Help Yourself

So a month ago I received some heart breaking news.
That kind of news that you never want to hear in your family. Obviously I got really sad. And I won’t turn this into a sad post, but I really want to inspire you instead.

I found a really thin line between allowing yourself to feel whatever you feel and let you sink into the feeling.
This is not really new into my awareness, but it was kinda new this time because of the closeness and intensity of the situation.

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So I allowed myself to cry…like really really cry.
Almost all day long for a whole week. Until at some point I realized I couldn’t stay like that forever if I wanted to help the situation and my family.

So i took a plane and I stopped crying.
Not because I wasn’t feeling sad, but because I wanted to move forward and love, and help and inspire, because that is my nature, it has always been.

The same day I started crying, I stopped painting.
And to me art is related to everything in my life. But I couldn’t find the strength to get out of bed and grab a brush.

But I realized that in order to help those I love the most (to help everyone, actually) I need to be OK. I need to be 100% me and give 100% of me to service and care and love.
You need to care of yourself in order to completely give yourself to others, and is in service where I find peace and love. In that way one can add, help, give, hope, love…instead of add sadness or negativity.

This is a very basic unsolicited advice and I’m not really in the mood for a big blog post. But I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to share this realization.

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At the end I did grab a brush, some watercolors and I painted this.
Which totally talks about this moment in my life.

Mona Lisa attacked...with cake

La Gioconda has been attacked

It is not the first time that we read (nor will we read, it seems to me) this headline.

This time they caked her. 🍰

Of course she didn’t suffer any damage, as expected, due to the security measures.

The aggressor's message about sustainability and the environment 🌱 has been diluted, because of course, it doesn't seem like a well-executed plan to me, if you ask me.

We can't forget the famous robbery from 1911, when even Picasso 🎨 was arrested and interrogated!

Then in 1956 a man who suffered from a syndrome related to anxiety from overexposure to beauty, threw sulfuric acid on the Mona Lisa 🧪 and there a piece of the bottom was damaged.

Another man also stabbed her 🔪, trying to steal it from her because he, well, he... was in love with her 🤦🏼‍♀️

They already put glass there.

Then this guy from Bolivia threw a stone at her 🪨 and he damaged the painting because he broke the glass and then they put another one to have double protection.

And in 2009 a woman threw a cup of tea at her 🍵, a Russian visitor, it’s been it was because she was angry because she was denied her French nationality.

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It's all about the Mona Lisa at the Louvre for now.

See you soon amigos from the internet.

*No Gioconda was damage.