.
Today is a very unique day!
The 29th of February happens once every four
years, to compensate the time elapse during the
rotation of the Earth around it's SUN.
This situation changes rarely, unlike the lifes
of the creatures that rule the surface of this
planet. Every second or so we the inhabbitants of
the Earth are submitted to varitions of fate,
called changes.
I will focus particularly on my case.
For the past eight months I have been working as
a submanager, class B-12 in the PLO Agua e Sal
spaceship, better known to all as a common
restaurant in the Lisbon Oceanarium. This
experience followed a 4 month period in Canada
that made me focus more on what I want out of
life. As such I went through some changes, with
the help of new and old friends, some close by
some as far as the farther Poseidon sea, I manage
to recover from a early life crises.
Today I am conteplating my last week on Portugal,
as I am about to embarc in the Montreal Odissey.
When I as an inconscient teenager, I lived in
dread of ever venturing beyond the borders of the
world that I knew with the overwhelming fear of
what could be beyond those walls that I don't
know.
Change allowed me to overcome fear and face what
the world had to offer in regions quite far from
the borders of my known teen-world.
Before I launch myself on this third venture
among the canadians I am preparing to leave the
known universe behind.
My birthday party, next tuesday, poses a
wonderful opportunity to reunite myself with
people from many stages of my life. Old friends
and new friends together in the same room,
allowing me to create such a vivid image of all
of them, that will never make me want to forget
where home is.
I will be seeing people that I haven't seen in
years, people that I haven't talked in years.
This rendezvous will be a change as well.
I feel touched by bringing together so many souls
that in a way or another have touched my own in a
very unique way.
My route to happiness starts with this certainty,
that a given point in my life I had a friend and
that I was happy with that friend. Now as I am
only a week away from leaving this world behind,
I realize that my happiness lies around as small
pockets of invisible energy that bring me closer
to what I have been looking for - Happiness for
me and everyone else.
For 8 months I committed my life to the
Restaurant and to give what I could of myself to
ensure that it would go the distance and that it
would have wings of it's own to fly. The bird is
lose now, and next tuesday will take 50 more
passangers that have changed my life in a way
that only in dreams I know how so.
Alas, not all the rendezvous that I desire are
possible. Still, instead of crying about all that
is not set to be, I will be glad in enjoying all
that it can be.
People are complex molecules that run freely in a
entropic system, their unique moments of
rendez-vous are enough to create massive changes
in the shape of the heart of everyone, even in
the image of that dragonfly's dream, where all of
this was created!
I don't mind changing as long as it is for the
best. I will keep on creating rendez-vous that
will help me grow beyond my borders and expend my
dreams to where they belong.
Listening: Immortal Memory by Lisa Gerard and
Patrick Cassidy
cocasman@zmail.pt
Sunday, February 29, 2004
Changes and rendezvous
.
Today is a very unique day!
The 29th of February happens once every four
years, to compensate the time elapse during the
rotation of the Earth around it's SUN.
This situation changes rarely, unlike the lifes
of the creatures that rule the surface of this
planet. Every second or so we the inhabbitants of the Earth are submitted to varitions of fate,
called changes.
I will focus particularly on my case.
For the past eight months I have been working as
a submanager, class B-12 in the PLO Agua e Sal
spaceship, better known to all as a common
restaurant in the Lisbon Oceanarium. This
experience followed a 4 month period in Canada
that made me focus more on what I want out of
life. As such I went through some changes, with
the help of new and old friends, some close by
some as far as the farther Poseidon sea, I manage
to recover from a early life crises.
Today I am conteplating my last week on Portugal,
as I am about to embarc in the Montreal Odissey.
When I as an inconscient teenager, I lived in
dread of ever venturing beyond the borders of the
world that I knew with the overwhelming fear of
what could be beyond those walls that I don't
know.
Change allowed me to overcome fear and face what
the world had to offer in regions quite far from
the borders of my known teen-world.
Before I launch myself on this third venture
among the canadians I am preparing to leave the
known universe behind.
My birthday party, next tuesday, poses a
wonderful opportunity to reunite myself with
people from many stages of my life. Old friends
and new friends together in the same room,
allowing me to create such a vivid image of all
of them, that will never make me want to forget
where home is.
I will be seeing people that I haven't seen in
years, people that I haven't talked in years.
