Facundo Cabral - You're not depressed, you are just distracted,

You're not depressed, you are just distracted,

Distracted by life,
Distracted from life around you,
Dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers.
Do not fall into what your brother falls, suffering for a human being,
when the world has 5.600 million human beings;
besides, it is not so bad living alone.
I live well alone, deciding at every moment what I want to do
and thanks to the loneliness I know myself
something fundamental to live for.
Do not fall into what your father fell, feeling old because he was seventy,
forgetting that Moses led the Exodus at his Eighties
Rubinstein and Chopin played as anyone else at their nineties
just to cite two known cases.
You're not depressed, you're just distracted. You think you lost something, which is
impossible, because everything was given to you. You didn’t even make one hair of your
head, therefore you don’t possess anything.
Furthermore, life does not take things from you; life frees you... it lightens you up to fly
higher, and to reach fullness.
From cradle to grave is a school, so what you call problems are lessons.
And life is dynamic
That is why it is in constant motion
That is why you should be attentive to the present
That is why my mother said:
"I am in charge of the present, the future is God’s matter "
That is why Jesus said: "Tomorrow doesn’t matter, it will bring a new experience,
each day brings its own challenges"
You didn’t loose anyone: the one who died simply is ahead of us, because we will all go
there. Moreover, this person’s love is in your heart.
Who could say that Jesus is dead? There is no death ... there is change.
On the other side there are wonderful people waiting for you: Gandhi, Michelangelo,
Whitman, St. Augustine, Mother Teresa, your grandfather and my mother, who believed
that poverty is closer to love; because money distracts us with too many things and
takes us away, because it makes us distrustful
You can not find happiness, and it is so easy…
You only have to listen to your heart, before your mind intervenes; that is conditioned by
the memory and complicates everything with all this old stuff, with orders from the past,
with prejudices that sicken you, that enchain you, the head that divides...
Do only what you love and you will be happy.
He who does what he loves, is condemned to be blessed with success, which will arrive
when it is the moment, because what should be, will be and arrive naturally.
Do not do anything out of obligation or commitment, but out of love.
Then, there will be fullness, and in this fullness everything is possible and without effort,
because it moves you the natural force of life, the same force of life that got me up when
the plane crashed with my wife and my daughter, the same force that kept me alive
when my doctors diagnosed me with three or four months left to live.
God put a human being in charge of you and this is yourself. You must make yourself
free and happy. Then you can share real life with others. Remember Jesus: "Love thy
neighbor as thyself."
Reconcile with yourself, get in front of the mirror and think that this creature you're
seeing is the work of God and decide now to be happy, because happiness is an
acquisition. Not something that comes to you from outside.
Moreover, happiness is not a right but a duty, because if you're not happy, you are
making bitter your entire neighborhood.
A single man who had neither talent nor the courage to live, sent to kill six million of
Jewish brothers.
We have to enjoy the snow from winter and the spring flowers, the chocolate of Perugia,
the French baguette, the Mexican tacos, the Chilean wines, the seas and rivers, the
Brazilian soccer ...
The Thousand and One Nights, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Pedro Páramo,
Manzanero and his boleros, the poems of Whitman and the music of Mahler, Mozart,
Chopin, Beethoven, the paintings of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Velázquez, Picasso and
Tamayo among so many other wonders.
And if you have cancer or AIDS, 2 things may happen and both of them are good. If it
wins, it releases you from your body, which is so annoying, I am hungry, I am cold, I am
sleepy, I feel this, I am right, I doubt...
and if you win, you will be more humble, more grateful ... therefore easily happy, free
from the tremendous weight of guilt, responsibility and vanity, ready to live each moment
deeply, as it should be.
You are not depressed, you are just unoccupied, help the child who needs you, that child
will partner with your child, help the old and the young that will help you when you
become old...
In addition, service is sure happiness, as is enjoying nature and taking care of it for
those that will come later…
Give without measure and they will give you without measure.
Love to become the beloved, even more, to become Love in itself
And do not be confused by a few homicides and suicides
Good is the majority, but it cannot be seen because it is silent.
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for every bomb that destroys, there are
millions of caresses feeding life.
Good feeds on itself ... bad destroys itself
If the bad knew how great of a business it is to be good, it would be good
Even only for business
You are not depressed!
You are just distracted.

Ana Noriega
Transform Obstacles into opportunities
http://ananoriega.wordpress.com/