While in Guatemala, I am constantly reminded of these ten things:
1. Food is your friend... so is loving your body, and the two go hand in hand.
2. Be thankful for your freedoms. In Guatemala, you live with your mother, even after you´re married, until the day she dies... then you live with your husband.
3. ¨Give it a minute to come back from space.¨ In many other countries you have no choice but to give it an hour, a day, a week, etc... A moment is nothing.
4. Pride & Prejudice is a great movie, but a terrible way to live. So, keep an open mind. Just because it´s different, doesn´t mean it´s bad. You might actually like it better.
5. Watching a man dance is sexier than knowing he can buy you the world´s most expensive diamond.
6. Germs exist, it´s true. What´s truer is that most of them won´t actually kill you... and what doesn´t kill you really does make you stronger.
7. Americans think they´re superior, but my good friend from Switzerland is fluent in six languages. Personally, I only know three, and most of the people I know can only speak one.
8. Put down your weapons and take off the armor, falling in love isn´t so scary. In less than a day, I fell in love with a new country, a new city, a new family, and a new life.
9. We´re born with two fears, the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. Every other fear is learned... and that means it can also be forgotten.
10. Follow your heart. No matter where it leads you, it will never ever steer you wrong.
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