Just One Wish…
Posted on Dec 31, 2006 | Categories: Work Life Integration | 4 Comments
Tags: 2006, 2007, New Year, New Year Resolutions, Resolutions, Life, Precious Moments, Happiness, Prosperity, Healthy
As we are approaching the end of 2006, and as I get to write perhaps the last weblog post of this incredibly exciting year, there are plenty of different things that I would want to detail at this point in time. Lots of incredible happenings that probably at the beginning of the year I never thought, nor dreamt, I would have been able to enjoy. Yet, here I am celebrating that 2006 is nearly over and that 2007 is just around the corner!
I guess that this would be the time as well where I could relate some of the different achievements that I have been able to accomplish during the course of 2006 and everything else. Or, rather, I could probably also be letting you know about the different New Year resolutions that I have been thinking about over the last couple of weeks, like everyone else has been doing lately. But the truth is that I am not going to do that.
This is actually going to be a weblog post that I am going to be dedicating to those little precious moments that we all get to enjoy in our daily lives and that make our own existence worth while all the way on their own. Yes, I am sure that you know exactly what I am talking about. Those precious moments that we all seem to have been taking for granted all along and that we seem not to appreciate just as much as we should probably do. This is, indeed, a post to celebrate something so precious to us all that we probably should not have forgotten about it altogether. Ever! … Life!
Yes, this is a weblog entry to show some appreciation for something that I have been able to enjoy for some time now, but that just the day before yesterday I had the opportunity of losing it in a split second. For good… My life.
That is right, a couple of days ago a good friend of mine and myself decided to go for a ride with the car into the countryside and check out one other route that we haven’t done just yet for some spectacular scenery that I will be sharing some more thoughts about in upcoming weblog posts. We had a fantastic day, but as we were driving our way back home everything would have been spoiled in just that split second if it weren’t for my friend’s great driving skills because one other driver thought it was ok to overtake someone else’s car on a curve while we were driving through at just that very moment!
Yes, I know, very close. Phew! I think I have never seen it so close. So much so that for the last couple of days I haven’t been able to think about anything else than just that experience. Over and over. How something so precious and yet so simple, our own lives, can be wrecked just like that. How in just a nick of time everything that we have been able to build over the last few years can go away for good. Yes, just like that! I suppose in all of these previous years my New Year resolutions and best wishes have always been around different subjects: happiness, prosperity, family, love, friendship, partnership, work, money, good luck, etc. You name it.
I guess this year, as we are about to enter 2007 (And while others are well into it already!), things are going to be a little bit different. This year there will be no 2006 highlights from myself, no resolutions for the New Year, no best wishes to everyone out there, other than to share with you one single thought. One single wish: treasure your life and enjoy it every single minute of it!
Because at the end of the day it is just those little precious moments we get to experience that make it all worth while living. The rest is just circumstantial. Life isn’t. So my highlight for what is to come, my New Year resolution, my best wish for all of you, and your loved ones, out there in 2007 is nothing more, nothing less than wishing you a Healthy 2007! where you get a chance to live your life to the fullest with plenty of health to be able to enjoy everything else. The rest, as I just said, is just circumstantial. Thus,
a Happy, Prosperous and, above all, Healthy New Year 2007 to you all!
(Keep safe and have a good one!)
¡Feliz Navidad!
Tags: Navidad, Feliz Navidad, Christmas, Merry Christmas, Spain, Las Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Playa Las Canteras, Belen, Nativity Scene, Flickr, Pictures, Life
Yes, I know, *that* time of the year again. So I am going to keep it short. I just want to take this opportunity to wish everyone, who has been a faithful reader of elsua.net during the course of this fantastic year, a wonderful Christmas and whether you get to celebrate it, or not, I wish you have a great time with your loved ones enjoying those precious little moments of life that we all learned to enjoy and cherish year after year. Thank you for being there and for being who you are ! All the best !
Oh, in case you are wondering about the pictures, I took them yesterday afternoon in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Playa Las Canteras, where there is a display of a "Belén de Arena" (A nativity scene made of sand), the largest in Spain, over the next few days. I took a whole bunch more pictures covering different scenes and, if interested, you would be able to find them all over at my Flickr account.
¡Feliz Navidad!
Monte León and Ayagaures Dam Revisited
Tags: Photography, Gran Canaria, Monte León, Presa de Ayagaures, Ayagaures, Flickr, Unwinding
One of the nice things about being on holidays, for an extended period of time, is the fact that you can actually get to disconnect from everything and unwind from it all. Relax, sit back and enjoy just doing … nothing. Or, on the contrary, you can go out and enjoy some of your favourite places to hang out where peace and quiet is just so abundant that it makes you feel rather small at times.
Yes, indeed, one of the great things about being on holidays is the fact that I can pick up once again one category that I have been neglecting over here for quite some time now (Nearly 7 months already!) and that I feel is just about time that I put a stop to it and get it going again. I am talking, of course, about the Photography section from elsua.net where I haven’t been sharing lately many of the different pictures that I have taken all along from the place where I live: Gran Canaria.
I have been uploading a few of them, my favourites, to my Flickr account, so you would be able to find them over there. However, there are some of them that I decided I just have got to share them as well over here, more than anything else because they all bring back some really good memories of different places I get to visit on a regular basis and certainly I would want to spread the word about them a bit.
Take, for example, Monte León and Presa de Ayagaures (Ayagaures’ Dam), two of my favourite places in the south of the island and which I can certainly recommend to go to for rather long walks where you can do plenty of thinking and unwinding, while enjoying some of the stunning nature around the area. In the past I have been weblogging about that particular area as well, but just a few days ago I went back there after we have had the first rainfall of the autumn and here you have got a couple of pictures of what it looks like now:
And if that wasn’t good enough already here you have got as well one of my favourite pictures from the series that I took on my way to Monte León of one of the many mansions / villas you would be able to see along the way. Like this one:
Don’t tell me that it doesn’t make you feel like you would want to hang out there for a little while. Just a little while longer, right? Ahhh, yes, it is good to be on holidays and capture some more of these precious moments. Certainly, a whole lot more to come from other different places I have been to in the last few days. Stay tuned …
(Oh, and, don’t forget, if you would want to see some more of that same area, just head over to my Flickr account and you would be able to check out some more from that same area)
