Who loves you baby

For thousands of years now the Greeks have been known for their hospitality. Evidence for this can be seen in the language; the word for 'foreigner' is 'Xenos' and 'hospitality' is 'filoxenia' which translates into English as 'friend to the foreigner'. Being a seafaring nation the Greek people do not suffer from 'xenophobia' which, ironically although a Greek word, doesn't apply to them! they are always friendly and will go out of their way to help you - so don't hesitate to ask for their assistance if you need to. The majority of Greeks speak English or another European language such as Italian, French or German and, indeed, many speak several of these! Being of a Mediterranean temperament, the Greeks like to talk loud, using extravagant body language. Many times in cafes or restaurants the non-Greek may misunderstand this and think they are fighting. No way! It's just Greeks having a friendly discussion.

Telly Savalas is mentioned as one of athens Guide's Famous Greeks.

INTERNATIONAL FAMOUS GREEKS IN THE MODERN TIMES 

                                                                                  

The official site of the Savalas family. This site is maintained by real Savalas family members. We maintain it to honor the legacy left us by our ancestors, and preserve that heritage for our children. We have live webcasts, shopping, streaming media, free videochat, games, free eCards, links, and much more. *savalas.tv*

Do you have a Greek Foot?

So believed ancient the Greek sculptors, and those who would later work in the classical tradition, artists who created statues of beautiful and impressive women with feet whose second toes were longer than their big toes, the so-called “Greek foot” (known more prosaically as Morton’s Toe).

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Ellopos Blog publishes notes and comments on the Greek-European culture. It is a service complementary to the main Ellopos site, which publishes lengthy study texts.

 

 

 

A Bridge to Ancient Greece Ancient Greek culture found a supreme refuge inside the Byzantine Walls.

Byzantium saved the Ancient Greek letters and transmitted them to East and West, South and North, to any nation that was able to receive the treasure. As Runciman observes, “For eleven hundred years there had stood on the Bosporous a city where the intellect was admired and the learning and letters of the classical past were studied and preserved. Without the help of Byzantine commentators and scribes there is little that we would know today about the literature of ancient Greece.”
Beyond that, without knowledge of the Byzantine spirit, we can not understand Ancient Greece, since it was precisely the Greeks that decided to be baptised in Christianity, and then formed the Roman Empire to the Christian empire of “Byzantium”. It is contradictory, useless and utopian to try a ‘jump’ to the Greek antiquity, ignoring the very road that Greeks themselves chose to create and follow.

BYZANTINE WALLS

ELPENOR is built around a Bilingual Anthology of all periods of Greek literature, including Homer, Lyric poets, Presocratic philosophers, Plato, Aristotle, Tragedy and Comedy, the Byzantine Fathers, Modern Greek poets, the New Testament and the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint).  

"They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth ..."  - St. John's Revelation (1st c. A.D.)

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The Slaughter of Chios

     Αργειε νάλθη εκείνη η μέρα
        και ήταν όλα σιωπηλά,
       γιατί τάσκιαζε η φοβέρα
     Και τα πλάκωνε η σκλαβιά.

The Slaughter of Chios, Eugene Delacroix
A secret Greek nationalist organisation called the Friendly Society (Filiki Eteria) was formed in Odessa in 1814 (Nicolaos Skoufas, Athanasios Tsakalof and Emmanouil Xanthos). With the support of wealthy Greek exile communities in Britain and the United States, the aid of sympathisers in western Europe and covert assistance from Russia, they planned a rebellion. They secured as the leader of the planned revolt Capodistria, who after leaving the Ionian Islands had become Russian Foreign Minister. On March 25 (now Greek Independence Day) 1821, the Orthodox Metropolitan Germanos of Patras proclaimed the national uprising. Simultaneous risings were planned across Greece, including in Macedonia, Crete and Cyprus. With the initial advantage of surprise, and aided by Ottoman inefficiency, the Greeks succeeded in liberating the Peloponnese and some other areas. The Ottomans soon recovered, and retaliated with great savagery, massacring the Greek population of Chios and other towns. This worked to their disadvantage by provoking further sympathy for the Greeks in western Europe, although the British and French governments suspected that the uprising was a Russian plot to seize Greece and possibly Constantinople from the Ottomans. The Greeks were unable to establish a coherent government in the areas they controlled, and soon fell to fighting among themselves. Inconclusive fighting between Greeks and Ottomans continued until 1825, when the Sultan sent a powerful fleet and army from Egypt to ravage the Aegean islands and the Peloponnese.

