My two first entries to the blog where related with the subjects we saw in class: one was about Ernest Hemingway and the other about the article “You 2.0”. But also, through these works, I will talk about persons or characters that have been with me over very pleasant (and not so much) experiences I have lived, over facts and events that have impacted me. But all this, will always be related with my personal view and with the moral and intellectual relation I make with the rest of the people or things. And all this is born with my education and it is centered pure and exclusively on what is, until today, the hub of my life: my family. This is why it is my first personal theme I want to talk about. Because everything that comes up from now on, will always be related with them.
Growing and developing is not simple and I know that many times it is not very gratifying, but it’s not my case. Precisely because looking around me I can value more what I have. The solid and indestructible bases that I have acquired during these years are the ones that let me walk with confidence towards the future.
Sometimes, different circumstances make people go over situations that mark them in their growth, for example: my father is an only child of separate parents since he was three years old. He surely lived a lot of grieves and sadness over his childhood, but he learned about this and I also learn from him. Because, from this unfavorable facts, the person gets an apprenticeship or it starts being resentful. Surely, there will always be a deep sadness in my dad, but that never stopped him from being the honest, affectionate, responsible and excellent person he is today. It does not mean that everything is easy and simple, but the important thing is that further than all the discussions and the different point of views, I knew that his love and affection where always there for me.
He had everything in the economical aspect, but he suffered a lot with his feelings. However, he is what I can say “THE” father.
My mother, despite all the economic vicissitudes, had better times. With few material things, but with all the love, affect and respect of her family achieved all the things she had proposed to herself: she managed to do her secondary school in a nearby town, when she hadn’t in hers, she could grow as a person because of the invaluable help from my grandfather Telmo and my grandmother Eugenia. She got into the university and obtained her title in a city 150 km far from her town, working 12 hours a day and using all free time and vacations available to take the exams. And all that effort didn’t resented her, but made her valorize more everything she had gotten and what she become afterwards, using all that on what is today “MY MOM”.
As you can see, two life histories completely different and opposite. However a same result: two excellent persons for me. This teaches me that the adversities always exist in a way or another, but we must learn from them and in spite everything we can, and we must go on. My sister and I grew up in the bosom of a strong family, constantly compromised with all of our economic, spiritual and moral needs. Which, I’m sure guarantees us, conjunctly with education, acquire success in anything that we propose ourselves to do. It does not mean that the road would be easy and we would have a smooth path, but you know what? I can see myself reflected on Jaime Barilko’s thought. I don’t lose my way, the lines that demarcate it gave me confidence and I know precisely where I have to recourse to when I’m disoriented, because I have in my family the compass that will always take me to my destiny.
domingo, 18 de marzo de 2007
Ernest Hemingway - "Now I Lay Me"
By reading the story of Ernest Hemingway “Now I Lay Me”, it made me think that beyond the poetical part that we can find to the theme, there is a real part which generally is translated to plenty of complications for people that suffers it (referring to the central theme of the story that it is Insomnia).
Personally, by luck, I don’t suffer this problem, but particularly my father does. This has let me watch that if it is not treated with seriously, it transforms in a problem which influence very inauspiciously in the life of many people, as it diminish the labor and intellectual performance the next day.
At first, when this problem started being more pronounced, my father went to the doctor, who recommended a medication that helps him but does not totally eliminate the problem. With all these, he made a series of habits wich diminished the anxiety so he could relax and reconcile his sleep as soon as possible. Some of the techniques that he implements are based on not watching t.v. when it’s late at night and the first habit he modified is not turning it on in his bedroom before he goes to sleep. By the contrary, what he does is reading some book or publication so in that way, after some time relax and be able to sleep.
A healthy, balanced diet, like the one he practices over a year and a half, now that he has a declared diabetes, accompanied by regular and constant physical exercise have also helped him. But this is a problem that forces you not to be careless because apart from all the precautions that he takes, for the person that suffers it seriously, it’s always latent and it appears in front of any alteration.
This is simply an attempt of reflecting some of the facts that I’ve been able to rescue and to relate the story with what happens to my dad, so that maybe something of what he practices to solve it, can help someone who suffers it.
From what he tells me, although it seems contradicted, the worst thing that can happen to him in front of this situation is to be lying down. Because his mind starts to link subjects, problems and situations that he starts to think about and the possibility of concealing sleep gets difficult every time.
That is why he automatically gets up and starts doing some kind of activity different that can distract him and allows him not to center his mind on subjects that worries him. As soon as he can clear his mind a little bit, there he goes back to sleep and then, with luck (sometimes and others with not so many), he can go to sleep.
I hope that some of this can be useful to someone.
Personally, by luck, I don’t suffer this problem, but particularly my father does. This has let me watch that if it is not treated with seriously, it transforms in a problem which influence very inauspiciously in the life of many people, as it diminish the labor and intellectual performance the next day.
