Should study arts ;)

Brad Paisley - Anything like me

I remember sayin' I don't care either way
Just as long as he or she is healthy, I'm okay
And then the doctor pointed to the corner of the screen
And said, "You see that thing right there? Well, you know what that means"

I started wondering who he was going to be
And I thought heaven help us if he's anything like me

He'll probably climb a tree too tall and ride his bike too fast
End up every summer wearin' something in a cast
He's gonna throw a ball and break some glass
In a window down the street

He's gonna get in trouble, oh, he's gonna get in fights
I'm gonna lose my temper and some sleep
It's safe to say that I'm gonna get my payback
If he's anything like me

I can see him right now, knees all skinned up
With a magnifying glass tryin' to melt a Tonka truck
Won't he be a sight with his football helmet on?
That'll be his first love 'til his first love comes along

He'll get his heart broke by the time he's in his teens
And heaven help him if he's anything like me

He'll probably stay out too late and drive his car too fast
Get a speeding ticket, he'll pay for mowing grass
He's gonna get caught skippin' class
And be grounded for a week

He's gonna get in trouble, we're gonna get in fights
I'm gonna lose my temper and some sleep
It's safe to say that I'm gonna get my payback
If he's anything like me

He's gonna love me
And hate me along the way
The years are gonna fly by
And I already dread the day

He's gonna hug his mama, he's gonna shake my hand
He's gonna act like he can't wait to leave

But as he drives out he'll cry his eyes out
If he's anything like me

There's worst folks to be like, oh, he'll be alright
If he's anything like me

Too noob to be a parent xd

The more psychology I read and the more I read by chance what books have to say about properly raising your child, say how to respond, what to say, reinforcements, punishments, etc... the less I seem to know haha!. I guess that it really turns out to be something empirical after all.
You might think you have the knowledge, but you will never really know until you get there.

Safely resting in my 'nest' :D

Today at work, someone touched an interesting topic that made me, for one moment reconsider my perspective on the theories of evolution and creation.

His argument was "Even if you could take every aminoacid, nucleotid,enzyme and all the molecules that build up an organism and put them all together, it would not live....you know?!! So, there has to be a master plan behind all that, there has to be something else, it could not have happened on its own"... Or so I remember it xd.

And I believe I may be able to agree with him, in a certain way. Recalling what I have learned in molecular biology; telomeres or the long tails of the chromosomes break down little by little over the lifetime, thus allowing the body cells to regenerate and consequently keeping us all young and handsome;until these fragments are short enough to not being able to divide any longer; cells do not regenerate as efficiently and tissues 'age' as we do, until we die.

But what If we took the body of an old person who has just died and could replace these telomeres.

Will its cells regenerate again? Will this person come back to life?!!. Most likely not, for there is something missing, an 'energy' (as my physics professor used to call it and I can not believe I still remember his story about how he came up to that conclusion) we are ignorant about.

A 'vital force'we know nothing but what writers and preachers imagine and have come up to, thus making of it something we have all learned to believe in.

My buddy, he is some sort of a believer; but still a science guy, and that has almost cost him his job. 

Actually, I think of myself as a facultative future scientist, that meaning that I prefer science over anything, but do not require it for it is true that there are things science alone can not explain.

Why do people in general, including myself, think we are entitled to anything.

For not mentioning many examples. I'll restrain to talk about one. That being happiness.

Being happy is not a right. It is a decision.

Have you ever stopped and ask a random person why do they love someone? And they simply answer  "'cause she makes me happy!" Or maybe asking someone why did they quit their job or why are they getting divorced and the answer usually is "because I want to be happy".. Have you?!.

I do not quite know why most of us think we get things because we 'deserve' them, but the truth is we are not entitled to anything. And yeah! life is difficult, but know my buddy, that it will get better. 

P.S: It had been a while since the last time I published something of my own xd!

       Lack of inspiration?... Maybe I'm just too lazy :9

Awkward

That moment when people think my cellphone is expensive;but the truth is, I bought it at Walmart.

