Life and Love

This was my first article ever written in our School Paper way back 2001 and Hubby kept a copy of it. Thanks to him I could still share it with you here. Enjoy your reading!

Life is not a trip in itself. It's not a goal It's a process. You get there step by step and if every step is wondrous, and if every step is magical, that's what life will be. You'll never be one of those people who die without ever having lived, because you've never missed a thing. Don't look over other people's shoulders, look in their eyes. Don't talk to your children, take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Do it now! because that moment doesn't last forever. It's fast disappearing and it will never come again ... most of us waste our lives over spilled milk. Too late! If only they know there are million more years to come.

Each day I promise myself not to try to solve all of my life problems at once. This I don't expect you to do so. Take it easy! You can't be a perfect lover tomorrow, but maybe next week,a year after,we can never say. Starting each. day we shall strive to be more aware of beautiful things in this world we live in. I know theirs ugliness, but there is also beauty, an inner beauty we just have to discover. Don't let them tell you any differently. Look at the blooming flowers and listen to the singing of the birds. Look at the children and feel the cool breeze. Taste the sweetness of life and love it. And I'll share these things with you. One of the greatest compliments I'd say to somebody. "LEARN TO LOVE LIFE AS WE LEARN TO LOVE OURSELVES'.

Starting each day we shall remind ourselves how to reach out and touch those who need help gently, with our hands. Help those who need help most cause I don't want to miss feeling something. I shall dedicate myself again to the process of being a lover, and see what happens. You know .... I'm really convinced that I'm to define love, the only word enough to engulf it all would be LIFE. Love is life in all aspects. If you were to miss love you miss life ....

I'd like to share to you a concept that means a great deal to me. That is the concept of togetherness. I really am concerned about how separated we all are. Schweitzer, . a philosopher aptly describes this as "Were all so much together in crowds and yet all of us are dying in loneliness". It's as if we don't know how to reach out to each other anymore, to hold each other, to call to each other, to build bridges. So, I'd like to talk about togetherness, you and I , and some crazy ideas I have about building some of those bridges so that we can get a little bit closer.

We should try to learn something new about you and me. Meet new friends and experience all things as if they're something new. We will never be the same person after tonight, when we start to walk through those leaves and leave them behind, we're going to be different. We should try to communicate our joy as well as our despair so that we can know each other better.

Listen to others and hear their point of view. Discover the least threatening way of sharing thoughts. Remember that were going and changing in a hundred million different ways. We are human beings and life doesn't demand perfection until we can learn to be perfect. It's like a true confession. We live life to discover its sweetness and its fruitful way.

We may never know when would be the last time to feel and enjoy it again. Why we need to face life with triumphs and trials that cause so much pain and tears. Maybe because all this wonderful things build us to be more human.

I love to end with something that I'm still working on .... but it's something I can call "L1FE ... A BEGINNING ... "