It was not successful day, if you would ask my better half. But it was for me; even purpose of not buying anything for my self today was not fruitful.

Why do I owe new All Star, the old All Star, the ones I had in my 8th grade first time, but this time in a different color? Because it is never ending cosines and odd looking when you combine them with a dress.

So why do I owe Converse Chuck Taylor white?                                                                                          When I was a little I wanted to have them because of my older brother’s style. He was a Nirvana fan, so Cons were must be in his poor shoe collection. He had blue ones, black ones, and yellow ones… Cons were my brother’s passion and my brother was my role model and I have to have them too. It was winter ‘95 when my dad bought me red ones. I wore them in snow. There was no weather limit for me to show them around on my feet. After when I grow up, I was possessing black ones, red ones, white ones and now I owe them again. You can’t kill the passion which grew in me since my childhood.

Cuck Tayors were made prior for elite basketball players. I’m not basketball neither player nor elite person, but I will and I was wearing them on elite way and to the elite restaurants.

 

photos: Coloreyes

Years ago I was thorn apart in thinking of having family one day. I was afraid of possibility being a mother. I never wanted to become one. Never had a wish to become one. I was craving “healthy” way of relationship and nothing else. I was longing to have smiles and happiness in relationship, where man would understand being with a woman who he loves, who would give up his life for her, with whom she would make a tie for life without other invaders. Being in love was more important than being successful. I was 23 at that time.

25 made me look on life more spectacular. I was already working as a student at small TV station where my position was an organizer, who after two years of increased work in production, become a TV producer. I still loved the moment of being loved and give love away, but as I was getting older my success become equal to love. I could measure were I was putting energy more. I was not happy in-love, even I thought that time I was. It was young agony wanting to prove my self I can make it with that guy. In denying feeling of fact having a family I wanted only equality in relationship. I wanted and wanted but I didn’t get it. So I stopped wanting and started to focus more on my career. I switched love, from love given to a person to love given to the work. I was walking trough rough path, full of weird coincidences, but I was honestly satisfied with verve I had that time; good paid job, nice working surrounding area, challenges, close friends and positive thoughts. I had almost everything. I had love, but I didn’t have a partner. Was I in need after him? No. I was more than enough for my self. I had love from my family and my friends.

Five years pass by and I am here, whit my life rolled over more than 360 degrees.  I have what I hadn’t had when I was 28, and I don’t have what I had when I was 25. I am still keeping what I had since that year and I will keep it forever. I welcomed in my life a man after many years, when I haven’t expected and I got with him what I always wanted from love. Pact! Not selfish pact I wrote above, but unexpected pleasure of sharing love and days together. And I got even more. Something I never planned I would have. Something what was denied in my deepest thought with fear of not succeeding?

Sometimes when I look at myself, with surprised gaze focused on the part of the body where the little one is living, I am smiling with faith and curiosity how I changed my opinion about having a baby. I would lie if I would say that my motherly instinct develops yet. No it didn’t. Everything is still strange, with a sweeter taste of knowing “soon I will make a harder bond with that little growing bean”. There is still background check working in my head with many questions appeal to my independency.

Life brings unpredictable paths in our life. You just need to live and let it happen. Sometimes I would like to scratch written words in my path, I would changed them, make them softer, more funnier, cross them or selfishly delete them and write a new one, but than again I can’t.  They are part of me. They made me who I am today. They made me stronger and wiser as I will get wiser with new life that will depend on me for first third of its life.

Am I happy? Yes                       Am I afraid? Yes                                Will I make it? Yes

Roberto Cavalli New fragrance for her, make each woman go unnoticed, FOR SURE!

Perfume is all about seduction and wearing it today I feel I can run over the stereotypes about not being aware of your amazement.

I am really glad that lady in BM presented RC perfume to me by next words: “You look so down to earth each time I see you and fearless too. Let me put just a drop of this perfume on your skin. Go take a cake and read a little bit, come by after 20 minutes and you’ll see why I want you to wear this smell. Gracioso“.

She was not wrong. I had my Cinnabon sweet, came back as she said, greet her choice and bught a new seductions.

 

Brala sem zgodbo o WAGs zenski. Zenski, ki jo opredeljujejo s posebnim imenom in jo uvrscajo v zgradbo zivljenja premoznega altleta, najveckrat nogometasa. Beseda Wags prihaja iz Velike Britanije, od koder prihaja prav tako tudi ena najbolj znanih nogometasevih zena, ne najbolj zazelena  Victoria Backham.

Zgodba opisuje vsa ponizanja in slaba vrednotenja osebe, ki je svoje zivljenje odlozila, ga pravzaprav zamenjala za stoodstotno podporo svojemu partnerju. Prav ta ista oseba je postala senca moskemu, katerega ljubi in ga podpira v vsakem odraslem in neodraslem koraku, vse do enega dne, ko  gospa Wags uspe v svojem svetu. Podpora se vedno ostane, a luc tokrat pade nanjo. Vedno je padala nanjo, a ni bila sposobna stopiti v njen krog in si dovolila biti ozarcena. Sprejetje relaksiranega zivljenjem, ki ga je nekoc imela v domacem zvetju svoje drzave, je bil premocan, da bi ji dovolil okusiti svobodo, prostor, lahkotnost in razumevanje jezika ljubezni. Otresla se je pridiha zaviralnega strahu, ko je koncno enkrat sprejela sebe. Sprejeta je ze bila. Bilo je na njej, da sprejme sebe.

Torej smo vse Wags women… ?                                                                                                                      Boj z nabitimi obsodbami drugih ljudi, polnih verbalnega mascevanja, ker ne vejo kako tezko je biti nekdo, ki je pustil svoje zivljenje za sabo, je vecni problem “Wag’s« zena.  Pravzaprav vsaka zenska, ki je sprejela odlocitev, da zapusti svoj nekoc topli dom, oblozen z materinim jezikom in z iskrenimi prijatelji, se bojuje z obsodbami, ki zamerljivo prihajajo z vseh strani, zato v temu postu ne bom pisala o opredeljenem nazivu zena, ki so odsle v svet za svojim ljubljenim. Imenovala nas bom izbranke.

Sama spadam v ta svet in se vedno po dveh letih korakanja po sirnem svetu, se vcasih opomnem, da je bila ta odlocitev ena izmed najboljsih. Opomnim se takrat, ko pozabim da sem tukaj ker ljubim sebe in ker ljubim njega.  Mnogokrat, ko pomisli, da bi pomoc, ponujena s strani prijateljev, ki so ostali tam prisla prav in bi bila pravo zavetje pred noro nevihto, ki  jo dozivljam tukaj, ravno tako pomislim, da tudi tam, nazaj v domacem kraju ne bi bilo tako kot si zelim da je. Nihce ni moj varuh, da bi me zakril in varoval pred dogodki, ki se morajo zgoditi.

Osebne obsodbe, »trosenja njegovega denarja«, »pozabila sem nase, zaradi tvoje kariere« so ze dovolj, ko si jih same vsiljujemo v glavo. Vec kot dovolj, pa so te iste obsodbe, ki jih dobimo na pladnju od ljudi, ki nam niso blizu. Od ljudi, ki nam ali zamerijo naso sreco z novimi dozivetji ali od onih, katere je kariera zavzela tako mocno, da se borijo za svoj obstoj in jim uspeva.

Izbranec ni lahko vsak. Da si izbran, za taksen nacin zivljenja, dokazuje, da se je vredno boriti. Prav tako, da si izbran, je pokazatelj zivljenje, ki nosi tvoj uspeh, ki ga moras doseci z mocjo in ne-strahom. Ljubezen ne pozna meja, pravi tisti stari rek. Tako je. Pri nas, ki smo tam dalec z nekom, ki ni nase kulture, se borimo:  samo za vezo, nekatere za vezo in slavo v njej in nekatere za svojo slavo, ob kateri sproti kljukamo uspesnost v svojem zakonu.

Tvoja »slava«, unici senco, v kateri pravzaprav ne zivis, a sam mislis da si ona.                           Uspeti v svetu, kjer je jezik enacica neznanju in kjer se internacionalnega jezika bojijo kot hudica, je tezko. S pohlepom po novih kariernih moznostih, sem tudi sama prisla v svet (kamor me je vodila ljubezen z njim), kjer je edukacija nizka in kjer je zaposlitev boleca izkusnja. Ob sodelovanju na projektih, ki so lahko zivljenjskega pomena, postane tvoje zivljenje ena velika zapletenka, ki se plete in plete in le s tezavo odplete po dolgih pregovarjanjih. Ta pohlep te nauci, da je borba za prezivetje vedno prisotna. Borimo se, da uspemo in ne zanemarimo svojih zelja. Borimo se, da veza v katero smo stopili z vso odlocnostjo, postane se bolj trdna. Borimo se biti dobra zena, biti dobra mati, biti dobra prijateljica, biti vse kar si zelimo da je tudi on nam. Borimo se, da se moralno ne unicimo ob slisanju ocitkov. Borimo se, da ohranimo odnos do sebe, ki se imenuje spostovanje in predvsem, borimo se da nismo senca, ki nam jo ali si jo sami pogosto pripisujemo.

