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Laia (my cousin) & me, Costa Brava, January '05

FEEL FREE!!

Hi everybody!! I'm Natalia, from Girona, Catalonia, Europe. Currently studying in Barcelona.

LIVE THE LIFE

Asturies, March '05

Life is an opportunity, try to take it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, savour it.
Life is a dream, make it real
Life is challenge, try to confront it.
Life is a duty, do it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is precious, protect it.
Life is richness, make a treasure of it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is a mystery, try to reveal it.
Life is a promise, carry out.
Life is a hymn, sing it.
Life is a fight, accept it.
Life is an adventure, run the risk.
Life is felicity, try to deserve it.
Life is life, defend it.

One of my favourite poems:

Lloret, Costa Brava

15
ME GUSTAS cuando callas porque estas como ausente,
y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.
Parece que los ojos se te hubieran volado
y parece que un beso te cerrara la boca.

Como todas las cosas estan llenas de mi alma
emerges de las cosas, llena del alma mia.
Mariposa de sueno, te pareces a mi alma,
y te pareces a la palabra melancolia.

Me gustas cuando callas y estas como distante
Y estas como quejandote, mariposa en arrullo.
Y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te alcanza:
dejame que me calle con el silencio tuyo.

Dejame que te hable tambien con tu silencio
claro como una lampara, simple como un anillo.
Eres como la noche, callada y constelada.
Tu silencio es de estrella, tan lejano y sencillo.

Me gustas cuando callas porque estas como ausente.
Distante y dolorosa como si hubieras muerto.
Una palabra entonces, una sonrisa bastan.
Y estoy alegre, alegre de que no sea cierto.

Pablo Neruda
Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada

Freedom only exists when...

"If I were to tell someone about my life today, I could do it in a way that would make them think me a brave, happy, independent woman. Rubbish: I am not even allowed to mention the only word that is more important than the eleven minutes - love.

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who most wholeheartedly.

And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free".

Prostitue called Maria
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

Keeping passion or surrendering blindly...

Lloret, Costa Brava

"Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvellous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know".

Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

Once upon a time...

Flying on a plane...

Once upon a time, there was a bird. He was adorned with two perfect wings and with glossy, colourful, marvellous feathers. In short, he was a cerature made to fly about freely in the sky, bringing joy to everyone who saw him.

One day, a woman saw this bird and fell in love with him. She watched his flight, her mouth wide in amazement, her heart pounding, her eyes shining with excitement. She invited the bird to fly in perfect harmony. She admired and venerated and celebrated that bird.

But then she thought: He might want to visit far-off mountains! And she was afraid, afraid that she would never feel the same way about any other bird. And she felt envy, envy for the bird's ability to fly.
Ans she felt alone.
Ans she thought: "I'm going to set a trap. The next time the bird appears, he will never leave again."

The bird, who was also in love, returned the following day, fell into the trap and was put in a cage.
She looked at the bird every day. There he was, the object of her passion, and she showed him to her friends, who said: "Now you have everything you could possibly want." However, a strange transformation began to take place: now that she had the bird and no longer needed to woo him, she began to lose interest. The bird, unable to fly and express the true meaning of his life, began to waste away and his feathers to lose their gloss; he grew ugly; and the woman no longer paid him any attention, except by feeding him and cleaning out his cage.

One day, the bird died. The woman felt terribly sad and spent all her time thinking about him. But she did not remember the cage, she thought only of the day when she had seen him for the first time, flying contentedly amongst the clouds.

If she had looked more deeply into herself, she would have realised that what thrilled her about the bird was his freedom, the energy of his wings in motion, not his physical body.

Without the bird, her life too lost all meaning, and Death came knocking at her door. "Why have you come? she asked Death. "So that you can fly once more with him across the sky." Dead replied. "If you had allowed him to come and go, you would have loved an admired him even more; alas, you now need me in order to find him again".

Eleven Minutes
Paulo Coelho

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safardreams Dec 5, 2009 at 5:43 PM

happy b-day Nat. david
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sayedaburas Dec 4, 2007 at 9:15 PM

♫•:*¨`*:•Happy birthday to you♫♫Happy b-day to you♫HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ღNATALIAღ ♫♫Happy b-day to yoou•:*¨`*:•♫ I wish you not only a happy year, but also happier maany returns (~_~)
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Cham Jan 3, 2007 at 2:32 AM

feliz ano nuevos natalia! Haven't seen around in awhile... hope you're enjoying everything
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anders1975 Dec 5, 2006 at 1:56 PM

Felicidades de Noruega!
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coolbananas Dec 5, 2006 at 5:10 AM

Happy birthday from Amsterdam! I looked through all your pages: very nice pictures and tips. Looking forward to more nice tips!
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harirasik Dec 5, 2006 at 1:07 AM

Happy Birthday to you ! Greetings from Nepal.
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mavl Dec 5, 2006 at 12:13 AM

hola natalia, happy birthday!
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Swades Dec 4, 2006 at 11:31 PM

many-2 returns of the day. Wish your dream come true..love and smile..vivek
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Lebanese Dec 4, 2006 at 11:17 PM

Happy Birthday from Dubai ;-)
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irishgalmtl Dec 4, 2006 at 9:11 PM

Greeting from Montreal, I would like to wish you many blessings on your special day and always. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! CHEERS! What a great hp...Donna :)