My unfulfilled desires
One of the favorite questions of the journalists : ” now that you got everything you wanted, do you still have dreams?”
First, I didn’t get everything I wanted, although I got the most important things in life (love, fulfilling my personal legend, faith). Writing is a constant challenge, where you have to dig into your soul, having discipline, inspiration, and courage at the same time.
Second, like everybody else, I have my list of things that I want to do, and are still waiting. I don’t make “New Year’s” resolutions, but there are several unfulfilled tasks. I have enough time (contrary to the legend that famous people are always busy – they are not), I can afford, but I postpone.
Here is my list of things that I would love to do, and I never did. Would you please also share yours?
A]to learn how to dance well (from a 1 to 10 scale, I would say I am 2)
B] to learn how to play guitar ( from the same scale, I am definitely 1)
C] spend three months in a monastery, totally isolated from the world ( I already talked to the abbot three years ago, but I am always postponing)
D] a safari in Africa (politically incorrect, of course)
E] to sponsor a good boxer (I know it sounds politically incorrect, as the previous item, but boxing for me is the ultimate body dialogue)
F] to learn boxing myself
G] being in orbit circling the planet (the Russians are making a business out of it, but I never actually sought the information out)
H] to have dinner with Nelson Mandela (this one I tried, but I did not manage so far)
I] to fly a Mirage (as a passenger, of course)
While writing this list, I realized that I did most of the things I wanted (the most recent being a 9.280 kms train journey from Moscow to Vladivostok, in 2006). And probably I also have some other itens that are so hidden in my heart that I don’t even know. But just in case that I remember some more, I will update this list.
So, what are your “New Year” resolutions that you never ever managed to fulfill?
My unfulfilled desires
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Here is my list of things I want to do:
1. Read and fully understand the Quran
2. Visit Japan and learn of their culture
3. To eat healthy and loose weight
4. Have my own company/ workplace
5. Find deep true love
6. Own and live in my Dream Home
7. Have a child before I die and teach him/her life through love
8. Help the underprivileged children
9. Adopt a daughter from grief-stricken country
10. Complete my vow to God
11. Be nominated for an award
12. Want to meet you Paulo, and at least have the opportunity to thank you personally, for sharing your soul and all of the additional encouragement and joy you bring to the lives of all of us and to discuss other aspects of life that only you would understand how confused my world is .
I hope I will be able to do all of the above
peace Paul, I realize this is an old post, I a, wondering how you are doing on those unfulfilled desires? Any change?
I found this when searching for insight on unfulfilled desires; what to do if their fulfillment eludes us? Crazy. I think the answer lies in the shift between waiting and creating, but I’m not sure what that means yet.
1) to learn to paint (the paints are here, I haven’t started)
2) to record my musical compositions with full arrangement
3) to put the 3 books and 1,000 poems i have bloating around in my brain down on paper or digital space
4) to grow a beautiful flower garden (my experience is like Einstein with the light bulb…many failed attempts!)
5) to develop a deep an rich understanding of love through cultivation all all kinds of relationships. (a work in infinite progress)
peace and love to you my friend, you inspire me.
i want to complete my nursing qualification,i want to be a good ,kind ,skilled nurse.I would like to qualify in tropical medicine and work for medicine sans frontier.after i gain my nursing registration i would like to work off my debts.i’d like to qualify as an english teacher too,i’d like to spend more time on creative pursuits and have photographic exhibitions.I’d like to go on holiday with friends and family and laugh until my stomach aches.I would like a fairytale romance,a lover who protects me,listens to me and has fun with me.i’d like to dance on a tabletop at least once!i’d like to see and smell africa and swim in warm seas.i’d like to be listened to and to be understood.i’d like to be so happy i sing more often.
this is beautiful….
I don’t think i have done justice to my heart this long,so my first desire is -
1. Shut my brain talking about practicality and rationale and listen to heart about what it dreams.
2. Find out about RAM
3. Learn the tradition of the Sun
3. To meet and commune with Paulo Coelho and let conversation take its own course.
4. I guess I have realized what magic is, I want to learn how to invoke magic.
5. To spend some time, out from the world, in a Buddhist monastery in Tibet.
6. To complete my journey on the way of the sword and not abandon it like i did to many ways earlier.
7. I have been waiting all my life for one particular teacher, now that I have met her i want to go beyond my limits to reach out to her.
