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  Look to my face. I am getting old each second of the life I live. Each instant of time passed, my experience grows. Tell me what happens with modern society, the study of ancient knowledge, and ancient practises. Please, explain to me in a proper scientific foundation, with all the evidences and proofs supported by the use of mathematics. As I have said, I am getting old but not brainless. When we face a negative situation the approach is clear: we must deal with it. We must face it with love, kindness, and compassion. With an open heart and courage required to change the expected outcome. We can do that by ourselves, as it is shown in ancient knowledge about mind training; a kind of training which is object of study and theme for a bunch of research papers in the last decades. Buddha has spread out the knowledge about the experience and observation of suffering, which is fundamental to understand how we could get rid of it; how we could get out of our own samsara’s bubble. The k...
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  Sometimes we just need to relax while we are working on something. It is like a holiday period within the work journey: we pause, we relax, we feel good, and we start to work again no matter what is going on the surroundings. Let’s leverage our own well being right away from wherever we are. We may call it the spirit of wellness. A lot of us put the spirit of wellness aside while on our daily routines, mainly within dark periods and negativity around. We dismiss self-care and self-respect, which means, we let body and mind training inside a TODO box instead of an ONGOING practise. We feel discomfort, our body changes with the weeks of no nurture, and our mind embraces negativity with its full lack of colours. When we put ourselves in that low situation, it is a party for people whom want us down. We have the tendency to lose kindness, compassion, and the attitude of care: both self and towards others. We may also think there is something broken within us; something we need to fix...
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Salute to life. Salute to longevity. Salute to you whom stand up in the middle of the darkness to spread love and compassion all around. Salute to the innocence of a child, which [by nature] does not practise discriminatory actions. Salute to parents whom promote the practise of kindness, compassion, and cooperation; parents whom are fearless in the defence of child rights and against child abuse of any means, to include paedophile. Salute to teenagers whom are able to stand up and walk away from bullying, and any promotion of discrimination against them or others around. Salute to teenagers whom embrace happiness on the difficult times of social distancing. Salute to all governments whom discrimination of any kind, practised by no matter who, is not tolerated, which implies the application of the laws fearlessly, in order to offer conditions of social development to every citizen. Salute to you whom is reading this message, and is a beautiful soul on this beautiful world c...
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There is always the right tool to use in order to make things done for our well being. We should be conscious to listen to our heart, to trust our intuition, and to believe we are able to choose a tool, which is capable to keep the integrity of our body and mind, as long as it also enables improvements on them. We all are free by nature. We have the rights to free will and speech to decide, and to speak up, about anything related to ourselves. We decide if we like coffee or tea, bread or cake, juice or milk, white or black chocolate. We have to use such decision power to our favour. It is time to make a decision about our lives and what we want it to be. A meaningful life, where happiness is all around; or a suffering life, where sadness is on the surroundings to remember the old times of slavery. What do you decide? No need to answer it out and loud. The dream of a happy life is within all of us. Everyone on the planet likes to smile and to experience joyful moments. It is...
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Look to the picture. Think how hard is to get a good wave to surf? Think another time about how hard is to enjoy the wave if you have accumulated a lot of tension to catch that? Welcome to the road of inner balance. To be on the right balance is something crucial in the activity of surfing. So it is to achieve inner balance, self-respect and inner peace. Surfists achieve the right balance by training; by repetition. We achieve the right balance by the same means. When we see a balanced person within an awful situation, we may think that person has something special. We may think we have some problems. We may think about what is the secret of that person? The answer is training and repetition, which lead to self-conditioning. There is no magic pill to achieve inner balance, self-respect and inner peace. The only way is by training and repetition. It is a lifetime commitment.  The universe is impermanent and we have to be in constant training to be able to deal with unexp...
