FRIENDS:'virtual' or 'real', ARE FRIENDS!

”Friends are angels that God sent to be with us in all moments – no matter if thousands of miles apart”.

(Article dedicated to Mary Clark)

AnteScriptum

Today I received from MARIA CLARK a beautiful message about ‘friends‘.

It was touching and inspired me deeply. Hence, this article …

Very dear friend MARIA CLARK,

“Friendship is is solidified on dedication, sincerity and similarity among beings”.

First, I thank you for the moving message you sent me.

In the present world, filled with falsehood, lies, betrayal, jealousy… in short: all minor petty feelings, which are inherent to some creatures , are growing exponentially – and, in such a way, that are supplanting the real and positive feelings that should characterize us all as beings of God.

I refer to the dignity, friendship, respect, consideration, sympathy, compassion, understanding, forgiveness, love…

So, dear MARIA CLARK, being remembered – and considered by you as a‘friend’, filled my heart with joy. This means ’ that I am doing right my part’ : I have been planting seeds - also in fertile soil. I have always written: “I throw seeds on the path” (*).

This is the way live. Once I’m far from ‘being perfect’, I try to improve myself as a human being. Many people understand me. Others, unhappily, are not able to. It’s beyond my power to change them. Unfortunately, I can do nothing about this.

There were many occasions when I tried to show to this poor spirited people, the right path … The efforts had been completely useless… This saddened me, because there is no point planting on marginal land… It is really a waiste of precious time to sow with love – as I use to do – and people don’t take care of the seeds that could and would have the possibility of germinate… The y will never be able to see the first tender sprouts … There is no use … unless they water them, fertilize the land where they are in and upon which they depend to grow strong … There’s no use….

Closing now this metaphor and starting to write about the main subject: “friendship” …

Like everything in this world, friendship requires care to grow, evolve and solidify.

Many do not believe in virtual friendships. However, I may say that I have many online friends. Some of these , are more real and present than the few ones that I have in real life.

The virtual ones know my dreams and my thoughts, because these are the raw materials of my writing – whether in prose, poetry, or even articles on various subjects that largely deal about the rights we have as citizens of a country which still is a democracy ( and so I hope it will remain) .

So many people have read my already countless articles through which I defend all the so called ‘minorities’ in many of the world’s society fields: the very poor, the elderly people, homeless ones, beggers, children who live in the streets, retired people from AERUS (pension fund which belonged to VARIG and other aerial companies), VARIG’s ex-employees, and, most recently the oppressed people of faraway countries in the East.

During years, I have been in close contact with creatures of courage, dignity, ethics … true warriors…

Not even age, the events, diseases and injustices perpetrated by the representatives of all governments in general, were able to take away from them the needed courage to stop on fighting for their rights.

I do have a dream – and work to achieve it. I know many ‘outsiders’ think it is ‘utopia’ …

Nevertheless, I sincerely believe in the probabilities of ‘utopias’ to become… ‘dreams’, if you work hard, persist and, above all, have faith!

DREAMS EXIST, MIRACLES OCCUR!

My dreams – are the same of many Brazilians and citizens of the World .

We are very well aware it will be difficult to turn them into reality – but this will NOT impede us to keep on firmly walking our path till we ‘reach our dream’.

Many of us have been working on them for many, many years… some, during decades. These dreams need, in order to be achieved, to be cheriched and nurtured.

Dreams may become reality.

Remember, dear friends: all the great discoveries and achievements in the History of mankind started with simple dreams … then thoughts… and then hard, constant work!

Mirna Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Rio de Janeiro, June the 2nd, 2012.

Postscriptum

I have many virtual friends… in reality, physically, although I know many people, I have very few friends – and these are spetacular persons – in all the existing senses.

The ‘real world’, though, has been presenting me some few false friends, which are sly, ‘saints’, hypocrites, treacherous, cunning, intriguing, liars … They have been demonstrating who they are in the course of our relationship.

There was a time I believed they were good and sincere. This belief is no more possible.

To some, I had given many opportunities to behave properly – as real friends … They couldn’t understand these attitudes of mine…

Some are – and have been already punished by fate…

This message I must send to them:

Try to ‘grow ‘as human beings!

Rest assured that you will regret your behaviour one day. God knows all your misdeeds – and you will respond for them.

Anyhow, I want you to know: if – in the future, by any chance, you’ll need me, I ‘ll be there for you.

Pray to God for His forgiveness and modify the way you live. Treat your fellowmen with the due respect.

Ask God to pardon you for all the harm you have being doing and the harm you still intend to do. You won’t

succeed. Give up – while there’s still time.

Mirna Cavalcanti

(*)This poem is posted in many sites, including:

www.mirnacavalcanti.wordpress.com,

www.direitossociaisnegaos.blospot.com,

http://pt.netlog.com/mirnacavalcanti/blog