Body, Mind & Spirit

This Sunday is special - it shouldn't be, but it is. Is the second time this year when I go to skate on the Bullevard with Chesnut trees in Ploiesti. The City Hall changed the rules so now the Bullevard is open to the public only on Sundays, and it became incresingly difficult for me to be in Ploiesti on Sundays, as the weekends are usualy for going out of the city, not for staying in. Well, a compromise should be made for the common good... I should give a try tomorrow morning in a park nearby - it didn't had a reputation for being safe in the past, maybe things have changed in the last years...

A little exercise early in the morning, when the rest of the city spleeps, it good for the soul. Of course, I am dead tired now and my cat is sleeping in my bed, kinda saying... what else is to be done?! Well, I am sure there are a lot of other things to be done, I just have to discover them ;-)

Meanwhile, a little story from when I was a kid. When I was 3, my mom took me for the first time at the seaside. For the first time I discovered (and to my mom's dispair there were in front of the restaurant) the ladybirds (buburuze in Romanian) - not the real ones, but machines going in circles up and down. There was not much to choose from at that time in Romania, and the little lady birds, nicely painted in red with black spots really caught my eye. And I do remember that they were my favourite childhood attraction until when, well, I was no longer a child. So the negotion between me and mom was going kinda like this:

Mom: "If you don't eat, I'm not going to take you in the lady birds."
Me: "If you don't take me in the lady birds, I will not eat."

Curious to know what happend? Well, between the first and the second course she had to take me to the ladybirds. It was a win-win situation: I was eating something, but not all, got what I wanted and well, proably eating the rest too, as I liked to eat. She was also happy as she could eat something as not to starve after a day in the sun and then take me in the ladybirds. And it was better to have the ride before the main course - I don't think her stomache would have had a very nice time going up and down for couple minutes...

Of course I don't remember any of this (except the ladybirds, which have been in my life eversince, in various formats). My aunt told me. I am now thinking where did I loose all those negotion skills that kinda give me a charmed life for the first 18 years of my life?...

Somehow, I believe we are born with everything we need to know to survive. At some point, someone is trying to tell us that we know deep down inside is not true and we need to learn new skills. The trick is that sometimes you forget what was embedded in you as a child and start using the complicated skills you acquied as an adult... just to get, in the fortunate case, the same result.