Must love friends!

When I moved here years ago from a place far, far away the only thing that I missed were my friends and family. I still do, and I still wish I could visit them more often. Maybe in the future... For now, I try very had to keep track on their lives, rejoice from a distance for their accomplishments and try to offer them moral support for their sorrows. Most of the time I tell myself life gets busy wherever you are, so even if I was nearer I would not see them much anyway. But the truth is that every so often I realize that their lives are changing so much and I am no longer a part of that no matter how much we care for each other or how much we try to include each other.
But I digress.. I logged in to say something completely different. I have been recently inspired by the blog entries of one of my new found friends. She is an amazing mother and now a writer and somehow finds time for it all, including keeping up with her online and offline friends. And here I am, without a family or children to take care of and I cannot seem bring myself to finish the things I need to so I can move on with my life. Things had been moving in slow motion for a little while and I had lost my "mojo." So, thank you Willow for the inspiration and motivation you have unknowingly provided. You are indeed a wonderful writer and the stories of your life have inspired me. Friends... what would we do without them?

Feeling blue....

Some days, no matter how hard I try, it is very hard to shake off the blues. It seems so much easier for men to be leveled and glide through life relatively carefree, whereas women seem to have a special talent for worrying and getting lost in so many what ifs that they lose track of what is actually happening. Well, my friends, I am having one of those days today, and let me tell you... it is not fun. Now, normally, I would have taken the day off, walked through the park... or...even better... gone shopping. Ah... shopping, my dear old trusty friend... :) Unfortunately, life has become so hectic lately, that all those little personal treats have become luxuries I can no longer afford. But hey, life is not supposed to be " a walk in the park," right? And don't they say that "nothing that's worth having comes easy". Is it true? I don't know, you tell me... But today, that is my story and I am sticking to it.

In search of happiness

Are we so obsessed with being happy in the future that we completely ignore what makes us happy today? I have always lived by sacrificing the present in order to build a happier and more secure future and I think it is starting to take its toll. Years have gone by and it does not like I am getting any closer to achieving my goals... At what point do you decide to stop chasing future happiness and seize the day? Or maybe I am just fooling myself... Maybe some people are not capable of being happy... I must be missing the happy gene and maybe I should just accept that and lower my expectations.