Balkan Mix

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Remix(Greece+Albania+Bulgaria+ Macedonia+Serbia+Turkey..

Thamai kalo paidi

Greek Version of Gummy Bear song

Tha ime kalo paidi

i will be a good boy, an excellent student
only if you dance in my rythm.
come on you can do it, to be a dancer
only if you dance in my rythm (refren)

come and dance to train yourself
shake shake shake shake you will be excited

always first in school, in my hug always a book
when dancing im a fierce animal (meaning extreme, no tiring dancer)
dont do the chiken dance into the living room, listen i play and a trumpet, dance!

(refren)

pa pa look how im dancing (x2), all the girls admire me
pa pa look how im dancing (x2), all the girls admire me

come and dance to train yourself
shake shake shake shake you will be excited

look how im moving, thats a great body, the stage is gonna make it, its strong enough
dance every song, move your body more, keep dancing even in the taxi

i will be a good boy, an excellent student
only if you dance in my rythm.
'am putting all the goals, i listen rock 'n roll, only if i see you moving all the scarves

enter into this, wild crazy dance, i cant accept "i cannot"
only do, what am doing, all together come to the rythm

pa pa look how im dancing (x2), all the girls admire me
pa pa look how im dancing (x2), all the girls admire me

(refren)

i will be a good boy, an excellent student
only if you dance in my rythm.
early in the stadium, everytime champion, only if you dance in my rythm

i like hip-hop, i never say stop, if you want i can keep singing
early in the stadium, everytime champion, only if you dance in my rythm

oeo dance (x3)

The song "Fairytale" on my Greek Bouzouki instrument.
EUROVISION 2009 WINNER -NORWAY -ALEXANDER RYBAK -FAIRYTALE -HQ STEREO
PERFORMER: ALEXANDER RYBAK
SONG TITLE: FAIRYTALE
SONG WRITER(S): ALEXANDER RYBAK
SONG COMPOSER(S): ALEXANDER RYBAK

Christmas - New Year Traditions, carols,......... remain live throughout the year, even when life changes. Music:Mihalis_Hatzigiannis_-_A gia_Nihta- silent night and Nana Mouskouri -ellhnika kalanta

Giorgos Theofanous Music School

Kala Xristougenna

 St. Nicholas is important in Greece as the patron saint of sailors. According to Greek tradition, his clothes are drenched with brine, his beard drips with seawater, and his face is covered with perspiration because he has been working hard against the waves to reach sinking ships and rescue them from the angry sea. Greek ships never leave port without some sort of St. Nicholas icon on board. To members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, as are most Greek Christians, Christmas ranks second to Easter in the roster of important holidays. Yet there are a number of unique customs associated with Christmas that are uniquely Greek. On Christmas Eve, village children travel from house to house offering good wishes and singing kalanda, the equivalent of carols. Often the songs are accompanied by small metal triangles and little clay drums. The children are frequently rewarded with sweets and dried fruits.
After 40 days of fasting, the Christmas feast is looked forward to with great anticipation by adults and children alike. Pigs are slaughtered and on almost every table are loaves of christopsomo ("Christ Bread"). This bread is made in large sweet loaves of various shapes and the crusts are engraved and decorated in some way that reflects the family's profession.
Christmas trees are not commonly used in Greece. In almost every home the main symbol of the season is a shallow wooden bowl with a piece of wire is suspended across the rim; from that hangs a sprig of basil wrapped around a wooden cross. A small amount of water is kept in the bowl to keep the basil alive and fresh. Once a day, a family member, usually the mother, dips the cross and basil into some holy water and uses it to sprinkle water in each room of the house. This ritual is believed to keep the Killantzaroi away from the house.
There are a number of beliefs connected with the Killantzaroi, which are a species of goblins or sprites who appear only during the 12-day period from Christmas to the Epiphany (January 6). These creatures are believed to emerge from the center of the earth and to slip into people's house through the chimney. More mischievous than actually evil, the Killantzaroi do things like extinguish fires, ride astride people's backs, braid horses' tails, and sour the milk. To further repel the undesirable sprites, the hearth is kept burning day and night throughout the twelve days.
Gifts are exchanged on St. Basil's Day (January 1). On this day the "renewal of waters" also takes place, a ritual in which all water jugs in the house are emptied and refilled with new "St. Basil's Water." The ceremony is often accompanied by offerings to the naiads, spirits of springs

