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

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Life is a Journey...not a Destination!

Today this Alter Ego writes inspired by the Wizard of Oz and thinking how much…Dorothy wanted to go to a place ♫where trouble melts like lemon drops… Somewhere over the Rainbow♫ and once at that place... she realized she wanted something else...? And started a path that showed her what she really wanted, although since the beginning of the journey she had the power to get it... but it was the journey that showed what that was. 

Have you noticed that we are always trying to get somewhere? Most of us don’t even know where... sure we have a major goal to achieve whatever makes us happy, but: Do you know what makes you happy? Pardon mon français ... but I don’t have a fucking idea! AND THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF IT!

(..bear in mind I mean to sound corny with what I am about to write, but today this Alter Ego feels terrible optimistic about new experiences and challenges…) I wake up every day and thank for what I have and who I have in my life, but also thank for what/who I don’t have… because that gives me the chance to continue the journey towards finding it! How boring would it be if I already had all I wanted...

It amazes me how life changes in just a couple of days, how journeys and people change who you are forever… and by changing it they transform our idea of happiness…therefore transforming the path and constructing that idea along the way. 

We need to embrace the good and the bad, love and hate, sadness and happiness…it is the mere existence of the difference between them that give us pleasure when a new experience comes along. 

 

If we don’t follow the Yellow Brick Road… we will never be capable to enjoy clicking our ruby slippers… So us girls need to embrace our emotions, it is O-K to make a mistake at work, get heartbroken, cry and feel anger, if it means walking the talk ... TO FINALLY KNOW WHAT WE WANT and have the pleasure to knock our ruby  Christian Louboutin Stilettos 3 times!

All big achievements are a sum of many small achievements… and for me (today) that is the essence of life, achieving as often as possible little pieces of happiness… so what CHE DIAVOLO… como dirian los italianos… Apply for that job! Search for that scholarship! Buy that house! Take that plain and walk the Paris streets looking for an adventure, Text him just to let him know you remember… or get on plain and get that doubt out of your heart....

Toto we are not in Kansas anymore!

We can’t make time go back, it is impossible to repeat the small miracles life gives us… like the first time you made love with someone or the first time you tasted that awesome Gianduia gelato that melted on your mouth or even the first time you got high (LOL). As Mark Twain wisely said “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

 

So... I gonna stop writing and walk my talk...I am ♫off to see the Wizard ♫ the Wonderful Wizard of Oz ♫ If you plan to do the same, just remember that there never was real wizard, just an old man that pointed out their journeys achievements!

Perhaps soon enough I will be writing how I will finally find out ,just like Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Lion, that I already have the brains, the heart and the courage to have that special something that fills my heart with joy!

...I am ♫off to see the Wizard ♫ the Wonderful Wizard of Oz ♫

PS: Could there be a more perfect song? Somewhere over the Rainbow… way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhzbzwPNgXA

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April 15th: Valerie Rose @ Steinvorth

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