ME AS I AM BY AYHAN


I HAVE FOR A LONG WHILE LOOKED AT THIS FABULOUS SHOT OF AYHAN'S AND THOUGHT TO MYSELF....
"ONE DAY... I WILL HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THIS"...

AND HERE IT IS..... SORRY FOLKS IF IT IS A LONG REPLY....

AYHAN DEAREST FRIEND..... I HOPE YOU LIKE IT.....

I wish to thank Mel for the incredible way you also strive for CHANGE AND INNOVATION IN THIS LIFE.....


I DEDICATE THIS TO LIFE...
AND TO ALL MY FRIENDS AS WELL... SINCE SURELY THEY
ALL KNOW LIFE'S PATHS ARE NOT EASY OR FREE OF PAIN....

BUT ... WE SHALL ALL HAVE... IF NOTHING ELSE THAT SOME
OF US MAY HAVE HOPED FOR....

LOVE ALWAYS IN EACH OTHER'S COMPANY AND LOVE
OF SOME FORM OF ART...... AND THAT IS ALREADY
SOMETHING TO BE VERY HAPPY ABOUT.....





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The red flower represents a "ME" tired and already bending over, due to what could be a "form of seing life in a non-clear way"...

The blurred yellow flower represents "ME" - as I will be after CHANGE...... SO.... STEPS ARE TO BE TAKEN INTO THE UNKNOWN..... RISKS.... PAIN.... WHATEVER....

BUT..... STAYING STILL IS NOT THE ANSWER.....


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HONRAR LA VIDA by Eladia Blázquez
(Argentina)

(TO HONOUR LIFE)

Sang by Mercedes Sosa
(La Negrita.... Argentina)

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No, to stand around and pass things by is not to endure,
it is not to exist, nor to honor life.

There are many ways of non-being,
there is so much awareness, that stays unaware and dormant.

To deserve life is not to be quiet and consenting
of so many injustices that are repeated..

Life is a virtue, it is a dignity,
it is the attitude of a stronger identity.

This staying around and letting things just pass us by
does not entitle us to boast
because it is not the same as living and honoring life.

There are so many little vanities
in our blind human foolishness. ...
To deserve life
is to rise up and stand up vertically
in spite of the falls and beyond them .

Life is about giving the truth
and our own freedom a proper and dignified welcome.

*****

“Change is the end result of all true learning.
Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction
with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to
change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the
willful act of making the change, doing something.”

Unknown


"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change
your mind about the world."

"Only your mind can produce fear."

A Course In Miracles


“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”

“Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.
Anything less is a form of slavery.”

“ If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.”

“It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”

Wayne Dyer

“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.”

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.”

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross