Everybody changes

This is a kind of subject I could write about for hours and hours, but I’ve just decided to start today and I don’t want this text to be too large.

It’s the first time I’m writing in English first, not in Portuguese first to translate to English after, how I used to do...this means I’m trying to think in English now and I want to use my own life experiences to write my English compositions. Anyway… I hope you enjoy the reading and please, don’t you forget I’m new in this English writing thing, so keep it in mind that would help me a lot if you could give me some feedback about this text or maybe you could correct my mistakes, leave suggestions…I would appreciated it a lot!

The first thing I’d like to share is something I’vebeen thinking a lot lately: life is a wonderful journey, so even if you have some big problems in your life, don’t ever forget to be grateful. I’m telling you this because I really believe you’re the only responsible person for everything that is happening to you right now, no one else. That’s why I believe that all the things that happens to us, good or bad, is totally worthy. Always.

Actually, I’m talking about how much you can change your life if you want it too bad. But you have to want it really bad, because sometimes we need to be brave to became who we really want to be. It’s not easy at all. There are moments when you’re going to want to give up, but I think the real changes in our life always starts with a dream. Yes, as simple as it sounds, just a Dream.

These days I’ve been thinking about how powerful we can be if we truly believe in ourselves. If we pay attention to ourselves, we realize that, almost all the time, we’re being dominated by our own mind: we want to be in a good shape but our mind is telling us to eat one more piece of pizza, we wanna travel abroad but our mind is making us to feel too afraid to try it, we’re thinking about getting a car or a house, but our mind is constantly asking us to spend some more money in things we don’t need, we want to go to the gym but our mind is tired just to think about it… it’s always the same thing and if we don’t think carefully about it we’ll ended up giving up our dreams just because we’re either afraid or lazy.

This year I chose to face my fears, to believe in myself, to give myself some credit. And I’m feeling hopeful already. There’s nothing better in life than that.

I’ve started to think about this changes I wanted to make in my life around May, because I finally concluded that I was in a terrible situation: I was wondering if my life was slowly finishing. I know it sound dramatic, but that’s how I was feeling. Okay, my life is normal, there’s nothing special about me: I have a good job, great family, education, health and a lot of things to be grateful for. But the thing is… what I’ve been doing to be someone better or happier? What am I looking for? What am I doing to really appreciate my days? I was feeling like in Lady Gaga song:

“Tell me something, girl

Are you happy in this modern world?

Or do you need more?

Is there somethin' else you're searchin' for? (...)

Tell me something, boy

Aren't you tired tryin' to fill that void?

Or do you need more?

Ain't it hard keeping it so hardcore?”


If I have so much in life and I’m so grateful for that, why I’m not entirely happy about myself?
What I’m missing?
It seems to me that suddenly I woke up for life and it was with this kind of questions when I’ve started my changing process. It took me at least this whole year to understand that it’s not just a matter of mind control, of course it’s mostly about it but I needed to change my body and mind to be happy. And you know why? Because body and mind is one single thing, after all.

TO BE CONTINUED...