Monday 23 January 2017
Thursday 19 January 2017
bad love [other imperfections]
What leads an
independent, adult, autonomous and free woman, to transform herself in
an imprisoned being in the name of a supposed love?
What takes an
independent and free man to perpetuate violent acts upon a woman in the
name of a supposed love?
Every day we are
confronted with news on women ravished, assaulted or even murdered by
their husbands, lovers, boyfriends, in the name of an extreme love,
of passional jealousy or any other strange reason that could never
justify such hedious acts. Societies have been facilitating the use
of violence, the diminution of woman towards the supremacy of man. The
complaisance of the means of justice, the ordinarily of acts of evil
and we have been letting evolution of human being to be ruled by
money values, social and economic appearances, where everything is
valid and nothing gets punished.
Are women also
responsible of crimes committed against themselves? Being the
mothers and educators of future chauvinist, egocentric and
sociopath men? Are women far from their responsibilities in the
growth of respectful, balanced and generous children, raised by patterns
of individual freedom and companionship among couples?
Are men condemned to
the stigma of a wild and animal behavior? Where sex rules and
sentimental vulnerability is seen as “social leprosy”, where
dominant posture seems to enfold them in manly, aggressive and
dictatorial attitudes towards the so called feminine “weak sex”?
Or are we all
responsible, some for omission and others for social and generational
rooting?
Is the actual society
the biggest responsible for the alienation of the right to love and
be loved with no limits of affection or individual freedom
incarceration, when exposes each person to an infinite number of violent, sanguinary, egocentric, warlike and xenophobic acts, class exclusion
and extreme poverty?
All these questions run
through my mind in a time when it gets more difficult each day to
understand how can love be transformed into prison, hate, destructive
jealousy, humiliation? What makes a man or a woman having pleasure in
depleting their identical, their beloved ones, their life companion…?
Why is it each day easier to whistle to the side, believing that
certain problems only happen to others, to the weakest, the poorest
or uncultured, the ones who suffer from some kind of psychosocial
disturb?
Humanity have been
living side by side with violence, with money and power affections,
with the empowerment by ways of traffic and shady schemes. We have
been educating ours through the concept that the strongest will survive,
that any weapon used is justified, that respect and honor are
obsolete concepts and that what we do inside walls doesn’t
influence other people. Well, nothing is more wrong than to prize a
society of selfishness, protected by unscrupulous laws, keeping
antisocial and retrograde ideas, as we will be the victims of such
precarious sustainability.
Does it make sense that
love becomes a link of separation instead of being the highest force
that allows the human being to evolve, keep it’s ancestry, to be a
catalyzing force of energy and vital intelligence to our planet’s
evolution? To me it doesn’t make sense, I can’t understand that
human beings, similar amongst each other, are able to ostracize one
another, fight with each other, compromise themselves to kill
because they divert in opinions, in religion or faith, in gender... It doesn’t make sense to me that a man or a woman believe
to be the owner of their partner's life, destroying them with words or
actions, rapping physically or psychologically just because they feel
superior in a shady hierarchy that society incentives to the delight
of a greedy crowd for daily horrors of a reality show.
It’s imperative for
me to keep believing that Love amongst people can’t never be
sickly, abusive, cruel or hypnotic, as that is not Love, when it ends on a woman or man’s death!
by Nádia Prazeres
by Nádia Prazeres
Monday 16 January 2017
Friday 13 January 2017
Diary of an [almost] healthy life ♥ smoothie recipe
This week passed especially quickly. The beginning was not the best with myself feeling poorly. I've been dedicated more to the [im]perfect store than to any other corner of my world.
I haven't been much motivated for writing. Also, because of physical problems that have haunted me with uncertainties, it is often painful
to be at the computer.
I try to understand life and what it wants from me. Test my willpower? Test my physical and emotional stamina? Every beginning of the year has been a real test of life. That must be why I have not been in such a hurry to finish the years as most people, quite the contrary, when it starts to treat me well is when it is ending.
I am fighting against the bad elements with the weapon I have: motivation to achieve my goals for 2017. Whoever said that changing the food style was easy, it is because one never did. Strangeness that it wasn't too difficult cutting some foods. I maintain a diverse diet, I continue to eat meat and fish, but in less quantity and with more fish options. I essentially introduced many more greens (in all ways and shapes), much more fruit, seeds, and nuts.
I am having a hard time finding the recipes that really satisfy me. Even those recipes that claim to be quick and easy to prepare seem to me far from ideal for a pace of life as intense as ours. I am gradually trying to know and understand ingredients and then trying to create and recreate new really simple recipes that adapt to us and to our life. It has been time-consuming but an interesting and stimulating process too, there is so much to learn yet.
Today I am sharing one of the smoothies I have made that have helped me to go through the mornings without feeling hungry. A super simple and quick recipe to prepare. In this new kind of eating I decided to always have my blender handy and connected.
I try to understand life and what it wants from me. Test my willpower? Test my physical and emotional stamina? Every beginning of the year has been a real test of life. That must be why I have not been in such a hurry to finish the years as most people, quite the contrary, when it starts to treat me well is when it is ending.
I am fighting against the bad elements with the weapon I have: motivation to achieve my goals for 2017. Whoever said that changing the food style was easy, it is because one never did. Strangeness that it wasn't too difficult cutting some foods. I maintain a diverse diet, I continue to eat meat and fish, but in less quantity and with more fish options. I essentially introduced many more greens (in all ways and shapes), much more fruit, seeds, and nuts.
I am having a hard time finding the recipes that really satisfy me. Even those recipes that claim to be quick and easy to prepare seem to me far from ideal for a pace of life as intense as ours. I am gradually trying to know and understand ingredients and then trying to create and recreate new really simple recipes that adapt to us and to our life. It has been time-consuming but an interesting and stimulating process too, there is so much to learn yet.
Today I am sharing one of the smoothies I have made that have helped me to go through the mornings without feeling hungry. A super simple and quick recipe to prepare. In this new kind of eating I decided to always have my blender handy and connected.
♥ 5 blueberries
♥ 3 strawberries
♥ 5 raspberries
♥ 1 Greek natural yogurt (200gr)
♥ vanilla essence - I used about a centimeter of pod
♥ 1 tablespoon maple syrup
♥ 1 teaspoon chia seeds
Put all the ingredients in the blender. Mix for about 1 minut at full speed. Pour into a glass and decorate (optional).
To decorate (optional): 2 pecans and 1 small strawberry cut in small pieces, and 3 whole blueberries.
Bom apetite! ♥ Enjoy!
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