Have realised recently that when I ride my bike, I start from the wrong side. Also, when I weigh ingredients, I reset the scale for each item instead of adding them. And I have a very cumbersome way to button my bra.
When you look confident, people gives for granted that you know it all - or at least that you are arrogant enough to find out. How simple would life be, how many minutes would be spared, if there was a manual for living. But no real guides to the galaxy. This makes me think that there are many ways to learn and one of them requires to lower your guard and be humble. Although the traditional definition is regarded as 'stop being arrogant', I think that being humble requires not to be afraid of people - look into the eyes, dare to smile, and understand that there will always be something in each person to take, and heaps to give. So I trust that in the future, if someone ever sees me doing a very, very stupid thing, he/she can understand that I have been afraid for too long, and that yes, I would love to land on the practical life one of these days.
Talking about openness, ran into this today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4
The video above relates to the 'Free Hug Campaign'. A hippish Aussie decided to offer free hugs on the street. You have to watch what happens. Cannot imagine it staged in Denmark though... 'Gratis kram'... umhhh... nej nej nej.
To break a bit the Kodak moment, I youtubed Mexico for this campaign. Great success, but no wonder, we do hug and kiss and hug again for everything. Yet it is funny to watch that men shake hands before hugging other men; macho comes first, then they are all allowed to be as sissy as they want. Quite a paradox my culture - hug and kiss people you barely know, but never, ever tell how do you really feel, specially if the answer diverts from 'great'. Still watching the hugs made me feel like crying, because I miss it so badly. And the problem is that I don't cry.
PS: This other campaign definitely kills the romance... : )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooHYh4sD75I
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Y quién diablos es Ana...
- Petite Bleu
- Surrealandia, Mexico
- Art junkie when nobody is looking and finance geek when everybody is.
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Este es un intento torpe de hacer un mapa y entenderme y entederlos y understand y sometimes in Spanish but mostly in English and if I feel posh au Français. Moelleux au Chocolat.
I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it.
I'm a professional cynic but my heart's not in it.
3 comments:
damn it woman! you just made me cry! hehe, kidding... the hugs campaign is cool though. Hope you were still here and we could share a hug
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0WiNUhyjw igual y ya lo viste pero está bien chido
Neither Girls, Damn it!!!!!!!
Really really miss you..........
Es difícil seguierte el ritmo, pero ni la distancia ni el tiempo, ni las vueltas que la vida pueda dar (o las revolcadas que nos pueda poner), afectan el cariño y los gratos recuerdos que tengo de nuestra amistad.
I will always need to share hugs with you.... and tears, and laughs, and every little piece of my "seems written by Kafka"'s life.
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