Live today the way most people won´t...to live the rest of your life like most people can´t!

Del Amor y Otros Demonios!

I know... I know... the title has already been used, but somehow I kept on writing and could not find a better description... 

As this Alter Ego evolves (Please Note: there is no such thing as a new day without a new lesson), I realize the power that lies within (OMG: that just sounded like a Star Wars quote...), so my little Padawans: today I attempt (Again Please note: attempt) to talk about L-O-V-E! Lovers love! Passionate love!

It seems logical that when one does not know what something is, one should look for it on the dictionary:

Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH...NOT CLOSE ENOUGH... NOT LOVE!

Love has never been to Jedi Valerie just a feeling, love is everything and everyone. Love is like air, it is omnipresent! I cannot stop loving my parents, my siblings, my friends.. so why is it so hard for us to understand lovers love?

And here comes the demons...

How to recognize lovers-love when one soul has never truly felt it? Many Jedis have gotten what they expect it to be, but it turned out not to be the real-thing, they realized it was just an illusion and illusions A.K.A “relationships” have given us an unexpected wisdom... because relationships are not measured in time, but in lessons learned (Gracias a Dios! hahahaha)

Is a rose ashamed of its thorns? Lately, when someone asks us about our life, we try to refer to it as the history of our lessons learned, each one allowing us to separate from our ego (which only separates us from wisdom) and the power of the DEMONS: fear to get hurt (again), rationalizations, prejudices, every day distractions (from a Hair Salon appointment to finalizing that report the board asked for last month) and the worst of all DENIAL: the act of not seeing what is right before your eyes, because your really don’t want to see!

Feeling love, same as meeting our destiny, only requires us to exist! Sure, the logical left part of the brain will always interfere with the intuitive left part of the brain, pero el amor deberia ser la corazonada mas fuerte. FREE WILL AND DESTINY CAN COEXIST, We do not worry about meeting our soul mate that is a matter of destiny, in this life of the next it will occur, our fear is that after ¨the meeting¨ the free will of both  will rule and us humans have learned to make decisions based on the mind and all of its fears and prejudices, when the best choice should be based on L-O-V-E! 

And even if I try to keep my Jedi sword ready...sometimes life’s most significant events are upon us before we are aware of them...like Emperador Palapatine evil plans for the Galaxy (hahahaha) and that cute little green fellow: Yoda!  ...how could the FORCE not have noticed something of such magnitude when the Empire was a stake! The camouflage is always physiological.

We are starving for Love and the beauty of being surprised; and  NEED TO BE SWEPT AWAY and I pray for a power more creative than my fears to prevail, because FEAR always find a way to materialize...aunque solo seamos nojotras (sip...nojotras) tratando de atar cabos sueltos al estilo Sherlock Holmes con nuestras amigas, el resultado siempre ha sido: ELEMENTAL MI QUERIDO WATSON! siempre supimos que era un Patán!

When allowed to flow freely love overcomes all obstacles, cause after all ONLY LOVE IS REAL.

Waiting for my free will not to

interfere with my destiny 

and without a material illusion to sabotage, 

this Alter Ego hopes to have

a wet dream tonight with HOPE!

Valerie Rose

Valerie Rose @ CNN Noti-Mujer

The joy of been us!

 

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

- Coco Chanel

So what happens when every little aspect of your life has to be unique? 

You become unique! And unique people NEVER do average! 

I hope you didn't think this Alter Ego would listen to the soundtrack of her Biographical Movie in plain jeans and a T-Shirt? After all we are the leading actresses... Academy Awards I am already preparing my Oscar speech! 

♫...yo soy quien elige como equivocarse...aprovechame que si llege ayer me puedo ir manana...que somos gitanas...♫

XOXO,
Valerie

Meet Valerie and the other Alter Egos @ Ilusiones de Papel

Como les habia comentado, visiting Alter Ego Andrea Kroneberg (aka my yogini soulmate), esta organizando una fiesta en El Steinvorth el 15 de Abril!

Aca les dejo el link, la fiesta esta patrocinada por emprendedores con ideas fabulosas y llenos de creatividad!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205089812848967

The Best Years of our Life!

