Ano Novo

 

Ontem foi dia de fazer o balanço de 2012 e de novas resoluções para 2013.

Foi também dia de passeio e da tapa de bacalhau com laranja.

 

 

 

 

Leigos em Timor

Passeio na praia em Dili, organizado pela Pré-escola Santo Inácio com o apoio do contingente da GNR, no passado dia 24 de Setembro.

Anyway

You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. It's like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it's not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you, and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

The hell out of never trying

A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.

I like being a mess. It's who I am.

The real truth is, I probably don't want to be too happy or content. Because, then what? I actually like the quest, the search. That's the fun. The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to. What do you know? I'm having a great time and I don't even know it.

And we sat down in the grass!

Desde criança ensinam-nos a ser bonzinhos. Comer os vegetais, fazer os trabalhos de casa, tomar as vitaminas, dividir os brinquedos, pedir por favor... E dizem-nos que se formos bonzinhos coisas boas vão acontecer.
Mas e se coisas más aconteceram a boas pessoas? - Esta pergunta tem me perseguido nos últimos meses.

Finalmente pareço ter encontrado a resposta porque, apesar de tudo, estou determinada a ser optimista!



(e sim, mesmo com todas as botas, traumas e pragas)