 http://www.aglaiakremezi.com/articles/128/christmas-in-greece

Greek Traditional Recipes for Christmas

Dimitris Basis

Dimitris Basis, is a Greek singer musician. He is from the village of Cherso, near the city of Kilkis.
Dimitris Mpasis was born in Stuttgart. His parents lived in Germany for some years. He came to Greece for the first time at the age of eight when his entire family returned to Herso, a small village near the Greek - Macedonian border.
At the age of nine he started chanting the liturgy in the local church and three years later he begun to study Byzantine music. He gained his diploma at the age of seventeen. At the same time he used to sing at many cultural celebrations.
When he was twenty years old just after his first steps in professional singing he was discovered by Stamatis Kraounakis and Warner Music company who immediately offered him a contract. For three continuous seasons he was singing with Alkistis Protopsalti, Stamatis Kraounakis and Lina Nikolakopoulou, and wrote history due to his musical performances under the music director Andreas Voutsinas. His professional debute began with his participation in two of Stamatis Kraounakis works: “Otan Erhonde I Fili mou” where he sang two songs and in the soundtrack of the T.V. series “To Trito Stefani” where he took part in one song. In 1996 he was discovered by Christos Nikolopoulos and he performed live. In 1997 his first album became a reality with the title “Me tin Fora tou Anemou” (music by Christos Nikolopoulos, Kostas Falkonis and lyrics by Christos Papadopoulos). Eight months later the soundtrack of T.V. series “Psithiri Kardias” was in music stores (music by Christos Nikolopoulos and lyrics by Eleni Giannatsoulia).
It was a tremendous success with over 120.000 sales. Dimitris Mpasis’ voice started to be heard not only in Greece but abroad as well. In the next season he worked with Dimitra Galani and Manolis Lidakis and by the end of 1998 his second personal album “Se Anihtous Ouranous” is ready (music by Christos Nikolopoulos and lyrics by Aris Davarakis, Eleni Giannatsoulia).
The winter period of ‘98 – ‘99 was important to Dimitris Mpasis’ career because of his collaboration with Haris Alexiou. In the summer of 1999 he started a series of concerts all over Greece and Cyprus with Yiannis Kotsiras. That same summer he performed with Stavros Xarhakos in a series of concerts with K.O.E.M. (National Orchestra of Greek Music) both in Greece and abroad. Simultaneously he took part in a dedicated concert for Christos Nikolopoulos in the Athens Concert Hall. This concert was also performed again in the Herod Atticus Odeon. In October 1999 he gave a series of concerts in Australia with Irini Haridou. In the winter of 1999 – 2000 we saw him with Eleni Tsaligopoulou. *wikipedia*

 

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Calendar of Music Events in Greece 

 

Wisdom through the ages

Greek Proverbs

• "Άγιος που δε θαυματουργεί, μηδέ δοξολογιέται."
  • "The saint who works no miracles isn't glorified."

• "Αγάλι-αγάλι γίνεται η αγουρίδα μέλι."
  • 'A green fruit gets ripe slowly.
  • Patience.

