Valiente (brave)

"Valiente no es el que no tiene miedo" solía decirle "Valiente es el que lo siente pero a pesar de eso sigue hacia delante".

© Ismael Lozano Latorre, La sirena de Famara

About love and fear

"And as my love is sized, my fear is so.
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."

Hamlet, Act III, Scene II

Posted by my friend Luu on Facebook, 27/Feb /2012

Not being afraid to be happy

Interesting how things are connected.

Last year my blog was about living happily and I wrote a post about a song called "Sin miedo" (that's "without fear" to you and me). I included this song on my blog because it talks about how we have a chance to be happy if we life without fear.

I had forgotten about it until the song came on the radio last Sunday while I was driving towards Teguise.

Santa Barbara's castle with Teguise's windmill (Lanzarote)

Incidentally I was heading to a place by myself, which I don't like doing, to do something I don't feel comfortable doing either: meeting new people. Incidentally too I always had quite an irrational fear of driving. Needless to say, listening to her upbeat tune made me realise what a long way I've come too as driving is one of my favourite things to do now!!!

This particular song I'm talking about was a huge success when I was younger, before I left my country. I vaguely remembered that the artist, Rosana, came from the Canary Islands. Little did I know she is actually a native of Lanzarote, the paradise island I decided to move to when moving back to my country after living abroad for 14 years!!!! I get goosebumps when I watch the video of the song as I recognise some of the spots and landscapes of the place that proudly now I call home.

Here is my loose translation of the lyrics of her song:

WITHOUT FEAR by Rosana
Without fear you feel you are lucky
playing with gnomes that keep you warm along the way
making every step the best your lived
it's better to live without fear

Without fear, the bad becomes good
the streets blend into the sky
and we become birds, flying over the ground, like that
without fear, if you want the start I'll tip over the sky
Dreams aren't impossible or that far
If we are like children
without fearing craziness, without fear to smile

Without fear, the waves caress the fire
if we rise high up our fingertips
on our tip-toes we can touch the universe, like that
without fear, our hands get filled with wishes
that are not impossible or that far
if we are like children
without fearing tenderness, not being afraid to be happy

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This is the post in last year's blog: Sin miedo - it includes the video of the song and the original lyrics in Spanish

What courage is

"Courageous people are not without fear, the just don't let it consume them or prevent them from moving forward. Courage is looking fear right in the eye! ~Sheila"

 
Posted by my friend Siobhan on Facebook on the 14-Feb-2012