"Uruguay at all costs" in February
In February we are part of program activities "Uruguay at all costs" the Ministry of Tourism and Sport. We performed in Parque del Plata, in the Civic Center that spa.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
How Many Calories In Home Made Stir Fried Noodles
How perseución react to the religious?
few weeks ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a statement that I was quite revealing: "The Christians are now the religious group that suffers the greatest number of persecution because of their faith. (...) In other regions there are more quiet and sophisticated forms of prejudice and position towards the believers and religious symbols. All this is not acceptable, because it is an affront to God and human dignity is also a threat to security and peace, and prevents the execution of an authentic integral human development "(Message for World Day of Peace 8-XII-2010).
Also, around Christmas and in recent days, the Pope has been pointing to specific nations where Christians are persecuted, threatened or killed, as For example, in some Islamic countries.
Even in certain regions of the world, it seems that the civil authorities seek to crush or wipe out the religious convictions of believers. In others, create internal divisions, as with the case of China where the Communist government has created a kind of Catholic Church "parallel" and which is intended to award the right to appoint bishops and priests to manipulate, making ignore appointments to the hierarchy that makes the Vatican, in authentic and faithful to the uninterrupted succession coming from the Twelve Apostles.
This reminds me of the days of Christ War in our country, when President Plutarco Elias Calles, in its zeal to stamp out Catholicism, appointed Patriarch Perez, to chair the "Mexican Catholic Church, which was not an emulation of what made Adolf Hitler-leader Streets on the particular admiration felt by erecting the "German Catholic Church" to impose their personal views and openly challenging the guidelines of the German bishops and the Holy See.
But there are other more subtle forms of attacks on religions to respect the Pope, for example in France, which seeks to prohibit Moslem women wear the Islamic veil to complete you need to extend it to the members of the Jewish people in order that no visibly carry the Star of David and, ultimately, to take this measure to ban crucifixes also be placed in the classrooms of Catholic schools or public places being that the French people have a deep Christian roots and centuries.
know that the right to profess a religion, whatever it is essential for the full exercise of freedom of every woman and every man. Throughout the history of humanity, when we have tried to trample the right of priority, have committed serious abuses against human dignity. Karol Wojtyla
, the future Pope John Paul II, in his memoirs and memories as a priest, tells in detail how during the Second World War and then after the war, he and other Polish seminarians who wanted to conduct studies of philosophy and theology to receive priestly ordination, they were forced to receive these classes in private homes. And it had to be constantly changing homes by fierce persecution from both the Nazis and then schemes with the Communists.
"Religious freedom is not the prerogative of believers continues to expose Benedict XVI, but the entire family of nations of the earth. Is an essential element of the rule of law; can not be denied without damage while the other rights and fundamental freedoms, as is its synthesis and its summit. "
Clearly if religious freedom is denied, it is easy to fall into the totalitarian temptation of the denial of other rights. Thus, there is nothing more civilized in a country how to live with respect and healthy pluralism with believers of different religions. When you breathe the air of freedom, strengthens the rule of law.
Moreover, the "haters of God," in almost all cases, unaware that the true "temple" is carried into the hearts of believers and is not merely buildings of church buildings.
give an example. When Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin came to power, made the unjust decision to destroy practically all churches with bulldozers in the area of \u200b\u200bUkraine, where many Catholics lived. And, not content with this, hundreds of them (the East German, Polish, Ukrainian ...) the deported Kazajtán (country located almost on the border with China) in order to completely eradicate the Christian faith.
In 1989, with the collapse of Marxist-Leninist system, some even think that in these regions there was no Catholic. In the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, priests began arriving soon to restart the work of evangelization. Older people came to the priests, with distrust and suspicion, and asked if they came from Rome, if they obeyed the Pope, if they lived apostolic celibacy, poverty, etc.
In finding that the answers were affirmative, they told the clerics that their faith was kept alive, had retained some bricks in the houses of those churches destroyed. On Sundays, they gathered at the home of a loyal, they laid the bricks on a table and around it-with their old missals, followed with devotion the prayers of the Mass and, ultimately, a lack of Eucharist made a Spiritual Communion. And this tradition is passed from generation to generation. So that the flame of faith burning continued, perhaps with more intensity, precisely for that environment so adverse and hostile.
Another bishop who came to Russia, asked the faithful what he most desired. Mind that first impression, he thought they would ask food, medicine, clothes ... However, the unanimous response was that they longed to have Bibles to read and meditate on the Word of God and other spiritual books.
A priest friend of mine, which currently holds his pastoral work in Moscow, told me that he was surprised and delighted to be observed filled the churches, particularly of young people.
But how to react to persecution? First, by praying and following the example of Jesus Christ, forgiving and praying for the conversion of these persecutors. Then, take an active part in civic life para-through peaceful means, dialogue, conciliation and democratic opening is looking to defend and promote laws to respect religious freedom. This topic will not be inaction or neglect of duty.
Finally, do apostolate and bring souls to God. Some people mistakenly think that it is the sole task of priests, nuns and missionaries. It leaves to be a comfortable position, too. The reality is that all lay people, by the mere fact of being baptized, so solemnly proclaimed the Second Vatican Council and in the midst of our daily work, of family and social relations, we have the right and duty to influence willingly positive effect on others, spiritual horizons open up, to share the joy of discovering the wonder of being friends of God.