This rendezvous will be a change as well.
I feel touched by bringing together so many souls
that in a way or another have touched my own in a
very unique way.
My route to happiness starts with this certainty,
that a given point in my life I had a friend and
that I was happy with that friend. Now as I am
only a week away from leaving this world behind,
I realize that my happiness lies around as small
pockets of invisible energy that bring me closer
to what I have been looking for - Happiness for
me and everyone else.
For 8 months I committed my life to the
Restaurant and to give what I could of myself to
ensure that it would go the distance and that it
would have wings of it's own to fly. The bird is
lose now, and next tuesday will take 50 more
passangers that have changed my life in a way
that only in dreams I know how so.
Alas, not all the rendezvous that I desire are
possible. Still, instead of crying about all that
is not set to be, I will be glad in enjoying all
that it can be.
People are complex molecules that run freely in a
entropic system, their unique moments of
rendez-vous are enough to create massive changes
in the shape of the heart of everyone, even in
the image of that dragonfly's dream, where all of
this was created!
I don't mind changing as long as it is for the
best. I will keep on creating rendez-vous that
will help me grow beyond my borders and expend my
dreams to where they belong.
Listening: Immortal Memory by Lisa Gerard and
Patrick Cassidy
cocasman@zmail.pt
Today is a very unique day!
The 29th of February happens once every four
years, to compensate the time elapse during the
rotation of the Earth around it's SUN.
This situation changes rarely, unlike the lifes
of the creatures that rule the surface of this
planet. Every second or so we the inhabbitants of the Earth are submitted to varitions of fate,
called changes.
I will focus particularly on my case.
For the past eight months I have been working as
a submanager, class B-12 in the PLO Agua e Sal
spaceship, better known to all as a common
restaurant in the Lisbon Oceanarium. This
experience followed a 4 month period in Canada
that made me focus more on what I want out of
life. As such I went through some changes, with
the help of new and old friends, some close by
some as far as the farther Poseidon sea, I manage
to recover from a early life crises.
Today I am conteplating my last week on Portugal,
as I am about to embarc in the Montreal Odissey.
When I as an inconscient teenager, I lived in
dread of ever venturing beyond the borders of the
world that I knew with the overwhelming fear of
what could be beyond those walls that I don't
know.
Change allowed me to overcome fear and face what
the world had to offer in regions quite far from
the borders of my known teen-world.
Before I launch myself on this third venture
among the canadians I am preparing to leave the
known universe behind.
My birthday party, next tuesday, poses a
wonderful opportunity to reunite myself with
people from many stages of my life. Old friends
and new friends together in the same room,
allowing me to create such a vivid image of all
of them, that will never make me want to forget
where home is.
I will be seeing people that I haven't seen in
years, people that I haven't talked in years.
This rendezvous will be a change as well.
I feel touched by bringing together so many souls
that in a way or another have touched my own in a
very unique way.
My route to happiness starts with this certainty,
that a given point in my life I had a friend and
that I was happy with that friend. Now as I am
only a week away from leaving this world behind,
I realize that my happiness lies around as small
pockets of invisible energy that bring me closer
to what I have been looking for - Happiness for
me and everyone else.
For 8 months I committed my life to the
Restaurant and to give what I could of myself to
ensure that it would go the distance and that it
would have wings of it's own to fly. The bird is
lose now, and next tuesday will take 50 more
passangers that have changed my life in a way
that only in dreams I know how so.
Alas, not all the rendezvous that I desire are
possible. Still, instead of crying about all that
is not set to be, I will be glad in enjoying all
that it can be.
People are complex molecules that run freely in a
entropic system, their unique moments of
rendez-vous are enough to create massive changes
in the shape of the heart of everyone, even in
the image of that dragonfly's dream, where all of
this was created!
I don't mind changing as long as it is for the
best. I will keep on creating rendez-vous that
will help me grow beyond my borders and expend my
dreams to where they belong.
Listening: Immortal Memory by Lisa Gerard and
Patrick Cassidy
cocasman@zmail.pt
Sunday, February 08, 2004
Morals - First Draft
.
A friend of mine asked me to answer a 7 questions sheet.
Here are the answers.
It's still a first draft, but I guess it has the main ideas that I wanted to say.