8. To be gentle on myself and give myself more time for my soulmate.
9. To complete the story i started.
10. To get involved in photography more passionately, and complete my dream of completing a photographic album on the forts of India.
11. Travel around the world.
12. To be in love with life every moment I live henceforth.
whatever u write is simply superb..Its unmatchable..i have read all your books..i am in love with all of them..
~to find out about RAM
~to learn magic
~to cross the four paths of the Tradition
~to see in person my spiritual Mother in Lesvos(Greece)
~to travel to some countries
~to gain money or a better way to help and expand the non profit organization I am a member of( security and protection of the indigent elderly)
~more books
~be a better musician
~to paint more
~eat a table(not the table) full of lobsters till the next day(greedy I know)
How funny! I also would like to eat a table full of lobsters. It is not greedy , no. :)
Dios….! son tantas las cosas k aun tengo pendientes en el mundo!
1- terminar mi carrera universitaria (Dr. en medicina)
2- conocer mi país (República Dominicana) sin ecepciòn de lugar alguno!
3- encontrar el hombre de mi vida (Jamàs perfecto, solo k tenga menos imperfecciones)
4- multiplacar a mis padres lo k hoy invierten en mi.
5- Tener un casa en la playa
6- subir una montaña, y sentir k toco las nubes!
7- tener una conversacion con Juan pablo II (cosa k hoy es imposible), Solo recordarlo me dà paz!
8- Escribir un libro…( nosè de k especificamente)
9- visitar Venecia
10- practicar el bungee
11- tener una familia (hijos…)
9- tener una vida ejemplar … y k todos me recuerden con dulzura y realismo!
Reading all the desires of their hearts made me somehow inspired…
And my heart desires or wishes are:
-To find that one person who will love, care, protect, and respect me the way that I do.
_To grow with him and together discover the beauty of the World.
-To be of great service to my Beloved Province, Antique.
_To be able to dance gracefully.
-To be financially free.
-Meeting my soulmate and the rest is history
-Travel the world with him
-Learning a new language, the one of the truth
-mental illness ,education, human rights -
-Do some translations for Paulo Coelho
-Having my poems published
-Write a book for my children and grandchildren
-Have a song made out of one of my poem
-Photography
-Meet Nelson Mandela and His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
-Have dinner with Paulo
-To see my son finishing his degree in psychology and criminal law.
Desires over desires. If you are serious ill all your desires concentrate in one overwhelming whish: To recover again. That does not mean to forget all other desires. To fullfill also little desires helps you to endure misery and keep quality of life as far as possible.
THELMA
April 15, 2008 at 6:04 pm
As you described, Paulo, in ‘Eleven Minutes’ in the myth of Plato [I am Greek], we once were androgynous creatures, very strong, self-contented, happy..etc. Then we were divided into two.. Since then, we spend our lives searching for our other half and feeling lonely and incomplete.. My ideal is of feeling peace, love, happiness,joy, to communicate with others with telepathy and being able to feel what others feel.. Sometimes this was possible, but instead of solving problems things were more complicated!!Because, we human beings, feel, think and what we can express is usually, far from the Truth.
I have a dream of everybody finding his personal path and the lucky may find the other half!! This planet is not a place of happiness, for sure.. The Real Life is somewhere else.All my love, Thelma
This was my comment in 2008!
Regarding ‘Desires’, metaphysically speaking, it is said that they are what keep us bound on Earth, ‘in flesh’ and in the circle of incarnation! Every second we, in our minds, create thoughts. Our heart also has desires.. Once a desire is ‘born’ we want to have it fulfilled. We think that when we will acquire what we have dreamt of, we will be happy. Maybe we become happy or .. disappointed; at the same time we feel worried, stressed and insecure. Because we all know that everything .. flows. We cannot keep ‘in our palm’ our .. happiness! Nothing lasts for ever..
Material things, as our bodies, have a time of … expiration! We are ‘prisoners’ in time and space. The eternal part of ourselves ‘knows’ the Truth. These are all ILLUSIONS. But by living, experiencing and tasting these illusions, we are trying to transform our darkness into Light. To clear our inner vision and find out what our Soul most desires: to taste and find true, eternal love.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
quiero tantas cosas como encontrar el amor graduarme tener la confianza para llegar a donde quiero conocer españa mantener mi hermosa familia unida pero sobre todo quiero llegar a un momento de la vida en que tenga todo lo que deseo y diga gracias dios por giarme a conseguir todo con lo que soñe gracias y se que lo que voy a conseguir por que lo estoy realizando todo poco a poco
1) Letting my soulmate realize that I’m the one.
