Heavenly Hawai’i! 1-New and Old World!

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A new world means new energy! It puts me on new edges where I want to fly again towards new dreams that will prolong my life.

I am not quite like those snow birds yet, but I’d want to travel more each year to places of my dream and test how my power of letting things go can work and feel what different variations life can give me.

Hawaii, to a Chinese? It would not be a place to go. I have been wanting to visit Europe, countries like Italy, France, England, Mediterranean seas, etc. of which their cultures have been my interests for almost 20 years. Curiosity leads people with me not as an exception.

Nevertheless, I am happy to be here now, the 2nd day of my trip, not prior to my departure.  I saw some people sitting in the trunk of a truck  in a park area! That is impossible to see in Montreal, let alone the fact that it is minus 12 degrees Celsius now! I would think the police of Montreal would jump on them giving them contravention if ever such happens! I do not know if it is  the fact that cold people have to try harder to survive or just that hot people can live anywhere…It seems that the people who have to try harder( basically from colder areas and countries) have succeeded in building a better and more complex society which provides comfort and possibilities of better surviving than those ones who have been blessed with an already convenient environment, Eskimos are an exception.

Hawaiians remind me of the Philippines. People are very hospitable and kind. Even though I have never been to the Philippines, but I worked with them some 16 years ago.

We were picked up by a grey-hound-like bus to go to a place called Paradise Cove to enjoy their Party of Luau. Luau is actually the word in Hawaiian: party. To me, it is the dream style of my life , which can now replace my previous dream of a Spanish vineyard  life with people enjoying dancing parties every weekend accompanied with fine wine, cheese and BBQ beef or pork…

The Luau started on the bus. The guide was our Cousin Flo who spoke a fantastic fluent, almost singing like English. After about an hour’s round trip to our Paradise, I should conclude that she would make a fine priest for her merit of oozing out beautiful words and phrases that had been served as nearly a drug, the effect of which has put every each one of us into a peaceful, dreamy,  smooth and sweet state of mind . Ah, the Polynesians, with their hip waves and magical hand language, who would not be seduced besides Gaugin who quit his own romantic and famous France and stayed and experienced the Paradise in Marquisas*…

An appalling sun set started our Luau. The sun was at the edge of the sky with some clouds hiding a bit of its charm. The half hidden mystery kept us waiting for the full wonder of its shine. If we could enjoy the full wonder or not, seemed not important at all. The moment of expectation of it or just the continuation of its glory had drunken us more than the Mai Tai*…

The same as Gaugin was seduced by their women I imagine, I was attracted by their men, not having much clothes on and seemed free spirited.  Yes, it is hard to tell,  in this economically whelmed world with sky-scrappers and modern shopping mall selling Aldo’s HIGH heel shoes, to what extend this free spirit and hospitality can be kept. For the same reason,  it has made it harder to find the free spirit and true sincerity and hospitality under the heavy winter coats and soul-sucking working schedule of 9-5…

Music and dance are 2 things that always make my heart stop, not the non-romantic rap and hip hop, but this smooth flowing melody that can put me to dream more and cross more horizens of the unimaginable country. We human beings have become so structural, so complicated and so poor in owning so much that we are quite lost in finding happiness and joy in the basic things we can really afford to have time for. Happiness and joy do not come from more things we possess, they have always been there for us…

” A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone” — Henry David Thoreau, mid-19th century transcendentalist and naturalist of Unites States.

Hawaii, a new and an old world! Despite what I think, it is gorgeously breath taking, heavenly graceful, largely and openly free spirited and for sure painfully hard to leave behind in 10 days…

To be continued…

 

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