Something in the way you live, love and f*ck
It was the time when Internet appeared in our daily life, when we started to discover that through the web we could find information for our homework. It was the time when I searched for pictures of my favorite artists (The Beatles) and cartoons (The Simpsons). It was when having internet at home was expensive and one had to go to rent a computer for $20 pesos per hour to chat using mIRC and found the “information” mentioned above.
One of those days, by the middle of the 90’s, I found a set of philosophical phrases to face the day by day of our modern life. I printed it, and pastes it at the back of my room’s door.
Now twelve years later, I want to recover those simple but remarkable phrases which indeed changed and formed my mind. Here we go…
1) Give to the people more than they expect from you, and do it pleased
2) Memorize your favorite poem
3) Don’t believe everything you hear, don’t spend all that you have, don’t sleep all that you want
4) When you say “I Love You”, feel it
5) When you say “I’m Sorry” look to the eyes
6) Engage with your loved one at least 6 months before you get married
7) Believe in love at first sight
8) Never laugh about one’s dreams, people who don’t dream doesn’t have anything
9) Love deeply and passionately, maybe you’ll get hurt, but it’s the only way to completely live
10) If you disagree stand clean, be polite
11) Don’t judge someone by looking to their relatives
12) Speak smooth, but think fast
13) When someone asks you something that you don’t want to answer, smile and say “Why do you want to know that?”
14) Remember that success or a great love, implies risks and sacrifices
15) Say “Pleasure” when you hear someone sneeze (Or “salud” in Spanish)
16) When you loose, don’t loose what you learned
17) Remeber the three “R’s”: Respect yourself, Respect the other ones and Responsibility of your actions
18) Don’t allow problems to end a friendship
19) When you realize that you have screwed it up, take actions rapidly
20) Smile when you answer the phone, the person who calls will hear the smile on your voice
21) Marry with someone you love to talk, when you became old, the conversational skills will be as important as the other ones
22) Spend sometime on your own
23) Open your arms to the change, but don’t loose your values
24) Remember that silence, sometimes it’s the better answer
25) More books, less TV
26) Live a good and honorable life, when you become old you’ll enjoy remember it
27) Trust in God (or your spiritual beliefs), but lock the car’s door
28) A love atmosphere in your home it’s important, do the possible to bring harmony and calm
29) During the fights with your loved ones, fight for the present, don’t bring the past alive
30) Read between homework
31) Share your knowledge, it’s one of the ways to be immortal
32) Be gentle and smooth with the Mother Earth
33) Pray, there’s an infinite power on it
34) Never interrupt when someone pleases (flatters) you
35) Stay away from what doesn’t concerns you
36) Don’t trust in someone who doesn’t close her/his eyes when you kiss em’
37) Once in the year, go to a place where you’ve never been to
38) Give money to the poor ones while you’re alive; that’s the biggest happiness of being rich
39) If you can’t get what you want, sometimes it’s for good luck
40) Learn the rules, then break some of them
41) A great relationship is the one which demonstrate that love surpasses the needing of each other
42) Measure your success with what you had sacrificed or gave, to get it
43) Remember that the way you are, it’s your destiny
44) Don’t fear about love and cuisine
45) Do not hesitate!. Life is running now, thrive, get out and try it before you die; Leave the things that doesn’t matter to conquer the time
