¿Vives el presente?
Nuestra vida está llena de experiencias que juzgamos como buenas y malas experiencias, muchas veces pensamos y juzgamos las cosas que suceden y nos lamentamos por las malas situaciones que pasamos buscando siempre una explicación, pero sólo cuando las consideramos malas, sin embargo cuando nos suceden cosas buenas nunca reflexionamos ni nos preguntamos ¿por qué a mí? ¿qué hice para merecer esta bendición? Una vez leí un libro llamado **"La muerte de Iván Ilich"** de **León Tolstoi (Lev Tolstoi)**. Trata de un exitoso abogado que, ante la inminencia de la muerte, reflexiona sobre su vida y cree que no la ha vivido como debiera porque está vacío y solo en su situación; Sin embargo, y a pesar de la dura trama sobre los acontecimientos que rodean su paso hacia la muerte, me doy cuenta de que analiza el vacío y la impotencia hacia lo que no podemos manejar, y no lo que manejamos y es una especie de pregunta de ¿por qué luchamos? ¿Y si pudiéramos tener una muerte mejor?
La vida y la muerte son hermanas en este mundo y si bien es cierto que cuando andamos de la mano de la primera siempre vemos lejos o negamos a la otra, siempre está ahí, esperando su turno para acompañarnos en el viaje hacia lo desconocido, por lo que vivir la vida en los pequeños micromundos que nos hemos hecho es un paso que muchas veces damos a ciegas y la mayoría de las veces mirando hacia nuestro pasado (que ya no está) o hacia nuestro futuro que siempre será incierto porque independientemente de las metas que tengamos, la muerte siempre estará esperando su turno.
Así que si cambiamos eso de recordar tantas cosas vividas y esa espera por lo que será mañana; por lo que está siendo hoy, por lo que estoy sintiendo hoy, agradeciendo cada momento que estamos viviendo en el presente y valoramos cada sonrisa y cada lágrima, viviendo intensamente cada éxito y cada derrota; levantándonos cada vez que nos caemos con la alegría de saber que estamos vivos, sintiendo la brisa acariciando nuestro rostro o la lluvia cayendo, así como el sol abrasador quemando nuestra piel cuando estamos expuestos; sabiendo que ciertamente no tenemos ninguna certeza de lo que será el mañana, pero sí sabemos que estamos viviendo el hoy y lo que estamos haciendo hoy. Porque nuestro paso por este mundo tiene un sentido para nosotros y tiene un sentido para los demás, pero ese sentido para nosotros es el que marca una existencia plena, es el paseo por este mundo estando en él, sin pertenecer a él .
Ayer vi la historia de un chico en un país latinoamericano que se dedicaba a hacer obras de caridad y murió atropellado en una carretera después de haber hecho su última obra de caridad, grabado en vídeo, el joven tenía sólo 27 años; si valoramos su vida desde nuestro punto de vista, según el que tengamos, podemos pensar que su vida servirá de ejemplo para muchos de que en poco tiempo se pueden hacer muchas cosas buenas; Por otro lado, si lo vemos desde otro punto de vista podemos pensar que lo hizo mal porque el día de mañana todo el mundo se olvidará de él y dejó de hacer muchas cosas por él, para dedicarse a la filantropía, y hay un tercer punto de vista que es la visión de sí mismo, para saber lo plena que era su vida en el momento de encontrarse con la hermana no deseada llamada muerte, que dice soy feliz con lo que estoy sintiendo y haciendo en este momento y no importa si mañana no lo soy porque mi hoy tiene todo lo que debe tener.
Tener sentido o no tenerlo en todo lo que hacemos es darle el valor que creemos que tiene según nuestras creencias y experiencias, a veces vivimos la vida sin sentido para nosotros solo pensando que significa algo para nuestra sociedad o nuestro entorno sin darnos cuenta de que realmente no estamos viviendo plenamente; entonces ¿qué es vivir plenamente?
En la actualidad, debido a la situación de la pandemia, muchas vidas han tenido un parón, es decir, muchas personas han dejado de vivir su vida pensando en continuar o normalizarla cuando todo acabe y en este momento hace más de un año que todo empezó, por lo tanto, si seguimos haciendo cosas o dejando de hacerlas, posponiéndolas para cuando todo acabe, deberíamos pensarlo mejor y cambiar esta forma de hacerlo, es decir, empezar a vivir la vida hoy, sin pensar en ese futuro que no sabemos si llegará y mucho menos cómo llegará.
Entonces, ¿tengo que vivir la vida como un loco? Vivir la vida hoy es cuando disfrutamos, sentimos, sufrimos y lloramos a cada momento por lo que está siendo y no por lo que será, cuando hacemos las cosas sabiendo que el hoy nos está dando resultados a veces inesperados pero que importa el proceso y no el resultado y que independientemente del mañana estamos siendo felices hoy, lo que no significa que hagamos cosas que destruyan un posible futuro.
