We Wait… And We Wait

“Hope but never expect, move forward but never wait.” 

“How foolish is a man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past.” Ali Ibn Abi Talib

We live, we struggle, we fight, we cry, we encounter, we race, we rush, and sometimes, most of the times: we just wait… We wait for tomorrow in despair of hoping for better circumstances, for better places, for better timing. We wait for the future so that it can repair our past, so it can affect our present. We wait for life to come up with better and greater ideas about our destiny, we wait for that perfect moment that will change our lives. It’s like when we take a picture, we take several of them so that one, only one, will turn out perfect so we can share it with the world, and then what? Who will be happy with this “perfect” picture, you? me? the people who see it? or even nobody? because maybe that “perfect” picture is no longer perfect afterwards. I don’t know if I’m making sense, probably I am not, but we don’t realice that all the other pictures are better than the “perfect” one, because they show exactly who we are, they don’t show our “fake” pose.

End of Summer…

 

Ph by Ashley Frangie

“The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others.”

We all tend to believe that the things that happen to us, only happen to us; that when people hurt us, they do it intentionally, that everything that surrounds us is for the sake of making our life the way it is. We never stop to think that maybe, just maybe, what people do to us is the reflection of their own personal problems, their own unhappiness, their own despairs. I think that the greatest virtue we could all have is compassion, we never know what that other person was going through when they did the things that hurt us; or maybe we look for perfection in everything when mistakes happen around the corner everyday. We have to be compassionate about others, about their problems, about their life. I believe it is the greatest form of love. Compassion shows our human side, our belief that we all ride together in this enormous air balloon called world that will eventually break; even though we all have different problems and circumstances in life, we all suffer, so believe in the greater power of empathy and don’t be careless or blind to what others might be going through. How are you feeling this Friday? Today, I am feeling remorse for the way I am sometimes with the people that care about me, for the times compassion wasn’t in my heart and I forgot that people might have bigger problems that I.

Vienna in two days…

During our trip to Europe, we took four days to visit Vienna and Prague, two of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen in my life. This post will be about Vienna, even though we were only there for two days we got to see almost everything or at least the most important and emblematic things of the city. As we did with the other cities, we took the Tour Bus for sightseeing and just stop and walk through the gardens, which were astounding.

Day 1:

The fist day we arrived to the hotel, which was just in front of the opera, and 5 minutes away of all the shopping and Vienna City Center. The hotel name is Le Meridien, I fully recommend it, the rooms are spacious and extremely comfortable. After checking in we went to the Vienna State Opera, sadly we couldn’t see the traditional opera because they close for the months of July and August and have different performances. We walked through the City Center, where the tourist shops and high end stores are held, all the way to St Stephen’s Cathedral. We continued walking all the way to Belvedere Castle and the Botanical Gardens, which were amazing and beautiful, there was a path with Tree Roses that made me remember Alice in Wonderland.

That’s what he got for waking up in Vegas…

“Sometimes the only way to stay sane, is to go a little crazy.” 

From movie “Girl Interrupted”

“Here’s to the nights that turned into mornings with the friends that turned into family”

¡¡¡Ya es sábado!!! Si me siguen en Instagram o en Facebook sabrán que el pasado fin de semana mi esposo y yo decidimos “renovar nuestros votos” o hacer un “remarriage” en Las Vegas. La verdad fue mucho más divertido de lo que me imaginé, hace meses reservamos la capilla de Elvis y superó nuestras expectativas. Elvis nos casó, cantó y nos hizo reír con todo lo que nos dijo. En este Feeling Friday quisiera compartirles lo que le dije a Daniel en ese día, que aunque era más de broma y de loquera que de seriedad, quise hacerle saber que mi vida no existiría sin el. Ya me puse cursi, pero al final, si leen todos los FF que hago, la cursilería es parte de mi vida. Espero les guste.

