Title: A beautiful
1- A beautiful
- reflection
- by
- Facundo Cabral
2You are not depressed, you are distracted
Distracted by the life that controls you, ...
Distracted by the life around you, Dolfins,
forests, seas, mountains, rívers.
3- Do not fall into my brothers trap he is
agonizing for one person... when in the world
there are five thousand six hundred million. For
the rest, it is not so bad to live alone. - I am enjoying myself, deciding at every moment
what I want to do, and, thanks to this solitude,
I know myself... - Something truly fundamental for life
4- Dont fall into the trap of your father, who
thinks he is old because he has seventy years of
age, forgetting that Moses directed the Exodus at
eighty and Rubinstein used to interpret Chopin
like no one else when he was ninety, to quote
just two well-known cases.
5- You are not depressed, you are distracted. That
is why you think you lost something, but that is
impossible, because all you have was given to
you. You did not make a single hair of your head,
therefore you own nothing. Besides, life does
not take anything from you it frees you from
things... It makes you lighter so you can fly
higher, and reach your fullness. From the cradle
to the tomb it is all a school that is why, what
you call problems, are only lessons. You did not
lose anyone The one who died, simply went ahead
of us, because there is where we all go. And, the
best of that person, love, continues alive in
your heart.
6- There is no death... only change. And at the
other side you have wonderful people waiting for
you Gandhi, Michel Angelo, Whitman, Saint
Augustin, Mother Teresa, your granfather and my
mother, who believed that poverty was closer to
love, because money distracts us with too many
things and it makes us distant, by taking away
our trust.
7- Do only what you love and you will be happy.
Whoever does what he loves is happily condemned
to success, which will arrive in its good time
because what must be will be, and will arrive
naturally. Do nothing out of obligation or
compromise, only out of love. Then you will have
fullness, and in this fullness all is possible
and without effort, because it is the natural
force of life that moves you the force that
raised me when the plane fell with my wife and
daughter in it that kept me alive when the
doctors diagnosed for me three or four months of
life, at most.
8- God put you in charge of a human being, and that
is yourself. You have to make yourself free and
happy. Then you will be able to share a better
life with others. Remember Love your
neighbor like yourself". Find reconciliation with
yourself, look at the mirror and think that this
creature you are seeing is Gods work and
decide, right now, to be happy, because happiness
is an acquisition.
9Moreover, happiness is not a right, but a duty
because if you are not happy, you are making the
whole neighborhood unhappy. One man alone who
did not have talent nor courage to live, ordered
the death of millions of jewish brothers.
10-
- There are so many things to enjoy and our
sojourn on earth is so short, that suffering is a
waste of time. To enjoy ourselves we have the
snow of Winter and the flowers of Spring, Belgian
chocolate, French baguetes, Mexican tacos,
Chilean wine, the seas and the rivers, Brazilian
soccer, The Thousand and one Nights, the Divine
Comedy, the Quijote, Pedro Páramo, the boleros of
Manzanero and the poetry of Whitman the music of
Mahler, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven the paintings
of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Picasso and
Tamayo, among so many other marvels.
11- And if you have cancer or AIDS, two things can
happen and both are good if it wins, it will
free you from this body that can be so
uncomfortable (I am hungry, cold, sleepy, I have
desires, I am right, I doubt)... And if you win,
you will be more humble, more grateful for it,
easier to make happy, free from the awful weight
of guilt, responsability and pride, ready to
live each and every instant in all its depth, as
it should be.
12- You are not depressed you are unoccupied
- Help the child that needs you, that child that
will be your sons associate. Help the old and
the young will help you when you will be one. - Besides, service is sure happiness, like
enjoying nature and taking care of it for those
who will come after. Give without measure and
you will be given without measure as well. Love
until you become like what you love more still,
until you are transformed into love itself. - And do not let yourself be brought to
confusion by a few homicides or suicides..
13- Goodness is the greater part, but it is not
appreciated because it is silent. A bomb makes
more noise than a caress, but for every bomb that
destroys, there are millions of caresses that
feed life. Its worth, isnt it?. If God had a
refrigerator, your picture would be in it. If God
had a wallet, your picture would be in it too.
God sends you flowers every Spring. God gives you
a dawn every morning. Every time you want to
talk, God listens God can live in any part of
the Universe, but chose your heart. Welcome the
presence, my friend, God is crazy for you!
14- Send this to every beautiful person you want
blessed. God did not promise days without pain,
laughter without sadness, sun without rain God
simply promised strength for each day,
consolation for the tears, and light for the
journey.
When life will give you a thousand reasons to
cry, show it that you have one thousand and one
reasons to smile