Remembering who we are

Uno de los mayores problemas de hoy en día es que muchos de nosotros no sabemos apreciar lo que se nos interpone a la vista. Yo, a veces, la primera. Nos quejamos de cosas que nos hacen falta o querríamos tener, sin embargo cuando las tenemos ya no las queremos o el interés se pierde. Por lo tanto, las ideas no están claras. Otorgamos importancia a cosas insignificantes y no valoramos lo vital. La vida no es ningún juego, aunque en ocasiones pueda parecerlo. La vida es real, y a veces corrupta. Y problema es que las personas no saben aprovechar lo que tienen delante de sus ojos, ya sea en términos de amor, salud, bienestar social u otros. Realmente estoy escribiendo esto porque me pregunto; ¿Cuál será la manera correcta de ver la realidad? Y me auto-respondo que no la hay. Nuestros ojos no están preparados para ver eso, nuestra mente quizás si. En esta sociedad, todos estamos en el mismo nivel. No hay individuo existente más ni menos que otro individuo. Desgraciadamente, id...

  Where all this hope has gone? Was it hope? It has left me in doubt The air was passing through our mouths your lips were little by little closer to mine closer to mine, that was the Hope. The hope has gone with you, away. Your hope has plunged mine into despair and mine has done so with yours. My hope is not crying any more My hope has still hope But it has gone I don’t know where. Shall I go out there and look for it? I hope there is a hope looking out for me out there as well. Our hands melted and we almost kissed, but no it was only a hope. But she comes and goes, Like the sun, like feelings immersed in nature Hope is the circle of life, surrounded by circumstances.

If you think that gothic writers have to be careful, I do not know whether you are right or wrong. Gothic writing poses two controversial issues: the language vs. the content, and the function vs. the form. To me, in gothic narratives as in many others, language would be equal to the function each linguistic sign has one after another, whereas content would be the form we give to the gothic narrative after having seen all the functions that the language, we are reading, has built through the text.  This issue may seem to be simple, nonetheless it is rather problematic. Is there harmony between form and content in the gothic narrative? Or is the form against the content? Well, if one speaks from a formal point of view, there must be coherence between both since we need a beginning, followed by a liminal part leading up to the end of the story, (all covered by a plot). In this sense, so to speak, our expectations perfectly fit within the belief that there is harmony, or a ki...

El ser humano es complejo y multifuncional. Somos el resultado de una historia que no sabremos con certeza alguna, para ser concreta, nunca. Historia que se puede interpretar desde un punto de vista matemático o, en su defecto, básicamente estructural. Somos una variedad dentro de la variedad. Así pues, la diversidad en todos los sentidos también se aplica al romanticismo, y no hablo de romanticismo de amor sino del movimiento cultural y político de finales del siglo xviii. Tomando otro punto de vista, llamémosle a la vida cuerpo y a las personas células, ya que somos multifuncionales, porque somos nosotros los humanos la unidad de mayor tamaño que pueda considerarse viva de nuestra especie. Por esa regla de tres aplicada a la diversidad y a la variedad, deberíamos de tomarnos la vida con filosofía. La filosofía romántica es aquella en la que, desde mi punto de vista, -y aquí expongo mi teoría-, se basa en la libertad de seguir buscando constantemente nuevas formas de vida, puntos de...

There is always something to think about. The more you think about it, the more it will become true. It is like a dream. We never think about doing it for no reason. We are always seeking for many reasons to do it but what you do not know is that the less you think about a reason the better we will do it. If you do not believe me, just try it. Reasons are out there waiting for us to be found, but they are like evergreen trees. They never disappear. And it is that force of energy that makes them stay. Because if a soul has energy, the soul will definitely make it happen. We are afraid of facts, unlike Dickens: ‘NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these ...