No estás deprimido, estás distraído

No estás deprimido, estás distraído, distraído de la vida que te puebla. 

Distraído de la vida que te rodea: Delfines, bosques, mares, montañas, ríos. 
No caigas en lo que cayó tu hermano, que sufre por un ser humano cuando en el mundo hay 5,600 millones.

Además, no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a la soledad me conozco; algo fundamental para vivir.

No caigas en lo que cayó tu padre, que se siente viejo porque tiene 70 años, olvidando que Moisés dirigía el éxodo a los 80 y Rubistein interpretaba como nadie a Chopin a los 90. Sólo citar dos casos conocidos.

No estás deprimido, estás distraído, por eso crees que perdiste algo, lo que es imposible, porque todo te fue dado. No hiciste ni un sólo pelo de tu cabeza por lo tanto no puedes ser dueño de nada.

Además la vida no te quita cosas, te libera de cosas. Te aliviana para que vueles más alto, para que alcances la plenitud. De la cuna a la tumba es una escuela, por eso lo que llamas problemas son lecciones. No perdiste a nadie, el que murió simplemente se nos adelantó, porque para allá vamos todos. Además lo mejor de él, el amor, sigue en tu corazón. ¿Quién podría decir que Jesús está muerto? No hay muerte: hay mudanza. Y del otro lado te espera gente maravillosa: Gandhi, Michelangelo, Whitman, San Agustín, la Madre Teresa, tu abuela y mi madre, que creía que la pobreza está más cerca del amor, porque el dinero nos distrae con demasiadas cosas, y nos aleja por que nos hace desconfiados.

Haz sólo lo que amas y serás feliz, y el que hace lo que ama, está benditamente condenado al éxito, que llegará cuando deba llegar, porque lo que debe ser será, y llegará naturalmente. No hagas nada por obligación ni por compromiso, sino por amor. Entonces habrá plenitud, y en esa plenitud todo es posible. Y sin esfuerzo porque te mueve la fuerza natural de la vida, la que me levantó cuando se cayó el avión con mi mujer y mi hija; la que me mantuvo vivo cuando los médicos me diagnosticaban 3 ó 4 meses de vida. Dios te puso un ser humano a cargo, y eres tú mismo. A ti debes hacerte libre y feliz, después podrás compartir la vida verdadera con los demás. Recuerda a Jesús: "Amarás al prójimo como a ti mismo".

Reconcíliate contigo, ponte frente al espejo y piensa que esa criatura que estás viendo es obra de Dios; y decide ahora mismo ser feliz porque la felicidad es una adquisición.

Además, la felicidad no es un derecho sino un deber porque si no eres feliz, estás amargando a todo el barrio. Un sólo hombre que no tuvo ni talento ni valor para vivir, mando matar seis millones de hermanos judíos. Hay tantas cosas para gozar y nuestro paso por la tierra es tan corto, que sufrir es una pérdida de tiempo. Tenemos para gozar la nieve del invierno y las flores de la primavera, el chocolate de la Perusa, la baguette francesa, los tacos mexicanos, el vino chileno, los mares y los ríos, el fútbol de los brasileros, Las Mil y Una Noches, la Divina Comedia, el Quijote, el Pedro Páramo, los boleros de Manzanero y las poesías de Whitman, Mäiller, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Caraballo, Rembrandt, Velásquez, Picasso y Tamayo, entre tantas maravillas.

Y si tienes cáncer o SIDA, pueden pasar dos cosas y las dos son buenas; si te gana, te libera del cuerpo que es tan molesto: tengo hambre, tengo frío, tengo sueño, tengo ganas, tengo razón, tengo dudas ... y si le ganas, serás más humilde, más agradecido, por lo tanto, fácilmente feliz. Libre del tremendo peso de la culpa, la responsabilidad, y la vanidad, dispuesto a vivir cada instante profundamente como debe ser.