I hope you might
Enjoy
1-a.) What do you consider to be important moral values?
The On-line Merriam-Webster definition for moral is:
moral
Function: adjective
Text: 1 conforming to a standard of what is right and good
Synonyms ethical, moralistic, noble, principled, righteous, right-minded, virtuous
Related Word good, right; conscientious, honest, honorable, just, scrupulous, upright; chaste, decent, modest, pure
Contrasted Words amoral, nonmoral, unmoral
My personal insight about morality relates to what is fair. As such I would define that a moral person is someone who has an overall of view of any particular situation and is able to act according to what the person reason calls for.
I fell that I must go back a bit.
Moral values depend clearly on the upbringing of each subject. For instance, my Portuguese education finds it abhorring to serve a dog as a main course, while a Chinese person would consider it to be a common meal in every day life.
In Portugal, we have a strong Christian influence; therefore, we are bounded to the 10 commandments of Moses and teachings of Christ, to define our morals. Obviously, by avoiding the 7 Deadly Sins one can be said to be acting according to Christian Morals. Hence by avoiding:
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
Opposed to this come the Virtues, that supposedly are the building blocks for a moral person. Directly, one can be moral according to the Christian Religion if he has:
Faith equals belief and trust. It can also be said that a person, living in accordance to fidelity, loyalty and who has sound conviction of its reasons, without falling into a blind fanatic behaviour, is someone who has faith. The distinction is hard to make sometimes.
Hope comes with desire, followed by the belief that something will happen. Hope is also reliance in someone, leading to great expectations towards someone or something. Personally, I find it more moral to have great expectations about someone than something, although something might indirectly reveal an outcome of a expectation I had about someone.
Charity is a synonym of generosity, a benevolent gesture towards someone who truly needs assistance at given point. It is also usual to define it as a merciful act where one is being helpful to another. Many times people see it as a negative thing to accept charity or the mercy of someone; it’s probably a common dispute between charity and pride!
Fortitude this virtue is often confused with pride, when in fact means strength, courage, endurance and resoluteness. This virtue is essential to overcome a particular hurdle to a self or another.
Justice is the ability of being impartial and fair, to be able to pass an equal judgement regardless of the parties involved. The persons who are just are often called righteous able to dispassionate towards a given argument. Justice it’s all about truth.
Temperance involves the self-mastery art of one to restrain the emotional urges through reason, sobriety and frugality.
Prudence often comes with wisdom, allowing to a person to be careful, vigilant. A prudent person is someone who knows to be discrete and thoughtful at same time, henceforth being prepared for what things may come.
However, all that is too much is, nevertheless, too much, by taking all these virtues to an extreme one might fall into the deadly sins category.
I truly believe that if a person takes time to put in practice all these virtues in a most balanced way, then a person will find the harmony that ultimately will lead to a moral path.
1.b) What are your strongest morals?
Personally, I believe that moral goes hand in hand with a simple principle, respect. Yet, this principle is very difficult to cope if one tends to be selfish.
I would say that if I say I respect a person then I won’t interfere with that person’s space through aggression, manipulation or any kind of devious thought that I might have.
In my own way, I try to be just, that’s why must of time I fell that I thrive to be selfless and prudent.
2) What would you define to be a "good" person? a "bad" person?
Immediately, I could say that a good person is someone that follows all the virtues in harmony, while the bad person chooses the path defined by the 7 deadly sins.
In more general terms, a bad person would be someone who would live to it’s own agenda, without realizing the consequence of his actions towards others. Worse, a really bad person is someone who is aware of the nature and the outcome of his behaviour and chooses to pursue with what he has in mind.
Opposed to that, a good person will always define what actions to take while considering what’s good for the majority while minimizing the consequences of the actions to the minority who will suffer from the outcome. A good person will conveniently define its steps towards solving problems in the best possible way. In contrast, a bad person will create problems, without caring for the detriment of the ones involved.
3) How important is family?
Once I have read somewhere that family are the group of friends that we are given upon birth, which he don’t choose. In the current society, family comprises the main structure in transmitting the fundaments, the rules in which our civilization is build upon. A stable society depends on the conformity of its members.
Family plays the role of early programming. The offspring are raised according the family morals. The definition of morals might vary with the accordance to each one’s importance. For instance, there might be families who find it more importance to be just, while others are more love based.
I find that family is essential in transmitting knowledge and wisdom, as such this will help the newborn define it’s own moral behaviour towards the community that where he now belongs to.
4) How important is religion?
I see religion as an ancestral part of the society, created to explain all the questions that leaped the common sense, such as the beginning and the end, the why and the how of life. Meanwhile, as the years went by, religion assumed the teaching role in the western societies. As such, the Christian church controlled the first schools and universities.
The same type of behaviour can be seen in other societies, where the teaching role of the predominant religion is only emphasized through the behaviour of the members of that particular society.
Nowadays, religion is facing a battle with the freedom of speech while bound to the principles of the rules of the past. I believe that religion has important principles to teach to all, in order to help define a moral more appropriated to all, where the virtues can be equally put in practice without prejudice to anyone. However, the dark chapters of some religions in the past make a crescent part of the population to doubt on the fair role of religion in today’s appropriate morals.
Bottom line, I believe religion has an important role in society as a teaching tool where all can benefit from the knowledge acquired.
5) Is bettering the community important to you?
I believe that the community as a whole has an enormous potential in overcoming social and political difficulties, that everyday seem to be a growing as a cancer in modern society. For instance, the ability to blame it one someone else instead of taking charge to solve a particular issue is a common behaviour that one can see just by observing.
I believe that the community can be bettered if there is a way to aware people to the potential they have as a group to produce changes for the best. People become immoral, when they assume that the responsibility for the problems of the community depends on someone else. This is a typical sloth example that no doubt leads to immoral behaviour.
I believe that the modern communities lack education at many levels, which reflects the negligence towards particular issues that corrupt the world in such a sad form. In a large measure it all comes down to respect – a two-way autoroute that leads to accomplishment through selfless actions.
6) How would you personally handle a conflict with your parents?
I love my parents, but most of times I forget that they are who they are.
I have a better understanding with my mom than with my dad whose advanced 73 year old age makes him a more demanding sort of person. I feel that my father is old not because he has lived the hours he did but mostly because he assumed a lay back posture through out the last 20 years of his life. My mother is an hectic person that despises sloth in the most pure form.
A typical way to solve a problem or a conflict is to approach them individually, as they are distinct in their nature. So to deal a problem with my mom, I would talk to my dad, and vice-versa. Usually, they talk about it before I face the one who is directly involved. Therefore, it is usual to talk to them about conflicts and realize that they already have a view or a point towards it. With my father I lose my temper easily, while with my mom I respect more.
7) Are there any barriers in your everyday life that prevent you from resolving conflicts?
I am a very passive person, which makes me difficult to cope with conflicts. I feel that as I get more involved with people, I learn to be more assertive and I am more alert in ways to avoid conflict instead of solving them.
Throughout my adolescence years I developed a self-pity attitude and a low self-esteem, which resulted in many personal depressions towards facing particular problems.
In my everyday life I try to avoid these thoughts as they make me my own worse enemy.
Usually, I try to solve problems by simplify them to there basic sense, however there are moments where I don’t seem to be able to decompose a problem to it’s simpler building blocks, that poses as a major barrier in overcoming conflicts.
I try to be a person full with virtues and assume a positive attitude towards all in general. Usually, I use humour to soften the atmosphere of a conflict site. I find it to be beneficial if I use humour and then simultaneous present a solution to ease the conflict.
A common barrier that I have is to tell people what to do, when I have to. How to explain people the need to do and make my argument stick, particularly when I feel that I am right. In the past, I would assume that it would be better not to argue any more and let anyone have it their way.
I tend to be oversensitive to people with people for whom I develop a great friendship.
Despise is the worse thing anyone who I call a friend can do to me. It shuts me off to a primordial state of confusing and sadness.
Many other barriers come to me everyday, but I try to solve them day-by-day, by believing in me while being true to myself.
cocasman@zmail.pt
A friend of mine asked me to answer a 7 questions sheet.
Here are the answers.
It's still a first draft, but I guess it has the main ideas that I wanted to say.
I hope you might
Enjoy
1-a.) What do you consider to be important moral values?