• "Αδερφός, κι ας ειν' κι οχτρός." (Κεφαλονίτικη παροιμία)
  • "Brother, even though he is your enemy."
  • Blood is thicker than water.

• "Ακαμάτης νέος, γέρος διακονιάρης."
  • Lazy youth, begging old age.
  • Laziness.

• "Άλλα λέει η γιαγιά μου, άλλα ακούνε τα αυτιά μου."
  • "My grandmother says something, my ears hear something else."
  • The real meaning is deeper. It means that the young do not listen to the old.

• "Αν δεν παινέσεις το σπίτι σου, θα πέσει να σε πλακώσει"
  • "If you do not praise your own home, it will fall on you and squash you."'
  • You do not speak badly about your own family.

• "Αλλοι τα γένια πεθυμούν, κι άλλοι που τα 'χουνε τα φτυούν."
  • "Some wish they had a beard and the ones that do, are spitting on it."
  • The young wish to be old, and the old wish to be young again.

• "Άλλος σπέρνει και τρυγάει, κι άλλος πίνει και μεθάει."
  • "One seeds and harvests and another drinks and gets drunk."

• "Αμαρτία 'ξομολογημένη, η μισή συγχωρεμένη."
  • "A confessed sin is half a sin."
  • A confessed sin is half-forgiven.

• "Aν πιαστείς στο χορό θα χορέψεις."
  • "If you join the dance-circle, you must dance."
  • On getting swept along by events.

• "Άνθρωπος αγράμματος, ξύλο απελέκητο."
  • "The illiterate person is like an uncarved piece of wood."
  • Literacy.

Jupiter Conjunct Chiron ~ December 7, 2009 | astrogrrl.com

Jupiter Conjunct Chiron ~ December 7, 2009 | astrogrrl.com

Sigma Live Lifestyle | Η Γλυκερία στο Φεστιβάλ "Αντίποδες" | Sigma Live

Sigma Live Lifestyle | Η Γλυκερία στο Φεστιβάλ "Αντίποδες" | Sigma Live

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                                                                 Glykeria LIVE
Glykeria (born Glykeria Kotsoula)(Greek: Γλυκερία), born 1953, in Agio Pnevma, Serres is a Greek singer active in Greece and Cyprus, while also gaining fame in Israel, France, Turkey and England. Her career has spanned over 30 years and is marked by several multi-platinum releases.
Glykeria began her career in 1974 working in the Athens Plaka music boites and gave performances with well-known artists, singing songs by M. Hadjidakis, M. Theodorakis, M. Loizos and others.
Marking the beginning of the 80's, Glykeria released her first solo album, "Ta Smyrneika", a compillation album with traditional songs from Smyrn.
In 1982 she was selected to represent Greece in the Europalia '82 festival in Brussels, together with Sotiria Bellou, George Dalaras and Margarita Zorbala.
She has sung in concerts in Greece and abroad (Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, Israel and Turkey). Due to the successful concerts she gave in Israel she was proclaimed most popular foreign singer; the Mayor of Jerusalem awarded her the golden key of the city (1994). Three albums were released in Israel at the same time, all of them gold in a very short time: Glykeria golden-hits, Far away, Glykeria 14 classics, and her first album in France: Golden hits The voice of Greece.
In 1998 her second album was released in France. She took part in two albums for the American label Putumayo and in compilations released in Europe.
In 1999 she performed two concerts in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. A few months later the concerts album was released and, immediately afterwards, Glykeria and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was released throughout the world by Sony Classical.
In 2001 she participated in the album Alif of the world-renown musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek                                                                  

                                                         

