Possibilities

A continuación un fantástico poema de Wislawa Szymborska sobre las opciones y las elecciones que podemos hacer durante la vida. Disfruten…

POSSIBILITIES

I prefer movies.

I prefer cats.

I prefer the oaks along the Warta.

I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.

I prefer myself liking people

to myself loving mankind.

I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.

I prefer the color green.

I prefer not to maintain

that reason is to blame for everything.

I prefer exceptions.

I prefer to leave early.

I prefer talking to doctors about something else.

I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

to the absurdity of not writing poems.

I prefer, where love’s concerned, nonspecific anniversaries

that can be celebrated every day.

I prefer moralists

who promise me nothing.

I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.

I prefer the earth in civvies.

I prefer conquered to conquering countries.

I prefer having some reservations.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

I prefer Grimms’ fairy tales to the newspapers’ front pages.

I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.

I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.

I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.

I prefer desk drawers.

I prefer many things that I haven’t mentioned here

to many things I’ve also left unsaid.

I prefer zeroes on the loose

to those lined up behind a cipher.

I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.

I prefer to knock on wood.

I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.

I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility

that existence has its own reason for being.

If tomorrow starts without me…

Para comenzar el año, una reflexión sobre la fugacidad de la vida. Por favor, disfruten:

A continuación la transcripción del poema de David Romano:

If Tomorrow Starts Without Me…

If tomorrow starts without me, and I’m not here to see,
If the sun should rise you find your eyes all filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn’t cry the way you did today,
While thinking of the many things we didn’t get to say.

I know how much you love me, as much as I love you
And each time that you think of me, I know you’ll miss me too.
But when tomorrow starts without me please try to understand,
That an angel came and called my name and took me by the hand.

He said my place was ready, in heaven far above
And that I’d have to leave behind all those I dearly love.
But as I turned and walked away a tear fell from my eye.
For all my life I’d always thought, I didn’t want to die.

I had so much to live for, so much left yet to do.
It seemed almost impossible that I was leaving you.
I thought of all the yesterdays the good ones and the bad.
I thought of all the love we shared, and all the fun we had.

If I could relive yesterday, just even for a while,
I’d say goodbye and kiss you and maybe see you smile.
But then I fully realized that this could never be,
For emptiness and memories would take the place of me.

When I thought of worldly things I might miss come tomorrow
I thought of you and when I did my heart was filled with sorrow.
When I walked through heavens gates I felt so much at home.
God looked down and smiled at me from his great golden throne

He said, “This is eternity and all I’ve promised you”
Today your life on earth has passed but here life starts anew.
I promise no tomorrow, but today will always last
And since each day is the same there’s no longing for the past.

You have been so faithful so trusting and so true.
Though there were times you did some things you knew you shouldn’t do.
You have been forgiven and now at last you’re free.
So won’t you come and take my hand and share my life with me?

So when tomorrow starts with out me don’t think we’re far apart,
For every time you think of me, I’m right here in your heart.

720

Hoy hace justo 2 años volví al punto de partida, al lugar que me vio nacer y del que partí hace ya 14 años en busca de nuevos horizontes, tanto geográficos como más íntimos. Pensaba que hace 1 año no había recordado la efemérides, pero me equivoqué. Como siempre y desde que me percato de ello, estos 720 días han sido intensos en todos los sentidos, con cambios inimaginables, comienzos, finales, alegrías, tristezas, despertares, ansiedades, desengaños y planes, muchos planes. Creo que la enseñanza más valiosa de todos estos ciclos diurno-nocturnos ha sido el tomar nuevamente el timón de mi propia vida y recorrer el camino con más conciencia y sin dejar que la mente, esa que es experta en idear, producir y dirigir filmes fantásticos, haga tanto de las suyas.

La sensación mas significativa el día de hoy es la de gratitud, un enorme y profundo agradecimiento a todas aquellas personas, cercanas y lejanas que desde un primer momento me acogieron, me abrazaron, me protegieron, me animaron, me escucharon, me sonrieron y creyeron en mi, porque sin todos/as ustedes la persona que escribe estas palabras no estaría en este lugar.

¿Qué viene ahora? No lo sé, sin embargo, mi intención es disfrutar del viaje de la mejor forma posible, recibiendo todo aquello que la vida me traiga con la mejor actitud, compasión  y sobre todo, con una serena postura de humildad y alegría. Observar con infinita curiosidad y ser feliz por el simple hecho de estar aquí y ahora. Esa es la idea!

Les Sapeurs

O, para los que no saben lo que son, la Sociedad de Personas Elegantes del Congo (Societe des Ambianceurs et Personnes Elegantes), que simplemente no se apegan a convencionalismos ni a restricciones de lugar, tiempo o recursos para ser quienes son. Solidaridad, Paz, Respeto, Alegría y Optimismo, sin importar la guerra o las dificultades de quienes viven en un continente que lo tiene todo y a la vez nada.

Me gustan estas frases: “In life, we cannot always choose what you do.  What you can always choose is Who you are“. “When there´s peace, there´s Sape and when there´s peace, there´s Life”.I´m the Master of my Fate. I am the Captain of My Soul“.

Me vino bien justo en estos días de cambios y transformaciones. No dependemos de donde, ni de cuanto ni de con quien. Nuestro estado lo decidimos nosotros en cada momento… Una potente reflexión sobre el estar en el presente en todo lo que hacemos. Disfruten e inspírense por favor: