“Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
A new decade is here and lots of people are extremely positive about it. Being an optimist, however, I must say I’m not sure it will be great. Last year was a year of love and I will still conclude it was filled with love, lots of hard times but the end of 2009 personally was flying among the clouds.
However, when things are good something must happen. Balance in life and nature is what Darwin spoke about and just before new years bad things started happening and to be honest they are still coming. The greatest was a loss of a very beloved family friend just after Christmas. it still hurts but I can’t do much than move on, I’m glad we celebrated Christmas eve as usual together and this has always been our great thing. And I will never forget who thought me to dance a waltz…
Nevertheless, I’m not saying 2010 will be negative, not at all. I feel it will be challenging and full of changes! And that’s about time, we need to wake up and change. Did anyone notice economic crisis during christmas? Nope, the stores were crowded, business blooming and companies earning more than last year. So even due to a recession people still have not given themselves time to re-think. We can’t live like this. I’m not pointing at anyone at all, I’m just going back to Darwin and balance in life.
People have started waking up, re-thinking that it’s not worth risking one’s heart and health to be the last one leaving the office. It’s time to think that even though you’re goal oriented and want a great career, if you get ill or when you retire, you’ll be easily replaced. And your career woun’t cook you chicken soup when you’re ill or keep you company during rainy days.
I believe we should believe in love and I think that this decade will change people’s focus more towards what’s important.
Personally 2009, was challenging with lots of new stuff happening and getting used to that, but being an optimist you just have to think you’re learning something about everything. All experiences are good, even the bad ones. I’ve always said that. I think everyone is learning a lesson and they are all different. We just have to stop for a while and just see things as they are, and think of what is our role in it. I’m definitely not religious so no such thoughts, just pure reality check. It’s healthy =)
One of my absolute favourite quotes is what will end this post. Most people see it negative, I see it as the most positive thing you can have. But before that I’m just wishing you a fabulous happy new 2010 full of surprises! And yes, surprises are fun! =)
“The only constant is change” – Issac Asimov
“Our greatest glory is not
in never failing
but in getting up every time
we do.”
- Unknown
Where does one live?
If your body is in the present
Enjoying the beauty of the nature
But your soul is stuck in the past
And your heart aching for the memories
Not beating for the present.
The sun is arising
But it’s hard to see the horizon
due to all the trees.
Myself can’t reach the
horizon
as the beauty
of the present
is in the sea.
Endless.
Unreachable.
M. Stojanovic
She stood by the window, looking out in the sky. Even though the window was open, she wasn’t freezing. Jumping right up from the bed in just underwear on a rainy November day might have been strange for the south European lying in her bed but she was used to it.
What do you see, he asked?
She answered that there aren’t many shades of grey, but every single one of the is horrible boring. The tone was low and she turned around towards him with a sad face. What shall we do, she asked. I really felt like being out all day, enjoying some sun.
I’ll be your sunshine he said and smiled.
This didn’t get her in a better mood. No, you woun’t, you’re just a Spanish guy who thinks this weather is fun. Well let me tell you it’s not! I hate it! She got furious and walked out of the bedroom.
In the living room it was even darker than outside as the curtains stopped the little light available to come in. she sat down in the big brown sofa. Her head rested heavily in her hands and she was wondering how long she will be able to endure this weather. It was eating small pieces of her mood every single day and she knew that there were many more days to come before the sun would come out.She wished the sun will turn up soon so that she could feel complete again.
Pablo came in to the room, sat down next to her and put an arm around her. You know, he said, life is really hard sometimes and sometimes it’s really easy, but the point with life is that it’s simple. We have got the power to do what we want with it, all we are being forced on are the physical things we can see. The rest is up to us. If we want sun on a crappy day like this, then we can imagine it in our heads because there is no weather nowhere that disturbs the way between our mind and our heart. In my mind you are the sunshine and I’m that cloud that you sometimes get angry at and other times you seek shadow from me. Screw the weather, if it doesn’t listen to us then we woun’t listen to it either. We’ll not even see it, i’ll close all curtains and then we’ll make fiesta all day.
Where I want to go
there are no emotional borders.
Where I want to go
there are no limits
of the heart.
Where I want to go
the sun is reaching
the soul.
and where I want to go,
that’s where I want to be.
- M. Stojanovic
It’s been a while… During that while Autumn happened… Leaves turned yellow, orange and red in order to finally go back to Mother Nature. It’s a beautiful thing to watch but at the same time it’s hard because the period when there are no leaves is the hardest one to survive.
I have not stopped writing, it’s actually the opposite. I have found new inspirations and been writing a bit more. I have been silent as I have started planning a novel!! Yaaay! I’ll finally start writing it and am looking forward to it! I will, as anything I do for fun, write it with no expectations. That’s the best way!
Some days too late but I think you can still sign up, I found this where you are supposed to write a novel in 30 days! Looks like fun, but I prefer to work without borders so I’ll follow you but I’m doing it my way =)
So long… =)
The letters were typed in a hurry, a blur made on the white paper where the pen scratched the surface of the body. Just like a love and hate relationship, a story was forced to be printed, unable to go back. Unable to re-do. Unable to forget. Marks made printed for the time being, interpreted for the future and emotionally filled for now.
Will I only see my true self
in those eyes?
that belong to you?
Is the only confirmation of me
happening when I meet someone
who can interpret my language?
Like you?
And make it to a beautiful song?
Is it only then
when i can dance
only then that I can live.
Am I only me
together with you?
Is that the only time
I will hear music?
M. Stojanovic
“Optimism is the cousin of love and completely alike love in three ways:
- It’s presumptuous,
- It doesn’t have any real humour,
- It appears when least expected.”
Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts
