A challenge I've overcome: Forgiving my family and no longer blaming them for my childhood and their faults.
A dream for my future: To break out of my shell, love and be free of social burdens (i.s. job, family, as the ideal life)
A hope for the global village: More collected consciousness to be open, friendlier and to embrace each others need for love.
Australian Mel has a gorgeous spirit tattoo on her back, that amazingly she saw an almost identical image of sprayed up on a gate since arriving here in Argentina. Mel studied architecture back home, where she says its very difficult now to get work. She has been working, getting her years of professional practise which will mean she gets her certification as an architect. She is traveling with her boyfriend Liam and they're hoping to move on from Buenos Aires to do some volunteering at a yoga retreat in the Argentinian countryside.
Mel told us a brilliant story about having distributed hugs back in Sydney. Apparently there is a bloke who gives out free hugs at the traffic lights, and one day she and a group of friends had nothing to do an d asked could they help him out. He handed them a stack of free hug cards and they embarked on a brilliant mission of distributing the happiness of hugs!
This reminded me a lot of Kristina's 'Se Vende Felicidad" (Happiness for sale) artist intervention in the streets of Quito in Ecuador, where she also gave out hugs to locals, provoking surprise, occasionally confusion, but most of all elation! Also by coincidence, just that morning I had seen this brilliant hugging image on Facebook.
Thanks for a lovely Argentinian afternoon Mel, and wishing you brilliant travels and plenty of happy hugs ahead!
Big love,
:-)
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