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Have you ever felt like your life is a complete failure?
Emptiness
Every one of us
here
knows the anguish
of the writer's life
we stumble
raise and fall
on that rocky
writing
road
everyday
we all need
people
around
who give us
courage
to survive.
Richard C. Morais
sets his first novel
in the world of cooking
vivid and funny
brimming with the colours
flavours
and scents of the kitchen
it becomes a succulent treat
about family
nationality
the good taste
and most of all
about the EXPECTATION
to win THREE MICHELIN STARS
to be the best.
Chefs just as writers
can not recount
the number of times
they despair
at the latest rejection
stumped by a problem
lost and defeated
waiting for someone
to pick them up
dust them off
and sent them on the way
again
with a kind word
and some stimulating insight.
Reading these words
about the rejected chef
I could not help
to see
to feel
to cry over
every tortured soul
of any writer
denied of the publishing success:
"He lost his way,
he stopped growing,
that is the lesson in all this.
He was running and running,
but had no focus,
the hardest thing."
"The world changes
very fast
around us,
the key to any success
is to embrace this constant change
and move with the times."
But you have to change
with the times
in a way
that renews
your core essence,
not abandons it.
The change for the sake of change
-without an anchor
-it will only lead you further astray."
" In those darkest moments
when you loose the reason to go on,
you stay awake in the wee hour
aimlessly staring into open space
between sleeping and waking
your mind restlessly turning around
suddenly a vision
appears in front of your eyes
a mere tiny vessel
tossed by a big waves of life
sliding down
and emerging again
in big turmoil of events
that are out of its control
reminding you of many points
in life
we can not see
what awaits us around the corner
precisely
at such times
when our path forward
is unclear
we must bravely keep our nerve
putting one foot before the other
as we march
blindly
into the dark."
The life gives and takes away
What happens to him
what happen to you
what happen to us
is only revealed
at the right time.
Him, you and me
somewhere
in life
we often loose our way
just to meet someone
who props us up
and help us to be restored to the world
again
when we loose hope
we find it again
often
in the most unlikely of places
and in the unlikeliest of people
when they give us hand
whispering into our ear
the words we need to hear:
"When you try to control everything,
you enjoy nothing,
relax,
breathe,
let go
and just LIVE..."