" While i was fighting, i heared other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended their unique right, the more enslaved they seemed to be to their parents' wishes, to a marriage in which they had promised to stay with the other person 'for the rest of their lives,' to the bathroom scales,to their diet, to half finished projects, to lovers to whom they were incapable of saying 'No' or 'it's over,' to weekends when they were obliged to have lunch with people they didnt even like. Slaves to Luxury, to the appearance of the appearnace of luxury. Slaves to a life they have not chosen, but which they had decided to live because someone had managed to convince them that it was all for the best. And so their identical days and nights passed, days and nights in which adventure was just a word in a book or an image on the television that was always on, and whenever a door opened, they would say:
"I'm not interested, I'm not in the mood"
How could they possibly know if they were in the mood or not if they had never tried? But there was no point in asking; the truth was they were afraid of any change that would upset the world they had grown used to."
Those fabulous words are from a book "the Zahir" by the great writer "Paulo Coelho".
Since i totally agree with Paulo Coelho, and since his words have inspired me and convinced me that the time to change is now, and since i have started to change many things in my life, i thought i would start my blog with his words, they might as well influence other people.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
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