I decided to draw this scene which I must call: Half-Naked Man Lying on a Wood in London . The quotes are taken from Thomas Hobbes Leviathan Chapter XIII on the Nature of mankind as concerning their felicity and misery . If you follow my blog, you will know that I strongly support the idea of man as a selfish creature corrupted by society. That's why I, suddenly inspired, took a pen and let imagination play its role.  "Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he. For as to the strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himsel...

Some of us are born romantic, some achieve romanticism, and some have romanticism trust upon them.  The true love is felt. It does matter if he or she is talking to somebody else. You won’t feel jealous but happy. You will feel complete. That is called true real love. And I still believe in love.  Love is either everything or nothing.  When someone feels love, they feel at a stage of exultant happiness.  If a soul loves you,  just kiss and love  If a soul loves you, feel the power share the force  If a soul loves you, hug them and accompany them  because  “If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness " by Vic tor Hugo in Les Miserables. “Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.   Breeding in this respect may count for a good deal mor...

“The Importance of Being Earnest” (fig. La importancia de llamarse honesto) Wilde uses a pun of words for the title of his “sentimental comedy”. Shall we call it “The importance of being ERNEST”? A bunch of critics (including me) have pointed out that the title of Wilde’s play gives us the key to success (and to understand it).   This comedy of manners reveals a side of life: “nature and the human being” I would say. It would be easier for those who have read the play to understand me. Jack Worthing (is he worth it?). He is the pivotal figure in the play and he pretends to be what he is not. Why does Gwendolen only want to marry a man called “Ernest”? Do you understand it? Me neither. When we humans pretend to plan things, it will all end up being a failure. The importance of be called Ernest will have its consequences. Being coherent is difficult because sometimes we will lie if we really want to achieve our goals. However, Wilde’s satirical hypocrisy (Jack Wor...

This is the first time that I don’t know how to begin writing. These words come from the deepest of my soul. These words are for those ones who truly appreciate them. Some of us pass the time complaining, feeling envy for the other, being selfish or hypocrite... It is hard to realize that the human being is self-interested by nature. Some of us spend our time fighting with others. Some of us are violent (I am standing on the corner of a street and watching two men fighting and the police intervening) I wonder where does the love lie? Where do we, human beings, hide our real love? Some of us only care about appearances and beauty. Some of us are superficial. Why do boys only ask me for going out to posh night clubs instead of going to a library? Am I an object for them? What do they pretend? It is sad the fact of realizing how males and females behave nowadays. I am really fed up of receiving loads of whatsapp messages from different boys but with the same content: "you out t...

Do you believe that love is found by means of reason (fatalistic view)? Or do you think that it is found by chance? Give me your hypothesis and let's get to the thesis.  I've been trying to analyse from many perspectives what love is or should be. We attempt to idealise the concept of love quite often. When we idealise something we (somehow) ignore the consequences of it. This is the reason why some of us fall in love so quickly, but it is good. The ones who fall in love too fast are the ones who get to know who they are. This way, knowledge is a complement of love. It creates balance between the ideal conceptualisation of love and the real one.  To my mind, love can be found either my means of reason or by means of chance. So I made a list of what I consider love involves. For my analysis i've read some ideas of such philosphers as Plato and Ortega y Gasset, among others.  1. Love as a path to find your goal 2. Love as a force of chaos that transforms e...

The source of inspiration of the following extract is “ Fatso ”, a short story, written by Etgar Keret.  For those who haven´t read it this is the link to the narrative http://stuyww.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/0/6/14065772/etgar_keret_fatso.pdf There is life. And, there is us. Where is your man? Where is your woman? On the globe. If you are seeking for a partner, stop seeking. Your partner is not going to appear now. Maybe he is out there waiting for you. Maybe he is next to you now. Maybe he is reading what i am writing now. Maybe you are my partner (sorry, my future partner). But I say maybe. MAYBE.  And, only maybe, I am and will be yours. The real love (in days to come) is that made up of no words. There are neither sentences nor verbal expressions to describe what real love is. I guess we are all looking for something similar to fill the gap. So, mind the gap please. Have you ever heard that recorded woman saying “mind the gap please, between the train and the p...

