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Date: Nov 26, 07
As I walked down the heart of San Francisco, and saw star-struck tourists snapping pictures left and right, I smiled and remembered one thing: they have probably seen more of the bay than I have because they know they wont be here to see it tomorrow, so they go see it today.
When I lived in Siena, I lived only a block from the Piazza del Campo. Tourists flocked the main square and would scale the tower. Yet, since I lived just a block away, and I could enjoy the breathtaking sight any time, I took the privilege for granted, and I never did get around to it.
Likewise, in life, we sometimes live life in tourist mode and soak up what ever we can because we know we might not have a chance tomorrow.
Other people are so sure they'll have tomorrow, and the next, that they never get around to following their dreams. For them, tomorrow never comes.
We all have a yearning within our hearts. A dream, maybe. A goal. It can be something small. Domani! Tomorrow!… it waits.
Tomorrow. Like the horizon. You keep walking towards it, but it never comes.
I prefer to live life like a visitor. Soak up what ever I can. Experience as much as I can. No more waiting because all I have is today, and I'm done with waiting for that elusive tomorrow…
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Ciao Farfallina,
I was wondering if you ever downloaded the e-booklet you mentioned down below in a previous comment.
Ecco my email address:
cdesimone1@hotmail.com
Ciao Carole,
Of course! Though I don’t see your email address, but I’d be happy to help.
I’ll upload that e-booklet on my blog so those fluent in Italian can get started on freelance translations that might make things easier…
Ciao Carole!
Guilty! I’m still proof reading it, and I must admit I’ve been very busy with work, which is a good thing in the end.
I’ll send you a private email right now
I used to live on 7th Street in Santa Monica, just a few blocks from the beach. We only went to that beach a few times in the span of two years — one of them was when my husband proposed to me.
And I grew up in the Bay Area (Berkeley and Atherton), well aware that the City was always available to me. Somehow knowing that was usually enough!
Carol
thats such a beautiful thought - living like a visitor. soaking up in the today. am all smiles, thanks!
I came to the same conclusion after a near-death experience. We might not be here tomorrow, so we can’t wait, can’t postpone everything to a future that we don’t know if we will have.
Great post. Now tell us, did you get those plane tickets to Rome?
Domani, is the thief of time… This was a great little post a good reminder of the power of today!
Ps. l loved those Christmas photos in the other post. It would be so nice to have a white christmas:)
Very beautiful post. It’s interesting to me that sometimes the thought of “domani” is restrictive and sometimes hopeful…depends on “oggi” I suppose
Hi! Very interesting pictures. I loved the one of the geisha.
I’m still KICKING myself because I never went to Alcatraz during my five years living in SF! Argh. It was one of those, “I’ll do it someday” type things. Now I live in the midwest!
these words & photos…what a *POWERFUL* motivation. you are such a champion of dream pursuit, rippling out to us all
Words that couldn’t be more true. Brava tu!
Wonderful post
yeah.. I still haven’t been to the Sistine chapel! Don’t tell anyone it is my dirty secret!
Farfallina,
Your post gave me the chills as I looked at the photos and captions. A very good message here. Thank you
Great post. I’ve learned that distance makes me appreciate where I’m from. Whenever I go back I appraise it and try to appreciate it like a tourist would. But still have the security to know that I’ll always get back and not see everything.
Still haven’t seen it all, and have things on my list, but I love to show off what I know to my friends who ever make it there with me.
wow great post, those pics are heartbreaking!
thanks for reminding us to soak up everything……..TUTTI!!!!!!
Terrific post! I put a link on my blog I liked it so much.
http://lifeinhanoi.blogspot.com/
And I have lived in Hanoi for a year, am leaving next week and have never been to Sapa, a beautiful mountainous area just a day away by train.
Wow… Gives me chills! Those are beautiful photographs, and such timing…
Great post, heartbreaking to view photos.
loved the pictures!
Ciao Farfallina! When are you making the big move here or has it already happened? I am in Rome often and would love to meet up at some point!
Very, very good blog - M:)
You have a extremely interesting blog.
what a beautiful thought to live like a visitor. We are visitors after all aren’t we? And those pictures are so amazing. Thank you.
Your “day before” pictures inspired me so much to “seize every day” as if it is my last.
Thank you
Ciao Farfallina - I’m in SF for a week or so - send me an email (address on my site) and maybe we can meet for a coffee!
I just read an article in… well… not the most intellectual magazine… but enlightening none the less… Parenting Magazine.
“There’s a lovely Zen parable… about a meditation master, Achaan Chaa. When his students came to him and asked how he could be happy in a world of such impermanence, the master held up a glass and said, “For me, this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. But when I put this glass on a shelf and my elbow brushes it and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that this glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”
The moral of the story… Today, NOT Tomorrow!