Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

6/24/10

live & learn


- i have learned it the hard way - is what my grandma used to say to me when i was little. and she sure did. she had 4 kids 3 girls, 1 boy. 3 of them, the 3 girls to be exact, she almost raised all by herself. after world war II my grandpa was kept imprisoned somewhere in the UK, he never really spoke about it, so we still don t know about it. this left my grandma alone with 3 young kids, the need for water, food, money and a lot of responsibility. the years went by they lived their life, she raised them, played with them, fed them, and all this time she never knew if my grandpa would ever come back, if he was even still alive. she never stopped, though, she always kept going until one day he was finally home again.

i can say that my grandparents, apart from the above mentioned, lived a very happy life. they had a big house, with an ever bigger garden, they planted fruits and vegetables, their kids gave them lots of grandkids and those grandkids gave them lots of love and happiness.

and one day those grandkids will have their own children. maybe 2 boys and 1 girl, maybe just a boy, maybe 4 girls we don t know yet. and those children will have children and so on and so on and so on.
and there will be one thing they will all have in common, no matter if they have learned it the hard way or not, they will all have a very happy life.


6/23/10

shortcomings

she was lucky, very lucky. she had friends, a job, a roof above her had. she was pretty, too, not exceptionally pretty but pretty enough for people to turn their heads when they saw her on the street.

her friends would call her ruby, because of her shiny long healthy hair. at work she was mrs perfect, because she would do everything on time, in the correct order and format and would never miss or forget anything she was supposed to be doing. she even did everything always, always, always just a couple of minutes before she had to, what made her look even more perfect.

her parents were very proud of her, she had moved away from the country, made it in the big city, with, what seemed to them a big job, a nice apartment and lots of friends. she would send a letter to her parents every week, telling them about her days, her job and any other news she wanted them to know. twice a year she would take on the long journey back to the country to visit her family. she would help her mom clean the house, go food shopping and mowing the lawn with her dad and play with her sisters kids in the garden.

but no one
no one would send her, her favorite flowers
ever...

2/10/10

work work work





















for everyone
who feels like losing it
sometimes at work
don't let your boss
or anyone else
make you go crazy

never forget
it's work
it's what you do
not who you are

2/4/10

love is in the air

Why are relationships so complicated?

What can we do about the ebbs and flows of attraction?

How valuable is time alone?

Everyone knows that love makes us happier but also more miserable than anything else.

And on Valentine’s Day, whether you are single or coupled, it’s a subject that’s impossible for any of us to ignore.

We’ve created a day to guide you through love’s joys and pitfalls using insights and wisdom from the greatest thinkers on the topic.

We’ll explore some essential questions: How can lovers have better conversations?

How important is sex?

How can love be made to last?

What can science usefully tell us about love?

a love weekend created by the school of life in london
february 13th
if i could i would join
no matter how hard we try to ignore
or to pretend otherwise
love is
and always will be
one of the most important topics in all our lives