Exactly 2 months since I came back from Colombia. And I
started really miss it.
Family. Friends. The vibe. The sun. the smile. The
care. The values.
Family
What I still develop inside me is
my family value, which the oldest followers know. When I moved to Colombia I
was young, European teenager, who knew everything what home and modern society
was teaching. Now, I call it ‘ the
bubble’, in which most of the people still are. What is the bubble ? it’s a
house, car, money, holidays, clothes, parties ..our everyday life. I thought I
had perfect life because I had everything I wanted… Until I went to Colombia..
and I saw how the life really looks like and how should look like.
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Most of you probably still don’t understand how
family is important in our life. I have never realized before living in
Colombia that I was not used to tell people how important they are for me and
how I love them. What has changed, now I cannot imagine a day without telling
at least one person about his/her importance in my life. Well, the emotions and
experiences I had in Colombia, created a person like I am now and believe me or
not but I am very happy with myself, who I became and who I still want to
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I feel like 15 years in Europe meant nothing
and taught me nothing. First family parties, first people around me, first
everything was just done in a very unusual way. People who have travelled or
lived in Colombia may already notice the warmth of people’s heart , who say ‘
hola, como estas ? ‘ and they really mean that.
First family bdays, first xmas with my grandparents, first hearing about
emotions and love -out loud- made me notice the importance of the second person
(friend/boyfriend/girlfriend) or family in life. I noticed that all the material
things we own mean nothing if you cannot share them with the people who really
love you. In Colombia family is saint, you will always find time for them, you
will call your parents everyday to check how they are, you will be for them
every time. Why ? because you care, not because you have to.
Friends- to Cristina, Hugo, Pacho
In Colombia I also learned what
is the real friendship. After coming back to Europe, there is no single day
when I don’t think about my dearest Cristina, Hugo y Pacho and of course every time I talk to them, I feel like we
will always be for each other, no matter what I can always count on them and
they can always count me. Bonding with people is very important, but we have to
select them. We have to collect ‘the pearls’ instead of shells, which will
never be able to open. Honestly saying, at my uni I attended 4 mindfulness
classes, in which I built up my thoughts about people around me. I love people
and I cannot imagine my life without them and that is why I would like to offer
them as much as I can.
Pacho, Cristina, Hugo, Me- typical party at my place :)
I was thinking about taking good vibes from people, keep it
for myself, develop and then spread them over. I have noticed that a lot of
people feel just left alone, they are in the wrong environment and they pretend
to be happy, instead of giving the best of themselves. I am not responsible for
other people lives but I would like to make everyone happy, which sounds
ridiculous but it is still possible. How ? by compliment them everyday, saying
nice word. The simplest example, but I
can say that I am a bit proud of it happened 2 weeks ago, just before ‘ women
day’ in Europe. I went out with my friend for a dinner and when we were walking
back home I saw beautiful pink roses. I thought “ lets buy them and have a cozy
pinky room with smell of 20 pretty roses” however when I entered to the campus
I changed my mind and I decided to give all those 20 roses away to girls and
see if they will smile. Believe me or
not, but there wasn’t a girl who didn’t smile and who didn’t say thank you,
from the heart.
At this point I was pretty sure that I made theirs evening.
And what now? I gave away many roses to the girls I have never met, now we
always say Hi to each other and even sit together and have a cigarette between
classes, exchanging everyday experience and just smile to each other to make
our day better J
Trust me, that with the simplest thing you can make someone’s
day.
You may ask yourself why am I writing this here, isn’t suppouse
to be a blog about Colombia and cultural things ? well, it is actually. Because
without Colombia I would never realized these beautiful things and values in myself.
That’s why friends are for, that’s what my 3 dearest
Colombians taught me all these things, by giving a small spark everyday and by
showing me the smile I should give to other people.
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The vibe and the smile.
Look at this picture and I don’t believe you wont smile J
the picture on your right : after almost 30 hours of travel, my biggest luggage stayed in NYC, so why not having fun at the airport as a typical Colombiana does? climbing up on this band was always my dream :))
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The values :
Here I have to stop
for now. I hope I gave you enough inspiring thoughts that you will figure them
out by yourself. Mines, I will keep for myself.
Ps. Getting out of the topic,
Im feel so glad to have been part of your previous trip.
ReplyDeletei feel so glad that I met you :))) Gracias Dani
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