¿Cómo se hace eso? Por ejemplo, en el momento de escribir estas palabras no estoy pensando en cuántas personas lo leerán, o si les gustará o no, o si creará polémica o no, y mucho menos en el impacto que pueda tener o no, simplemente lo estoy viviendo, disfrutando y sintiendo en cada pulsación que estoy dando, dejando fluir por mi mente los pensamientos que le siguen. También en el momento en que tomamos la decisión de hacer cosas que nunca hemos hecho pero que hemos querido hacer, porque quizás siempre hemos temido a lo desconocido y no nos arriesgamos por el qué dirán, siempre hemos estado atados a una forma de pensar que nos impide ver más allá, pues es en ese momento de explorar todas estas cosas cuando estamos viviendo el presente.
¿Qué estoy haciendo de forma diferente para llegar a estas experiencias? Estoy haciendo lo que me gusta y siempre he soñado hacer, que es dejar que mi mente se expanda y vaya más allá de lo físico, más allá de lo real, más allá de los sueños, teniendo como recompensa, la alegría de sentirme vivo en cada momento con cada palabra escrita, con cada imagen que pasa por mi mente, leyendo historias tan fascinantes como la vida de **Stephen Hawking** por ejemplo, que a los cuarenta años perdió por completo la movilidad pero logró ir más allá a través de su imaginación, quizás en una huida de la realidad que le subyugaba y logró muchas cosas, quizás sin proponérselo realmente, como **Ludwig Van Beethoven** que a pesar de su sordera logró crear la más bella sinfonía jamás escuchada, pero ¿qué creo que significó para él esa sinfonía? Porque si nos interiorizamos en su pasión y en sus vivencias porque no me interesa su legado cultural sino sus luchas internas, sus fantasmas y sus demonios, al igual que **Horacio Quiroga**, **Vincent Van Gogh** pero no visto desde el punto de vista psicológico sino espiritual y humano porque es una paradoja pensar que disfrutamos tanto de sus obras, pero no nos damos cuenta del ser humano que hay detrás de ellas y de la lucha que se estaba gestando en su interior, ni de la belleza de su mundo que a veces pensamos o juzgamos según la historia que nos han contado, diciéndonos que sigamos el ejemplo de cómo consiguió tanto con tan poco, o con tantas limitaciones o juzgando el suicidio de unos y la locura de otros, sin darnos cuenta de que, sólo vivieron y que quienes los hicieron iconos o símbolos, fuimos nosotros en muchos casos post mortem; es decir, a veces no fueron valorados por su tiempo o cultura, sino por otros tiempos y otras culturas.
A veces se nos vende como parte de la inmortalidad el hecho de dejar un legado, es decir que tenemos que vivir de tal o cual manera para hacerlo, pero ¿es justo que sacrifiquemos vivir nuestro presente para dejar un legado que quizás sólo sea apreciado por generaciones posteriores y que depende de que los valores culturales a los que se somete ese legado no cambien? porque si lo hacen, entonces estarías dejando un legado herético, ahora bien, si tu felicidad es el sacrificio del hoy en pos de un legado futuro entonces hazlo, sé feliz porque estamos hablando de vivir el hoy y ser felices hoy con lo que tenemos y lo que hacemos.
Espero que hayan disfrutado de estas locas divagaciones o desvaríos de un literato.
Do you live in the present?
Our life is full of experiences that we judge as good and bad experiences, many times we think and judge the things that happen and we lament for the bad situations that we go through always looking for an explanation, but only when we consider them bad, however when good things happen to us we never reflect or ask ourselves why me? what did I do to deserve this blessing? I once read a book called **"The Death of Ivan Ilyich"** by **Leon Tolstoy (Lev Tolstoy)**. It is about a successful lawyer who, facing imminent death, reflects on his life and believes that he has not lived it as he should have because he is empty and alone in his situation; However, and despite the hard plot about the events surrounding his passage towards death, I realize that it analyzes the emptiness and helplessness towards what we cannot handle, and not what we handle and it is a kind of question of why we fight? What if we could have a better death?
Life and death are sisters in this world and although it is true that when we walk in the hands of the first one we always see far away or deny the other, it is always there, waiting for its turn to accompany us on the journey into the unknown, so living life in the small micro worlds that we have made for ourselves is a step that we often take blindly and most of the time looking towards our past (which is no longer there) or towards our future that will always be uncertain because regardless of the goals we have, death will always be waiting for its turn.
