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?
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!
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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)
:)
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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? :)
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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
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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.
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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
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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 =)
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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
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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.
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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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Flying with a balloon.
Snowboarding
Swimming with dolphins.
Spending a weekend in a nice hotel with my
wife in a hotel met alles erop en eraan.
Diving with a submarine and staying for 6 weeks
unther water.
Staying on board of the space station
Making a survival trip
Meeting wise persons
Finding more references in this world so that i can see if i act in the wright way.
To accept that i am beautifull person
Improve my spoken english,french and spanish
Learning dacing
Having a little house in the Provence
Enjoying the little things of live
Understand the language of the heart or my soul
Doing kyudo with a japanese master
To be a better father for my daughter and also to be a good husband for my wife.
Having no fear for my new challenge
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Dear Paolo
These days I think I just need to find myself and to understand my actions. I’ve been following my ‘legend’ these years and life has been challenging and good, but there is still something missing and I don’t know what this is. It feels like a desire, like longing after a lost one, like searching for something in the more abstract world of dreams. It sometimes feels like my soul cries and I don’t know why. In the more pragmatic world, I would like to contribute more as a doctor and work with and for people again. And I would like to meet with you one day.
Love
Delia
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