The On-line Merriam-Webster definition for moral is:
moral
Function: adjective
Text: 1 conforming to a standard of what is right and good
Synonyms ethical, moralistic, noble, principled, righteous, right-minded, virtuous
Related Word good, right; conscientious, honest, honorable, just, scrupulous, upright; chaste, decent, modest, pure
Contrasted Words amoral, nonmoral, unmoral
My personal insight about morality relates to what is fair. As such I would define that a moral person is someone who has an overall of view of any particular situation and is able to act according to what the person reason calls for.
I fell that I must go back a bit.
Moral values depend clearly on the upbringing of each subject. For instance, my Portuguese education finds it abhorring to serve a dog as a main course, while a Chinese person would consider it to be a common meal in every day life.
In Portugal, we have a strong Christian influence; therefore, we are bounded to the 10 commandments of Moses and teachings of Christ, to define our morals. Obviously, by avoiding the 7 Deadly Sins one can be said to be acting according to Christian Morals. Hence by avoiding:
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.
Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation.
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.
Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.
Anger is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.
Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.
Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
Opposed to this come the Virtues, that supposedly are the building blocks for a moral person. Directly, one can be moral according to the Christian Religion if he has:
Faith equals belief and trust. It can also be said that a person, living in accordance to fidelity, loyalty and who has sound conviction of its reasons, without falling into a blind fanatic behaviour, is someone who has faith. The distinction is hard to make sometimes.
Hope comes with desire, followed by the belief that something will happen. Hope is also reliance in someone, leading to great expectations towards someone or something. Personally, I find it more moral to have great expectations about someone than something, although something might indirectly reveal an outcome of a expectation I had about someone.
Charity is a synonym of generosity, a benevolent gesture towards someone who truly needs assistance at given point. It is also usual to define it as a merciful act where one is being helpful to another. Many times people see it as a negative thing to accept charity or the mercy of someone; it’s probably a common dispute between charity and pride!
Fortitude this virtue is often confused with pride, when in fact means strength, courage, endurance and resoluteness. This virtue is essential to overcome a particular hurdle to a self or another.
Justice is the ability of being impartial and fair, to be able to pass an equal judgement regardless of the parties involved. The persons who are just are often called righteous able to dispassionate towards a given argument. Justice it’s all about truth.
Temperance involves the self-mastery art of one to restrain the emotional urges through reason, sobriety and frugality.
Prudence often comes with wisdom, allowing to a person to be careful, vigilant. A prudent person is someone who knows to be discrete and thoughtful at same time, henceforth being prepared for what things may come.
However, all that is too much is, nevertheless, too much, by taking all these virtues to an extreme one might fall into the deadly sins category.
I truly believe that if a person takes time to put in practice all these virtues in a most balanced way, then a person will find the harmony that ultimately will lead to a moral path.
1.b) What are your strongest morals?
Personally, I believe that moral goes hand in hand with a simple principle, respect. Yet, this principle is very difficult to cope if one tends to be selfish.
I would say that if I say I respect a person then I won’t interfere with that person’s space through aggression, manipulation or any kind of devious thought that I might have.
In my own way, I try to be just, that’s why must of time I fell that I thrive to be selfless and prudent.
2) What would you define to be a "good" person? a "bad" person?
Immediately, I could say that a good person is someone that follows all the virtues in harmony, while the bad person chooses the path defined by the 7 deadly sins.
In more general terms, a bad person would be someone who would live to it’s own agenda, without realizing the consequence of his actions towards others. Worse, a really bad person is someone who is aware of the nature and the outcome of his behaviour and chooses to pursue with what he has in mind.
Opposed to that, a good person will always define what actions to take while considering what’s good for the majority while minimizing the consequences of the actions to the minority who will suffer from the outcome. A good person will conveniently define its steps towards solving problems in the best possible way. In contrast, a bad person will create problems, without caring for the detriment of the ones involved.
3) How important is family?
Once I have read somewhere that family are the group of friends that we are given upon birth, which he don’t choose. In the current society, family comprises the main structure in transmitting the fundaments, the rules in which our civilization is build upon. A stable society depends on the conformity of its members.
Family plays the role of early programming. The offspring are raised according the family morals. The definition of morals might vary with the accordance to each one’s importance. For instance, there might be families who find it more importance to be just, while others are more love based.
I find that family is essential in transmitting knowledge and wisdom, as such this will help the newborn define it’s own moral behaviour towards the community that where he now belongs to.
4) How important is religion?
