As life goes on!

As life goes on there are always new challenges to pursue. There are new beginnings to get ready for, new questions to answer, and new goals to reach. The hardest thing of all is to find balance: balance between our personal life and our work. For some work becomes synonymous of life itself, forgetting that work is just the means to keep going. Some forget where we come from, whom do we share life with, and whom do we give life to. We are not individuals standing by our self, we belong to a community that no matter were we are becomes our family.

bell hooks talks about love ethic and its dimensions, she stated in All About Love:

"Embracing a love ethic means that we utilize all the dimensions of love – ‘care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect, and knowledge’ – in our everyday lives. We can successfully do this only by cultivating awareness. Being aware enables us to critically examine our actions to see what is needed so that we can give care, be responsible, show respect, and indicate a willingness to learn. Understanding knowledge as an essential element of love is vital because we are daily bombarded with messages that tell us love is about mystery, about that which cannot be known" (p. 94) ...

To know our self, to be ‘aware’ of our surroundings, to be part of a community implies to be responsible, to respect, and learn to trust those around us. It means to let go and be tolerant, to help those around us, to understand we all make mistakes at one time or another. Life is what we make of it, even in those moments when things seem to go as wrong as they can ever go.