Images and sayings about love, family and friendship.

It is our friends, family and sometimes an unknown person's smile who make our world and change the moments of the days by making us laugh and smile.

The M.I.L.K. collection is one of my favorites as with images and sayings they clearly transmit a messages that touch the heart from deep down.

M.I.L.K. also has several books with images and sayings. Next november, a new book will be published with images that have been selected from the M.I.L.K. contest at the beginning of this year.

Alexandra,Miquel,Florian,Marc,Carlos,Marlene,Giulia,Carlos,Elena,Elena M.,Daniela,Bea, Itzel,Fede,Francesca,Minda,Alfonso,Raquel,David,Mitzy,Julia,Elisa,Nadir,Ashik..... just a few names.

Incredible the amount of none french people that you can get to know in less than 1 year in a place.
Incredible that in Paris I met the largest amount of Catalan people in my life.
Incredible that only 1 person is still in Paris, and soon to leave: Ana. 1 Non French Person.
Incredible to think about the amount of people we will meet in the future.
Incredible how similar people that just arrive in the city are lost as you.
Incredible how many different languages people can speak.

Incredible how fast time passes by.

6 Billion Others

Only for 1 month in Paris, and yet more than 4 years to build the project.

The exposition 6 millards d'autres can be seen at the Grand Palais in Paris until mid february. Its a project lead by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. He is the famous photographer that did the exposition on the world from above. He took photographs of the world seen from a helicopter.

Now he has done 5,000 interviews in a total of 75 different countries in order to show how different/similar all humans are in this planet. The questions raised in his interviews go from " what are your first memories" to " what does family represent for you", " what is happiness", "what message do you want to pass to the next generation" etc. It is intresting to see the different answers of people from diveresed cultures.

This exhibition is meant to be "moved" around the world, so I highly suggest you pay it a visit when it comes to your city.

Obama

What will this man do for us?

People To Meet 1

Be it a tuesday or a thrusday between 00:30 or 00:50 there he is with around 10 bags a hat and a thick heavy coat. Im too much in a hurry to even ask who he is or where he goes. The furthest I have gone is to give him a sandwich. Probably one more person that lives in the street and sleeps in the parisian metro to get himself warm. But the mystery of what he carries in his multiple old looking breaking bags captures me. Wouldnt it be easier to carry all his affairs in a bigger luggage or a shopping cart like most of the other homelss do?- Of course I always arrive wondering if I will actually see him moving. How does he do it to carry so many bags two hands clearly arent enough. However no matter when I arrive he is always in the same place at the bottom of the stairs surrounded by the sea of bags. Im rest in schock at the fact of always seeing him at the same place doeing the same exact thing at the same hour. He has becomed part of my routine.Ive passed at mutliple other times during the week and he wasnt there. Will he be there next week? I guess so. Will I know who he is one day?

re·spect (r-spkt)

Photo by me
India 2006

I dont think I have learned this week to obtain inner peace, but I have at least realized that I should calm down interiorly and not allow the disrespect of people to affect me.

Disrespect from people at work, disrespect from people in the streets, disrespect from people in the metro, disrespect from the lady that sold me the tickets in the movie center, disrespect from the girls in the shopping mall. Id love to teach to certain people what respect towards others means. Unfortunately I will probably never be able to do so as being disrespectful as they are they would never bother listening, and even less understanding and even less assuming the fact that they were disrespectful.

The best is to be kind and corteous to others - hello, thank you, goodbye- and for the disrespectfull comments -in one ear out the other-

According to wikipedia ´Respect is esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person´. Technically speaking if we are not bothering or hurting anybody I would assume that we deserve a sense of worth.

Today I stood at a sports shop asking you to buy some warm cloths for the homeless to help them pass the winter. There was no need for you to expres your frustration and shout at me cuz you pay already too many taxes. There is even less need for you to pass by and pretend you werent listening, and there is no need for you to gesticulate with your hand when you can open your mouth and say ´no thank you im not interested´. Theres nothing more annoying than to see everybody trying to get in the metro when you are clearly trying to get off it, and even worse people pushing you out of the wagon cuz they want more space. Not wanting to sell me a ticket to go see a movie at the UGC when I pay everymonth to have unlimited tickets, and in addittion insulting me.

Imagine if we would all get on the bus and say Good Morning, If we would at least let people get off the metro before geting on it and if we would actually just say ´No thank you´ in the morning to the guy that is offering you a newspaper. Would we arrive to work with a different smile and attitude?