Explore what you don’t know

 

I’ve already written a post about this on one Feeling Friday and I think it was like a year ago exactly, but I feel so inspired about the the trip I made that I want to pick up the subject again. I think that my only advice I can give you is to find a way to explore the world, to see the majestic things that are out there, to wander, to feel lost in a new place, to travel. I know sometimes there isn’t time, money, company, or even the feeling to do it, but I believe there is always a way. Traveling is a way to explore a new dimension of possibilities around the world, to get to know yourself, to fall in love for the first time or for the second time with the one you already love, to learn from whatever experience will you encounter during the journey, to regain confidence in yourself, to meet amazing people, and to find joy in the ordinary. And I think it is also a way to love your life ag ain, when we are far away from home is when we most value the things we have; being unable to reach something or someone we normally do, makes us aware that the ordinary is far from being that, that our routine can and is a good thing.
Travel as far as you can and as free as you can.

Localdiggz First Anniversary!!!

Ph. by Ashley Frangie

One year ago, I decided to start this journey, maybe for the love of others, for the love of places, for the love of food, for the love of inspiration, but most of all for the love of life. In the quest of trying to give you as much information as possible on this blog, I re discovered myself. I found out I was braver, stronger, and more passionate than I remembered. It has become my escape, for everything and everyone. It has become my way of letting go of things and people, but also it has become my way of meeting wonderful persons I now admire and care about. Sometimes I wonder if anyone reads what I write, if someone wants to know where I’ve been, what I recommend, what “I wore.” Maybe someone does, maybe not, but at the end I believe that doing the things we love might reach unexpected things when there is no purpose at the end, when we are enjoying the ride. When we are doing what we love because we want to, we become authentic, and here is when people start looking up, when we become ourselves.

I believe that everything in life has its own purpose, we sometimes meet people randomly who become our friends in years to come, or who become a very important part of our lives; we reach circumstances in life when we remember why things happened the way they did. So maybe this blog has its own purpose, its own master mind trying to get somewhere, maybe it doesn’t, but isn’t that the wonder of life? Not knowing why we are standing here, right this moment, right this second? Embrace what you have become and let it reign you. Embrace what you have and let it own you. Embrace what destiny will give you and let it surprise you. At the end when getting old, we will know that how we feel is because we have lived, because we have had the chance, because “we have loved, danced, lived, sang, sweat, and screwed our way through a pretty damn good life. Because getting old is not bad, getting old is earned.” (From the movie The Guardian).

Anyway, even though this blog has helped me, and I hope it continues to, I hope it has helped you. I hope you can find comfort, adventure, joy and words in my writings. I hope you enjoy visiting it. If you don’t, let me know how I can change that. How are you feeling this Friday? Today, I am feeling grateful, for the wonderful opportunity this blog has given me, and for letting me be part of your mind, heart, and life. Thank you my dear readers for letting me be me and still coming back!

Do we forget?

Ph. by Alfonso Ramza

“We don’t lose friends when we stop seeing them, but when we stop remembering them.”

Our life has a lot of roads, paths, and doors that lead us in different directions, and on the way we meet people, people that will help us, guide us, or stay with us till the end. We keep looking for a way to make our life memorable, but we forget that what makes our life memorable is the people we come across. Aristotle once said “In poverty and other misfortunes in life, true friends are a sure refuge. They keep the young out of mischief; they comfort and aid the old in their weakness, and they incite those in the prime of life to noble deeds.” The human being needs friends to be able to live, to solve problems, to have a better and happier life. So why is it that we keep forgetting the ones we met in the beginning of our lives? As we make new friends, why do we leave the old ones to destiny? What makes us separate the new from the old? I think we all have friends we made during our childhood but now we don’t speak to them; our lives have changed, but they’ve made an impact, they were there for a reason. What makes a friend, a friend till the end? Maybe some circumstances in our lives made us chose for another direction, but we don’t have to forget the ones that came in first, the ones that were with us at a certain point. We need to start remembering those who changed us, those who were our friends and helped us.

Lets make our own personal reunion. If life makes you cross paths again don’t let them get away, they came back because they are an important part of your existence. And maybe because they will change you life for good. So, to those friends I left behind, I am sorry, I wish you happiness, love, and well being, and I thank you for those unforgettable moments you gave me. I have never forgotten you. For those who came back, I will make sure not to lose you again, thank you for remembering me. And for those who stayed all the time, there are no words to express how important you are in my life, you are my refuge, my comfort, my happiness, my life… How are you feeling this Friday? I am feeling excited because I will spend an entire weekend with those friends who came back, thank you for your enormous heart and welcoming love. May our memories never get lost in time…

“Los amigos no se pierden cuando se dejan de ver, si no cuando se dejan de recordar.”