We love this book and so does the rest of the world

The Advertiser, an Australian newspaper, published one of the first reviews of The Alchemist in 1993 saying "of books that I can recommend with the unshakable confidence of having read them and been entranced, impressed, entertained or moved, the universal gift is perhaps a limpid little fable called The Alchemist... In hauntingly spare prose, translated from the Spanish, it follows a young Andalusian shepherd into the desert on his quest for a dream and the fulfilment of his destiny."^[19] Since then, the novel has received nearly universal praise, making it to the top spot on best seller lists in 74 countries and winning prestigious awards in Germany and Italy.^[4][20][21] It has been called a "charming story," "a brilliant, simple narrative," and "a wonderful tale, a metaphor of life," from people in places as diverse as South Africa, Finland, and Turkey.^[22] It has been praised by public figures like Will Smith^[23], Russell Crowe^[24], and Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburō Ōe^{[not in citation given]} Arash Hejazi the Iranian publisher of Paulo Coelho believes that The Alchemist is exceptional in many cases. He notes that the book has had a 'longer than expected life-cycle... It was not supported by high marketing budgets in the first few years after its publication. It was not written in French or Spanish. It did not enjoy a film tie-in and was not recommended by positive reviews and the media, but it is still selling, only relying on the word of mouth as its main marketing tool.'^[25]

Alchemy (Arabic:al-kimia) (Hebrew:אלכימיה al-khimia) is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties. The practical aspect of alchemy generated the basics of modern inorganic chemistry, namely concerning procedures, equipment and the identification and use of many current substances.
The fundamental ideas of alchemy are said to have arisen in the ancient Persian Empire.^[1] Alchemy has been practiced in Mesopotamia (comprising much of today's Iraq), Egypt, Persia (today's Iran), India, China, Japan, Korea and in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Muslim civilizations, and then in Europe up to the 20th century, in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years.
*wikipedia*

NIKOS IAKOVIDIS

hathike mia orea fonara 

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Ax more Smyrnaki

Rosee, Pasqua (fl. 1651–1656), coffee-house keeper, was probably born into the ethnic Greek community in Ragusa, Sicily, in the early seventeenth century. By 1651 Rosee had moved to Smyrna in the Ottoman empire, where he made the acquaintance of Daniel Edwards, an English Levant merchant who had acquired a taste for coffee. As a non-Muslim Levantine, Rosee was well placed to serve as an intermediary between English merchants and the Ottoman Turks, and it is likely that he began to work for Edwards in this capacity in Smyrna.
Edwards left Smyrna in the latter part of 1651, perhaps to escape an outbreak of the plague in that city in September, and he returned to London with Rosee in his service. Henceforth Rosee was responsible for preparing and serving coffee to Edwards and his household. Edwards's household was located in Walbrook ward in the City of London. Here Rosee served ‘two or three dishes’ of coffee ‘at a time twice or thrice a day’ (Houghton, 312). The popularity of the novel drink among Edwards's friends and acquaintances was such that it became impractical to have Rosee serve it in a private house, so Edwards helped Rosee to establish his own business selling coffee to the public from a shed in the churchyard in the parish of St Michael Cornhill. Despite its inauspicious building, Rosee's coffee house was distinguished for its customers by a sign bearing his own head. This was the first coffee house in London. It is likely that Rosee's London coffee house was opened in 1652 as John Aubrey asserted. However, conclusive archival evidence of Rosee's coffee house does not turn up until mid-1656, when parish registers record Rosee's trading partnership with Christopher Bowman in St Michael's Alley. The first coffee house in England was probably established in Oxford a few years earlier in 1650 by a Jewish entrepreneur named Jacob who opened a coffee house at the sign of the Angel in the parish of St Peter-in-the-East.

Traditional Greek dancing is a fast-paced, aerobic workout that can burn hundreds of calories per hour. Greek dancing typically involves jumping, skipping, fast-paced walking and even light jogging. The entire body is engaged in calorie-burning routines that are simple to learn and enjoy!

Dancing - Greek

This activity burns approximately 
296 calories per hour for an average, 145-pound person.

Aslanidou kai Arvanitaki - OPA OPA OPA OPA!!!!!!!

Chiron from Mythology to Astrology

One of the most recently discovered heavenly bodies is a planetoid named Chiron. Although there are differences of opinion over the actual classification of this body (some claim it's a comet or an asteroid), its power is widely acknowledged. It was first sighted in 1977 on its trek between Saturn and Uranus.

