7/25/10

Looks like my scanner is having some problems, but I'll try to either get it working or gain access to a new one within the next couple of days. In the meantime, here's an email from a stranger:

"Hello Perfect Stranger (=
I don't really know what to write, I just know that I want to. I guess because It's just amazing that somehow I'll be able to share my thoughts to someone who I really don't know. Instead of just keeping it all to myself.
I have this small blue notebook that I carry with me all the time. I write words, quotes and phrases from books that I've read or movies that I saw, and my own. Those that can sometimes be stuck in my head and I needed to write them down so I can get them out.
I hope you're feeling fine, wherever you are in the planet. I'm here in my room, at our house, in this country. It's been raining a lot, well because it's the rainy season. I use to hate the rain coz it makes everything gloomy. I'm just starting to learn how to accept things as they are. It's never easy don't you agree? I just finished reading a book, on one part I've read something and I just had to agree the book is right:

Our disappointment comes in essentially two ways. When we're experiencing pleasure we want it to last forever. It never does. Or, when we're experiencing pain, we want it to go away-now. It usually doesn't. Unhappiness is the result of struggling against the natural flow of experience.

Just thought to share it with you. When bad things happen, we can try to deal with it gracefully. It doesnt mean that we're not hurting or not affected. We can make the pain be lighter if we try to accept what is happening and take time to stop and breathe and know that it too shall pass. We just have to let it happen.

I wonder when will I meet you (= I'd love to hear your story.

Till my next letter,
PerfectStrangerjustlikeyou"