Tuesday, March 13, 2012

fair not

Press PLAY on the youtube icon below. Lay down... back relaxed, pour tea in your cup and maybe add rose buds in it, smell the infusion, smile..., fill your body with the music, feel it behind your eyes...

you gave me hope amidst my sorrow

may it be tomorrow, that i can love again


and in return for what i've borrowed

be with you tomorrow, and until the end



i know the road we're on is narrow

along comes tomorrow, we're gonna see the sun


and with the wings of the first sparrow

new light of tomorrow, we're gonna be as one

you smile ?
you feel the joy of being alive ?
                of leading a full and meaningful existence?
you are grateful to your society for keeping you alive like that ?




Grateful? 

No, not really..... And you're right, you shouldn't !
As it is only natural and common sense that we all simply live moments like the above. No society needs to denote us that...

How funny! Ha ha...


How funny that we don't! How funny that the "rights to live" apply to the people who need them least : The Western-type society people.

So many, so many, so many have no promise that they can feel safe in their skin for a minute or two. So many men, women, boys, girls, babies may not be living tomorrow not by accident, but simply by being born on the wrong side of the planet. 
And being dead unlucky because of that...

If you google Africa's countries, the following words pop up:

Zimbabwe : child soldiers kidnappings, government camp for torture & sexual assault.
Uganda : torture, child labor kidnappings, prosecution to homosexuality.
Sudan : ethnic cleansing (a.k.a. massacres of tribespeople), government-run enslavement, child soldiers kidnappings, prison abuse.
Somalia : child labor kidnappings, human trafficking, child soldiers kidnappings, female genital mutilation, rape by militia, police-organized kidnappings, forced labor on minority group women. 
Nigeria: rape & torture on prisoners, child labor kidnappings, human trafficking, female genital mutilation, no freedom of speech & religion. 
Ethiopia : child labor kidnappings, human trafficking, female genital mutilation,  tortures & killings by the police, forced relocation to villages that lack food & healthcare. 
Congo :  ethnic slavery. 
Cameroon : systematic torture. 
Western Sahara :  ethnic "disappearance" & imprisonment, mandatory child soldier recruitment by government.
Libya : child deliberate HIV infections, prison massacres, civil war. 
Centuries ago, the time had come to stop the imbalance of the societies. 
Centuries later, it still hasn't. 



Please quit your intellectual uncommitment. 



I am really uncommitted as well, of course I would be... 
So I am starting somewhere:


and www.google.com of course... see what happens in the images section if you type the words "africa", "torture", and "child soldiers". The more creative you become in the words you type, the more "creative" the pictures get. 


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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

what to do...

i just don't know what to do with myself...........


.............like a summer rose needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love to beat love away...

What do you do when you don't know what to do, with your life  actually...

My friend Αιμιλία in her "TRUTH & REVERIE" doesn't know what to do in Athens, 
what to do somewhere else, what to do, what to do...

It's quite funny that she gets that, cause if you are an Αιμιλία, ie an Emily, your name quite clearly denotes your life!

emily    ~  PRONOUNCED : Em-i-lee
    
     αιμιλία   ~  PRONOUNCED : Em-i-lee-ah
        
The meaning of this name is  in·dus·tri·ous   -   a.k.a. skillful.
Skills... what a nice thing to have. 
Do we learn a skill, or a skill chooses us? Probably the second, as everything in our life does, even though most of us go by the "choose your life" moto... I think not. I think we are pre-determined from the day we are born, as to what we will like, what we will do, how we'l react to this, etc. 
No matter what our skill is though, the only think we all  have in common, 
is our obligation to our gift-giver to use it.

Our times are challenging, as all time have been & will be. 
The few who are skillful enough to comprehend the meaning of this, are the ones who have to get the job done... Live to be marry, of course. But not just that, cause this is quite easy actually for the emilies. 
Live to Do..... 

So, to give my advice to emily's seek for suggestions :

1. Become an Αιμιλία. Live in Athens and become an Athenian, not a passer-by. You don't have to live to a place forever to do that, even a few days will do. Get an Athenian best friend. No, it's not difficult is you really want to gift yourself to a previously-stranger-and-now-best-friend person. 

2. Care for Athens. What can you offer to a city that has so much to learn from you? So so so many Athenians are desperate for some freshly-minded guidance in all of the skills you have; smiling, eating, caring, and the all so many others i don't know...

3. Learn from Athens. There is an underlying wisdom of centuries around this city. Zillions of people live in it & never know it but it's there. There is an aura of wisdom and happiness that is yours to take. Is it in the people? Is it in the food? Is it in the public transport that you hate? Is it laying near you in Irodeion Theater while watching a play that has probably been played there 19 centuries ago? Find out, it's too easy to skip  !

TO CONCLUDE :  You got to this ancient city for a reason, and this is far beyond the fact that you paid a visit to a susan once... 
Jack White sings "I don't know what to do with myself" in this post. He's from Detroit (ding, ding, ding!) and he struggles with the same question over there too, so your answer is probably location-free...

When you don't know what to do with yourself , you usually have to take a STEP BACK from yourself. You've spent too much time with her  and it's time for some fresh input !

To discover your purpose here, empty your mind of all the (maybe false) purposes you've thought you had here, including the idea that you may have no purpose here at all! 
It's breathtaking inspiring to think of all the things you could be doing here!


Now, 
if all things fail & you find yourself doing nothing, here are a few suggestions to do just that:

1. Blink wildly and then close your eyes really tight for an interesting light show
2. See how long you can hold a note
3. Try to not think about penguins
4. Use your secret mind power
5. Pretend you're a robot
6. Scratch yourself
7. Rate passers by
8. Repeat the same word over and over until it loses its meaning
9. Pinch yourself
10. Try to swallow your tongue
11. Pretend to be a car
12. Make Star Trek door noises
13. Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image
14. Get yourself as nauseated as possible
15. Invent a weird twitch
16. Make a low buzzing noise

(wow...... I can't wait to find myself be doing nothing...)

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