2) Getting married with him
3) Nourishing life long love with him
4) Being matured in love together
5) Financially being free
6) Moving to Austria Sept next year
7) Getting succeed in my business
8) Traveling Europe with him
9) Playing guitar well, very well
10) Playing ukulele well
11) Dancing with him on the stage of my high school stadium (maybe festival or something)
12) Keeping my good health and my family’s
13) Moving to a new apartment
14) Living in my dream house
15) Speaking German fluently
12) Speaking and writing in English very well
13) Publishing my own self-improvement book in English
14) Setting up my own charity org. or scholarship org.
15) Totally being free from how other people think about me
16) Keep following my heart and intuition
17) Having dinner with Paulo Coelho and having a great conversation with him
18) Having three to four children
19) Educating them very well and letting them grown up as great people
20) Pilgrimage with my soul mate when we are in 30s.
30) Having a beautiful and meaningful wedding march with my soul mate
31) Having cousins reunion once to twice a year regularly
32) My whole family enjoying summer holidays along the mediterranean sea
33) Getting my face cover of Times magazine
34) Influencing the world in a positive way
35) Finding at least ten real true friend in my life
36) Having good decent-long life (not too much) with my soul mate and dying one day earlier than or same time with him
37) Getting my soul richer
38) Keeping writing wishing list in my life
39) Keeping being passionate with my life
Travel, I’m on it!!!
Aprender a nadar y manejar!! :¬
To speak another language (done!) :) would love to learn another one!!!
To leave in a monasteri and discover and found my spirituality (done!) my life wouldn’t been the same without this experience y no es algo q yo haya planeado pero de verdad agradezco a Dios por haberme bendecido y guiado en ese camino
To create, I would love to have more time to be creative and create my own stuff i have done somethings and it feels amazing when you can apreciatte you our creations.
Me encantaria conocer francia, Italia and lots of differents see sides, lots and lots of see.
Estudiar y tener una profesion, pero primero necesito saber q es lo me gustaria estudiar, no puedo decidir me encanta tantas cosas y hago un poquito de todo pero q es lo voy a hacer forever???
Escribir, I would love to learn and do it properly!! I think i would love to leave something written for my sons something that would bring a littel light whenever they would need it!!! something that could makes them feel how much I love them.
Aprender a tocar piano, violin y maybe guittar, y encontrar la confidencia para cantar me encanta cantar.
mmmm voy a seguir pensando
ah! comprar una casita y poder decorarla y sentir q tengo algo q es mio y q he trabajado for…
Lo siento Maria Jose gracias.
I enjoyed reading your dreams and reading in brackets “Done!”. It made me smile inside. Have a good day!
To sit and chat with my live soulmate… yes ,My Machine is my soulmate with whome iam sahring & chatting .All are busy n hv no time to sit with me. this machine is always in my lap to listen my inner pain . Thank you.
1. finish my book
2. paint more
3. go back to dancing
4. learn to mush
5. do more yard work
6. get a chain saw and clean out the bush on my property
7. having a good long beach vacation again
8. get my project financed
9. earning sufficient money to live a more secure life
10. staying close to nature & animals
11. keeping my good health
12. understanding better social life
13. preparing and doing a poetry presentation and start with a session on christmas poems
14. going to the galapagos islands, australia, new zealand, fireland
15. moving back to utah
Nunca he tenido sueños . . . Más bien rezarle a Dios cómo curar mi Salud etc, las cuales se han cumplido.
Ahora es cuando sé lo que quiero:
* Salir de España
* Irme a un país donde pueda realizar mis Sueños( Estudiar Literatura o Arte)
* Viajar y viajar.
* Enamorarme
A medida que vas creciendo como persona y aprendiendo pues surgiran nuevos proyectos y emociones que se tendrán que cumplir . . .
unfulfilled desires:
1. do a second pilgrimage on a horse
2. Go to Tibet and Nepal
3. walk the Inka trail
4. Swimm with dolphines
5. See Grand Canyon
6. learn to sing (hold a tune that is)
7. help animals
8. get better physical shape and control over my body
9. Inspire others and learn to open hearts
10. Go to Africa
11. Manage to get my olivetree to produce Olives
oh yes bound with number 2. is stay in the nearness of Monks for 3months
Nunca hago una lista de propositos cada año, no me gusta quedar mal conmigo misma, respecto a los que tengo a mi alcance cumplir.
