My Encounter With The Daila Lama And His Addictive Smile, Full Of Joy & Happiness!

I am so thankful for STEEMIT & STEEMIANS! Since I joined this platform in June 2016, I became some kind of "DIGITAL NOMAD" without a proper home.

I am wandering from one place to another and try to enjoy every single day, like it could be my last. I do not complain because one day it all will look different again, just like an always changing Mandala.

a circular figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. (in Jungian psychology) a mandala as a symbol in a dream, representing the dreamer's search for completeness and self-unity. - Source Wikipedia

Then .......in Neulengbach, Austria " Baby! It’s Damn ⛄️ Cold Outside!"
The Daila Lama smiled at me, like a helping angel for the whole weekend and @lord-faustus reminded me :

Until my last day, I have time to be happy!

You can find this moving story about his Dad HERE

This intense original photograph was taken in 2002 by a dear friend Peter Korrak

One smile can make such difference in a day!

He was my bright, shining star for a few hours.

I couldn't keep my eyes of his face.....like a magnet of passion and kindness.

Even Peter's dog Stella couldn't stop looking at this mesmerizing photograph.

I went all the way back in time and remembered two unforgettable events I attended, when I lived in New York.

Poster I found online

Image Source

Downing Stadium, Randall's Island, June 7–8 1997, $250,000 raised, Over 50,000 Attendees
Noel Gallagher, Foo Fighters, U2, Sonic Youth, Biz Markie, Alanis Morissette, Patti Smith, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Radiohead, Yungchen Lhamo, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, A Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys, Rancid, Björk, Pavement, Blur, Michael Stipe & Mike Mills, Taj Mahal and Phantom Blues Band, De La Soul, Dadon, Chaksam-pa, Nawang Khechog, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Eddie Vedder & Mike McCready, KRS-One, Porno for Pyros, and Lee Perry featuring Mad Professor & the Robotics Band.....

Free Tibet Freedom Festival in Randall's Island 1996 and The Daila Lama's visit and "Great Spirit Gathering" at Central Park, Manhattan August 1999, shortly before I left for Bali with my 5 year old girl.

With 13th Visit, Dalai Lama Has Gone From Obscurity to Celebrity

We were there, riding our bikes with our kids in the back seat, my then only 2 years young daughter Tahnee and my dearest friends, Anja, Diana and a few more I can't remember exactly. I can't even show pictures I took because I told my story a few times earlier in my steemit life, that I lost my albums in the sad times of 9/11.

Dalai Lama Fast Facts

With the fame of a legendary movie star or an American President, his name is invoked at rock concerts, his face stares down from billboards, and the book he wrote with Howard C. Cutler, ''The Art of Happiness,'' (Riverhead Books, 1999) has been on the best-seller list for 29 weeks. -Source/NY-Times

Image Source - 40 000 People!!!

This is Peter's encounter back in Austria a few years later.

I am not on top of my world at all and many complicated things happened, forcing me to change my path in a huge way. I am facing new challenges once again and actually forced to change direction.

I just don't know which one to take.

"Angels" can guide your way......at least I hope so! I actually know so because I have been there many times, all will be good as long as you are patient, have faith and hold on to a simple smile per day.

This article is not intended to discuss political issues because I met many Chinese who asked me why there are so many "Western fans" BUT thats another article, maybe.

His spiritual presence in this powerful photo, his incredible smile gave me HOPE & Peace of my mind, at least for a few hours and he transferred that addictive joy to my mind, assured me that I can do IT, as long as I keep calm!

I will find my "HOME" again. I will find LOVE in every corner. We can create our own reality and leave sadness behind. It might take some time to get up on your feet after falling deep.

Oh Noooo....Life is not over, Yet!

"Darling, at your age, I found my second husband, I was married happily with for over 33 years", my mother said. ( >He left her at age 89 ...."just saying")

I quote @lord-faustus from his moving story which got me to tears this morning because I do miss my father, a good and warm hearted man, I respect and understand so well, who died in 2002. Somehow it feels, like a family started to fall apart back then....

I held on to my own little "unit" as long as possible but even this one is shattered, as it looks like for now.

"As long as life continues to breathe through our bodies, we will have the opportunity to make up for any shortcomings we have committed." - @lord-faustus

"Yes, I perfectly understand your situation, we have all made a mistake, but the worst mistake we can make is to believe that we are at the end of our lives just because we are going through a bad patch."

Yours @mammasitta