La vida tiene muchos caminos, muchos rumbos y muchas puertas que nos llevan hacia distintas direcciones, y en el camino vamos conociendo gente que nos ayuda, que nos guía, o que se queda con nosotros para siempre. Muchas veces buscamos formas de hacer que nuestra vida sea inolvidable y nos olvidamos que lo que hace a nuestra vida inolvidable es la gente que nos vamos encontrando. Aristóteles decía que “en la pobreza y en otras adversidades de la vida, los verdaderos amigos son un refugio seguro. Ellos mantienen a los jóvenes lejos de la maldad, confortan y ayudan a los mayores en sus momentos de debilidad, e incitan a los afortunados a hacer el bien. El hombre feliz necesita amigos.” El ser humano necesita a los amigos para tener una vida plena, nada que se tenga se goza en soledad, los amigos son necesarios para vivir, para ayudarnos a resolver problemas, para tener una vida más feliz y más afortunada. Entonces, ¿por qué olvidamos a los que conocimos durante las primeras etapas de nuestras vidas? Conforme vamos conociendo nuevos amigos, ¿por qué dejamos a los “viejos” al destino? ¿Qué es lo que nos hace separar los nuevos de los viejos? Yo creo que todos tenemos amigos que conocimos en nuestra infancia y que ya no hablamos con ellos, nuestras vidas cambiaron y tomamos distintos caminos pero ellos estuvieron ahí por una razón, formaron parte y muchos dejaron huella. Para ustedes, ¿qué es lo que hace que un amigo que quede hasta el final en su vida? Quizás algunas circunstancias de la vida nos separaron, pero no debemos olvidar que ellos llegaron primero y que estuvieron con nosotros durante ciertos momentos importantes de la vida. Debemos empezar a recordar a aquellos que nos cambiaron, que nos ayudaron o que simplemente estuvieron ahí. Si la vida los pone en su camino de nuevo, no los dejen ir, estoy segura que regresan por una razón y que sin que se den cuenta cambiarán sus vidas para bien. No puedo cambiar mis decisiones del pasado pero si las del futuro. Para mis amigos que deje ir, lo siento, les deseo una vida llena de éxitos y de felicidad, gracias por todos los increíbles recuerdos de la infancia. A lo que regresaron, no los volveré a dejar ir, gracias por recordarme. Y a los que siempre estuvieron, no hay palabras para expresar lo importante que son en mi vida, ustedes son mi refugio, mi confort, mi esperanza, mi felicidad, mi vida… ¿Cómo se sienten este viernes? Yo hoy estoy muy contenta porque pasaré todo el fin de semana con aquellas amigas que volvieron. A ustedes, gracias por la increíble bienvenida de vida y su amor incondicional. Espero nuestra historias nunca se pierdan en el tiempo…

 

 

Love, love, love.

I know that for most of you, today is just another day; nothing special, nothing meaningful, just a day when you get anxious and betrayed for all those demonstrations of love happening around you. I know, it can be exhausting to see how we only celebrate love once a year, one day, full of advertising and cheesiness. But, as cheesy as I may sound, and as hard as it is for you to admit, everything about life is about love. Every story, every wonderful, amazing, devastating, sad, compelling story, has began because of love. Everything is moved by it, every step we make we make it to accomplish, to get, to inspire, someone or something we love, making it a word that completely surrounds our existence. I believe we all need love, we need it in different ways, we need an unconditional love from our parents, a passionate love from our lover, an inspired love from our heroes, a compassionate love from our brothers and sisters, a trustful love from our friends, any kind of love is what wakes us up in the morning, what moves us. So, don’t fight love, don’t let it disappoint you, embrace it, let it become an extraordinary part of your life; choose love but, as a recommendation: choose the kind of love you fight for…

Happy Valentine’s Day my wonderful readers, may this be a day we start to embrace love as part of our everyday lives. Thank you so much fro reading!!!!