Dreams come true bitches!!!!

I have always thought the cast of In The Heights was made up of the most talented and kindest people ever, and now there is proof:




They constantly amaze me with how incredible they are. The fact that they are all so busy, yet they took the time to do that for a young fan on a two show day is just too amazing for words. I have watched that video quite a few times today and every time I have been moved to tears. I wish there could be more people like them in the world who show how much they truly care about people. That young boy got to live out a dream right there and it is such a beautiful thing to get to watch.

The Dalai Lama knows best

I must emphasize again that merely thinking that compassion and reason and patience are good will not be enough to develop them. We must wait for difficulties to arise and then attempt to practice them.

And who creates such opportunities? Not our friends, of course, but our enemies. They are the ones who give us the most trouble. So if we truly wish to learn, we should consider enemies to be our best teacher!

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, an enemy is indispensable. So we should feel grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us develop a tranquil mind! Also, it is often the case in both personal and public life, that with a change in circumstances, enemies become friends.

So anger and hatred are always harmful, and unless we train our minds and work to reduce their negative force, they will continue to disturb us and disrupt our attempts to develop a calm mind. Anger and hatred are our real enemies. These are the forces we most need to confront and defeat, not the temporary "enemies" who appear intermittently throughout life.

Of course, it is natural and right that we all want friends. I often joke that if you really want to be selfish, you should be very altruistic! You should take good care of others, be concerned for their welfare, help them, serve them, make more friends, make more smiles. The result? When you yourself need help, you find plenty of helpers! If, on the other hand, you neglect the happiness of others, in the long term you will be the loser. And is friendship produced through quarrels and anger, jealousy and intense competitiveness? I do not think so. Only affection brings us genuine close friends.

In today's materialistic society, if you have money and power, you seem to have many friends. But they are not friends of yours; they are the friends of your money and power. When you lose your wealth and influence, you I will find it very difficult to track these people down.

The trouble is that when things in the world go well for us, we become confident that we can manage by ourselves and feel we do not need friends, but as our status and health decline, we quickly realize how wrong we were. That is the moment when we learn who is really helpful and who is completely useless. So to prepare for that moment, to make genuine friends who will help us when the need arises, we ourselves must cultivate altruism!

Though sometimes people laugh when I say it, I myself always want more friends. I love smiles. Because of this I have the problem of knowing how to make more friends and how to get more smiles, in particular, genuine smiles. For there are many kinds of smile, such as sarcastic, artificial or diplomatic smiles. Many smiles produce no feeling of satisfaction, and sometimes they can even create suspicion or fear, can't they? But a genuine smile really gives us a feeling of freshness and is, I believe, unique to human beings. If these are the smiles we want, then we ourselves must create the reasons for them to appear.

just thinking

I always wanted to learn how to play the guitar. It's number 21 on my THINGS TO DO WHILE I LIVE list. I think I am going to get a box and put a little bit of money in it each week. I will eventually get a guitar and take lessons from that money.
Yes. That sounds good to me.

SI SE PUDO!!!

He told us, "Yes we can."







So, "Yes we did."


I will never forget last night. Last night was historic, and we all got to be a part of it. People celebrated together. We became united as a country in the hope of bringing about change.





He is our future. He is our hope. The world became a more beautiful place because of last night.


SI SE PUEDE!


*Note: I stole the television screencap from Melissa.

VOTE

Sí se puede.

My favorite

I once saw Lin wearing a shirt that said, "The king of wishful thinking." It made my day.

This video always makes me smile, even when my smile is broken.

December 17

oh noez

Updates have not really come in quite a long time from me. They are on the way though. I promised Melissa months ago that I would blog just for her and I fell short on that promise. I will catch up with blogging eventually.

And to those who care, I will be in the city October 11-14 and November 24-30.

And to everyone planning on seeing Billy Elliot when it opens, buy merch from my BFF Penski because she'll be working there!!!!

Paciencia y fe.

SO PROUD SO PROUD SO PROUD

THE SPRING STANDARDS ON LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN FRIDAY, AUGUST 29TH!!!!


never more proud in my life. love them so much.

EVERYONE WATCH!!!!

You're part of the skyline now

I love it. I love them. Every time I think it is impossible for me to love them more than I already do, they prove to me that the amount of love I have for them can never stop growing.




With the coming of summer, a new world is opening up in front of me and I am realizing many things.
I am changing. I am constantly changing and growing and learning. New things and people come in and out of my life. Everything is exciting and full of possibilities. It is also full of laughs, sadness, moments of being free, moments of just being, creation of memories, loss of the past....
I am not who I was a few months ago, but who is really? If we all continue to live and grow, we will change. I am seeing things about my past self that I dislike and I am learning what I love. The same goes for those around me.
I am taking time to really clear my head and let everything go and focus on what is real and what is now and just live.breathe.be.