Pero si menciono algunos, aqui los comparto con ustedes:
1) aprender a nadar y hablar inglés. Los pongo en uno solo, ya que estan intimamente relacionados, ambos tienen que ver con el miedo.
2)Dar clases en algun aula de alumnos de primer semestre de universidad.
3)Ver una aurora boreal.
4)Vivir 100 años, espero que la naturaleza postergue sin mi ayuda este deseo.
Gracias Paulo, cada palabra escrita de tus manos es un balsamo para el alma.
Boris.
a.) Stop worrying what others think of me so much.
b.) learn to cook (I keep procrastinating on this. I don’t like cooking much)
c.) finish college with my BSN
d.) Be open to love
e.) Lose my virginity to someone I truly love (I never thought this would make the list haha)
f.) Travel to Africa, Australia, Japan, England
g.) Live in California and Miami
h.) Make at least one contact in every place that I visit.
i.) Keep feeling good throughout the entire year
j.) Be active despite the cold weather
Most of these have been completed and some of the others I’m not so interested in anymore!
i always love italian food, they are really tasty like indian foods.;”‘
1. Stay in Italy for a few months and do nothing but eat!! I’m in 3 out if 10
2. To have enough money to live doing only my work I’m in 2 out of 10
3. To be fluent enough in french to be able to work in France for a while I’m in 3 out if 10
4. To hike around Nepal I’m in 0!
5. To make a documentary in madagascar 0
6. To improve the human rights in my country 4
7. To help people in my country to have faith in theirselves and us. 2 maybe
8. To have a daughter or son and be able to show them I was right, that love is ALL
9. To go to a radiohead concert
they are just sooo many, but I think
dearest paulo … i guess it was nice to bump inot htis website and read ur blogs and read ur list …
heres my list of desires
1 i want to go for the pilgramage .. perform haj if i
ever get that lucky …
2 :) see the art museum of the world …
3 made a resolution but have not been able to follow it ,,
would want to follow that ….
well i guess that is about it …..:) ….
1. Do bungee jump;
2. Do parachute jump;
3. Learn aikido;
4. Learn Dutch to speak with someone I take as my own grandmother;
5. Save more money;
6. Travel to Europe.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading all these posts! And whether or not someone cares, I do indeed have a a few dreams, although I am young, and these should all be fulfilled.
1) sky dive
2) learn to backflip
3) get GREAT at the drums and learn guitar (although the guitar bit shouldn’t be too hard :))
4)Climb Mount Everest
5) learn french/ arabic/ spanish. At the moment, I plan to go to the alps to take a mountaineering course whilst simultaneously learning french hahaha!
6) Live in Australia
7)Travel, EVERYWHERE
8) Eventually, settle down and put my heart and soul into something that will help others considerably, for example an inspiring teacher, foster carer or working with the disabled, maybe I’ll do more than one of these things! :)
9) Preach, sucessfully
10)Get into Cambridge Uni. Tricky task :S
Dear paulo,
here iz my list of unfulfilled desire which i have never tried put down together as a list.anyway 2day u have givin me privilage 2 express dem down…..
1. To learn how to play guitar (Im at scale 2 may b)
2. Horse Riding ( Never tried in life)
3. learn how to swim (I thought i used to during my childhood but now i can’t n havent tried)
4.To learn to speak different languages like spec. spanish, Italian, dutch etc.( Tried from BBC Language few times)
5.To b a part of winning Cricket team for my village or district never expect to b a national player.( I used to a good player for my village)
6.Six pack bdy with gud figure, ( join gym club after high school but now job at abroad so no time 4 gym)
7.Visit Austria or Denmark.
8. After readin ur writtings gotta feelin of meeting with u or livin as like u sir
9.Interested in Shooting.( Esp. long range)
10.Live as financially sound with gr8 fun in my own village with frens n family.
With best rgds,
bhola
I have a lot of things that i would like to achieve in this life, but i am still working my way through them. Life sometimes gets in the way, but i want to avoid using this as an excuse for not achieving what i want.
1. I would like to have my own company, building real estate and to help rejuvenate my birth country’s economy.
2. Travel the world, and see all the different cultures, eat all the different foods
3. Open a clinic to help with immunizations for children to reduce the incidence of some of the illnesses that have been long eradicated in other parts of the world, but are still present in parts of Africa.
4. Go on a spiritual journey of self discovery sometime in the next two years, so by the end of 2012.
5. Learn a language. Sort of have started on spanish, but haven’t put in any real effort into it recently.
5. Learn how to play an instrument, keyboard or guitar.
6. Learn how to swim.
Well,I am just 18…and think that i do have lots of time to fulfill my BIG dreams which are, viz.:
1. whole world tour
2. meeting my soul mate
3. learning guitar and piano
4. learning horse riding
5. to wear once for my any good job, business-woman dress
6. to be a good artist via my paint skill
7. to be a well-known economist
8. to have a sweet home in Europe
9. to learn Bharatnatyam( a kind of south Indian dance)
10 to wake up happily every morning…….
till now only these are my ambitions in life :)
yeah i agree with the fact that people cant never be too busy to do things that fulfill them.we make excuses. we prioritize other things.
these are mu own list, as for now.
1. learn to play a guitar. i love music. and i always wanted to play an instrument. i will.
2. surf the waves,
3. earn a master degree.. i always wanted to go back to school.
4. be a barista,.. i love coffee. been wanting to work in cafe. part-time only.
5. climb a mountain
6. to hibernate for a while… a week in a city im unfamiliar with. or in an island far from the consuming frenzy of the world…
7. explore more. my own country first the the world. and photograph the moments of it.
8. learn other language
9. be involve in a social awareness activity
10. go diving! into the deep!
i conjure the spirits and good vibes out there, work with me!!!!! i promise to cooperate and give my time fully!
My unfulfilled desires are as follows:
1. To develop confidence and diligence to write works that inspire and heal; especially children and people who are in difficult times.
2. To inspire and heal through dance; which would mean that I also commit to lessons and practice.
3. Publish works of art be it writing, painting, or any other creative art form and be completely free of doubt in my work.
4. Travel the world with my son and family by means of my writing, dancing, or speaking.
5. Inspire the world with more LOVE!
TO. go to Jesuralem or Israel for BIBLE study .
To sing non stop for the Lord.
I just love to do ballroom dancing specially during my free times. dancing is my passion.;:`
1-I love to see Paulo Cohelo once for one hour talk or even better for dinner before I die from 20 years ago.
2-I love to do something big but my friends believe I am something big myslef as I am very different form the rest.
3- Learn how to play Piano.
4- I dance good but I love to dance my best.
5-I like to learn how I can sing.
6-see as much as places I can.
Let’s see..
1. Learn to play cello
2. Manage a successful band
3. Love and be loved in return,the way I deserve to be loved
4. Living life to the fullest
5. Just BE
to name a few…
I’m 19 and I am so grateful to have the happiness I have. But, if i had to make a ‘to do’ list, this would be it!
1. I want to truly inspire someone. Or some-two or three…
2. To lie down in the middle of a flower farm with the one I love most and watch the clouds
3. Learn how to drive and crash a car
4. I want to learn how to make pasta from scratch.
5. To meet you and the list I have of writers who inspire me
6. To read a book a day for a summer
7. To live happily ever after
1.I’d like to learn to sing…
2.Want to learn play some instrument like guitar,or flute…or something.
3.Three months in a monastery (In Tibet…would be awesome) but i guess any monastery would do…
And maybe improving my archery skills…
First of all,i was truly amazed to see Paulo Coelho on YOUTUBE…No wait…Shooting a BOW,than YOUTUBE,than…Myspace?!…etc. etc.
I have read only “The Quest for The Sword”…
I want to read em all…
Well, if it comes to:
1. learn to sing, dance, create your own style of music
2. become a Jedi and have first-hand this way, and then write a book)
3. find love and friends
4. work for the soul and to be secured
5. back and change the past, even through his life
6. know the truth, the history of the Earth, to gain the ancient knowledge.
7. desire to find the strength to take all 6 points)))) a desire to exhaust a lot of thinking, studying themselves and to business.
To meet with Nelson Mandela and discuss statistics.
:)
To meet with Nelson Mandela and discuss statistics as a teaching methods in school.
