#eastermission: LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

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#NOTETOSELF: TO LOVE AT ALL IS...

Work in progress...

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C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was an Irish author most famous for the Chronicles of Narnia series. He was also a noted poet, critic and served as professor of English Literature at Oxford for 29 years. An atheist as a young man, Lewis would later would find his faith and go on to become one of the most important Christian authors of the 20th Century. I loved the Narnia books as a child and it’s interesting to find out now that the plot and characters were inspired by the Bible. Aslan was Jesus? Cool. Maybe if they recited the Narnia books in Church I would have paid more attention.

The full version of this quote, taken from Lewis’s book, The Four Loves, reads:

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.”

(this entry was taken from: http://zenpencils.com/comic/103-c-s-lewis-to-love-at-all/)

FALLING

No explanation needed.

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ITS HARD BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE

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LOVE.

We often tend to forget what 'LOVE' really means nowadays. It is not about the superficial and material things. It is about the little things that bring joy to our lives. The world could be such a better place if we only sometimes have the eyes and minds of a child.

What Love means to a 4-8 year old

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, ’What does love mean?’ The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined 

See what you think:

‘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 

THE LAST: "WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY"

"A simple question, "How many have you loved?"

Is your answer, one and only? Or is it several, all of whom have shaped your life?" - Wong Fu Productions

Another great short film by the talented Wong Fu Productions. They amaze me everytime. Starting with their filmmaking, editing and leaving it off with their amazing storytelling. The plot of this shortfilm is simple yet very deep and that's what makes it so special. I am inspired, they inspire me to make simple things great and I can't stop raving about this one.

Just the other day I got weirded out by my mother who seemed to ask me a lot of question early in the morning where my brain wasn't really awake yet. So I kept nodding to all of her questions until she asked how my lovelife was. I nodded and added that it went well. She then said, "You know, your dad was my seventh!" And then she just left the house because she was late for work. Anyways, she left me there quite confused althought I knew in what context she meant it.
Just like in the video above, my mother taught me that if things go wrong with a certain guy, that life goes on. But more importantly, that the people who walk in and out of your life, shape your story on Earth. That is why I quite confidently go into the world being appreciative (or at least trying hard to be) with every person I get to know, because who knows how they can shape your life?
And don't be intimidated by how many partners your current other half has had because there are thousands of better reasons why she/he is with you right now. Just be grateful to the past people she/he was with because they made her/him the way they are right now - they learnt from their mistakes, they learnt how to treat to you better, they learnt how to teach you how to make things better than they did.
I am very happy and thrilled with where I am right now regarding my lovelife, yet I can't imagine and see what still lies ahead of me. But for now, I'll just stick to being happy, glad and excited because the man up there writes my story.

More from Wong Fu Productions :

http://www.wongfuproductions.com

*On my site: Strangers again
http://ezzycupcake.blogspot.co.at/2011/04/strangers-again.html

*Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/WongFuProductions

*Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/wongfupro

AU REVOIR, L'ÊTE!

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It really took me a while to get back and write something. Especially for this summer.
Just a couple of months ago I was stressed with studying for my exams which I thankfully passed, I was stressed with Congress preparations which felt less as a burden but more of great bonding time and more of service and the time went by so quickly I was surprised that I did find some time to take it all in and appreciate it. I felt honoured to be part of the EYC's Service Team and it really felt good that people believed in me and gave me a responsibility.

We don't really see it but we do inspire people every day and we are persons that can be looked up to. It is impossible to live a life without mistakes, faults or bad habits but it is possible to turn your back on them. Life really isn't about fighting your way through it on your own - it's more about knowing you have the right people on your side and fighting through life with them. That's what I figured out at the most random moment. I really can say it made 'click' and I understood that being selfish about your struggles doesn't necessarily make you a strong person when there are people who want to help. What I don't wish for anyone is having to go through life on their own because they have nobody. Because no one wants to help.

This summer I have also learned to be less proud. Especially when it comes to family matters. I've learned that they really only want what's best for me and I used to doubt that before. I used to see that as a threat from them for not letting me grow up but at the end of the day and with time, I really understood what their point is and I am grateful that they stopped me from something that I would have realised was wrong before I even could. And of course, if you have expectations, you cannot stand there and wait for them to know what you want. That's where I had to swallow my pride and make the first step and I can say I'd rather have that now than still be on the same spot waiting for nothing and complain about it.

