Everybody`s free to wear sunscreen

I read Jose Maria`s post and I immediately wanted to read the lyrics of this song. It is really deep. I found it so amazing that I downloaded it and I wanted to share it with you. Enoy it!!!!
"Everybody`s free” by Baz Luhrman

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of ’97
Wear sunscreen
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience…I will dispense this advice now.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh never mind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you’ll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked….You’re not as fat as you
imagine.

Don’t worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing everyday that scares you

Sing

Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, don’t put up with
people who are reckless with yours.

Floss

Don’t waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes
you’re behind…the race is long, and in the end, it’s only with
yourself.

Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don’t.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t, maybe you’ll have children, maybe
you won’t, maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary…what ever you do, don’t
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either – your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else’s. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can…don’t be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever
own..

Dance…even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.

Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.

Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.

(Brother and sister together we'll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there
for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody's free.)

Get to know your parents, you never know when they’ll be gone for
good.

Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasise
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.

Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it’s worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen…
(Brother and sister together we'll make it through
Someday your spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting, and I know I've been waiting to be there
for you. And I'll be there, just tell me now, whenever I can.
Everybody's free.)

My childhood

Last night I couldn’t sleep and I started watching a TV programme that I love called friends so I thought about my friends, were they asleep? Is anyone of them awake like me? I remembered funny experiences I had with them, I started watching the photographs that I have in my walls and remembered that excellent times and how wonderful is that they can be captured in a single picture! and when I see them I fell excited, I feel really happy, exactly the same feeling that I had at that time, it’s like rebuilding that moment! I love photographs they have like a magic power for me, some of them make me laugh, others put me down, but all of them have a special significance for me …I payed special attention to one of my favourite photographs, there I was with my mum and my grandmother and it made me remind my childhood.I have two brothers that are older than me so I was a bit spoilt, well I am still like that but not in an exaggerate way. I am the only granddaughter of one of my grandmas, all my cousins are boys… so I have a very closed and special relation with her! Since I have memory one of the best plans was going to her house, it’s like an other world far away from problems and difficulties. That’s why nowadays when I have a problem I go to her house and get distract, take my time to think and reflect, and feel relief. When I was more or less four of five years old I enjoyed so much going to her house that I stayed three days or more and when my mother and father went to pick me up, I let them in, closed the door and hided the key, I wanted to stay with them there forever but at the end my mother had to carry me to the car and I complained all the way back home!My grandmother did for me things that anyone would do… she always had a different plan for me: we went to the park, had ice-creams, went downtown, bought toys, and cooked. When we went to the grocery to buy vegetables for dinner I had the same bag as her but a little one and I picked up freely all I wanted and then cooked for my grandfather. When he arrived back from work he had to eat all that horrible uncooked food that I had prepared, saying it was delicious!One day, it was march and I told my grandmother that I wanted to go to the beach again, to make sand castles. Minutes later, she went to a construction of a building and asked for a bit of sand so we stayed all day making castles so I was very excited! I miss being a child! When everything was funny and easy and people as my mother, father or grandma stayed near me to do what made me happy! Everything was so simple!

"Wear sun screen..."

There's a video, we saw in the first night of our school week, wich made me think a lot about life, brothers, friends, parents, what I'm doing with my life, and what I'm going to do with it.
Some times (almost all the time) we don't realize that all we had, is a gift. We haven't done anything to be who we are.
Time don't stop. We don't realize sometimes that everything we do, is not going to be again with us, we will never have that time to enjoy it again. Had you seen the TNT publicity that says "what would you do if your life was a movie?"?, surely we would like to review those moments we never wanted to stop. Those that happens only ones in our life. And a long time after, we say, "I want to be there again".
This video was very interesting. It had many messages. Basically it talks about enjoing life as much as we can, in a healty way, the way we like. What matters is that we don't say later "how stupid, I should have done that...". Having fun, as much as we can. It also says "don't worry about the future, or worry, knowing that worring is as effective as tring to solve an algebra ecuation by chuwing gun". All that times that we get worried, or bad humorous for somethings, that in the end they were not as important. If you are going to get worried, do it in a good manner, as to solve the problem with put getting angry, or figthing or arguiing with any body.
I'm not going to write all my conclusions, as I prefer that you take your owns from what it catches more your attention. Each of as will be captured by something different, so take your time, and think a bit more in you.

You'll see the video by cliking here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRId6QmNTA

I hope you like it as much as I did it. I think it has many interest thinks inside. I don't know if using sun protecction, but everything they say after that, is grate!

WHERE ARE YOU????

HEY!!!!! ARE YOU SLEEPING SLOTHS???? WHERE ARE YOUR POSTS AND COMMENTS?????
I EXPECT YOU TO PARTICIPATE FULLY HERE, SO GET STARTED RIGHT NOW!!!!
NOTHING TO SHARE OR TALK ABOUT??? IMPOSSIBLE, I WON'T TAKE IT. SOOOOOO.... PUT YOUR BRAINS AND YOUR HEART TO WORK! EVERYBODY IN THE CLASS WANTS TO READ WHAT YOU HAVE TO SHARE ABOUT THIS YEAR, WHICH REPRESENTS SO MUCH IN YOUR LIVES!


......I'LL BE HERE, WAITING FOR YOU. DON'T WASTE A SECOND.

Holden: side with or stand aside???

Now that we have finished reading the novel, it is your chance to take some time and start making ends meet as to what the book is about, its meanings and conflicts.
You should try to uncover what this story represents FOR YOU and maybe find some useful hint as to how Holden's experience of growth can become an enlightening experience for your own life.
Here are some guiding questions that can help you explore some issues related to both Holden's life and your own:

- When we read Holden's story we learn about the conflicts of a teenager your age, what points do you find... surprising? familiar? unbearable? impossible to believe?
- Do you, at any time, feel... pity? contempt? mercy? When?
- Do you know any person who has undergone such situation as Holden does in the book?
- What advice would you give him, if he was your friend/classmate?
- When Mr Antolini tells him this quote, do you truly understand it? How would you make it your own motto?

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one" by Wilhelm Stekel.

Words to Consider & Explore

The following is a world-wide famous poem by an author who writes about human issues such as Growth, Self-discovery and Life itself. I want to share it with you and expect your reaction to it (the whole poem, or some lines at least). Read it as many times as you need. There's a huge window to Life in these words.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling