My world this week...

14 Feb 2006

Notice the date just above? A belated entry.... Is there anyway to change the date for a particular entry? Sometimes, it's because I'm too busy, at times, I prefer to let my feelings calm down before I reveal too much on impulse...like this Valentine's Day (which is spent pigging out at Sakura again, thanks to C, MH & T for accompanying me to indulge ;) - fantastic food! menu has changed slightly) entry. Can anyone help me to cheat?

Don't really want to talk about VDay.... nor remember what Izaan asked me in class - "Why don't you celebrate with your ex?' I hate realising that not everything is within my control, no matter how much effort I put in to salvage things.

Just like to share the following I read in 'Eleven Minutes', a novel by Paulo Coelho, the diary entries written by the protagonist, Maria, a prostitute:

'Other people think exactly the opposite; they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvellous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.'

'Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it – which if these 2 attitudes is the least destructive?'


'The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. Anyway, if my love is real (not not just a way of distracting myself , deceiving myself and passing time), freedom will conquer jealousy and any pain it causes me, since pain is also part of the natural process. Anyone who practises sport knows this: if you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it’s unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you’ll come to realise that it’s part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don’t feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren’t having the desired effect.'

'Everyone knows how to love, because everyone is born with that gift. Some people have a natural talent for it, but the majority of us have to re-learn, to remember how to love, and everyone, without exception, needs to burn the bonfire of past emotions, to relive certain joys and griefs, certain ups and downs, until they can see the connecting thread that exists behind each new encounter; because there is a connecting thread.'

So true...I hope to find that connecting thread again...