I see religion as an ancestral part of the society, created to explain all the questions that leaped the common sense, such as the beginning and the end, the why and the how of life. Meanwhile, as the years went by, religion assumed the teaching role in the western societies. As such, the Christian church controlled the first schools and universities.
The same type of behaviour can be seen in other societies, where the teaching role of the predominant religion is only emphasized through the behaviour of the members of that particular society.
Nowadays, religion is facing a battle with the freedom of speech while bound to the principles of the rules of the past. I believe that religion has important principles to teach to all, in order to help define a moral more appropriated to all, where the virtues can be equally put in practice without prejudice to anyone. However, the dark chapters of some religions in the past make a crescent part of the population to doubt on the fair role of religion in today’s appropriate morals.
Bottom line, I believe religion has an important role in society as a teaching tool where all can benefit from the knowledge acquired.
5) Is bettering the community important to you?
I believe that the community as a whole has an enormous potential in overcoming social and political difficulties, that everyday seem to be a growing as a cancer in modern society. For instance, the ability to blame it one someone else instead of taking charge to solve a particular issue is a common behaviour that one can see just by observing.
I believe that the community can be bettered if there is a way to aware people to the potential they have as a group to produce changes for the best. People become immoral, when they assume that the responsibility for the problems of the community depends on someone else. This is a typical sloth example that no doubt leads to immoral behaviour.
I believe that the modern communities lack education at many levels, which reflects the negligence towards particular issues that corrupt the world in such a sad form. In a large measure it all comes down to respect – a two-way autoroute that leads to accomplishment through selfless actions.
6) How would you personally handle a conflict with your parents?
I love my parents, but most of times I forget that they are who they are.
I have a better understanding with my mom than with my dad whose advanced 73 year old age makes him a more demanding sort of person. I feel that my father is old not because he has lived the hours he did but mostly because he assumed a lay back posture through out the last 20 years of his life. My mother is an hectic person that despises sloth in the most pure form.
A typical way to solve a problem or a conflict is to approach them individually, as they are distinct in their nature. So to deal a problem with my mom, I would talk to my dad, and vice-versa. Usually, they talk about it before I face the one who is directly involved. Therefore, it is usual to talk to them about conflicts and realize that they already have a view or a point towards it. With my father I lose my temper easily, while with my mom I respect more.
7) Are there any barriers in your everyday life that prevent you from resolving conflicts?
I am a very passive person, which makes me difficult to cope with conflicts. I feel that as I get more involved with people, I learn to be more assertive and I am more alert in ways to avoid conflict instead of solving them.
Throughout my adolescence years I developed a self-pity attitude and a low self-esteem, which resulted in many personal depressions towards facing particular problems.
In my everyday life I try to avoid these thoughts as they make me my own worse enemy.
Usually, I try to solve problems by simplify them to there basic sense, however there are moments where I don’t seem to be able to decompose a problem to it’s simpler building blocks, that poses as a major barrier in overcoming conflicts.
I try to be a person full with virtues and assume a positive attitude towards all in general. Usually, I use humour to soften the atmosphere of a conflict site. I find it to be beneficial if I use humour and then simultaneous present a solution to ease the conflict.
A common barrier that I have is to tell people what to do, when I have to. How to explain people the need to do and make my argument stick, particularly when I feel that I am right. In the past, I would assume that it would be better not to argue any more and let anyone have it their way.
I tend to be oversensitive to people with people for whom I develop a great friendship.
Despise is the worse thing anyone who I call a friend can do to me. It shuts me off to a primordial state of confusing and sadness.
Many other barriers come to me everyday, but I try to solve them day-by-day, by believing in me while being true to myself.
cocasman@zmail.pt
Friday, February 06, 2004
Happiness is just around the corner
.
An inspiring energy has come to me, as precious as the mid-day sun, covering all the land and bringing down it’s mystic rays thus feeding the mighty earth with a true heavenly touch.
I am as such, touched by a divine influence, that frequently lays around us. Lately, I am wondering around a happy thought.
Truthfully, I have been sleeping fewer hours as the weeks go by. I guess that as time draws me nearer of my own objectives, I start to focus more on what it means to be alive.
Recently I have been wondering about my friends!
Where are they?
What happen to them?
