“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” reads in Mark 12:31. Most of Christians grew hearing that there was no greater commandment than this. To love. To love everybody else as we love ourselves. Paradoxically, interpreting this commandment is particularly challenging to everybody, because in some notion sounds even antinatural, considering the fact that the […]
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Heart Failure
And there I was standing, surrounded by a multitude but feeling alone. Unable to see my soul reflected in the eyes in anybody. Except but one. The one who averted her eyes from me. Have you ever wished for something with all your heart only to find that life conspires to keep it out of […]
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Who have not experienced love at first sight at least once in a lifetime? Those that deny it, defined as crazy the idea of falling for a person the first time they met. And this notion is not new, the first record of the use of the term “love at first sight” comes from the […]
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Every night I sit on the grass contemplating the everlasting universe, staring at the patch of stars that flutters excited like butterflies in spring. I search for the brightest couple that resembles your sparkling eyes. The hours drain in the waiting for tomorrow thinking that if we share the same moon, the same stars and […]
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When I was a child I was told, like many of us, the biblical story of Adam and Eve that basically explained how God created Eve from the subtracted rib of Adam. Furthermore I was also instructed about the concept of Heaven, that was depicted as a sky high place where everything is beautiful and everybody […]
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Since the moment that Maggie and Ed met, they envisioned doing everything together. From hiking at the park, to the extreme promise of carrying the other’s ashes to that special place. Everything, but divorcing. In the moment Maggie held the glass high in the air and tossed it against the wall, everything changed. That night […]
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The Devil made his habitual visit last night, and in the blink of an eye I was holding my poker cards again—awful hand as usual. “Why is the reason we always play the same game?” He stared at me with inquisitive look while moved his fingertips gently over his cards facing down on the board. […]
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A few years ago, I returned home from the gym around 1 pm. It was Saturday, I remember. And after the good training session I had, I was tired and hungry—I want to point out that being hungry is one of the things that make me ill-tempered. The fridge was empty, and the idea of […]
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