Life is a complete travel

PHOTO 1 - Montevideo, Uruguay AIRPORT

Travelling and living...

If there are some lessons, one is definitely that life is travelling.
From my point of view, I can separate my life in 2 parts.
One life before travelling alone and other life after it.

After all, life is a travel isn't it?
This is what I will describe in this post.


I am travelling back from my Easter holidays in Albufeira to Lisbon and I felt, in a way, to express finally my life/travel concept.
Last friday, a friend shared to me, how afraid she was about not resulting anything in her life. Afraid to have a full life fighting for her goals and then not get anyone.

Her sharing reminds me a comment from a cyclist, an eternal rival of Lance Armstrong at tour de France who won 7 times.
After all career biting to get the Tour de France without success, a journalist asked this cyclist: "what do you have in the end?"
He answered right away: "the most important thing is not to enjoy the end, but how enjoyed the all travel. And damm, the travel was so great!"

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Learning point:
The Most important is not enjoying the end, but how I enjoyed until the end.



PHOTO 2 - Leaving Montevideo and Uruguay
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This is my answer to Seba that asked me in Punta del Diablo beach in Uruguay:
"what do you take from your experience in Uruguay?"

In the end I want to feel that I enjoyed all moments in my life as it should be.

In the end, in "Seba's" case with Uruguayan case I won mainly a different way of living.
Today:
- I take mate once a week;
- I can't eat cow meet anymore as it sucks in europe;
- I feel more that want to create family;
- I live more happy and less nervous;
- I know how lucky I am to have a car;
- I learned new ways of negotiation;
- I got new excellent language, spanish;
- new points of working view.

And I changed in the end my way of living, not because I have to, but essentially...
...because I enjoyed all these moments in Uruguay as it should be.

Today I can say that I enjoyed all moments.
And I am continuing doing it!!!

4th April 2010
Francisco Miguel Sousa

Strange

Nice Pictures from Montevideo, Uruguay.
Nike promotion...



I lived 50 meters from this iron weird stuff at the picture bellow!!! :)

Sunscreen

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen.

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT.

The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.

I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

You are NOT as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Michel Houellebecq

Today I read a book about Michel Houellebecq and actually a lot of things made sense.
In the middle of 5 degrees in Albufeira, Portugal, nothing better than a book to take a rest time and charge the batteries for all battles will come in the future.

I will leave you today with a reflection...
Enjoy it.


The Hope of a Deep Relationship

We know people for years, even decades, get used to avoid personal problems and important issues, but keep the hope that later in better circumstances, they may just address these issues and problems.
The hope, always deferred, for a closest human and complete relationship never completely disappear, because no human relationship is satisfied with definite limits, restricted and rigid.
It remains, therefore, hope that we'll find a relationship "authentic and profound." And it remains for years, even decades, until a brutal and definitive event (usually a thing as death) comes to tell us that it is too late, that such 'deep and authentic relationship', whose image had loved, also not exist, not exist, as the others.

Michel Houellebecq, in "Particular elements'
Biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq






Albufeira view reading the book...

Buenos Aires, one comment...

Buenos Aires, one comment!

In November I was in Buenos Aires and actually some part of the travel change my point of view.
When I passed by taxi from the neighbourhood Boca to BuqueBus, I passed from some street where all houses were ilegal and with only bricks without any structure or organization.
Then I asked the Taxi driver: How can the people live with this walls and without glasses in the windows or roof...
Taxi driver: They live better than before... before there was no wall...