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Colours. One different colour for each distinct moment. A different colour to represent a specific role we may assume on our daily activities. Multiple colours, same person, and the beauty of life represented. In the course of the week each one of us is a hard worker. A worker with responsibility to get the job done. There is no time to complain.  We have to be mindful and brave to deal with kind and obnoxious people. We have to be kind with ourselves to acknowledge we are not perfect; to accept we may fail sometimes. It's a shame to be ashamed with no blame to be blamed. As a sidekick journey there is the life of a superhero. A parent whom cares about his/her children. A husband whom cares about a wife, and a wife whom cares about a husband. Both [husband and wife] see an exponential increase of their happiness with individual happiness and success of the corresponding partner. A family connected in harmony with the universe, where happiness is the common super power t...
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We should set our mind like a calm and pacific lake, where disturbances outside cannot trespass the borders of our self-respect shield, in order to agitate the inner peace achieved. The more we are exposed to awful situations with a conscious attitude, the more we are able to understand the source of happiness is within ourselves. It is clear as crystal some people around us has the desire and the intention to put us down no matter the costs, and the means required. To see  us in the experience of difficulties, not to grow but intentionally and deceptively to make us fall apart. It sounds and resonates badly to think another human being, which has the same capacity to think as we have, could be capable of such awful attitude. However, the newspapers [and others communication media] are full of examples of cruelty and torture practised against another human beings, both physically and psychologically. We have no idea about the extension of that problem, as those examples...
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We are not supernatural creatures, fictional characters, which possess superpowers and enhanced body conditions, but we are able to stop negativity to get deep inside. Raise a hand. Could you see a bunch of negative energy around? Could you feel it? Observe carefully. It is about to come in your direction. Your hand should be prepared. Your spirit should be prepared. Your mind should be prepared. Negativity is all around. It comes in from different sources, with different colours and different flavours. It comes right from the front. It may come hidden from the back. It may come unnoticed in more than one direction. To live with negativity around is part of our life. It is always there. As we cannot control negativity from external sources, mind training helps us to raise a "mystical shield" over our bodies. An invisible protection controlled by the power of our mind.  When we are down, our defences against negativity go down too. We are prone to negative emotions...
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Find the inner balance. Listen to the heart. The more we pay attention to obnoxious people and the negativity around us, the more we suck all in to transform the in alike the out. The general goal of obnoxious people is to disturb the balance of their target. They are able to do all kinds of things to disturb the inner balance of a targeted person. The most extreme obnoxious people lose the notion of right or wrong, at a point the "jokes" turn into things we see on movies; the humiliation scenes when the reality imitates the fiction, or maybe, the fiction imitates the reality. The nonsense obnoxious people lose the notion of dignity, respect, human rights. They just want to trigger a reaction, "to validate" their believes, and to have fun if their target struggles with their "jokes". Inner balance is something we acquire with time and practise. We should be soft at ourselves while on the path of inner balance. Sometimes we get right away in a b...
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In a world full of competition, to make room to help others is to live a meaningful life. We all have to deal with difficult situations in life. People from different cultures and different social condition has to surpass similar issues when it comes to find inner peace, the right balance of life. We all have to climb the mountain of our mind to find a privileged view of the world, which represents the clearest view we could get from our own perspective, our own relativity. To obtain your own privileged view you should rid yourself of from discrimination, indifference, racism, and from any thought that diminishes a human life. You should look around to find who is around you, and why people are around you. You should cross-reference the characteristics of the environment you live, with the amount of genuine kindness and compassion you experience while in interaction with another person. You should reflect, deep inside, to find the reason you are on the situation you are rig...
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Challenges in life are like stairs: we have to face them, to walk step by step to reach and find out a solution. No matter how big the challenge is or how many steps we should take, if we don't face it we won't make it. Don't be afraid of a challenge. Challenges are present in our lives to make us realise we are able to achieve the impossible. We have to prevent ourselves to put much attention on the real size of the challenge we are about to face, or we face currently. We should put our attention on the current step, on the present, on the small puzzle we have to solve on the here and now. Imagine how difficult is to live with a device, which is able to capture a thought, track a geographical location, or stimulate the brain with frequencies associated with negative emotions such as fear, anger, and sadness. A device capable to influence the unconscious mind, to disturb the memory acquisition, to put false memories on the brain, and much more we could not imagi...
