Let's walk the Talk

It says it all.

You are not placed in this world just to stay stagnant. As a friend puts it, you are not here just to work and pay taxes. There so much outside than staying at home being glued on your most favorite TV show.

Travel. Volunteer. Reach out. Meet new people. Forgive. Spread Love.



Go out of that shell and touch worlds!



Walking the talk,
dani

Send out your ray of Sunshine

And yes, for almost two weeks- no checking my mails, no updating here and not really looking into the buzz on my facebook. Have I been busy?! Well, yeah... I just felt I needed silence once in a while and focus more on the peace within me that's waiting to be unleashed. :)

For those past two weeks, as summer kicked in, I enjoyed my every morning travel on my way home watching how beautiful sunrise is while traversing a chaotic street. I am riding a carpool of some sort everyday so knowing that I do not know anyone inside the van, makes it a little more exciting.

I was sitting at the middle row and so as everyone at the back paid their fare, it would have to be passed on me first then to be handed over to the driver. I felt a little awkward and annoyed since it disturbed the watching of the wonderful views in front of me---just gazing at the chaotic street under the clement cerulean skies makes me smile--it's such a picturesque.





However, as I hear everyone saying their appreciation to what I’m doing (passing their fare to the driver) - not a single soul missing it, I felt the urge of saying 'you’re welcome.' All the time. With unconditional smiles. Doing so, made them smile too.

And simple as that, I felt a different kind of joy. Their smiles lightened my day.

And if this little light of mine combined with yours today, how many watts could we illuminate? How many villages could we save? A little light won’t hurt nobody, send out your ray of sunshine…


I was so busy too taking time to know the neighbors I have. They were a little shy but I know I’ve got to make the first move. Just making them feel that I know that they exist and I exist, would be enough for now. After all, they are just doorsteps away.

Over the weekend, I went to my parent's house and seeing them is like the best feeling ever created. Knowing that both of them are still around, I feel so secured and complete. I enjoyed every conversation with my mom and every laughing trip with my dad. Furthermore, singing together. I, playing the guitar while he sings his favorite Bread classics and him learning the songs of Jason Mraz so he can play it, just released the tension I’ve engulfed during the weekdays. Going home to them, seeing all my nephews and niece gives me the biggest prize of all.

Sometimes, my mind is playing tricks on me too. Hoping that behind all these smiles I have and the feeling of gladness for everything I do, I have someone beside me to say how happy I am. Well, I know who that person is, I just hope he knew.

And for that one and a half weeks that I thought I needed for myself-- that I thought I needed more focus on me- it unleashed the peace that I’ve been looking for.

For peace and happiness coincides.

The more you give yourself to others, the more you follow the steps to happiness. The more you follow those steps, the more silence and wisdom it gives your soul.


This is just the start.

And if you're asking me what's the secret to being happy? To each its own.

Darlin', you hold the key.



D.

Carrying on the Be Love fever...

I was going over my emails and found this one sent by a friend. I felt the urge of posting it when i realized how complicated we,adults,sometimes deal with love. This made me smile and even say to myself, how simple being love is and spreading it to everyone.

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
Rebecca - age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth."
Billy - age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
Karl - age 5

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
Terri - age 4

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
Danny - age 7

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."
Emily - age 8

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate."

Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."
Noelle - age 7

"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."
Clare - age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Elaine - age 5

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Brad Pitt."
Chris - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
Lauren - age 4

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." (what an image)
Karen - age 7

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
Jessica - age 8

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a four-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,

"Nothing, I just helped him cry."

Be love. Just be. Nothing more and nothing less. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. After all, the most awesome and beautiful things sprung from it. Resist.. and you'll experience otherwise.

Spreading love daily,
dani