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Life is like a book. And in any chapter of our life we try to find a family. At school, at work, in daily life , in any place in the world we try to find brothers and sisters because friends are the family we chose. Because each chapter is made of experiences we try to have them with people we love. We also search a family in these friends because each experience is a new page of our book and even we don't want to recognize it we have this little fear of unknown things. It's like an adventure and we don't know what we will face we just expect something good. But actually if we want to be honest, we are scared, scared to be alone, scared of being rejected by our peers, scared of not being accepted for who we are. So yes we can pretend that we are free, we do whatever we want, but it's not true because we need to be accepted, we need to be recognized we need people, we need love and affection. We can prentend it's not true but we even cannot imagine how it feels to live like Robinson Crusoe in his island or surviving like Tom Hanks in Cast Away and invent an imaginary friend Wilson. It's simply impossible for many of us included me because we are kind of domesticated from our childhood.
We grow up within a family who teaches us how to act ,what is good or wrong. Our parents reward us or punish us and like this we learn how to please them to be accepted in the family. With friends, at school, at work, in any kind of social structure we learn this code to adapt and please to people because we need to be accepted. We study for a good job and adapt our study to the market, where is the simple pleisure of learning? How many of us are working only for the salary? How many of us are doing things that we are not enjoying? How many of us are showing only the good part of them and hiring they dark side? How many of us are actually masked? How many of us are acting their own life??? But where is the limit? When did we realize that our life is a theatre guided by so many rules, rules to prevent us to be alone. When did we realize that the fear of being alone prevent us to be the one we want and limit our freedom? But Does everybody is aware of it ? I guess it would be probably the first step of our freedom.
A part of the Toltecas' philosophy, an Ancient civilization of Mexico has developped thought about it. Toltecas are considered as "women and men of knowledge", they are orginally a group of scientists and artists who built a community in order to transmit their knowledge. Can you imagine a society that's born on the basis of knowledge? Toltecas' philosophy is focused on how to reach happyness and individual freedom. And they developped a way of life for it. According to them,These's many reasons to suffer in our life but we are the ones who want to suffer or to be happy. It's necessary to be honest towards ourselves and recognize the big liar of our lives. John Lenon is not that wrong when he says " Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see"
Eventually,we are the ones who can make the choice to be happy and shine our lives. In her song Shine, Laura Izibor expresses very well this feeling. here her song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=equvoqUT1VM
Wake up one morning you realize
Your life is one big compromise (compromise)
Stuck in the job you swore was only temporary (was only temporary)
Feel like the world is passing you by (do do do do do)
Never done all the things you would need to try
Stuck in one place, got a pain in your face from all your stressin’ out (all your stressin’ out)x2
You ask yourself there’s got to be more than what I’m living for (what I’m living for) x2
You ask yourself there’s got to be something else, something more, more, more
Well let the sun shine on your face
And don’t let your life go to waste
Now is the time, got to make up your mind
Let it shine on you, let it shine on you
Feel like there’s nothing nowhere to go
You try and fight but you can’t let go
Roll the pain, got so much to gain
Now is the time
You ask yourself there’s got to be something else, something more, more, more
You ask yourself there’s got to be more than what I’m living for (what I’m living for) x2
You ask yourself there’s got to be something else, something more, more, more
Well let the sun shine on your face
And don’t let your life go to waste
Now is the time, got to make up your mind
Let it shine on you, let it shine on you
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January, 17th, 2010. It's Sunday, 2 am.
The idea of this blog was born since I came back from Mexico 4 months ago in order to share my experience in Juarez city considered like one of the most dangerous in the world. I would like to write about this place which is may be not the best one in the earth but one of the best I 've ever seen in term of people's goodness & kindness. I 'll share my experience & impressions about it but in another article because now it plays a part in my life path.
I took the decision to start writing today because now with distance I just understood that many of my actions and choices were guided by a dream: may be utopian would say many of you but I don't want to die without trying to answer to this question as individual & citizen and put into practice the answer when I'll find it : "how to contribute to a better world? " But this answer I want it personal and individual.
Everyday without any break I see, I hear, I read, I listen bad news : conflicts, murders, wars, genocides, social injustices, discriminations, racism, financial & political scandals and so on. I get used to and I feel immune. And that makes me think about the lyrics of a special song by U2 :
" And it's true we are immune, When fact is fiction and TV reality, And today the millions cry, We eat and drink while tomorrow they die"; Sunday Bloody Sunday. But what does it mean concretely ? I guess we are our own dictators & victims of our habits.