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The day we find ourselves alone, on the middle of nowhere, we should pause, reflect, not be afraid, and rise up wise.  We have the tendency to associate loneliness with negative thoughts, negative feelings such as fear, anger, or sadness. We have had conditioned to that association, as we are social animals and we live quite well in society. However, loneliness is far from a negative indication. It is quite the opposite.  Read carefully. There is no need to isolate yourself from society to be alone. You can be alone in your apartment or any place you can imagine with no persons close to you. There is no need to despair, sadness, sorrow, negative thoughts, which may direct yourself to a suffering path. Alone we can perform part of our mind training. We can rest calm and steady to meditate. We can reflect about our daily activities. We can workout our body to get on shape, to set ourselves as vivid as the bird on the picture. We can avoid trouble and troublemakers. W...
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Three. It's time to try. The knowledge is there, the work is hard. Three times per year; three times per month; three times per week; three times per day. The universe is always there to see the number of times we pause, we bow, we practise to be kind. We may reach the sky; we may draw a straight line; we may love a beautiful mind. The number three has some magic inside. If we try something, and it is not good enough, we should try it, at least, three times. In the first one, the outcome may be expected but it is still a mystery. In the second one, the experience kicks in, we may fix something, the universe changes a bit, and we may get what we seek to smile a little bit. The third one is a challenge that boosts our curiosity. It may confirm what we expect, it may present what we have not expected, or it may light the candle to go back to acquire more knowledge. To give up is an option, to change something a requirement, and to give another try a better choice. Love als...
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For each situation a different brush. It is a piece of art we paint every single day. A piece of art that shapes our characters, fills our inner values, and colours our path. For each situation a different touch. We may be soft on self-criticism to paint the things we could improve within ourselves. We may be firm on self-discipline to ensure we go to the right direction without to fall into negative mind traps. We may be lovable on self-confidence to create a strong foundation, the base knowledge required to stand up and tall on every situation we face. We may be friendly to give and receive a hug from a loved one, to care about that person in the same intensity we care about ourselves. For each situation a different approach. We may be conservative on our actions, based on the knowledge we have already acquired. We may be visionary with a vivid imagination, based on the capability to use the current knowledge to face the unknown with enthusiasm and openness. We may be a b...
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Time to time, on pauses of your daily activities, it is a good strategy to reflect about what has happened in the past hours, and what we could have done different to face the situations we have experienced. Life is a mix of good and bad experiences, and we have to practise love and compassion to survive and learn something from those experiences. Think about a person that lives on the streets and you don't know the name. Try to imagine what kind of difficulties a person that lives on such conditions has to experience. Where such person sleeps, when such person eats, how such person takes care of his/her body, what kind of adaptation that body has performed to live in a harsh environment. Is it difficult to put ourselves on that position, isn't it? Now imagine if that same person starts to be aggressive, to yell out and loud, and to break things on his/her walking path. No matter the reasons that person has had to behave in such an unacceptable way, it is something ...
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The city; the community; the home of millions of lives. The design, the organisation, and the infrastructure reflect the economy, the development of that place. It can be a beautiful reflection, full of colours, easy to travel, a piece of art created by modern architecture and engineering. Those beautiful cities have our admiration. For each one of the millions of lives, a different and unique story. A singular perspective to tell us a description about the city based on a day-to-day observation; an inside view. We expect a good one. While we see the beauty of a well-developed, economically advanced city, we have the tendency to forget the social problems, to close the eyes to the people around. What about empathy? Do you know what empathy means? Have you practised empathy recently? Empathy is a virtual way we have found to put ourselves on the shoes of another person, in the attempt to understand his/her view/perspective about a specific subject. By the wise use of empathy...