Most of them got, a so-called life, a common confidential wish that takes them to being a grown-up. Personally, I rather be called a kid any day, allowing me to be in touch with my emotions and to be more the person I am than the one, people want.
I mean what is the point of going around the nameless cities being someone you are not?; What is it about living someone else’s projection of us?
The mighty Delfos was right, you know? – “to thyself be true”
Oh! I know! It is so much easier to be passive to the world around us, and say yes to all of them! However, from times to times a Nay is in order, as I stand alone in the corners of my dreams and feel that I have all the sense in saying “NO WAY!”.
In this spot, where I found myself, I learn that happiness, even as such a fickle event as it appears to be, it can be found in everyday life just around any corner.
The formula is quite simple and you hear it all the time. It’s all about listening!
Have you ever stop for a moment?! Took a time to listen to your beat! To allow your awareness to fully accomplish the sense of – “Hey! This is awesome! I am alive!!! Give me some more”; either by listening to your heart beating or your sensing the lungs being filled with air and exhaling the visiting Nitrogen and Dioxide Carbon molecules that frequently take a glimpse at our cores.
But, alas, my friends are always my friends. I miss them. I miss their wild child like nature, as were free to be “WE!”
“THOSE WERE THE DAYS”
Nonetheless, I am so happy right now, that I can explode like a summer fire-crack in a wild-type fair and spread my positive emotions all through the Earth.
I am going to enjoy this feeling, just for a heartbeat, and yet I will not stop looking for that, most special heart beat, where I feel like this again.
To all of you, friends and companions thank you for allowing me to come all this way, and reach this reflection point where I can take a time to be me and enjoy who I am.
Once, a friend called me Narcissistic, I guess today that is quite true.
I hope you can all take a second and go to that much special corner of your one lives.
Reading: Recpits and account figures in a Portuguese restaurant
Listening: Bhajan – Sheila Chandra
Thinking: Of you
cocasman@zmail.pt
An inspiring energy has come to me, as precious as the mid-day sun, covering all the land and bringing down it’s mystic rays thus feeding the mighty earth with a true heavenly touch.
I am as such, touched by a divine influence, that frequently lays around us. Lately, I am wondering around a happy thought.
Truthfully, I have been sleeping fewer hours as the weeks go by. I guess that as time draws me nearer of my own objectives, I start to focus more on what it means to be alive.
Recently I have been wondering about my friends!
Where are they?
What happen to them?
Most of them got, a so-called life, a common confidential wish that takes them to being a grown-up. Personally, I rather be called a kid any day, allowing me to be in touch with my emotions and to be more the person I am than the one, people want.
I mean what is the point of going around the nameless cities being someone you are not?; What is it about living someone else’s projection of us?
The mighty Delfos was right, you know? – “to thyself be true”
Oh! I know! It is so much easier to be passive to the world around us, and say yes to all of them! However, from times to times a Nay is in order, as I stand alone in the corners of my dreams and feel that I have all the sense in saying “NO WAY!”.
In this spot, where I found myself, I learn that happiness, even as such a fickle event as it appears to be, it can be found in everyday life just around any corner.
The formula is quite simple and you hear it all the time. It’s all about listening!
Have you ever stop for a moment?! Took a time to listen to your beat! To allow your awareness to fully accomplish the sense of – “Hey! This is awesome! I am alive!!! Give me some more”; either by listening to your heart beating or your sensing the lungs being filled with air and exhaling the visiting Nitrogen and Dioxide Carbon molecules that frequently take a glimpse at our cores.
But, alas, my friends are always my friends. I miss them. I miss their wild child like nature, as were free to be “WE!”
“THOSE WERE THE DAYS”
Nonetheless, I am so happy right now, that I can explode like a summer fire-crack in a wild-type fair and spread my positive emotions all through the Earth.
I am going to enjoy this feeling, just for a heartbeat, and yet I will not stop looking for that, most special heart beat, where I feel like this again.
To all of you, friends and companions thank you for allowing me to come all this way, and reach this reflection point where I can take a time to be me and enjoy who I am.
Once, a friend called me Narcissistic, I guess today that is quite true.
I hope you can all take a second and go to that much special corner of your one lives.
Reading: Recpits and account figures in a Portuguese restaurant
Listening: Bhajan – Sheila Chandra
Thinking: Of you
cocasman@zmail.pt
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