Beyond the Horizon

I saw myself blinded by the shiniest lights again and again. The brightest lights are usually the closest ones we have, but most of them are artificial . Ephemeral lights, such as deep-sea fish , with which they attract their prey to devour it instants later.

The boats are departing from the docks. In the sea of fear there are powerful currents that make us sail in the same direction. For those who dare oppose them there is nothing left but despair and oblivion.

But perhaps this is just a first horizon. At a certain point, we can not find references on earth , but in heaven (lights and stars).
If we are brave enough to accept our fate, eventually those references disappear and then only our faith may guide us. Will we be able to peek over the horizon ?

There are endless opportunities awaiting us in every gust of wind . The real difficulty lies in sailing without a well wrought, solidly constructed  boat. But ships do not need foundation. Precisely that is why they have freedom of movement. It takes a fair wind or, in its absence, strong rowers to keep going in tempesta or difficult moments.

What lies beyond the horizon ?
Only sea, wind and hope.

The real monsters are reborn!

Toby Allen shows us some real monsters in his last illustrations.
http://zestydoesthings.tumblr.com/post/61131470551/the-real-monsters-are-reborn-upon-getting-so

Derribamos el muro de Berlín. Y entonces construimos 14 más.

Aquí hay una lista de los muros que hay por el mundo.

http://listas.20minutos.es/lista/catorce-muros-que-aun-dividen-el-mundo-21-anos-despues-de-la-caida-del-muro-de-berlin-259786/

"I have a dream" + 50

   

Hoy es el 50º aniversario del discurso de Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream"

¿Cuánto hemos avanzado en materia de igualdad social desde entonces?

 http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1902660/0/martin-luther-king/sueno-inacabado/ee-uu-derechos/

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

If we don't reexamine our lifes constantly, we risk finding ourselves in a commitment tangle which conspires against us, stops us from moving, thinking, and ties us in the most terrifying state... losing control over our own lives.
At some point, all of us have experienced the sudden awareness of unexpectedly finding ourselves in a life that is not the life we wanted to live, in which we were not as comfortable as we could be.

After more or less blindly chasing a goal we found out that we lost many valuable things on the way, and maybe one-off oportunities. Even still the possibility of, by finally achieving that unattainable goal, after working very hard for it, the result didn't match or it seemed to be far away from the expectations we had.

Sometimes, we abandon ideas that seemed to us objectively important in exchange for comfort, or because they compromised or threatened our lifestyle and the fake stability it grants us. The worst moment in these cases overcomes when we lose that beacon which weakly lit our reality, and meanwhile, as we hadn't been working on lighting our own glow, we find ourselves terrified and swamped into total darkness.

Conflicts between "Me" and the "Other" have just begun, but it's important for us to hang on to the knowledge of our own roots, the circumstances that led us to our current situation, and our main goals and motivations so we can live a full, happy, and fruitful life.

Tiananmen Square

One photo can be the symbol of a whole revolution and a whole murdering.
No many people know there were not one but four photografers shooting that moment.
Every one has their own history.
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2013/06/03/internacional/1370273614.html

Once and never again

Why to do nothing when you can do something?

There are some things that you have an only chance to do. Maybe because your oportunity is "now or never" due to your age, your studies or whatever, like applying to "ruta Quetzal" at your 17-18th or enjoying an erasmus experience.

However, I wanna talk about those things you mostly can allways do, but don't knowing why you never find the time, the money, the people, the moment or the whatever you could create as an excuse to yourself to avoid to take the choise to runaway from your daily quiet life.

That's probably part of the human condition, and its a quite common behaviour not to visit nice monuments or museums or places that are just near your home. Same places that a foregein traveler will visit all in a couple of days. It's that kind of thinking like "I can go any day, so I will not do it now". And that's one of the inmovilism points. Why to do nothing when you can do something?

Instead of taking a tour, sightseeing and rediscovering new places of your town, city, country... just stay at home, on the sofa, probably watching stupid TV programs and going to bed with the feeling of having wasted one more day.

So this is not about taking decisions to make a big trip, to going to a huge concert or to make something specially relevant and important in your life. This is about little things that makes your day different, that makes your soul go away from the walls you had being building day by day over the routine foundations. This is to think about that feeling you sometimes have on your mind, the annoying thinky-thinky of what are you doing with your life, where are you going and what are the goals you forgot time ago for your future.

Some times, moving your ass, changing your position from horizontal to vertical. Stand up. Move one feet, then the other, and keep moving for time enouthg to go to a place you had never been... some times, this is the easiest and at the same time the more difficult act you can decide to do at your day. And its exactly like this how to break the boringness routine, the grey sadness. And that's the way your life will became in colour everyday, and not only at the biggest moments of the year.

How to find happyness at your daily day, without need of doing very especial things, and of course without wasting one cent. Cause at the end, it's kind of true that greatest things in the world are for free.

So move, use your legs, don't let time to pass by throught you. Swim over it and discover, do, try, enjoy, life your life and do all of these things you sometime thought about.

And, at future, you'll be able to look back and think "yeah, I did everything I wanted. I did not waste my time"

Because, some times, things can be made just once and never again. So do it, do it now. You'll never be as young as you are now. For the entire rest of your life.