A "must-watch" movie: Joyeux Noël (Merry Xmas)

Dear all,

Have you guys ever heard about a french movie named Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)?

I watched it last night and it's a wonderful movie that all of you must also watch. The movie is about an interesting and beautiful fact that took place during World War I: French, Scottish and German soldiers got together to celebrate 1914' Christmas holiday in the middle of a front.

It is a touching real history and it shows us that war is always a stupid thing to do. We are all human beings, and the people killed and physically/mentally injuried in wars are normal people just like any of us.

Make love, don't make war ;-)

Take care and watch the movie (including the directors interview after the movie itself)!

Love you all :-)

Getting old...

Some of you already know that my grandfather is in the hospital and last week I spent some of my afternoons with him.

His about to turn 93 years old and the only real problem he has is his lungs. His legs don't work that nice anymore, but his mind and his heart are perfect. He is getting better and the good news is that he might get back home Monday afternoon :-)

I noticed that lots of seniors and elder people showed up in the hospital needing some medical care: an old lady brought her husband who had an ear problem and alzheimer, a girl drove her grandmom to the hospital due to some unknown reason, a retired dentist had a stroke and hit his head, and the list goes on.

While I was there I thought about me getting old.

I think there is nothing more cute than old people: they look so sweet with that elder wrinkly skin and white hair... We can exchange so much knowledge with them, and I just love to talk to old people and listen to their old stories and about history facts they had lived and seen with their own eyes.

However, looking at them in such a fragile physical and not healthy situation made me wonder if I am going to be able to handle myself getting older. Am I going to be brave enough to face physical disabilities and all the problems associated to old age?

I was thinking about my possible old age future and things didn't look that nice: my legs won't be working that good anymore, my heart will be weak, I have history of heart problems in the family and the chances of having a stroke are big, besides that I don't really take care of myself right now (I am overweight and don't do exercises regularly).

I don't know if I am strong enough to accept myself in need of medical and family care. Have you ever asked yourselves about that? Have you ever thought about death and when or how you are going to die (young, old, and in which conditions)?

Janis Joplin once said something like "live as much as possible, die young and be an attractive corpse". I am far away of being an attractive corpse, but I used to say that "die young" meant "die with your soul still young, never let your age turn your spirit old".

I always thought that we can get old in age, but we should always keep our spirits young. But how can we handle an young soul in an old body?

My afternoons in the hospital made me think a lot about that... What do you guys think about that?

Take care and have a nice week you all :-)

Pan, Pan, Pan, Pan!

Dear all,

In case you guys haven't noticed, I am not writting that much lately due to personal reasons. Don't worry, everything is fine. I am just busy with some other things :-)

Anyways, the 15th edition of the Pan American Games is taking place in Rio de Janeiro and I had to watch at least one of the so many games and matches. I am not a huge fan of sports, but I like watching some games once in a while.

Last Saturday I watched two female basketball matches: Cuba vs. Colombia and Brazil vs. Mexico. Brazil beated Mexico and the final score was 88 to Brazil and 44 to Mexico, I am proud of the brazilian girls :-)

Besides that, I must tell you that the city is looking so nice during the games... I love when Rio is full of tourists, it seems the city looks even more beautiful with everybody hanging out in the beaches and enjoying the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro :-)

Here are some pictures I took after the brazilian match. The second one was with the brazilian player called Karen.

Take care! Love you all!!

Love, soul sister, true happiness, and finding ourselves...

I was listening to this new nice song I found at youtube, and I thought about love and soul sister...

You might think I am crazy or that I don't believe in real love anymore, but who said we all have a soul sister? Why exactly we need to have a so-called pair, a person who would understand us completely and with whom we should spend the rest of our lives with? Why do we have to find this soul sister in order to be truly happy?!

In the last few weeks I thought a lot about myself and my life, and I realized that I don't think I have a soul sister... I don't see myself spending the rest of my life with anyone in particular. Then you might say that this is because I still haven't found my soul sister, but I guess this isin't the reason.

I think some people are just like that: they were not born in order to have a soul sister. Besides that, I don't really believe we need to be with someone to be truly happy.

We all need our family and friends and, of course, we also need romantic love and we fall in love. We date and we even get marry, but the truth is that our true happiness isin't related to being with someone (or any particular someone). This romantic love isin't enough for pure happiness or we can say our happiness is not depending of any romantic love.

I found out that my happiness is about finding myself, and not finding a soul sister... I guess we have to find ourselves before searching for any soul sister we might have (if we have any).

As a matter of fact, we won't be able to find any soul sister if we don't first find ourselves: who we really are, what we want from life and from ourselves, what we like and why we are here.

We are all humans, but we are still individuals and we need to find out deep inside who we are. True happiness and peace of soul is about understanding our nature. It is about discovering ourselves and what makes us unique and different from the others.

Do I have a soul sister? I don't think so, and I truly don't care about it. At least not right now. Now it is time to finding myself and to understand who I am :-)

There is something my mom once taught that I will never forget, so I thought about sharing this with you guys. When I was a child, I said to my mom that she was the person I loved more in my life. The she came to me and said the following words: you are the most important person in your life and there is nothing more important than self-love.

I still love her more than anything else in this life, but I will never forget what she said.

Here is the nice song I was talking about.

Take care and enjoy it :-)