So if we change this remembering so many things lived and this waiting for what tomorrow will be; for what today is being, for what I am feeling today, thanking every moment we are experiencing in the present and we value every smile and every tear, living intensely every success and every defeat; getting up every time we fall with the joy of knowing that we are alive, feeling the breeze caressing our face or the rain falling, as well as the scorching sun burning our skin when we are exposed; knowing that we certainly do not have any certainty of what tomorrow will be, but we do know that we are experiencing today and what we are doing today. Because our passage through this world has a meaning for us and it has a meaning for others, but that meaning for us is the one that marks a full existence, it is the walk through this world being in it, without belonging to it .
Yesterday I saw the story of a boy in a Latin American country who was dedicated to do charitable works and was killed when he was run over on a highway after having done his last charity work, recorded on video, the young man was only 27 years old; if we value his life from our point of view, depending on which one we have, we can think that his life will serve as an example for many that in a short time many good things can be done; On the other hand, if we see it from another point of view we can think that he did it wrong because tomorrow everyone will forget him and he stopped doing many things for him, to devote himself to philanthropy, and there is a third point of view that is the vision of himself, to know how full his life was at the time of meeting the unwanted sister called death, which says I am happy with what I am feeling and doing at this moment and it does not matter if tomorrow I am not because my today has everything it should have.
To have meaning or not to have meaning in everything we do is to give it the value that we think it has according to our beliefs and experience, sometimes we live life without meaning for us only thinking that it means something for our society or our environment without realizing that we are not really living fully; so what is living fully?
At present, due to the situation of the pandemic, many lives have had a stop, that is to say, many people have stopped living their lives thinking about continuing or normalizing it when everything ends and at this moment it has been more than a year since everything started, therefore, if we are still doing things or not doing things, postponing them for when everything ends, we should think about it better and change this way of doing it, that is to say, start living life today, without thinking about that future that we do not know if it will come and much less how it will come.
So, do I have to live life like crazy? Living life today is when we enjoy, feel, suffer and cry every moment for what is being and not for what will be, when we do things knowing that today are giving us sometimes unexpected results but the process matters and not the result and that regardless of tomorrow we are being happy today, which does not mean that we do things that destroy a possible future.
How is that done? For example at the moment of writing these words I am not thinking about how many people will read it, or if they will like it or not, or if it will create controversy or not, much less in the impact it may have or not, I am simply living it, enjoying and feeling in every keystroke I am giving, letting flow through my mind the thoughts that follow. Also at the moment that we make the decision to do things we have never done but have wanted to do, because perhaps we have always feared the unknown and do not take risks for what people will say, we have always been tied to a way of thinking that prevents us from seeing beyond, because it is at that moment of exploring all these things that we are living the present.
What am I doing differently to reach these experiences? I am doing what I like to do and have always dreamed of doing, which is to let my mind expand and go beyond the physical, beyond the real, beyond dreams, having as a reward, the joy of feeling alive at every moment with every written word, with every image that passes through my mind, reading stories as fascinating as the life of **Stephen Hawking** for example, who at about forty years old lost his mobility completely but managed to go beyond through his imagination, perhaps in an escape from the reality that subjugated him and achieved many things, perhaps without really proposing it, like **Ludwig Van Beethoven** who despite his deafness managed to create the most beautiful symphony ever heard, but what do I think that symphony meant to him? Because if we interiorize in his passion and in his experiences because I am not interested in his cultural legacy but in his internal struggles, his ghosts and his demons, as well as **Horacio Quiroga**, **Vincent Van Gogh** but not seen from the psychological point of view but rather spiritual and human because it is a paradox to think that we enjoy his works so much, but we do not realize the human being behind them and the struggle that was brewing inside him, nor the beauty of his world that sometimes we think or judge according to the story that we have been told, telling us to follow the example of how he achieved so much with so little, or with so many limitations or judging the suicide of some and the madness of others, without realizing that, they only lived and that those who made them icons or symbols, were us in many cases post mortem; that is to say, sometimes they were not valued by their time or culture, but by other times and other cultures.
Sometimes we are sold as part of immortality the fact of leaving a legacy, that is to say that we have to live in this or that way to do it, but is it fair that we sacrifice living our present to leave a legacy that may only be appreciated by later generations and that depends on the cultural values to which this legacy is subjected not to change, because if they do, then you would be leaving a heretic legacy, now if your happiness is the sacrifice of today in pursuit of a future legacy then do it, be happy because we are talking about living today and being happy today with what we have and what we do.
I hope you have enjoyed these crazy ramblings or blurts of a literary man.
The perfect world of noise.cash, a utopian reflection
I was thinking about the noise.cash rules that have bothered some of us because we feel it takes away our freedom a little bit or we simply resist change, then I see the results and my conclusion is:
We have a community where we can indeed write whatever we want about the topic we are passionate about, without violence, without exaggerated sensuality, without attacking our peers; yes we disagree, yes we think differently, yes we discuss those differences but with respect for each other.
