I’m amazed at how long ago it all seems. Those trips, coffees, dinners, and hotels appear to have happened longer ago. My life seems to have switched gears and the slowness of time I felt as a kid has turned […]