Prebrana zgodba opisuje, kako je potrebno izlusciti kaj je tisti krivec, ki te dusi, se je potrebno opominjati, da izbranec pripomore k boljsemu partnerskemu stanju in je zato poplacan. Potrebno se je opomniti, da je trud, vlozen v izvor srece nagrajen s iskalcem, ki ga vneto iscemo. Ce ga.

 

Photo: Gapingvoid

 

 

 

 

Honestly… “WTF” I said when I saw the price of these cute unique womanizers, “from  $1,667-$3,333 for small purse in which you sometimes can’t even put a cell phone”.  On one side absolutely not handy but on the other side they are just small rare vivid items, begging to find place between your bag collections.

Ines Figaredo, once lawyer turned designer aims to explore bags as an art form. Each piece of unique masterpiece is conceptualized using nature and the imagination as inspiration and they are then, contains fine leather and 18k gold.

While watching the shoot of making a Big Girl Face Bag I mutter: “I see”

Not everybody in the world view time as the same concept. Some cultures are taking time as slowly passing by, while others run their lives by the clock. 

Europeans are people from hectic world, with scheduled time, with organizational skills on ( sometimes even more than it should be) high level. Person who’s coming from that kind of country to the side of world where time is more important, is getting lost and struggling trough habits of new culture. “Delay” in Europe means “14 minutes late” which is called as 15 fashionable allowed minutes. A Godbey said that time, as it turns out, is a stunning complex subject.  The time is very difficult to define because its explanation is based on the way humans see it.

When it’s hot outside, our body subconsciously turns to lazy mode. We are familiar with facts about lowest work energy in hot weather, when we are setting offices and rooms to cool of with air-condition. We easily become idle and not willing to jump around because of lack of energy in us and that’s why we are pushing things to be done later. We can call this kind of laid-back behavior  “the later syndrome”, Dominican’s call it: The Mañana syndrome.

Things to be done, requires more time…                                                                                                   Things to be finish on time in Dominican Republic require more time. That is based on European thinking. Example: To visit a veterinary ordination, just to have a consultation, which should take you 15 minutes if you schedule yourself with vet, takes you, more than two hours. To visit your dentist takes more than two hours. To make a short stop at your doctor, there is need to be taken three hours of your free time or sometimes even more. Result of waiting is sitting in the waiting room and waiting for appointment person to come. Results, if they need to be done today, are pushed till the next day so you don’t have other choice than postpone your life for next two days to continue with your mission.

I have been living in Dominican Republic almost a year and I am truly trying to accept that kind of laid-back life. Line between the love and hate is thin, as thin is line between the sane and insane. Dominican Republic is mixed Republic of three different culture roots; Spaniards, Africans and Taino roots. First living people were native Taino Indians who has been wiped out in most with spanish diseases brought by Spanish colonialists. After they were wiped out, the Spaniards settled a lot of African slaves on the island to replace the natives. They were mixed mind culture, too. Willing to do but don’t know how to accomplish our foreign needs when the time is question. Spaniards were and still are classified with privilege status of wealthy elite groups (with small percent of Africans) and the lower class was and it still is considered for Mulattoes of primarily African lineage. In African psychology the clocks and other timepieces do not measure time. The sunrise, sunset, and the changing of the seasons measure time. The African belief the time is simply life process. This differences points out cultural differences and emphasis on educational difference, but it doesn’t point out why exactly they are late.

Dominican time                                                                                                                                                    With Dominicans things can’t run smoothly, not even than when you plan your thing ahead of time. It is hard to determinate what is the regular time in here, because you can wait for someone who says, “I will be there in 10 minutes” from 30 to 45 minutes or easily, that person won’t show up. Definition of “Being on time” shows your master skills of time management. The punctuality shows strength of character and it shows dependability, care about other people’s feelings and respect for their time. In DR as a foreign person you see it opposite. You see it as a disrespecting, week character, non-loyalty acts done with purpose. We see it trough different eyes and we judge it. The timing issues constantly stress foreign and leave them discomfortable. But true fact is that the Hispanolian culture seems to be summed-up by such clear satisfaction because they realize that sometimes you have to wait several generations before things take a turn for the better. And that’s why they are not so fanatical about the time. They are aware but are not bothered about.

Some cultures view time as linear and others view time as cyclical. Dominicans belongs to the cyclical clock: Time is unlimited; there is always more of it, there’s always tomorrow. Deadlines, plans, and schedules are considered flexible. Personal needs and relationships manage to take priority over punctuality. Some rare Dominicans are strictly conquered with being on time, like my friends. 

There is more and more articles and advices online and in magazines, showing you how you could change your self and become a “never late person”. But can you change the culture, which has in its roots syndrome of delayed time? No, you cannot. You can change your self and accept their laid-back life and respect the way they live.

 

 

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