The Planet was named after Chiron, the Centaur (see Sagittarius). In Greek Mythology, Chiron's mother was a water-nymph who, while trying to run from Zeus' amorous overtures, turned herself into a horse. She did not escape, however, and Zeus impregnated her. When she gave birth, she was shocked to see that her newborn was half horse, half boy. The mother was so terrified that she prayed to the gods to be changed into a tree. Her wish was granted. Thus, both of Chiron's parents abandoned him. Instead of dwelling on that, though, he became a skilled teacher and healer. One day, while he was handing a poisoned arrow to a student, it dropped and pierced his leg. Since his father was a god, he was immortal, so he could not die. In terrible pain, he prayed to the gods to let him die. They, in gratitude for his teachings, let him out of his misery and placed him in the sky.

Chiron is the wounded healer. This Planetoid is for everyone who, rather than giving in to despair amid their own suffering, reaches out so others will not have to experience the pain they've felt. Many people who have had a painful childhood grow up to be psychiatrists or therapists so that they can help other people get through the same things that hurt them. Parents who have lost children to drunk drivers go on to form support groups so that other parents know they are not alone. These people feel the influence of charitable Chiron. It can be healing for a person to help others cope with a pain that they themselves have lived through.

Bravo sou Eleni - H canadeza pou egine star stin Ellada

We lost Eleutheria from XFACTOR GR but she will sing along side SAKIS ROUVAS at his request and at his next live club appearance

Dustuxws den ta katafere h ELEUTHERIA ELEUTHERIOU kai apoxwrhse xtes antimetwpizontas tous PALE FACES pou htan gia deuterh fora protinomenoi
OI treis krites : Nikos Mouratidhs - Giorgos Leventis - Katerina Gagaki me duskolia apofasisan na thn diwxoun giati htan kai oi duo polu kaloi! Dustuxws omws efuge h Eleutheria
Auto einai ena video pou eftiaxa egw apo to 1o live ws kai to 5o

Ta tragoudia pou eipe
1) Den Milw Gia Mia Nuxta Egw
2) Kopse Kai Moirase
3) Auth H Agaph Xanei Xronia
4) Ntiskotek
5) No one

Bravo sou Eleutheria mou eisai monadiki kai brosta sou iparhi megalo mellon gia tetia fonara kai glykia parousia !!!! DEN PIRAZI PAME PARAKATO !!!

WOW!!! full of greek stuff lol

Karma - New Serial on ANT1 - Theme is past lives and how they affect us today

Updated February 19, 2010, Current episode

Elliniko Kafenio

Dare to Dream

"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible." 

                                                                              

To kokkino foustani - My greek spirit's favorite song of all time

I nihta kateveni me mavro faretze

Ki i poli dipsazmeni gia fota ke souxe.

Vale to kokkino foustani

ekino pou se kani na miazis pirkaya.

Ela ke mi metras tin ora

ta niata ine dora pou kene san fotia.

Ti na mas perimeni avrio to proi

pios erotas petheni ke pios ta gennithi.-

SIRTOS

The Sirtos band was formed in the fall of 1980.

At the time, the favorite entertainment option of folk music lovers was the "táncház" (dance house: authentic folk dancing with live music). At the tender age of one, Sirtos inherited the stage of Danúvia Cultural Center, and thus they had the opportunity to launch their own dance house.Tours of the country followed, then in 1982, the first guest performance in Greece. The joyful and appreciative reception of the Greek audience gave them incredible momentum for their further work. They collected a great deal of music material, and gradually increased the number of their instruments as well. At the same time, they produced numerous recordings for the folk music programs of the Hungarian Radio. They learned the playing techniques of the folk instruments from local masters during their tours in Greece.

Learn the famous Zorba dance - Sirtaki

Sofo logia

Μια φορά και έναν καιρό ήταν μία κοπέλα που είχε τέσσερις πιστούς συντρόφους.