Sometimes you get the feeling that you as a person have to change. And sometimes it's out of all the wrong reasons. But I say don't change. You have no idea how much your personality as it is now has helped so many people before. I must admit though, that there might be some parts of you that have to go through improvements but make them good and change for the better.

Just when I wonder or reflect on things the quote "Good things come to those who wait" always seems to prove itself to me. And as much as I'd like to go with the flow and have this at the recent time and have that to be uptodate, I rather hold back, take a breath and ask myself why I want that and realise I am not that person to be uptodate at all and that I am more the person who waits for things because as well as I know myself, if it weren't for my patience, I wouldn't be able to appreciate things that I have now and I guess my life would have just gotten by in a speed that I couldn't keep up with.

Summer is over and another chapter starts. There are a lot of challenges I have to face yet but I say "just come at me, bro" because I know that when these challenges are faced and when the struggles are pulled through, then I know that I am growing as a person and to the person I want to be.

HAVE A GREAT SCHOOLYEAR EVERYBODY! SHOW THEM YOUR STUDYRANGER SKILLS!

WHAT YOU DESERVE by Chelsea Fagan

Just the other day I kind of felt pretty off life, if you get what I am saying. I just had a great vacation and just the thought of reality creeping up behind you in seconds was just pretty too much for me to handle. I pretty much think everyone has those bad days where your mind just keeps playing one trick after the other making you feel pretty miserable. But who are we kidding? None of those disappointments, hurts or pains matter because just by thinking and counting your blessings makes life worthwhile. And even if you do not feel like it, you deserve every good thing on this planet (except Dan Scott, because he really was a bad guy in OTH... joke).
So, I invite you to read this great article. It made me feel so much better after reading it. Hope it has the same effect on you too!

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What You Deserve

AUG. 6, 2012 By CHELSEA FAGAN

You deserve to look in the mirror every morning and see someone that, though not perfect, isn’t trying to be. You deserve to walk past the billboards and commercials that show staged-and-Photoshopped images of what and who you are supposed to be and laugh at them, secure in the knowledge that you are wonderful because you are real. You could imagine that the models themselves must be so much greater in person when not reduced to a pose and a cheesy tagline — maybe they are at their most beautiful when just stepping out of the shower, hair still wet, and excited to go eat a good breakfast — but you don’t compare yourself to them. You deserve to love your body simply because it is yours, and it is capable of so much.

You deserve to look past whatever is displayed on the outside, whatever code lingers on your skin to be read by society and neatly organized into some compartment about who you “are” — fat, thin, ugly, tall, awkward — and be even more in love with what exists within you. Of course you may have moments in which you regret past mistakes, or dislike a character flaw that you know you need to work on, or feel the rope of maturity tugging at your ankle saying “Come on, catch up,” but it doesn’t define you. You deserve to appreciate all of the wonderful qualities you bring to the table, instead of relentlessly harping on yourself for the categories in which you fall just a tiny bit short.

You deserve to look for love, if that’s what you want, and be ready to accept it when it comes your way. You might find yourself overwhelmed and even briefly in disbelief when you realize that someone actually loves you for who you are and wants nothing more than to be with you, but you should be able to embrace that unconditional caring with your own. You should wrap your arms around them and cover them with your whole body — flesh, bone, the ugly little cracks and scars that they can’t stop kissing — and know that you are a good person, who is worthy of such joy. You deserve not to question every person who gives you a compliment or tells you that you’re wonderful, not to wonder if they have some ulterior motive, or if you are somehow the victim of an elaborate prank. You should realize that you are worth loving because you are ready to love back.

You deserve to go through your day and take in the good parts, breathe in the good air and appreciate the little things that too often go unnoticed. You should know that a strong flower growing in a city sidewalk, a child laughing and blowing bubbles, or strangers that smile at one another and mean it are all things worth loving, and which make your day a net positive. You deserve to live your life for the joys and not the frustrating slights that are out of your control — to be able to say that, because you held the door open for an older man with too many bags on his arms, your afternoon was good. Though the profound effect these tiny moments of happiness can have on all of us are often lost in the shuffle of life and its myriad injustices, you deserve to look at them and see them for the victories of compassion and simplicity that they are.