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To learn is to live. Every moment of our life we learn something new, and it is like that since the beginning. Most of the things we learn from the environment we live in comes from observation. We observe, we analyse, and we understand an observed behaviour is whether good by the reference we have had of what is a good and a bad behaviour. Everytime we learn something we should put our inner values in check to verify if we could incorporate that knowledge into our daily life. That incorporation is fundamental to our evolution as individuals, citizens, partners, friends, lovers… human beings. What a beautiful view is to see "the differences" together. To learn "the different" is not my enemy but could be my partner, friend, and lover. To learn we have no rights to perform attacks or to disseminate destruction towards anyone else. To learn we have laws to improve our lives as a community and as a society. To learn there is good in every situation, even wh...
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Who cares? You know, at least, one person whom should care about you: Yourself. It doesn't matter whether you live alone, or whether you are discriminated by the colour of your skin, gender, religion, nationality, or by any other [stupid] reason. You should care about yourself anyway. We are in a free society and people have the rights to say anything they want to say. It is clear as crystal If you incorporate the negativity of the environment, you become the negativity itself. You should be resilient. Are there cockroaches in the environment? Right, let's clean the house and find a way to deal with the insects. Have you bought something new and it comes with defects? Let's think how to solve the issue without stress yourself out. Do you have problems with your car? Let's handle that. Do you have problems at work with malfunction technology? Keep calm and overcome it. If you care about yourself, everything can be solved without get out of your mind. Don'...
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Cultivation of love. What a beautiful and vivid landscape. Love is powerful, it is free of charge, and it is a wonderful tool we have available to improve ourselves. With love, everything gets better. In order to love someone else, first we have to love ourselves. Self-love is one of the best medicines available, and it doesn't require a prescription to start the administration. The moment we start to administer self-love, it is the moment we plant seeds of a love tree on our ground. A love tree grows strong with the passage of time, but we have to take care and to continue the administration of self-love to our own improvement. Confidence, kindness, happiness, self-respect, inner-strength, and inner-peace are examples of positive outcomes derived from self-love, which are reinforced by a daily basis administration. Together with such positive outcomes we are also able to diminish anger, frustration, and sadness, even surrounded by a negative environment. In the majorit...
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Knowledge is the super power of a nonfictional human being. All nonfictional super heroes have the super power of knowledge. Super villains fear the knowledge of super heroes by two main reasons: (1) it makes deception more difficult; and (2) it can influence other persons to search and to acquire the same super powers of knowledge. With knowledge we can improve ourselves far beyond our limits; there is no need for body mutation created by human experiences. The books you see in the picture represent the image that comes to our mind when we talk about knowledge. Everything we do depends on knowledge. To go back to the origins, is to go back to the ancient knowledge. The life we live, the clothes we wear, the technology we use, the body and mind training we perform, every single thing we could imagine depends on knowledge. Even stupidity depends on [the lack of] knowledge. The acquisition of knowledge is under our sphere of influence. It is something we can control, and it i...
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Self-respect is something precious like a sunflower: we cultivate it to see its beauty to shine from the inside, on a marvelous field called life. If we have no self-respect, we may end up frustrated with every threat we may face in our day-to-day activities. Confidence walks hand-to-hand with self-respect. Confidence is important to remind us we are capable of the impossible. We are capable to deal with the unpredictable. We are capable to overcome our limits. We are capable to live a happy life among the most darkest place we have ever seen, full of deception and discrimination all around. We are capable to create a magnetic field to prevent negativity to go deep inside our inner state. We are capable to not respond negativity with negativity. When we fall into the mind trap promoted by a negative environment, we enter into a suffering path, which the final line brings despair and blindness. We make wrong decisions, we act without any plan, and we eventually fall to the d...
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For a genuine heart it doesn't matter if you are dog or cat, black or white, poor or rich, catholic or buddhist, sunni or shia. Everyone should count and the difference should not be a factor to make a friend, to start a conversation, to care, or to love. But it does. Have you thought about that subject? Discrimination is rooted in the society we live. Unfortunately, it drives the behaviour of people towards one another, and sometimes it is so deep inside, such behaviour gets part of cultural traces we observe and see as "normal".  The hatred culture has transformed our society in something far from the ancient dream of equality, freedom, and cooperation between anyone else. Some of us does not see the other as an equal but as a business opportunity. If required, a person sells another to get some advantage, to improve his/her own life in exchange to the sacrifice of another. It is explicitly seen in human trafficking, which apart from be illegal, it still exi...
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In all situations we experience in life we can choose to have hope or despair. It is our choice and noone is able to control that choice without our permission.  Suffering comes hand-to-hand with despair. Despair makes a person to embrace negativity and to experience sadness and sorrow, which implies to see the life with one or no colour. The world gets a dark place to live and, in the presence of deception, a person may fall into a negative path, which may be very difficult to recover. In a practical sense, a person that embraces despair has no strategy to deal with difficulties life presents in a day-to-day basis, or the strategy is dependent on the outside, which may cause frustration to seek help that never comes. With hope the posture is quite the opposite. The world is always in a coloured mode, and we find happiness in small things, even if we walk alone. Deception don't put we down, as we always have a backup plan within layers of strategies adapted to the diffe...
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Dear love, there are a lot of things I would like to say to you face-to-face; to make you feel loved as you never have had, and to contemplate your beauty with the eyes of an artist, with genuine love but also total admiration, desire, and passion. In this Covid-19 pandemic moment we are separated by an ocean of distance, and we have received recommendations to keep the social distance. The virus has made the natural communication of our bodies and souls a challenge, with little or no interaction that is dependent from a good satellite link, and the state of our bodies, as both of us are in a huge pressure from the outside; pressure that requires a considerable amount of brain power.  The friday nights are always difficult, as I remember a friday night we have spent together, full of joy and love, with dinner and wine, the perfect configuration we have taken advantage to reach the sky together as one. I am glad we have had such love moments as they fill up my memories w...
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It's time to live not to grieve. Even in a difficult situation you have to be positive. It's time to put sadness out of the table and say: Dear sadness, thank you for your guidance and help. I hope you can guide much more people to the path of love and compassion. Guide them to walk to the light, in order to live a joyful and meaningful life. It's time to accept we are not able to control another person, even if we think we can. There is no need for such an egocentric act. It is much better to cooperate with one another than to spend a lot of energy for nothing. It's time to release the pressure under our shoulders, and to embrace all the good energy the world around us has to offer. Even in a place full of darkness, there is room for the entrance of love and compassion, i.e., you just need to find a way to open a window and the magic happens. It's time to observe not others but yourself. Observe your attitudes when you are not feeling well, and do a sel...
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Honey, do you trust me? I know you do… Let's have a dance; let's enjoy life and ourselves. It starts like magic. Body and mind are connected.The heart starts to pulse in a different rhythm. The skin colour changes to a bright and vivid tone. A space has been created. We touch hands with real finesse. The vibration created by the moment we get close together resonates harmony; the harmony of happiness and love, which diminishes negativity. We look the eyes of one another. What a deep sensation. It seems we have entered in another dimension. A parallel plane, where everything around loses importance. The focus is settled. The focus is you and I; I and you. You follow my lead, and I follow the smoothness of you. The body sends the signal: it is time to a twist. Trust me on that one. Hold my arms and surrender to the moment. The sensation is unique. I don't know what to say; I don't know what to think. I am able just to feel. What am I feeling? Liberty and freed...
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Raise up. Don't be afraid. Come on, you can do this. You can stand up in the middle of nowhere and get yourself back to your path; back to the way you are; back to life, love, compassion; back to the world. Make a decision. Sometimes the sound of the rain is out and loud. And it is not just the sound, the volume of water speaks for itself; it is vigorous, it is constant; it is [in some sense] consistent; it places difficulties to anyone whom has decided to come outside and speak up. It is what it is.  Are you afraid to get wet? Are you afraid about what people say when see you wet outside? Are you afraid of the unknown? Are you afraid and you just don't know why? Don't worry, anyone has the rights to be afraid. Relax. Think. Incorporate love.  We can't avoid a raining day but we can deal with it in a proper way. Each raining day is unique. There is no two equal raining days. Sometimes a simple umbrella works and protects ourselves from the water. In other si...
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Breakfast. The first meal we have on the day. We wake up, we may go to the bathroom to wash our face, and we may think about what we will get for the breakfast. The memorable ones are those we have in the company of loved ones.  Do you remember a memorable breakfast you have had with a loved one? Are you about to have one? If you have some amazing memories about a memorable breakfast, just incorporate the feeling of joy you have had and follow the text that comes next. I have a memorable memory about a breakfast with a beautiful soul and heart, a woman I could say I have all the beautiful feelings for you could imagine. A woman that has changed my life; a woman that has taught me a lot of lessons, which I follow until now. She teaches me everyday something new. Unfortunately, we have lost contact and I cannot reach her. I don't know if one day we will meet again but I hope so. It was early in the morning, and we were in a vivid and joyful conversation within a park. The...
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Incorporate the peace you could get in such a paradise. What a beautiful view. Nature on the entrance. A clean and calm water that surrounds the small village. Peace. Not only a peace environment but also peace of mind.  The sound of the ocean may transform itself in a sweet lyrics, a calm and peaceful soundtrack that soften the soul, and boost the spirit. The water is so calm it promotes a relaxing state just to look at it. Immersion. The calmness of the environment we see on the picture is what we seek when we need to go deeper into ourselves. It is a perfect place to relax; to meditate; to perform self-care. Continue to use your brain and remain focused on the peace you could get on that environment. Reset. If you are angry by any reason, just drop it. If you are supper happy because you have achieved one of your goals, be grateful for that and take a time to relax a little bit. If you are frustrated because you have failed to achieve one of your goals, be easy with ...
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Let's start open and fresh like an empty notebook page. Are you ready? Let's do this. We are not a book where our destiny is already written, and our future decided by higher entities, or someone else whom thinks it is his/her rights to control us. Drop it. Forget it. Don't live it. You decide what happens on the here and now; and you are responsible to fill that blank page called present. Thus, let's accept a bunch of things. Accept you are a human being and sometimes you make mistakes. We all do. Accept you cannot control the behaviour of people around you but you can control the way you react to it. Remember to be kind as much as possible. A smile always helps on the job. Accept sometimes you just need to rest, to lay down on the couch, to stay alone and isolated from the world to reflect for awhile. There is nothing wrong about it. On the contrary, it is on those times we can perform a self-reflection to trigger some reshape actions on our behaviour. Acc...
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Don't panic. Breathe. Stay calm and follow my lead. You are not alone. Your life matters. Don't throw it away because you are in a harsh environment, surrounded by obnoxious people; alone in the darkness. Improve yourself, mind and body, and don't do anything stupid with your life. I know what is to live in a harsh environment, full of obnoxious people. I know it is hard work to keep calm, to put the obnoxiousness aside to be not affected by it. I know you are a great person and you care about others; you care about good relationships and good environments. But remember one thing clearly: YOU ONLY CONTROL YOURSELF.  Obnoxious people will not stop to disrespect you, or to try to make you feel a wide tone of negative emotions, until you lose that control.  Don't leave us because of that. Please, for any reason, even if you find yourself alone in a dark room, with a feeling of no hope, and without a clear view of your next day, stay in this world. Don't com...