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.- Groucho Marx

The little girl inside this Alter Ego, can’t stop being an Optimistic! Perhaps I need to explore the dating world a bit more to drug myself again with the truth, but not now... not today...today is again the happiest day of my life!

Lesson learned by Little Valerie

Little Valerie who used to only like Roses, before she realized she loved them and decided to drink a whole garden of them... remembers a la tía, grand-mère (o a la tica mi-aguela), ma cousine (o a la tica el-mopri), hasta a Il Padrino (lease Don Vito Corleone) telling her THESE BEST ARE THE YEARS OF YOUR LIFE! Your childhood will never comeback!

Lesson learned by Young Valerie

Young Valerie who loved Roses so much she had to search the world for the most beautiful one... remembers a l'enseignant (a la tica... la teacher), il fidanzato (lease el Lige)... telling her THESE ARE THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIFE! High school years will never repeat themselves!

Lesson learned by College Valerie

College Valerie who found out she was the most beautiful rose in the world... remembers little of this period, but Sex, Drugs and Rock&Roll used to whisper: THESE F**** YEARS RULE!

Lesson learned by Valerie Rose

The best years of your life are right now! Every aspect of life has a unique charm of its own... let me enjoy right now... because it’s all I had, have and will have!

Los soñadores, Primero: construimos castillos en el cielo y Luego: confiamos ciegamente en nosotros mismos para construirlos en la tierra!

Continuamos creciendo!

Safety Net?

I have to confess...although this Alter Ego preaches that a girl’s happiness lies within herself (actually I believe everybody’s happiness is a self-conscious choice) I cant deny it is great to have someone to share your happiness with... now finding that somebody who deserves a piece of you... esa es otra historia, como diría mi abuela!

As you grow older it gets harder and harder to take a Leap of Faith on someone or something. I hope it is because we are wiser and know better what we want... and not because we lack of courage! Courage is not about not being afraid...it is about overcoming fear, so...it sounds logical that recognizing fear is the clue to find the perfect safety net, after all: Do you look before you leap and sometimes you don't leap at all because there's not always someone there to catch you? Are people our safety net in life?

Last night I was having a delicious Hummus and the Babaganoush with one of our visiting Alter Egos and someone who has caught me several times, as I listend, I realized she had taken a Leap of Faith, not only because she had the courage, but because she could handle the rough path ahead.... knowing.... she was not alone, she already had 3 safety nets ready to make her bounce back! Her best friends!

We spend so much time focused on finding a lover soul mate, that we forget to thank for what we already have friend soul mates. I have 3 safety nets in my bag, they always take my call, answer my text, listen for hours, pick me up and remember my birthday, so... today.... I not only thank God, Buda, Jehovah, Mahomet, Shiva, Mother Nature... for them, but for giving me the opportunity to give them that too, because the mere fact having them in my life, makes me better.

We are a little piece of all the people that touch our life, no matter how brief, happy or sad; you would be less if that moment would have never existed! I learned this from a ¨Watchi¨: nunca aprendí a parquear paralelo, soy una de esas chicas que si hay Valet Parking lo usan!... un día iba extremadamente tarde para una un reunión y solo había un pequeño espacio (en paralelo) para parquearme...dije al Watchi, yo no puedo maneje usted y el me dijo: auste no se me afane machita yo le enseño... y me enseño! No recuerdo su cara y el no sabe el impacto que tuvo en mi vida, pero un promedio de 3 veces a la semana parqueo paralelo sin problemas!

No hay nada mas valioso en el mundo que el alma de un soñador!

I love dreamers... to me they are like Super Heroes, when you meet one of them DON¨T let her or him go! That is the characteristic I admire the most in my girlfriends, their dreams make me better... and continuing with the confessions: Most of us (girls) like a brave dreamer, love to be surprised by a man who knows what he wants (and were he wants us) and who’s not afraid to run with us, cause some women aren't meant to be tamed, they need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with (FYI: to catch a runner is like catching a dreamer and we can only love a dreamer!)

Dreamers take a leap of faith! So take a leap of faith for towards your dreams or her or him, but before him or her...find your safety net and if you already have a true friend KNOW you are already rich,  because as Emily Dickinson once wisely said FRIENDS ARE MY ESTATE!

XOXO,

Valerie Rose