“To boost literacy it is recommended introducing young children to statistical thinking and teaching statistics in schools as a way of solving rather than as purely mathematical discipline.”
Scientific American – Knowing your chances
mi querido escritor;
este año tengo tantos planes para vivir que espero que por lo menos la mitad se puedan realizar, no quiero cosas inimaginables tan solo deseo vivir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1- me encantaria hacer el amor con alguien que me ame,y que yo ame.
2-quiero borrar definitivamente a mi zahir. para siempre pues ya aprendi todo lo que necesitaba con el.
este año nuevo 2010. deseo coronarlo como el año de las nuevas experiencis en mi vida, nuevos retos .
estoy abierta a cualkier situacion que me pueda retar, y k me dirija a vivir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sefinitivamente si.
On an amazing journey today and then, linked to this question.
Thinking about the movie ‘The Bucket List’ for many reasons and more often lately. It is amazing that five of the things on your list Paulo, I have either done to the letter, or similarily!
Wondering if it is a common thing to delay or neglect unfulfilled desires?
This list is short:
Developing a strong nesting feeling for the last few months. Would like to try settling in, slowing down, with a physical home base (the longest I was in one residence since adulthood is 8 years).
- Want to meet you Paulo, and at least have the opportunity to thank you personally, for sharing your soul and all of the additional encouragement and joy you bring to the lives of all of us.
- Enjoy more dinners with family, friends, including playtime with the little ones in our growing family.
- Make more time for fun to balance some of the current tension in my life. What would that be??. Most fun things are unplanned; the result of spontaneity while doing something else!
- Work on a project, it would have to be a fun one.
Tout fini! Enjoyed reading everyone’s lists.
Much Love to All, Jane : ) xo
I also want to meet Paulo, It’s weird because as year passes that’s the only constant in my bucket list. Maybe one day We’ll have the opportunity, after all there’s more after life, right?
here’s a list of my unfulfilled desire:
1. learn how to cook good meals..
i would love to for mom & dad
2. learn how to drive..
we have a car in davao but no one’s
driving it, except when my dad or my uncle
stays in our house
3. learn diffent languages like french,
italian and arabic..
4. learn how to swim..
i’ve never learn how to swim
i am so scared of drowning myself
5. learn to play the guitar..
i love music
i love to sing
i guess it would be great if i play
the guitar at the same time i am singing
6. travel the world..
i guess i’m a nomad
i was born in davao city, we moved to
manila, and then get back to davao, went
to jeddah and other different places
i want to see other places
learn
enjoy
take pictures of anything
7. become a professional photographer
this is my ultimate ufulfilled dream
i was inspired by your books especially
The Alchemist & The Warrior of the Light.
now that i’ve fulfilled my parent’s wish,
i guess it’s not too late to fulfill
mine..
more power Sir Paulo Coelho!
My unfulfilled desires
1.See The Sistine Chapel (well, i would love to go to europe)
2.Go to a Disneyland
3.learn how to cartwheel (haha :))
4.Learn how to cook (prepare breakfast for my parents)
5.To dance on stage alone (with audience of course)
most of all…Influence people to “live simply so others may simply live” (said by St. Marie Eugenie)
:)
Like you, I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. If it’s important enough to commit to, then it’s important enough for me to make the commitment any time of year.
I do still have some heart’s desires to fulfill. I want to see my 15 month old son grow up and continue to experience the delight and joy he shows today. I am grateful to experience that with him every day and to be able to reinforce his natural state of being as much as possible.
My heart is growing larger than my current employer can hold, and so I seek to help others discover themselves. I have touched many, and I wish to touch more.
I want to be with the northern lights again. I saw them one night while in Scotland, and now I would like to spend more intimate time with them.
I would like to reach a point of inner peace and self-sustainability in which I would no longer feel compelled to work to earn enough income to support my family.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be an astronaut. I went to Space Camp twice, studied astronomy and physics, and then at the age of 16 realized I didn’t want to fly airplanes all my life just to be able to go into space. Though I gave up on that specific path, the dream is still there.
Perhaps once you make contact with the Russians, you will share your information with me so that I may follow suit? :)
I am 50…last year I met my soul mate…I knew it immediately…she knew it too..
I travel the journey…sense Yahweh…El Shaddai..the breasted on….Jesus..my mate
..closer to God..