Μα δεν τους αγαπούσε όλους το ίδιο, ούτε τους μοίραζε ισάξια την φροντίδα και την προσοχή της.
Πιο πολύ από όλους αγαπούσε τον τέταρτο σύντροφο.
Του αγόραζε τα ακριβότερα ρούχα και παπούτσια , ενώ δεν παρέλειπε ποτέ της να του μαγειρέψει τις νοστιμότερες λιχουδιές και να τον φιλέψει με τα πιο λουκούλλεια εδέσματα.

Αυτός άξιζε πάντα το καλύτερο και ποτέ της δεν παρέλειψε να του προσφέρει ότι πολυτιμότερο υπήρχε, δίχως να λογαριάζει το κόστος και το πόσο θα έπρεπε να δουλέψει για αυτό.

Αγαπούσε επίσης πολύ και τον τρίτο της σύντροφο, ο οποίος μάλιστα ήταν και ο ομορφότερος.
Όπως λοιπόν καταλαβαίνετε τον έπαιρνε πάντα μαζί της και τον επιδείκνυε με κάθε επισημότητα, σε κάθε εμφάνιση της.
Φοβόταν όμως πως κάποια μέρα και παρά τις προσπάθειες της να τον κρατήσει, θα την άφηνε για κάποια άλλη.

Αγαπούσε όμως και τον δεύτερο σύντροφο της.
Ήταν αυτός που πάνω από όλους μπορούσε να εμπιστευτεί.
Ήταν πάντα υπομονετικός, ανεξάντλητος και ευγενικός μαζί της.
Όποτε και αν αντιμετώπιζε δυσκολίες μπορούσε να τον συμβουλευτεί και αυτός θα έκανε τα πάντα για να τη βοηθήσει να ξεπεράσει κάθε εμπόδιο.

Ό πρώτος της σύντροφος ήταν ένας πολύ πιστός ακόλουθος με πολύ μεγάλη, αν και αθόρυβη συνεισφορά, στη διατήρηση της υγείας και της ευημερίας της.
Δεν τον αγαπούσε όμως αυτόν της το σύντροφο και παρόλο που εκείνος την λάτρευε, δεν του έδινε καμία σημασία.

Μια μέρα η κοπέλα αρρώστησε και σαν κατάλαβε πως δεν της έμενε και πολύς χρόνος ακόμη, αναπόλησε την υπέροχη ως τότε ζωή της και φοβούμενη, όπως όλοι, τη μοναξιά αναρωτήθηκε αν θα την ακολουθούσε κάποιος από τους αγαπημένους της συντρόφους στη νέα της κατοικία.

Ρώτησε λοιπόν τον τέταρτο και πιο αγαπημένο της σύντροφο. "Σε αγάπησα πιο πολύ από κάθε άλλον και σου προσέφερα ότι πολυτιμότερο υπήρχε σε τούτο τον κόσμο.
Τώρα που φεύγω θα με ακολουθήσεις στο νέο μου σπίτι για να μου κρατάς συντροφιά;"
"Αποκλείεται!!" Φώναξε ξαφνιασμένος εκείνος και έφυγε χωρίς δεύτερη κουβέντα.

Η απάντηση του δυνατή μαχαιριά στην ήδη άρρωστη καρδιά της την έκανε να σαστίσει.

Πληγωμένη και προδομένη στράφηκε στο τρίτο σύντροφο της.
"Σε αγαπούσα σε όλη μου τη ζωή", του είπε, "Τώρα που πεθαίνω θα ήθελες να έρθεις μαζί μου για να μου κρατάς συντροφιά;"
"Όχι" απήντησε εκείνος παγερά και αδιάφορα. "Η ζωή είναι πολύ ωραία!
Όταν θα πεθάνεις θα ψάξω καινούργια αγάπη να βρω."
Πάγωσε σύγκορμη ακούγοντας και τη δική του απόρριψη και βυθίσθηκε ακόμη περισσότερο στον πόνο και στη θλίψη.

