8/12/2019 16442751 Facundo Cabral Translation You Are Not Depressed You Are Just Distracted

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Facundo Cabral - You're not depressed, you are just distracted,

You're not depressed, you are just distracted,Distracted by life,Distracted from life around you,Dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers.

Do not fall into what your brother falls, suffering for a human being,when the world has .!"" million human beings#besides, it is not so bad living alone.$ live well alone, deciding at every moment what $ want to doand than%s to the loneliness $ %now myselfsomething fundamental to live for.Do not fall into what your father fell, feeling old because he was seventy,forgetting that &oses led the (odus at his ighties)ubinstein and Chopin played as anyone else at their nineties

just to cite two %nown cases.You're not depressed, you're just distracted. You thin% you lost something, which isimpossible, because everything was given to you. You didn*t even ma%e one hair of your

head, therefore you don*t possess anything.Furthermore, life does not ta%e things from you# life frees you... it lightens you up to flyhigher, and to reach fullness.From cradle to grave is a school, so what you call problems are lessons.

+nd life is dynamichat is why it is in constant motionhat is why you should be attentive to the presenthat is why my mother said$ am in charge of the present, the future is /od*s matter hat is why 0esus said omorrow doesn*t matter, it will bring a new e(perience,each day brings its own challengesYou didn*t loose anyone the one who died simply is ahead of us, because we will all go

there. &oreover, this person*s love is in your heart.1ho could say that 0esus is dead2 here is no death ... there is change.3n the other side there are wonderful people waiting for you /andhi, &ichelangelo,1hitman, 4t. +ugustine, &other eresa, your grandfather and my mother, who believedthat poverty is closer to love# because money distracts us with too many things andta%es us away, because it ma%es us distrustfulYou can not find happiness, and it is so easy5You only have to listen to your heart, before your mind intervenes# that is conditioned bythe memory and complicates everything with all this old stuff, with orders from the past,with prejudices that sic%en you, that enchain you, the head that divides...Do only what you love and you will be happy.6e who does what he loves, is condemned to be blessed with success, which will arrive

when it is the moment, because what should be, will be and arrive naturally.Do not do anything out of obligation or commitment, but out of love.hen, there will be fullness, and in this fullness everything is possible and without effort,because it moves you the natural force of life, the same force of life that got me up whenthe plane crashed with my wife and my daughter, the same force that %ept me alivewhen my doctors diagnosed me with three or four months left to live./od put a human being in charge of you and this is yourself. You must ma%e yourselffree and happy. hen you can share real life with others. )emember 0esus 7ove thyneighbor as thyself.

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)econcile with yourself, get in front of the mirror and thin% that this creature you'reseeing is the wor% of /od and decide now to be happy, because happiness is anac8uisition. 9ot something that comes to you from outside.&oreover, happiness is not a right but a duty, because if you're not happy, you arema%ing bitter your entire neighborhood.

+ single man who had neither talent nor the courage to live, sent to %ill si( million of

0ewish brothers.1e have to enjoy the snow from winter and the spring flowers, the chocolate of :erugia,the French baguette, the &e(ican tacos, the Chilean wines, the seas and rivers, the;raramo,&an

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