A photograph of a past experience is so much more powerful than a memory.

A memory can be manipulated, shifted and shaped to accomplish a desired feeling.

A photo can shock with the reality it depicts, the original, true feeling of the past.

A photo is sincere,
whereas a memory is constantly evolving inside, for the better or for worse.

So, no matter how hard it may be, it's always good to occasionally look at photos of past events
so one can realize where they have truly been and what the real circumstances were back then.
Thus if someone is only based on memories of the past, they need to be aware that they can be
cunningly deceived and misguided.

I have made that mistake once, won't happen again


just some late night thoughts

peace

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Once upon a time, there was an island where all the emotions lived.
There was Happiness, Sorrow, Wisdom, Love and all the others.
One day they learned that their island was going to sink and so they all fixed their boats and started leaving.

Love was the only one that stayed back. She wanted to last till the last moment.

When the island started sinking , love decided to ask for help.
She sees Wealth that was passing by with a shining boat. She asks him: "Wealth, can you take me with you?". "No, I can't", he replied. "I have silver and gold in my boat and there is no room for you".

Love then decided to ask for help from Vanity, that was also passing in front of her in a beautiful boat. "Please help me", Love said. "I can't help you , Love. You are wet and you will ruin my beautiful boat", Vanity replied.

Sorrow was a bit further so love decided to ask her for help. "Sorrow, let me come with you". "Oh Love, I am so sad that i just want to be left alone", Sorrow said.

Happiness passed in front of Love, but she also didn't pay attention to her.
She was so happy, that she didn't even hear Love asking for help.

Suddenly a voice spoke:
"Love, come towards me, I will take you with me".
It was an elderly guy that Love didn't know, but was so full of gratitude for him, that she even forgot to ask his name. When they reached the shore, he left and went on his way. Love, knowing how much he owed to the person that helped her, she asked Wisdom. "Wisdom, who was the guy that helped me". "Time", Wisdom replied.
"Time?" Love asked. "Why did Time help me?"
Then Wisdom smiled and with real wisdom she said to her:

"Only Time can understand the importance of Love"
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Just my translation of a narration by Manos Xatzidakis



Merry Xmas to everyone
Don't forget to show the ones you love how much you love them,
You may never get the chance again.

Here are some proverbs-sayings i found in the internet. People really need to hear them. You can spread them to the people you know
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"There's only one thing in life you HAVE to do, and that's die...!"

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week."
--H. Jackson Browne

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson


"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
--Chinese Proverb

"Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."
--Roy Goodman


"Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
--Rabbi H. Schachtel

"Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones. Speak them rather now instead."
--Anna Cummins

"We must accept the truth, even if it changes our point of view."


"Decide to forgive those who have hurt you. Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a decision."
--Randall D. Worley

"Who you are in five years is determined by the books you read and the people you associate with."

"We have two ears and one mouth it would seem that we should listen twice as much as we talk."


"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
--Vernon Law


"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
--Aldous Huxley


"There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
--Edith Wharton

"We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are."
--Anais Nin

"Pressure and time transform coals into diamond."

"It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness."
--Motto of the Christopher Society

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

"Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try."

"It is not of importance where we stand, but in what direction we are moving."

"Failure is success when we learn from it."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
--Richard Bach

"The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse."

"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us... they can't get away this time."
--Chesty Puller (USMC, when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions during the Korean War.)

"A true friend always leaves us better than he finds us."
--Bennie Harris

"May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
--Haida Indian saying

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
--William Arthur Ward

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I've got myself a girlfriend

She fits with me in so many ways

She makes me smile
Teases me
Jokes with me
Sometimes i burst in laughter when I am with her.

She takes me in her arms when I am weak
Holds me tight
And lets me cry away my sorrow.

She is great in bed
Even provokes new fantasies.

Sometimes she gets up in the middle of the night
and she hides
I always wake up and have to find her at her hiding place so we can fall into our pillows again
and sleep.

Other times we just stay and stare at each other,
no words,
just holding hands.

She is always kind and gentle at me.

Sometimes that's a bit too much.

Some moments, like this specific one,

i just can't stand her.

But i adore her.
She is my muse.
Her name is Silence.

"Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment when love begins,
but we always know
when it ends..."


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"remember only this:

a kiss may not be the truth,
but it is
what we wish were true."