At first, when this problem started being more pronounced, my father went to the doctor, who recommended a medication that helps him but does not totally eliminate the problem. With all these, he made a series of habits wich diminished the anxiety so he could relax and reconcile his sleep as soon as possible. Some of the techniques that he implements are based on not watching t.v. when it’s late at night and the first habit he modified is not turning it on in his bedroom before he goes to sleep. By the contrary, what he does is reading some book or publication so in that way, after some time relax and be able to sleep.
A healthy, balanced diet, like the one he practices over a year and a half, now that he has a declared diabetes, accompanied by regular and constant physical exercise have also helped him. But this is a problem that forces you not to be careless because apart from all the precautions that he takes, for the person that suffers it seriously, it’s always latent and it appears in front of any alteration.
This is simply an attempt of reflecting some of the facts that I’ve been able to rescue and to relate the story with what happens to my dad, so that maybe something of what he practices to solve it, can help someone who suffers it.
From what he tells me, although it seems contradicted, the worst thing that can happen to him in front of this situation is to be lying down. Because his mind starts to link subjects, problems and situations that he starts to think about and the possibility of concealing sleep gets difficult every time.
That is why he automatically gets up and starts doing some kind of activity different that can distract him and allows him not to center his mind on subjects that worries him. As soon as he can clear his mind a little bit, there he goes back to sleep and then, with luck (sometimes and others with not so many), he can go to sleep.
I hope that some of this can be useful to someone.
You or your world?
Having reading the article “You or your world?” and commenting it with my mother, it came to her mind a book called “Cuando Nada Te Basta” of the author “Harold Kushner”. The main taught that the book has left to her was: it is not the happiest person the one who has everything, but the one who conforms with what he has. From there, she started rereading and I read for the first time that book. Now, I want to make some little reflections over the first part that I read and which is related to the first article we read in class of the section You 2.0
There are many questions that are established and are not easy to answer. For example: “Wanting to be happy is asking too much in life?”, “would it be that happiness as eternal youth or perpetual movement are an unreachable purpose, no matter how much we effort to reach it?”, “or is it possible that the man is happy but what happens is that he has taken the wrong path?”
Oscar Wild once wrote that: “In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not obtaining what we want, and the other is obtaining it”. What he tried to warn us is that no matter how much effort we put on doing things right, success would never leave us satisfied. When we reach to that point, after scarifying many things in pursuit of success, we understand that that wasn’t what we wanted.
Many times, while we watch television or a movie, we think how happy we would be if we had everything that appears there. But we would have to think why people that possesses all that, lots of times (or most of them), aren’t happy either. This proves us that although we see it constantly, where movies show us or the books tells us, the message never get to us. We always believe that if we had all the things that they have, we would be happy.
By the other hand, if the concept that we have of ourselves depend on our popularity and the opinion we deserve in front of the eyes of other people, we would always be liable to this other people.
This is why having the best car, the best house, the supposed best man or woman, never fulfills or ends fulfilling completely of happiness the life of people because evidently our souls do not need comfort, riches, or power. This gratifications creates almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are thirsty of sense and what they are eager for is the sensation that we have learnt to live in such way that our existence is important, so that the world is at least a little different by the fact that we have been through it.
These reflections I had with my mother while we read the book I wanted to share them with you as they are related with the article we read in class.
There are many questions that are established and are not easy to answer. For example: “Wanting to be happy is asking too much in life?”, “would it be that happiness as eternal youth or perpetual movement are an unreachable purpose, no matter how much we effort to reach it?”, “or is it possible that the man is happy but what happens is that he has taken the wrong path?”
Oscar Wild once wrote that: “In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not obtaining what we want, and the other is obtaining it”. What he tried to warn us is that no matter how much effort we put on doing things right, success would never leave us satisfied. When we reach to that point, after scarifying many things in pursuit of success, we understand that that wasn’t what we wanted.
Many times, while we watch television or a movie, we think how happy we would be if we had everything that appears there. But we would have to think why people that possesses all that, lots of times (or most of them), aren’t happy either. This proves us that although we see it constantly, where movies show us or the books tells us, the message never get to us. We always believe that if we had all the things that they have, we would be happy.
By the other hand, if the concept that we have of ourselves depend on our popularity and the opinion we deserve in front of the eyes of other people, we would always be liable to this other people.
This is why having the best car, the best house, the supposed best man or woman, never fulfills or ends fulfilling completely of happiness the life of people because evidently our souls do not need comfort, riches, or power. This gratifications creates almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are thirsty of sense and what they are eager for is the sensation that we have learnt to live in such way that our existence is important, so that the world is at least a little different by the fact that we have been through it.
These reflections I had with my mother while we read the book I wanted to share them with you as they are related with the article we read in class.
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