Saving Jade

We'd never seen such waves, and we wouldn't miss them for anything in the world. As soon as we finished the morning joint -that would be our last joint ever- we dove in. The waves were so far but the currents helped us there very quickly. Man, were they big?! Once on the spot I got afraid, they were massive. After the first one broke on top of us, I started swimming back to the shore. At least trying. I yelled at Mark to do the same, but when I looked back his head was the size of a pin and a kilometer away, at least.

Another wave threatened from behind. I tried to surf it, but it scrambled me all over. I swam up as fast as I could to catch a breath, but the next wave's roar was deafening, even from under the water. And so they went by, a nonstop breaking waves procession. The bottom was too deep and the current too strong. The surface a thousand kilometers atop, the waves were too big and too often. Terrifying indeed. I struggled and paddled until I was too tired and gave in to the underwater universe.

I don't know how it happened. When I realized I felt something, I was bouncing against the shore's softer sand. I was awed. I was alive. My joy lasted a split second: where's Mark? I was too afraid to look at reality. Just pelicans, palm trees our beach hut and the most gigantic Pacific waves I would ever see. No human life. I yelled like a mad woman, cried and wished the sea had swallowed me too.

How was I to explain his mother that we got high in Barras de Santiago, El Salvador, went for a swim and lost his son in the sea? How would I return with a dead body? No, not even the body! How did I not try to stop him? I stayed seated in the shore, let the baby waves caress my head hanging between my knees and broke into tears while I drowned in shock.

I was elsewhere, my mind at a remote stand when someone shook me, I could hear a voice. This person kept shaking me and talking. “I lost the hei tiki the maori guy gave me, he was right, it protected me. I couldn't come out to the surface when this wave took my necklace and spat me out and pushed me away from the current and brought me back, but she took my jade. The jade saved my life.” Mark's words sinked in and brought me back to life.

Living in The Eternity of the Cyber Universe

I am outraged. 

Last night I found out that everything we do say and write or happens in the net, same as Vegas, stays in the net. No way to Undo. OK.  I will forget about eight out of ten of that stuff in less than a week anyway.

But what really got me, flipped me and drove me totally insane -ok, I have a life, it wasn't as bad as it sounds, but you get my point?- is that I have a gmail account, and that comes with so many others that I didn't ask for, didn't even know they exist, don't know what they are for and last but not least and worst of all HAVE a life of their own. So when I try to mutilate those parasite accounts, I can't. 

They are a pest for which I have no pesticide. Nobody has it, or maybe Mr.Google does but won't share the recipe. This is such a violation to my rights. To everyone's rights. 

First I thought I'm just a computer dummie and can't find the link to de-activate such accounts. Then I email a friend asking for advice and releasing my tension and frustration of having been publicly sharing some info without even knowing, then I sleep and today I went on with my research to find out there is no solution and a whole lotta bunch of people in the same situation. And there are heaps of forums of people complaining about the same. 

I'm talking to you Mr. Google: 

do you think because you are a stiff ass nerd computer genius with a lot of money you can do that? 

Well, you are so damned right. Because you actually do it. 

But I hope you know what you are doing is SO WRONG!!

why don't you share THAT with the whole cyber universe Mr.G?

Since when can the net decide for me to what services do I sign up for? If they at least informed me -in a way I understood that they are informing me that I am being signed up for something that I don't like, don't want, don't even know what it's for AND HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ACCEPT OR ACCEPT- I wouldn't be so upset because at least they had the decency of letting me know they are doing with my cyber life whatever their unhappy arses feel like. But instead they rob me of such basic rights as knowledge & decision making.

Or maybe it's a generational difference? That Mr.G cool dawg here thinks he can do whatever he feels like simply because he is the boss and I am to accept simply because I am not the boss? Naye, I don't think so. I bet a lot of older than him people feel like I do too. At least if they know how it works...

We should unite forces and not let these things happen! Fight for our rights!! I wish I could cancel my Google account but if I do so I'd loose my blog. And you, dear readers, would loose me. And we don't want that to happen. I know...Sad. In the end, it's always all about me. haha.

Shame on them all!

yogi tips for a better life

"better to slip with your feet than with your tongue"

"WheN you are iN tuNe With the uNkNoWN, the kNoWN is  p e a c e f u l "

"when the mind is backed by will, miracles happen"

"without realizing who you are, happiness cannot come to you"

"life is a gift, if you don't value your gift, nobody else will"

 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥  " l e t   y o u r   h e a r t   g u i d e   y o u "   ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 

"never utter a wrong word, think a wrong thought or wish a wrong wish"

"real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is"

"DON'T TAKE PRide in t a k i n g .   g i v e   a n d   y ou will BE GIVEN VIRTUES"

"there are three values: feel good, be good and do good"

"where there is l♥ve, there is n♥ questi♥n"

"obey, serve, love, EXCEL"

" u n i t e  with your  o w n   h i g h e r   s e l f  and create a  f r i e n d s h i p "

"there is a beauty in your presence. sh0w wh0 you are"

"don't sleEp counting sheEps. count blessings, then sleEp"

"when you know that all is light you are enlightened"

"may your light become a living universal light"

"we are here to love each other, serve each other and uplift each other"

"to learn, r e a d . to know,  w r i t e . to master,  t e a c h"


♥ feel free, choose one:

make it your motto

& spread the light! ♥