Continue to be as fit as most 20 or 30 year olds…I
..love… yoga……tai chi…now kick boxing..combat
I read Brida just after…a soul mate experience..I just finished Witch of Portobello…
..this is part of the journey….we are teaching each other from a distance in…separate lives in many ways…but together…
I desire two lives..in parallel..not necessarily reincarnate…one with my Wicca…one with my Brida..maybe in sequence..anything is possible
We see darkly now…one day we will see clearly.
I just registered to submit a film to your Witch Experiment film concept…as the Scotland Yard detective..I envisage the scene..sharing with you Paulo..and our angels..and our soulmates…about Athena.
Walk on water
….that’s my farewell…for now…I’d like to do that too..walk on water that is…kite surfing is as close as I get
John
hey John!!.. good luck with all.:)..
loved ur story:D
Here is my list:
Having a job where my dog could stay with me (I hate leaving him alone for hours locked in a house where he hasn´t got not even a garden. That is cruel, isn´t it? He is not even able to go to the toilet til I get home).
Living close to good places where my dog could enjoy (not as a slave with a leash all the time).
Seeing my dog happy, interacting with friends freely.
Learn how to cook properly (I´m not talking only about not burning all the pots and saucepans of the kitchen (even almost the kitchen once … ) but despite of that, create delicious food).
Learning Yoga and meditation.
Learning the belly dance.
Attend to a Tea Ceremony where tea bags and being in a hurry is forbidden.
Learn to play the piano.
Improve my English till perfection? … Maybe.
Dear Leaf,
You’re welcome! I really hope that our dream will come true very soon! :-)
And dear Yajna, I also like your ideas very much and the way you express them too. It’s true, pure desires represent in fact our lives summed up, preparing us for the next journey, whatever that is…maybe that of a new dimension, of the Spirit. That’s why it’s essential to pay attention to what we think and desire because thoughts are put into action and get materialized sooner or later… :o)
May God bless the whole world with another dimension, that of the Spirit, of the Light and absolute Truth!
Lots of love,
Carmen Larisa
This list was made on the 10 June 2007. And Ive only fulfilled 1 so far.
Things I want to do:
1. Visit Paulo Coehlo.
2. Go to Greece
3. Visit the Vatican
4. read the bible
5. read the bhagavati geetai
6. read the quran
7. complete my icaew program
8. to work in big four
9. to complete my arangetram
10. to loose weight
11. tone up
12. look pretty
13. walk the road to Santiago
14. visit the tomb of the immaculate conception
15. visit India – nagapatnam
16. help the disabilities – children
17. adopt a daughter from grief-stricken country
18. adopt a son from grief-stricken country
19. love my daughter
20. love my son
21. holiday near the Himalayas – Nepal – a quiet cabin in the mountains
22. make partner in an audit firm
23. visit perth to visit my frenz
24. complete my vow to God
25. love god every single moment in my life
26. visit Greenland/Iceland
27. visit all 7 wonders of the world
I hope i’ll be able to do all of the above within the next 5 years =)
Complete a pilgrimage
Go white river rafting (hindered by my inability to swim)
Design and build a pottery studio and teach others the art
Write and publish a book of poetry
Sky dive (despite my fear of excessive heights)
Be a guest on the Oprah show
Be a contender on the Amazing Race
Pursue my modeling ambitions
To learn how to play a harmonica…and be good at it
Drink 16 ounces of water per day, every day
Learn how to lay ceramic tile and install light fixtures
Ride an elephant
Chase a rainbow
Sing a Luther Vandross song…and other actually BELIEVE it sounds good
I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions either, but I do make a list of things that I’d like to do or accomplish every year. I always try to include a few ‘firsts’ on that list.
2008
1) Hiking (not just a nature trail) and Camping
2) Horseback riding lessons
3) Getting to Crestone, Colorado
4) Creating, finding a way to make a living by creating
There are a few more personal items on my ‘to do’ list, but I risk sounding like a forlorn teenager so I dare not go there.
Thank you for your beautiful writing,
Thank you for having the courage to put it out for all the world to see.
Victoria J.
Dearest Paulo,
Do you realise that every person here wants to meet you.. its like you’re their Nelson Mandela ;)
hmmm.. well i hope that everyone here gets that :)
Carmen..
I love what you wrote.. The paragraph on space.. its classic! lol :)
Thank you for being
Yajna
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