Με τις λιγοστές δυνάμεις που της είχαν απομείνει έτρεξε στον δεύτερο σύντροφο της και με φωνή σχεδόν ξεψυχισμένη του είπε:
"Όποτε και αν χρειάστηκα τη βοήθεια σου ήσουν εκεί για εμένα, τώρα που φεύγω για τη νέα μου κατοικία θα έρθεις μαζί μου; Σε χρειάζομαι πλάι μου!"
"Δυστυχώς δεν θα μπορέσω να σε βοηθήσω αυτή τη φορά", της απήντησε μαλακά.
"Το μόνο που θα μπορούσα να κάνω και αυτό επειδή είσαι εσύ, είναι να σε συνοδέψω ως την είσοδο."
Αυτό φάνταζε ως το τελειωτικό χτύπημα. Αποτελειωμένη και αποκαμωμένη έκλεισε τα μάτια και ξέσπασε σε λυγμούς.

"Εγώ θα έρθω μαζί σου" ακούστηκε μια φωνή!
"Θα σε ακολουθήσω οπουδήποτε κι αν πας!"
Η κοπέλα άνοιξε τα μάτια ξαφνιασμένη και είδε τον άνθρωπο που είχε συνηθίσει να ξεχνά.
Ο πρώτος της σύντροφος στεκόταν μπροστά της.
'Ηταν πάρα πολύ αδυνατισμένος και με εμφανή τα σημάδια από την ασιτία και την αμέλεια.
Φανερά στεναχωρημένη αλλά και ανακουφισμένη από αυτό που είχε μόλις ακούσει η κοπέλα του είπε:
"Θα έπρεπε να σε είχα φροντίσει όταν είχα τη δυνατότητα! Εσένα πάνω από όλους."
"Συγνώμη που δεν ήμουν εκεί για σένα"
"Συγνώμη που δεν μπόρεσα να καταλάβω την αξία σου..."

Όλοι μας έχουμε τέσσερις συντρόφους στη ζωή μας.
Ο τέταρτος σύντροφος είναι το σώμα μας.
Όση προσπάθεια και αν καταβάλουμε ώστε να το κάνουμε να δείχνει όμορφο και υγιές, θα μας εγκαταλείψει σαν φύγουμε από τούτο τον κόσμο.

Ο τρίτος μας σύντροφος είναι τα υπάρχοντα μας, το κοινωνικό μας status, ο πλούτος.

Όσα και αν συγκεντρώσουμε, ακόμη και αν τα φυλάξουμε σαν κόρη οφθαλμού, όταν ξεκινήσουμε για το μακρύ μας ταξίδι θα περάσουν στα χέρια άλλων.

Ο δεύτερος σύντροφος μας είναι η οικογένεια και οι φίλοι. Όσο και αν στάθηκαν στο πλάι μας, όσο
και αν μας βοήθησαν στη διάρκεια της ζωής μας, στη νέα μας κατοικία δεν θα μπορέσουν ποτέ να περάσουν το κατώφλι.

Και ο πρώτος μας σύντροφος, που συνήθως ξεχνάμε στον αέναο αγώνα μας για ομορφιά, δύναμη, και χρήμα, είναι η ψυχή μας.
Αυτός ο μοναχικός και μοναδικός μας σύντροφος που θα μας ακολουθήσει οπουδήποτε και αν πάμε. Χωρίς να ρωτήσει, χωρίς να κοντοσταθεί.
Μόνο εκείνη ανάμεσα σε όσα κατέχουμε και σε όσα μας περιβάλουν θα είναι πλάι μας για πάντα!

Ας την καλλιεργήσουμε λοιπόν τώρα που μπορούμε και ας της δώσουμε την αγάπη και τη φροντίδα που της αρμόζει,
γιατί μονάχα αυτή θα μας ακολουθήσει ως το θρόνο του θεού και από εκεί θα συνεχίσει μαζί μας ως την αιωνιότητα