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My weekend
Last weekend my dear cousin Cris got married to her prince Justo. It was not the typical wedding. She is not a woman in her twenties or thirties. It is her second wedding. A dream come true. My cousin is adorable, always smiling, always loving, and the fact that she had to go through difficult times being able to keep that smile on her face makes her even more adorable. She got married to her school boyfriend right after college and long after, when they were going to welcome home their adopted Chinese little daughter, her husband decided to stop everything and ask for a divorce. It was a terrible blow for her because she could not understand what the heck was going on... but life goes on and she had to rebuild hers. She focused on her profession and she reached important positions in the administration. But one day she met him. You could say he was not the perfect guy. He had three young kids and had just got divorced and Cris thought that life with him would be really complicated. But he never gave up and fought for her and love won. She quit her highly considered and well-paid job and found a new one near him. Her family, most of it, didn't like her new life. They are too religious and conservative and they think she should accept she is still married in the view of God and, thus, she must live as a widow for the rest of her life. But she chose happiness and on Saturday they got it. Nothing could disturb that precious moment of happiness and as one person said there " You must make sure you keep your eyes wide open not to fail to see the important things in life. And your love is the most important one". I am sooo happy for them!!
April 27, 2015
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My dear friend John
I asked him on three different ocassions to write me back but I'm not completely sure if he can get my messages on that page because i haven't received anything from him. Maybe the only reason is he's mad at me and I'm worried. I know that at times i'm stubborn and insist too much but our friedship is forever. I don't want to live a single day if I don't feel him by my side. I can't see him today but I hope tomorrow he goes where he ahould to read what I have to tell him. If he doesn't i won't be able to enjoy my short vacation with my family.
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Under the dome
I read a curious article today. It was about the great amount of pollution China is making and its influence on the climate change. Scientists were mainly referring to the changes in North America. They said that a lot of particles sent into the atmosphere (soot from fires, different gases from industries etc) contributed to the condensation of vapor creating a perfect nuclei for the formation of storms in the Pacific ocean. Those clouds finally reached the eastern American coast and were responsible for the many cold snaps they have been having over the last winter months, which resulted in an incredible amount of snow in cities like Boston, for example. It was amazing to see in the news how people had to work their way out of their houses. A simple daily routine as going to work turning, this way, into a real adventure. Here, in Spain, even in the centre of the country, which is supposed to have extreme weather conditions (cold winters and hot summers), when only some snow flakes fall from the sky the "terrible" weather is in all conversations at work. Supposing you have been lucky enough to reach your destination because all trains coming from the towns at the foot of the mountains sorrounding the city are hopelessly delayed. So funny!!
March 12, 2015
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The future of languages
What languages will we be speaking in a hundred years? Will some of them disapperar? Maybe some will merge into one, like Spanish and Portuguese?
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Springtime
Spring has fully arrived this week. Well, at least in my "neck of the woods" :)) and as it always happens you are not still ready for it. Spring is supposed to be a time of joy, of new life but this year... I don't know... maybe it is finally. I try hard not to compare it with last year's because, if I allow myself to do it for a minute, I feel bad and, guess what, I don't want to feel bad or sad or lonely or stupid any more. Or silly? Okay, that's a different thing. I'd love to be silly and giggle again as if somebody was tickling me on the carpet while we hear the screeching sound of the seagulls. But there are not any seagulls today, all is silent, as if they didn't dare to go out of their hiding place not to make me sad. Because, definitely, things have changed. Those promises and plans and, most important, that huge huge love has gone and I still can't understand why. I can't understand how everything can change overnight and I can't because that's not possible. It can look like that for a time but, unfortunately, all soap bubbles explode in the end showing the bare truth and there's always a child that cries when that happens. But... I don't want you to cry. I only want to cuddle into you again.
March 8, 2015
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A shock wave
"It's not that I am dumb. In fact, I think that I've never been" this is what my friend told me the other day, and she continued " Maybe I didn't want to accept what I had been seeing for more than five months. So many hours without the urge to talk, too many errands to run, too much shallow talking, everything to avoid admitting to the truth. And this truth - she kept on talking- would have been difficult to accept but being suffering for so long, making me believe that all was in my mind, that it was me who could not manage the situation... No, definitely, that was going too far". I could not say anything. She was right. I had told her but she had refused to listen to me. "He's not for you. He only needed somebody and once he got that person back, all his needs are covered". I remember when he told her about the "rescue", I thought she would never recover after that but she forgot those terrible words of treason. She wanted to. But last 23rd April there was an earthquake in Spain. Nothing serious but we all could feel the ground moving under our feet. Scientists could not predict it was going to happen but my friend could. The epicenter was miles away from her, across the ocean, but she shook along with the ground when she heard him saying "I love her".
March 1, 2015
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Psychological hygiene
I like listening to TED talks. It's an excellent way to practise your English. The last one I listened to talked about the different importance we give to health depending on what the illness affects. If it is our body which is at risk, we immediately take action and if we don't, there is always someone around who reminds us repeatedly to do so, to go to the doctor, to stay home, to take some medicine. On the contrary, if our mental stability is at risk, the normal thing is not to give any importance to it. If you arie sad, depressed or if you feel lonely the most common advice people give you is to get rid of of those feelings by simply shaking off your head. As if it were so simple! As simple as covering a cut on you knee with a band aid. But it is certainly not that easy. The speaker also speaks about the terrible loneliness he felt when living in a foreigh country and his twin brother failed to phone him on their birthday. He had been waiting for that call the whole week (phone calls to foreign countries were very expensive back then) and he explains the deep anxiety and sadness he went through that day. And here, at this point of the talk, is when I totally connected with him, when I fully understood why loneliness can lead you to terrible things, terrible diseases, even to death. It is scientifically proven but I hadn't heard about it before. And I also felt the terrible urge to talk to my beloved twin brother to tell him "Do not forget me, walk with me, hold my hand, let's wait together, we'll make it finally... but do not take me out of your life"
February 22, 2015
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I've said no
Maybe it was a stupid thing to do but I don't care what you may think. I said no and I feel better than yesterday when I still carried the burden over my shoulders. The funny thing is that I already have my beautiful glossy visit cards that said "Director". I think I'll use them to caculate how many more tears I'll have to shed before I can forget or ... No, I really don't want to forget. Why should I forget? Beautiful things should last forever. I can use them to cover an ugly pillar I have in my sitting room. I'll keep you informed. Do not worry. But what is sure is now I'll have less money, less professional projection but more time, loads of hours to give to whom wants to share them with me, and my summers... to keep on walking by the sea. And if it rains, I'll walk under his huge umbrella.
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Por favor
How many ways are there to say please? Of course, the simplest one is saying the word. You can also try again saying the word twice, even three times: Please, please, please. And what if you add a big exclamation mark at the end...Please! But if nothing works, the only way left is just say "Listen to your heart" as you once told me, look into your memories, think of us.
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