Two friends saved my day today

I feel happy today because I had the opportunity to see a friend that I haven't seen in a long time. We had a good time walking back through all of those good and old memories.

Time flies, that's for sure, when you say "8 years" you think of it as a long time, but when you remember the things that have happened during that lapse, you realize that it's not really too much. We really enjoyed being together and I wish we had had more time to talk. Time is never enough when you are having a good time. My friend lives now in Ciudad Juarez and will be leaving next tuesday.

I am happy as well because today I received an e-mail from one of my dearest friends, with words of support and comprehension, now that I really need them on this situation I am going through.

It feels very good to have friends who think of me as I think of them, with love and respect.

Karma?

As I take a look inside me, I can see how naive I am to be almost 34.

Even though I've lived so many things, even though I've been to lots of different places, and even though I've met all kinds of people, I still think as youngster in regards to the world surronding me.

From time to time I find myself believing in the good will of people, to realize later on that perharps they only saw an opportunity to take advantage of me. I'm not stupid, a little unsuspecting, but not stupid at all. However, I always go back to believe in people's good intentions, it seems that I don't learn. It's probaby my karma :)

7/16

Well, today I woke up early. I feel like cleaning the house now that my wife is out for a few days. It is my opportunity to do it my way, just how I like it. I'll perform a deep cleaning to the bathroom, 'cause right now there's a lot of mold, mildew and soap stains all over the place. The WC has a lot of tartar, it looks really filth.

Then I'll have a little break to take a shower with my kids and have breakfast. We'll get ready to go to the company's pick nick around 10:00AM. Whenever we come back, I'll take care of the kitchen, it really needs a full clean up. After that I'll finish with the bedrooms.

This will be my relaxing therapy for today. I will really enjoy it! :)

My 2 cents

Every one needs someone. All we are looking for is a little affection. A little is enough once one has faced the suffering of being ignored by the world out there.

How fortunate are those who are important for someone. How fortunate are those who have at least a loyal friend. How fortunate are those who have found true love.

No more to say...

Special People

There is people who has left indelible marks in my life when our paths have coincided.

Today I feel like writing about these special persons that somehow have given me so much, perharps without knowing it, perharps with the full intention.

I feel so thankful that God has put them on my way and I pray to keep meeting more of such interesting people on my everyday life. Nobody can afford to miss the opportunity of finding out how wonderful the people around us is. There’s a lot of people gifted out there, that may have just what we need in a particular moment of our life. They may be walking just in front of us and we might not know. I’m thankful for those that I’ve got to know.

Maybe I am special on this way for someone and I don’t know, well, anyhow, right now I want to say just a name: Ernesto Roybal. -Muchas Gracias-

Relative

A couple of weeks ago, when I was coming back from Detroit almost arriving to Chihuahua, as I was looking through the airplane window, I started to think about the relativity of things.

From up there at more than 3,000 meters from the ground, everything down below seems so lonely, specially as we entered the desertic lands of Chihuahua with its endless ridge chains. If I was an alien comming from outer space, I might think that I'd hardly find intelligent life in a place like this.

When one is on the ground, things are a lot different. Everything seems to be too far away to go walking: parents home, shopping center, school, you name it. But from above those distances are nothing.

We are huge compared with a small bacteria but microscopic compared with the size of the planet. This made me remember the beggining of a poem from Arturo Limon (a writer from Chihuahua) on his book "Y sin embargo se mueve..."

"Soy un hombre, pequeña y grande criatura del Universo.
Tan simple, que mi masa no impacta al volúmen del cosmos,
pero tan grande que la concepción del mismo cabe dentro de mi... "

How deep that little fragment is.
And now, Do you understand what I meant at the begging with the term "relativity of things"?

Fragile, Handle with care

I'm pretty sure that most of us have witnessed at least once in our lives how fragile life is. When someone that we know dies suddenly, the fragility of life becomes more noticeable, as if we were blindfolded all of the time and then we are not any more.

As a veil that vanishes away we realize how easy it is to stop existing. Because in reality a person who dies is not any more among the ones that he/she used to love. There's no need for its body to breath or eat or feel. Simply, the person and its body are gone, or in other words he/she doesn't exist any more.

For instance, Napoleon Bonaparte died long time ago. Even though we know about him from history, no matter how passionate we remember him as a bad or a good guy, the fact is that he is not here with us, only his deeds. He existed once, but he doesn't exist any more.

This is rough and cold, but I had to put it as an example to make my point on this dissertation. It is really very easy to lose our life, so why don't we enjoy it and live it as it comes. Only our deeds will be remembered. All of our good intentions toward people and the world in general will be lost unless they become conscious acts from our part. Only what we were and did will remain.

I'll leave open to the belief of each one what happens after we die.