                                                   Photo by Marcos Domingo Sánchez                                                               Model: Pedro Jiménez Art is a form for understanding the world and its components. The forms of art are infinite. All of us play important roles within society but some perform our own plays. Sometimes we do not distinguish between reality and illusion. This is the reason why the ones who perform their own play are still quite alive. The performance involves several processes: the social, the historical, the geographical, the intellectual, the economic, the political and, the most important one, THE CREATIVE. All of them will always be present. However ...

The denial of negation is a problem. When you say “no” you are losing. The path to the unknown now is closed for you. In order to say no, you first need to try it and once you know how it is say NO. If you are not able to say NO, it is because you like it and if you like it you have a serious problem. Where does this problem come from? It comes from your unconscious since you have denied something you (NOW) like. Why did you say no? Because you did not know about it. If you had known how it is you probably won´t say no. So, this is the reason why one never should say NO.  If you are clever enough, never say no. The door must be always opened.  If you do not try, other will try for you... and always the same. We will be always followed by somebody ready to say YES.  Yes represents optimism. No, for instance, shows total negation. So the path you choose is the response you will get in your life.  Reality is behind's ones mind, not in front of one...

Photo by Marcos Domingo Sánchez  Model: Pedro Jiménez  “ There was no one in him; behind his face (which even in the poor paintings of the period is unlike any other) and his words, which were copious, imaginative, and emotional, there was nothing but a little chill, a dream not dreamed by anyone ” “That same day he disposed of his theater. Before a week was out he had returned to the village of his birth, where he recovered the trees and the river of his childhood; and he did not bind them to those others his muse had celebrated, those made illustrious by mythological allusions and Latin phrases” “[...] he found himself before God and he said: “I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man: myself.” The voice of God replied from a whirlwind: “Neither am I oneself; I dreamed the world as you dreamed your work, my Shakespeare, and among the shapes of my dream are you, who, like me, are many persons—and none.” The unnamed man is now many-sided. H...

"We will all live and laugh at gilged butterflies" William Shakespeare, King Lear. "How the dragonfly kept circling round us?"   “- Tell me, Eleanor. D’you ever think of the past? […] I’ve been thinking of Lily, the woman I might have married… Well, why are you silent? Do you mind my thinking of the past?   – Why should I mind Simon? Doesn’t one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren’t they one’s past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the tress… one’s happiness, one’s reality?” Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens. Woolf’s modernism strikes the reader with her pure romanticism. Her work is an expression of the ephemeral beauty of life. Are we nature? Of course we are. Nature will remain forever and ever. We won’t. We are the fragmentary nature of experience . We belong to an interrelated chain of events made up of ghosts of the past. Our ghosts make us happy, make us believe...

The romantic feeling of writing as a release works. You first think and then act. Sometimes acting comes before thinking. And that’s the point. Why don’t you stop thinking and live? Why don’t you love yourself? Why don’t you appreciate what you really have and ignore insignificant things that you consider important? It is high time you realize the real value of things. It is not worth something that isn’t worthy of being worth. Why don’t you look for real peace and look forward to real people? Fakeness and corruption are, unfortunately, two forces moving the world. You have to make them disappear in your own one. Improve yourself by creating a world of honesty, peace and sincerity. Stay always humble and karma won’t kill you. Others will be killed by karma. Sometimes the unknown you think you know will lead you to the right path. Sometimes it is worth trying new things without fear. Listening to others and meeting new faces will help you. Make the unknown known. I d...

When we are alone is when we start to live.  We may think about reaching perfection but perfection doesn’t exist. Perfect things are imperfect since they are perfect. Society creates perfect conventions but then anyone really likes them. We look for perfection and when we face a perfect thing, moment or soul, we do not fancy it.  Perfection is so temporary, ephemeral and ambiguous. Like happiness. Like life. Like us.  Simple things are the best.