No estás deprimido, estás desocupado. Ayuda al niño que te necesita, ese niño será socio de tu hijo. Ayuda a los viejos, y los jóvenes te ayudarán cuando lo seas. Además el servicio es una felicidad segura, como gozar a la naturaleza y cuidarla para el que vendrá. Da sin medida y te darán sin medidas.

Ama hasta convertirte en lo amado, más aún hasta convertirte en el mismísimo amor. Y que no te confundan unos pocos homicidas y suicidas, el bien es mayoría pero no se nota porque es silencioso, una bomba hace más ruido que una caricia, pero por cada bomba que le destruyan hay millones de caricias, que alimentan la vida.

Pocas cosas tan bellas he recibido como estas palabras, que me parecen salidas no sólo de una alma buena, pero sobre todo muy humana. Ojalá y lo disfrutes tanto como yo y ojalá y todos los practiquemos. ¡A vivir se ha dicho! Y ¡Menos quejas! ¿No crees?.

-Facundo Cabral-

Seniors

As the years have gone by, it is no surprise that as we have seen great changes in society and the way new generations behave, we have also been witnesses of our own changes. Sooner or later, we realize that we are aging. Many consider the beginning if this biological changes as a sign that they have reached the "peak" of the mountain; and they start comparing themselves with younger people; However, aging is not always as bad as it may seem. It actually has got some advantages; such as retirement benefits and lots of free time.

Retirement is the stage in life most of us would like to get to; for it comes with certain benefits. Monthly checks are an excellent example of this; marking the end of our laboral lives and working being one less thing to concern about;Furthermore, various agencies have created programs designed for retired people and businesses, such as, restaurants, jewelries, retail stores and so forth offer discounts for the eldest. Knowing this, you may want to walk around and see for yourself what your community has to offer; Especially, once you have retired.

Secondly, you may start to reconsider the definition of "free time". When you age you have plenty of time to continue doing the things you like, or giving yourself a chance to explore things you never thought about. You name it. "Age is not an excuse" said a man I know from college. He decided at his advanced age that he wanted to go to college and get a new degree. After working for more than 40 years for the IBM, he has decided to pursue a Biology major. Certainly, a man who does not believe in the impossibility of the possible. Moreover, going to college is not the only thing. Some seniors have also found the chance to ship themselves into world-wide travels. Statistically, the number of seniors purchasing airplane and cruise tickets has increased nearly by 40% in comparison to that of the last 10 years; travel agencies explain.

In conclusion, there is an analogy that states "teenagers have the time and the energy, but they do not have the money. Adults have the money and the energy, but they lack the time. Finally, old people have the money and the time, but they do not have the energy".....Or so they think.

Do not give up and start living up, for you are not done with life yet.

'The Most Beautiful Suicide'. May 1st, 1947

“I don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t have any service for me or remembrance for me. My fiance asked me to marry him in June. I don’t think I would make a good wife for anybody. He is much better off without me. Tell my father, I have too many of my mother’s tendencies.”

- Evelyn McHale

   (Evelyn lies at peace in the Red-Rose-Colored dress she was wearing at the time of her death.)

"Lying on her back, clutching a strand of pearls at her neck, Evelyn looked to be resting peacefully. Were it not for the fact that she was nestled snugly into the crushed roof of a United Nations Assembly Cadillac, she could even be mistaken for being asleep. But the young woman, just 23 years old, was dead. A young photography student by the name of Robert C. Wiles happened to be across the street at the time of her demise. Stunned by her beauty, even in death, he snapped a photo of her just 4 minutes after her fall. Almost overnight, she became a pop culture icon: a symbol of tragic beauty"

(http://keithyorkcity.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/evelyn-mchale-a-beautiful-death-on-33rd-street/)

P.S: I am so touched with this story, and I certainly wish there was more documentation, maybe some sort of a biography. I shall keep on looking; for it has proven to be worth every second I have spent reading about it.

:P

This face in the mirror stares at me demanding,

 "Who are you?" "What will you become?" 

And taunting,"You don't even know.".

Chastened, I agreed and then; because no matter what it had to say, "I'm still young"
So, I stuck out my tongue.