Back to the Past

by Paulo Coelho on August 4, 2008

After spending the whole weekend seeing movies on Iraq, reading news about the state of the world today, I decided to go for a while to the past. Of course, this changes nothing, and it can be seeing as scaping from reality, but so what? This is how I feel now, back to a time in my life where we had our problems, our challenges, but reality was, believe or not, more real than our manipulated “reality” today.

Enjoy the sound of music.

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THELMA May 25, 2009 at 7:37 am

p.s. Dear Paul from Austria, it seems that we communicate..in a way. We were writing our comments at the same time and it seems that Paulo Coelho, you and me were born almost the same ..ancient time. I, in 1948!! Since you were training for “Figaro” you may have heard of my piano Proffessor at the Musik Akademie. Dieter Weber.Thelma

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maria August 5, 2008 at 1:21 am

Lets celebrate life dancing as we did before.

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nikamarie August 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Oh the sound of music makes me think about when i was a little girl and my sister and i would love when it would came on tv and sing all the songs.

Yes I agree with you about reality it was more real than our manipulated “reality” today!

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Anneliese Flores Clar August 4, 2008 at 7:58 pm

Thank you Paulo!!! I was kind of feeling weary too, about the state of the world!!!
It’s good to have some inocent fun, with music and all the awesome views, nature, love, music, hope!!!
Much Love!!!

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Irene August 4, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Everything is alive with the sound of music * thankyou Irene.

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rossana August 4, 2008 at 5:10 pm

..the sounds of the music…
God and Life use some different way to help us to love them..music is a way..a way to feel our heart and continue to love in every moment ..this is the way to live better..
if there is a sweet sound in background in our life there it’s easier…with love,Rossana from italy.

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Agnieszka August 4, 2008 at 4:32 pm

…touching, feeling emotions of the world..

love
Agnieszka

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Heart August 4, 2008 at 3:03 pm

The sound of music was the very first movie my dad took me to see in a movie theater. Immediately I fell in love with Mary Poppins and the happy mood in this movie. Yes, the world, so much horror. Probably the worst horror would be to grow up without a mom or a dad. What kind of psychological bomb, terror is created when million of children are abandoned to live alone in the streets? I believe every child should have an adult that would take them to the movies to watch movies like Sound of Music.

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THELMA August 4, 2008 at 2:26 pm

p.s. Dear Paul from Austria, it seems that we communicate..in a way. We were writing our comments at the same time and it seems that Paulo Coelho, you and me were born almost the same ..ancient time. I, in 1948!! Since you were training for “Figaro” you may have heard of my piano Proffessor at the Musik Akademie. Dieter Weber.Thelma

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THELMA August 4, 2008 at 2:18 pm

“The sound of music”! The film I, and my children, have seen, more than a thousand times…The most successful musical of all times.. I saw it when it was first released and I still watch it. It is the optimism of the 1960-70s, in full glory. It is the belief- hope – that romantic love still exists. The words of Captain Trapp : “You cannot marry someone, when you are in love with somebody else..” The ..changing of direction in order to follow the way of the Heart. Thank you Paulo Coelho for the vivid example! The decisions that ‘ruin’ lives. LOVE, THELMA

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