How wonderful! I think and why don't we extrapolate this, to the world out there? To our neighbors, to our community. It would be the perfect society.
Let's imagine this situation: we live in a free society where we can do what we want but if we fully follow the rules of coexistence we will be rewarded; otherwise we will not be punished (of course crimes are punished) but neither will we be privileged with those tangible gifts and without a doubt we will live better and in community. I know that many will think, "that is dictatorship" "single thinking"; I say, are we not equally governed by norms and rules where we are equally limited and most of the times, we are only punished? Where sometimes the only motivation we have to do or not to do is fear? In this utopian society born from my imagination, there is no distinction of race, creed, religion, sex, or thought and the only rule to be rewarded is respect for others, and in addition you can come and go and go whenever you want.
Could it be that the psychology of behaviorism was right? Is it that as obedient children we do our homework quickly and nicely, to get that chocolate?
What similar experiments do you know of? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of such a society?
El mundo perfecto de noise.cash, una utópica reflexión.
Estaba pensando acerca de las reglas de noise.cash que a algunos nos ha molestado porque sentimos que nos quita un poco la libertad o simplemente nos resistimos al cambio, entonces veo los resultados y mi conclusión es:
Tenemos una comunidad donde efectivamente podemos escribir lo que queramos acerca del tema que nos apasiona, sin violencia, sin sensualidad exagerada, sin ataque a nuestros compañeros; sí disentimos, sí pensamos diferente, sí discutimos ésas diferencias pero con respeto al otro.
Que maravilla! Pienso y porque no extrapolamos esto, al mundo de allá afuera? A nuestros vecinos, a nuestra comunidad. Sería la sociedad perfecta!.
Imaginemos está situación: vivimos en una sociedad libre donde podemos hacer lo que queremos pero si seguimos a cabalidad las reglas de convivencia seremos premiados; de lo contrario no seremos castigados (por supuesto los delitos son castigados) pero tampoco privilegiados con ésos regalos tangibles y sin duda viviremos mejor y en comunidad. Sé que muchos pensarán pero, "eso es dictadura" "pensamiento único"; yo digo, no estamos igualmente regidos por normas y reglas dónde igualmente nos limitan y la mayoría de las veces, solo nos sanciona? Dónde a veces la única motivación que tenemos para hacer o dejar de hacer es el temor? En esta sociedad utópica parida por mi imaginación, no hay distingo de raza, credo, religión, sexo, ni pensamiento y la única norma para ser premiados es el respeto a los demás,y por añadidura puedes salir y entrar e ir y venir siempre que quieras.
Será que la psicólogia del conductismo tenía razón? Será que como niños obedientes hacemos la tarea rápido y bonita, para obtener ese chocolate?
Que experimentos conocen ustedes parecidos? Cuáles serían las ventajas y desventajas de una sociedad semejante?
Noise.cash Bch and technology changing lives and connecting people.
I got to know noise.cash through a Venezuelan Youtuber and at first glance it seemed to me that it was another platform, however I started using it by sharing small reviews and logging in daily. So soon after I realized that it was different because they reward us for our interactions, we can meet people from all over the world. Seeing this, I continue my experience on the platform and organize simple raffles to share tips and meet more people because it seemed like a good and widely used strategy, so two months or so go by, that's when they do a kind of content quality review , of which I hardly even find out and it is only until I stop receiving rewards that I realize that something is happening. At first I found this review shocking and I said to myself: but why? If not, it is in the rules and I was about to leave, and that my content was not prohibited, nor blocked, I think it was not qualified, and if it was I never knew. Two days later I had my Free tips back; But something had been gestated in me, something had changed because I was already valuing those rewards more, which although it is true there are not many, it is also true that I had been doing little or almost nothing to increase them. So, with 260 subscribers, I informed them that from now on I wouldn't have any more giveaways, but would share the rewards for published content. From that moment it is that I really begin to know the profiles of my friends as I consider them, and the first thing I realize is that most of them are from Asia (Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan among others) and I read their posts , their stories, their dreams, their needs and at the time of writing this article, it has been the cry that has inspired me, yes because I read two beautiful articles: The first from a teacher from Philippines who tells her struggles and dreams with her husband and daughter and how noise.cash has helped them and then I read An article by a Bangladeshi mother who describes her concerns, and her expectations and even a project for BCH to reach low-income people without internet access, or SmartPhones. Today at the end of that reading I reflected, that in this wide world in which we live separated by cultures and kilometers apart, we are more united than ever because of everything that makes us human and thanks to technology and projects like noise.cash we can recognize and reconnect with each other and share those dreams, that beauty, that love and cry with emotion and laugh with joy over achievements that are not alien because they belong to our brothers in the world.
Thanks for reading this inspiration, dedicated to: Jannatariba and Zhyne06
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