Mint Tea

After the rabbi’s story, I started to think about religion and their representatives here on Earth.

I’ve thought a lot and I’ve concluded that the most fucking awesome big boss around is the Dalai Lama. He is the reencarnation of the Buddha of Compassion Himself.

He is not a prophet, nor some god’s child. He is The Man himself. And he is around, walking among us.

And his email is ohhdl(at)dalailama.com .

Dear Diary,

Yesterday night when I was driving down my road with my Defender to operate my friend’s pet I felt like Daktari (the vet from an old TV show). And I have thought it was so different then the times I had driven to the hospital to operate brains. How life changes. How much freedom do we have to embrace to let our life change. How much acceptance of ourselves we must get to let ourselves go through our imagination and dreams.

And I had compared myself to the lady in that movie Under the Tuscany Sun and I have realized my life is better than hers.

How great is to be the leading lady of the marvelous adventure that my life is. I live for the present. And I wake each morning eager to know what the day will offer me. Even bad things are good. It is all a big adventure. And I am the hero. I live heroically.

I am friend of a very important ProBlogger in Brazil; I think he is The ProBlogger in fact. And he expressed in his blog about my concerns about showing his feelings publicly.

So I decided to give my opinion.

Everything we do, we show up ourselves. Everything is an expression of an imagination, which is traduced in a thought that turns to an emotion that expresses itself in an action and the thing itself.

It doesn’t matter if it is a music, a meal, a piece of cloth, a post, a picture, the way you dress, a surgery (I am a surgeon), everything is art because it has something of you in it, besides the technique you need to perform the action to make the thing.

Nevertheless you attain yourself to the technique something of you shows up. And there are people who can read you. Some read you best. Others don’t get the art in what you do. Unfortunately.

And this art I call individuality, what makes us individuals, complete.

In a blog, without a question, you are on display. You are potentially exposed to infinite viewers in a magnificent concept that is the Internet. Then, you have to ask yourself: how much I would like to expose myself?

Yes, you have to make this question because it is a matter of life and death. It compromises your integrity of individual being. We have to be able to contain some issues that matter only to ourselves and nobody else. When we let this contents go free we lose our boundaries and the limits of our personalities. And the person itself ceases to exist.

If you are not able to contain some issues inside you, if they are too big for you, if they overwhelm you, you need help to strength your personality. That is why there are public and private lives. See what happened to Britney Spears, a walking wreck.

And me? Do you want to know a little bit about me? Some days I don’t post. One reason is because it is not a good day for me. I am preoccupied, angry, I am upside down, and these days I write shit. And I don’t want my shit to be immortalized and exhibited for everyone in the Internet. Who does? So I solve my problems and wait for a better day and then, I post.

I have another blog in Portuguese and people ask me if I earn money with AdSense. No, I don’t. In a good week, I don’t get 2 dollars.

Don’t be sad for me. I know why this ridiculous profits.

First of all, look at to my page: it has few ads. I don’t like polluted visuals. And for now, I won’t post more ads to increase the chances for clicks.

Second, I don’t follow the SEO system. I write what I want, always. I write to please me. I always do things to please me in the first place; don’t matter if I will be well positioned in a search engine. I’d rather build a solid audience that keeps growing consistently than an ephemeral success. And these people usually use feeds and don’t click on ads.

That is why I institute the payment-by-post via PayPal. It is a new and advanced concept and I don’t know if it will work. And no, nobody has paid me yet. I don’t see it as donation. It is a payment for a job. I consider writing one of my jobs, I have another. And I am really curious if other blogs will follow me in this.

Although my small earnings, I see blogging as a serious career. It doesn’t diminish the importance of what I do in comparison to my other works. I am very focused and committed to blogging.

Another very important factor is that my blogs are very new. Babies. But I tell you that statistics show an ascending curve, solid one. And in time it will pay off if I continue with my hard work and perseverance.

I hope all doubts are satisfied. My goal is not to hide anything from you. Otherwise, is to elucidate and help you to be more complete and happy person.

Well, I like Mint Tea.

Simple.

And life is all about it: what I like and what I don’t.

If you keep in mind your likes and your dislikes, you will see that life is very simple.

And good.

Oh yes, life is good.

I was having my breakfast this morning when Tai, my chow-chow, came and laid beneath my feet crying. I’ve squeezed his tummy and he stopped. Right after I’ve felt a terrible smell. He had farted. The diagnose was simple: tummyache. I’ve continued massaging his belly and he’s farted more untill he’d left the breakfast table satisfied.

When my dogs have any problem, physical or mental distress of any kind, they look after me. It means I am a good leader, a good mothern figure, a good reference to them. I am trustfull.

You know you are doing things right when you are the reference to people and pets you are familiar with when they are in trouble.

But pay attention: reevaluate your relationships when they come to you only with problems. You are doing something wrong to yourself.