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To be Free

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Walking down the street without reason,
What a treat!
To sip a cup of coffee, to laugh with friends, to hold a hand.

Do you know where you are going? With what purpose? Is it essential?

Limit your life experience, confine your existence to a 5k radius.

Tough days are past, more yet to come
When time has no meaning and you find yourself alone.

Think of your mothers, your children, your health. Think of those who now may rest.

And when you feel lost and hopeless… take a breath. If you can, you are winning.

_Laiz Ferreira (‘To be free’ 25/01/2021)

‘Human Again’

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I wake up in the morning
And it feels the same
The sun shines
The birds sing
But I don’t go about my day

Instead I pause and reflect
Not by choice or will
But because humanity was bestowed a rare yet cruel gift

We all sit and wait
Many of us pray for better days
But within the fear of the unknown
We find something we thought was gone

Deep within our busy routines
Constant demands and lack of peace
We finally find time

Time to remember who we are
Time to care
Time to share

Time to figure out what really matters and time to give back

One day soon, hopefully very soon, this break will end
Not without sorrow and certainly with a fair amount of learnings

When this day comes we will be better, we will be stronger, we will be kinder…

We will be human; again.

Laiz_Ferreira. (31/03/20)

Harmony 

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Harmony is one of the key ingredients to lead a happy life.

If you lose harmony at home or in the work environment and you allow circumstances to swallow you bit by bit, soon you will cease to exist.

You let go of your aspirations and instead succumb, becoming a human sponge that is influenced by everything and all, sucking the good and the bad, ultimately internalising emotions without letting go.

It is time to reset. To inspire and to be inspired. To welcome change as a challenge that will lead you to greatness.

If you feel down, respect those emotions and allow yourself to live through it. If you feel happy, do the same.

One thing that is never going to change is that life is uncertain. The secret of harmony is accepting this truth.

You are more resilient than you can imagine. Don’t give bad circumstances the power it does not have.

We may not control the ocean but we are still the ones steering the boat in the right direction.

_Laiz Ferreira.

A Change in Perspective

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There is a time, I’m not quite sure when, that we start viewing the world with a different perspective.

I can’t quite pinpoint the exact moment when things start to change, but i believe it happens to everyone.

Now, my question is, does this change of perspective automatically mean a change of attitude? Does it change the way we choose to live our lives? Does it change the world as we know it?

The answer is possibly, not. You see, we live our lives in such a way that we end up constantly battling our inner selves desperate to fit in with our external reality.

We live in a world in which we prioritize the invaluable and compromise the most important things in our existence. Continue reading →