Three faves! #1

   A new series in my blog!! Trying to make something good out of every day.

   Wednesday: Watched "The oter woman" with my mum. Love this kind of plans: a movie, a blanket and good company!

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   Thursday: Home made dinner with some friends and played board games.

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   Friday: Starred how it rained outside, hearing the sound of the drops against the pavement reminded me how much I've missed this weather.

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❥  Collect moments of happiness ❥ 

Quotes, quotes, quotes!

······   Everything happens for a reason   ······

   This is another quote I like because it offers me the possibility to observe any event in my life from an useful perspective and, therefore, a positive one.

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Limited room?

   I am getting a sad and nostalgic feeling thinking about growing up.  

   We stop loving somethings after a while in order to  acquire new ones...  as if there is no room within a single person to collect "favourite things".

When we are children, there is no better plan than going to the park and swing on the swing set for hours, the years go by and suddenly it gets boring to swing. Who could have imagine that this playful afternoos could lose their interest.

   People change, "mature" and leave behind their "favourite things". Who tells you that what you are loving today is not another "transitional favourite thing "? But, you know what? This temporary characteristic doesn't make your hobby less valuable, it is totally the opposite... as it may have a limited life, enjoy it while you actually can.

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Kodaline "High hopes" . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4povfmX144
                          Seems to me like I'm just scared of never feeling it again
                                      I know it's crazy to believe in silly things
                                                  But it's not that easy

"Never let me go" and some thoughts.

I've spent the last couple of days watching films and laying in my sofa. One of those films was "Never let me go" and the last scene from it really sink into me. It is a monologue Kathy has with herself:

I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I've lost since childhood is washed up. 
I tell myself if that where true and I waited long enough... then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I'd see it was Tommy. He'd wave and maybe call... I don't let the fantasy go beyond that. I can't let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. (...) Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through or feel we've had enough time.

You don't decide what surrounds you, but you decide where you focus your attention on.

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Augustus VS Miles.

Why do I prefer Augustus over Miles?

(Lots of "The Fautl in Our Stars" and "Looking for Alaska" SPOILERS)

   

   It is clear that Augustus Waters and Miles Cavalry share some similarities: they are two rather lonely boys searching for some excitement in their lives so, consequently, both of them fall in love with "their" girls pretty soon and, somehow, out of the blue. But it is the way they behave after this "love at first sight" has occurred that makes me to lean forward to Augustus.

   Augustus knows that he likes Hazel and that he wants to seize the moment and be with her, so he starts to do things to achive his goal (Some very lovely things as being there for her when she gets upset while staring at the swing set, for example) I love this about him. He might seem a little childish and reckless at first but for me this is just a consequence of his firm intention to not let the cancer win the battle of living a worthy life (I am sure that Gus has thought about if he wants to get involved with someone again after his horrible relationship with Caroline, his ex) For Augustus the answer is always yes, he is so focus on the great things ahead that he is not afraid to try. ---> As he sais himself, he is not concerned about getting hurt rather than choosing what people could actually hurt him.

  

   Miles also knows that he likes Alaska but he is not sure about what to do with that feeling and, of course, he is too scared to make a move, so he ends up accepting whatever move Alaska wants to make with him. He is still figuring out what relations are and what they can be, everything is new to him (as his breaf relationship with Lara showed us) I still like how Miles cope with life and death, I apreciate the developement of the character but sometimies he bothered me, thats all.

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 In conclusion, Augustus knows himself better than Miles. Gus is a more mature character and I suppose I can't blame Miles for being less ready to tackle new situations since he has not experience half as much as Augustus has. Maybe Augustus is a more fictional character and Miles is a more realistic one and I just love some heroic male roles. Who knews.

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   If you have read these books and you want to comment about this issue or any other that has popped into your mind while reading them feel free to do so! I would love to hear your opinions!

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