You deserve to try, and give it your all, but be okay if you fail. You deserve not to spend so much of your life berating yourself for not having been “good enough,” especially when you’re not even sure what “good enough” might entail. Your job might be strenuous, your classes impossible, but you deserve to be able to do your best work and, at the end of the day, put your pen down and sleep well. You deserve to have a personal best that is good enough for you, to not constantly feel as though you’re outrunning yourself with expectations, to the point of sapping the joy out of a hard day’s work.

You deserve to be truly happy for others. You deserve a life that is filled with its own successes and triumphs, that is carved out in the image you desire, and that is not effected by the perceived victories of others. Sometimes others may get things that we wanted for ourselves, but you deserve to be confident enough with your own life and journey that someone else’s achievement is not directly detrimental to your own desires. You deserve to see success not as some finite pie from which we must all take exactly one slice, but rather a constantly evolving and growing garden in which we can all flower and reach the sunlight.

Perhaps most of all, though, you deserve to be okay. You deserve to know that a day in which you can just barely get out of bed because you are sad, or sick, or simply not ready to see the outside is not the end of the world. You deserve to know that moments of weakness do not make you fundamentally weak, only fundamentally human, and that sometimes we’re not going to be effusively happy, and that is okay. You deserve to be happy just existing and not constantly holding yourself up to a standard of fake smiles and forced cheerfulness. You deserve to not beat yourself up when you do not reach perfect acceptance of your body, your personality, the love you receive, or anything else that may come your way. Though you should know that you are worthy of these things, learning to be happy just in a kind of stasis with yourself is a long process, and you should know that we are all working on it. You deserve to live through all of your emotions, all of your states of motivation, and know that as long as you are treating everyone with kindness (including yourself), you have nothing to be ashamed of.

Source: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/what-you-deserve/ (09.08.2012)

Questions For My Future Love by THOUGHT CATALOG

It is true, I have been in a mushy mood lately but I guess this article helps a lot before committing to someone and trying to make it work regardless. I hope it is relateable as well as enjoyable ;)

Questions For My Future Love

JUN. 8, 2012

By MILA JARONIEC

Is your heart open? Do you know I’m a new person, you’re a new person and there’s no point of comparison between who we are and who you were? Does knowing that make you feel better or worse? Do you feel stable or unsteady? You’ve never done this before. We’ve never done this before. Are you ready?

Are you going to support me when sh-t gets crazy? Are you going to be there for my rejections, my existential freakouts, my moments of self-doubt that rise and fall with every ignored manuscript and unanswered email? Do you know when to give advice and when to shut up? Do you have a good grasp on the proper way to do both? Do you know I exaggerate, get tunnel vision, self-medicate when things aren’t going well? Do you know what not to take personally? Do you know when to call me out on my bullsh-t?

Do you think you can handle my family? It’s not easy, but they’re not going anywhere so are you willing to learn? Can you handle uncomfortable questions and disapproving looks from time to time? Can you deal with the occasional backhanded compliment? Are you able to smile and nod while my mother shows you the proper way to weed a garden, even if you have an apartment? Do you know how to be respectful even when you don’t agree? Do you know my family is important to me? Are you going to make me choose?

Do you know what you’re doing, like what you’re actually doing? Are you independent, or are you going to make me mother you, carry you, because it’s more comfortable that way? Do you expect us to just “work out” in some magical way without thinking it through? Do you think all our latent problems will be solved by you getting down on one knee? Do you know the idea of marriage makes me feel claustrophobic? Do you know that when I say “yes,” I want to be absolutely sure? Do you realize there’s no guarantee that will happen?

 Do you have a job? A life? Do you have something you’re passionate about, something that keeps you up at night, something that isn’t me? Or do you just want me — want us and nothing else? Do you expect me to be the center of your universe or do you know the balance? I can’t be the center of your universe, that’s way too much pressure and I will disappoint you. Do you understand that there will be times I will disappoint you?

You need alone time too, right? Are you going to let me have my alone time without getting weird? Do you have any friends actually? Are there people you genuinely enjoy spending time with, people who make you see the world a little differently? Do you have a working sense of humor? Do you know that sometimes things don’t make any sense at all? Is that okay?