Some people ignore that violence, others try to do something by using their civil rights . They defend their convictions or try to convince themselves they are not powerless. Some people watch the news and then come back to their daily life synonym of safety & just forget. that's the majority of us I guess. Inside of all this I've been a bit lost : I'm young, I'm student, I've got a high education and what can I do? Should I walk and live my life without paying attention ? Should I just work for my personal success : get a good job, a good salary, and think later about building a family? Is it the life I want? Not completely, something is missing. Frederico Mayor, ex president of UNESCO says something in his book the New Page " Everyone has to play a part in local or global issues and it needs risk and knowledge. Risk without knowledge is dangerous, but knowledge without risk is useless " . And that's true how can I still accumulate knowledge without trying something? Somehow I always had the deep feeling that I wanted to do something and it comes from the education I received from my mother who always showed me how to think about the other even if we don't have that much because there is always worse. And that's true I was only a child when I was visiting my country of origins Tunisia and I cannot forget how much I was suprised to see so much differences with France even if today not that much. I did not undertand why in my grand parents ' hometown some people did not have tap water at home and used to walk till the closest spring with a donkey. And at this moment I lost the illusion that money is a game to buy some candies but one of the biggest issue of the world. This willing to do something comes from my reading & my passion for History too. I admired the heroes of my books. But the reality is far away from the courage I could read in books. At a moment of my life I wanted to be a History teacher but it's not for me when I realized that History helps me above all to understand the present and prepare the future or at least try to anticipate it. It's really when I joined this incredible organization called AIESEC a kind of 2nd school for me, I realized that striving for a better world is not only a dream but it's all about creating my own vision and get the means to reach this vision. Actually after 3 years in this organization I finally understood at 100 % the sense of it " AIESEC is the international platfom for young people to discover and develop their potential in order to make a positive impact in the society". I think I discovered my potential and I had the pleisure to work with an incredible team of talents and friends. but I need a bit more time to develop my potential and serve in a good way my society. But most important, I could analize my fear. Somehow I know that I'm not afraid of powerless and vain efforts but afraid of the powerful things I'm able to achieve. Yes, because it's definitely easier saying I cannot instead of taking the responsibility to try and do it. Besides, I don't want to be desillusioned neither cynical. And I think till today I did not yet because when I see injustice I always feel a kind of revolt that keeps my conscience woken up. I remember when I was 15 I demonstrated peacefully for the first and only time with hundreds of high school students in the street in order to protest against a dangerous political party running for president. This year French youth has been listened in the whole country. And the feeling of having contributing to democracy was so huge. I know I was very naive but I felt so good. The main reason is special people that inspire me a lot like my mother. At this moment writing this article I think about my best friend too : Robot. That's only with him I used to share all this kind of stuff & ideas. And I want to share with him this beautiful Rigoberta Menchu's message.
" Quiero mandar un saludo especial a todos mis amigos y amigas que estan generando esta energia en el mundo entero por la paz y la no violencia. Y estar a favor de la vida, la participacion ciudadana. Para mi la paz es el bienestar, es tener comida es tener tranquilidad es disfrutar incluso la vida la familia eso es lo que nos hace falta en el mundo. Sobretodo quiero llamar a los jovenes para que participen en este movimiento para la paz haciendo prevalecer su autoestima su vinculacion con otras personas dandole animo a las mujeres para que participen y dando consejos para que sepan que tbm son alguien que pueden cambiar el destino de la humanidad que pueden hacer un mundo mejor participando en acciones globales por la paz "
Este discurso esta lleno de esperanza y de cosas sencillas para disfrutar de la vida. Sé que mi mejor amigo Robot sabra entender este discurso a su justa valor porque de alguna manera por su experiencia de vida se parece bastante a mi. Lo considero como un igual. Robot & Alien can rock the earth I do believe it
I've chosen Naruto for this blog not because it's the most famous manga. but for the character. Completely excluded when he was young, Naruto's dream is heading one day the village where he grew up in order to prove his true value. But little by little his ambition is less important than serving the others and protect goodness. His friends, his high sense of humanity and his huge persistence represent his engines. Persistence is the quality I admire. In a special fight against his enemy Pain who is completely desilusioned by the world and its wars, Naruto defines the only way to achieve peace : people understanding. And that makes me remind the mission of one of the United Nations organization : the UNESCO. This organization aims at ensuring peace through culture, science and education. I'm completely aligned with both visions and I'll try to transmit it in my blog.
And because all Sundays are not bloody like U2 song; "I have a dream, this one day" this special Sunday happy Sunday let's be persistent for a better world.
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faiza.dream : Nice article
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