Do you have a philosophy? Do you believe in things? Do you understand believing isn’t knowing? Do you define yourself by what you embrace or by what you reject? Do you take the time to learn before passing judgment? Do you realize how completely absurd everything is? Does that upset you? Do you care?

Are you willing to try with me? Are you willing to throw your heart in full speed? Are you willing to cut the cord when you know it’s not working, or are you going to push to the very end and make me be the one to say what’s on both our minds? Are you going to be honest with yourself about what you want? Are you going to be honest with me about what you need and when you’re not getting it? Are you willing to be honest?

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Ezzy

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SISTERHOOD: PROTECTING OUR HEARTS

You guys may have noticed that I am an avid blog reader and sometimes when the mood feels right, I research different topics. This time I have come across this topic which doesn't seem to be important for single ladies out there but in one point of your life, it will. Love doesn't start when you and a guy are officially together, no, love starts way before and that's why in order not to be crushed when something that seems like a fairy tale finds its end, you have to be prepared with the right words and the right attitude. Ladies, just give it a shot and read this great article with short tipps, I found.

FICTION AND NON-FICTION COUPLES I ADORE: #2 Aria and Ezra

As you may have noticed I am a PLL fan and if you may asked whether I have already watched the latest episode, you can be sure I have. I have decided on this couple because they are my favourite. Although their situation is somewhere in the grey spot, I think they are a very strong couple and handle situations together. You just can't help but notice how much they want to be together regardless the hard circumstances they always fall into. So yeah, I admit, it is a bit relatable! 

  http://lucyandianezriaandlucian.tumblr.com/post/15371769631 

  http://www.google.it/imgres?q=ezria+moments&start=138&um=1&hl=de&rlz=1C1SVE

http://boldbrightpastel.tumblr.com/post/17233450662/i-n-s-0-m-n-i-a-a-lefindbreg8hes

http://lucyandianezriaandlucian.tumblr.com/post/15906255490

http://how-did-it-all-happen.tumblr.com/post/22090199117 

http://keepthisworldalive.tumblr.com/post/20685608288 

http://lovequotesrus.tumblr.com/post/22807069343

http://deborarte.blogspot.com.es/2011/08/lo-mejor-y-lo-peor-de-pretty-little_19.html  

LADIES

It's good to keep in mind where you are coming from and where your heart should be placed, which shouldn't be stolen from a guy who doesn't have your best interest at heart.

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=] <3 don't forget to smile.

Ezzy

FICTION AND NON-FICTION COUPLES I ADORE: #1 Summer Roberts & Seth Cohen

Okay, I bet someone who never liked The O.C. is from a different planet because why can't you just NOT like it? It was pretty dramatic but just looking at the characters is interesting enough. However, this is not the point of the post. I have always adored Summer and Seth together! He is the dork-nerd and she was quite the bitch but still, they managed to complement each other so well! And they looked soooo cute together. Well anyways, in short, I adore them :)

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=] <3 don't forget to smile.
Ezzy

FAR OR NEAR AND EVERYWHERE

"so don’t you worry ‘bout a thing or all the miles in between"

"i just smile‘cause i know this will last a while"

DIMANCHE D'EXPRESSION

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=] <3 don't forget to smile.
Ezzy

'You make me smile' - Aloe Blacc

My happiness is heartshaped, can't you see! 3/12, yo!

=] <3 don't forget to smile.
Ezzy

L, is for the way you look at me

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I love Natalie Portman.

I love this movie.

143.

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Ezzy

All for looooove... dubi dubi duuu

Yesterday was one hell of a day. The girls and I got together again to celebrate Vs big twenty birthday. Since we all took half a day off for that occasion, we also spontaneously surprised Mr. Soldier EJ outside of VTown. Being Travelgirls, we thought we knew where we were heading, however, after an hour ride on the train we kind of ended up somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Luckily the people were kind enough to help us out and we actually arrived on time. After watching soldier EJ marching around with his camerades, the girls and I had dinner at this awesome All You Can Eat Sushi restaurant. I ate so much that I ended up whining about how full I was. After girlie talks and random laughs we ended the day with some Chai Tea Latte and a Black Tea for me :) I love these girls and I am so excited, what the guy up there has in store for us in the next couple of months. I bet it's gonna be epic! Much looove!

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=] <3 don't forget to smile.

Ezzy