Because if every Christian or Christian seeks to influence his small circle of colleagues in the daily work with loved ones or friends, this behavior has a multiplier effect, as the rock-fall in the lake, the ripples formed and are spreading, and all that just by re-Christianize the environment or society. That was precisely the example we have received of the Early Christians: for the second century and were widespread throughout the Mediterranean basin because they had great faith, an entrepreneurial spirit and great courage and boldness, virtues, no doubt, we imitate this critical juncture of our time.
few weeks ago, Pope Benedict XVI made a statement that I was quite revealing: "The Christians are now the religious group that suffers the greatest number of persecution because of their faith. (...) In other regions there are more quiet and sophisticated forms of prejudice and position towards the believers and religious symbols. All this is not acceptable, because it is an affront to God and human dignity is also a threat to security and peace, and prevents the execution of an authentic integral human development "(Message for World Day of Peace 8-XII-2010).
Also, around Christmas and in recent days, the Pope has been pointing to specific nations where Christians are persecuted, threatened or killed, as For example, in some Islamic countries.
Even in certain regions of the world, it seems that the civil authorities seek to crush or wipe out the religious convictions of believers. In others, create internal divisions, as with the case of China where the Communist government has created a kind of Catholic Church "parallel" and which is intended to award the right to appoint bishops and priests to manipulate, making ignore appointments to the hierarchy that makes the Vatican, in authentic and faithful to the uninterrupted succession coming from the Twelve Apostles.
This reminds me of the days of Christ War in our country, when President Plutarco Elias Calles, in its zeal to stamp out Catholicism, appointed Patriarch Perez, to chair the "Mexican Catholic Church, which was not an emulation of what made Adolf Hitler-leader Streets on the particular admiration felt by erecting the "German Catholic Church" to impose their personal views and openly challenging the guidelines of the German bishops and the Holy See.
But there are other more subtle forms of attacks on religions to respect the Pope, for example in France, which seeks to prohibit Moslem women wear the Islamic veil to complete you need to extend it to the members of the Jewish people in order that no visibly carry the Star of David and, ultimately, to take this measure to ban crucifixes also be placed in the classrooms of Catholic schools or public places being that the French people have a deep Christian roots and centuries.
know that the right to profess a religion, whatever it is essential for the full exercise of freedom of every woman and every man. Throughout the history of humanity, when we have tried to trample the right of priority, have committed serious abuses against human dignity. Karol Wojtyla
, the future Pope John Paul II, in his memoirs and memories as a priest, tells in detail how during the Second World War and then after the war, he and other Polish seminarians who wanted to conduct studies of philosophy and theology to receive priestly ordination, they were forced to receive these classes in private homes. And it had to be constantly changing homes by fierce persecution from both the Nazis and then schemes with the Communists.
"Religious freedom is not the prerogative of believers continues to expose Benedict XVI, but the entire family of nations of the earth. Is an essential element of the rule of law; can not be denied without damage while the other rights and fundamental freedoms, as is its synthesis and its summit. "
Clearly if religious freedom is denied, it is easy to fall into the totalitarian temptation of the denial of other rights. Thus, there is nothing more civilized in a country how to live with respect and healthy pluralism with believers of different religions. When you breathe the air of freedom, strengthens the rule of law.
Moreover, the "haters of God," in almost all cases, unaware that the true "temple" is carried into the hearts of believers and is not merely buildings of church buildings.
give an example. When Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin came to power, made the unjust decision to destroy practically all churches with bulldozers in the area of \u200b\u200bUkraine, where many Catholics lived. And, not content with this, hundreds of them (the East German, Polish, Ukrainian ...) the deported Kazajtán (country located almost on the border with China) in order to completely eradicate the Christian faith.
In 1989, with the collapse of Marxist-Leninist system, some even think that in these regions there was no Catholic. In the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, priests began arriving soon to restart the work of evangelization. Older people came to the priests, with distrust and suspicion, and asked if they came from Rome, if they obeyed the Pope, if they lived apostolic celibacy, poverty, etc.
In finding that the answers were affirmative, they told the clerics that their faith was kept alive, had retained some bricks in the houses of those churches destroyed. On Sundays, they gathered at the home of a loyal, they laid the bricks on a table and around it-with their old missals, followed with devotion the prayers of the Mass and, ultimately, a lack of Eucharist made a Spiritual Communion. And this tradition is passed from generation to generation. So that the flame of faith burning continued, perhaps with more intensity, precisely for that environment so adverse and hostile.
Another bishop who came to Russia, asked the faithful what he most desired. Mind that first impression, he thought they would ask food, medicine, clothes ... However, the unanimous response was that they longed to have Bibles to read and meditate on the Word of God and other spiritual books.
A priest friend of mine, which currently holds his pastoral work in Moscow, told me that he was surprised and delighted to be observed filled the churches, particularly of young people.
But how to react to persecution? First, by praying and following the example of Jesus Christ, forgiving and praying for the conversion of these persecutors. Then, take an active part in civic life para-through peaceful means, dialogue, conciliation and democratic opening is looking to defend and promote laws to respect religious freedom. This topic will not be inaction or neglect of duty.
Finally, do apostolate and bring souls to God. Some people mistakenly think that it is the sole task of priests, nuns and missionaries. It leaves to be a comfortable position, too. The reality is that all lay people, by the mere fact of being baptized, so solemnly proclaimed the Second Vatican Council and in the midst of our daily work, of family and social relations, we have the right and duty to influence willingly positive effect on others, spiritual horizons open up, to share the joy of discovering the wonder of being friends of God.
Because if every Christian or Christian seeks to influence his small circle of colleagues in the daily work with loved ones or friends, this behavior has a multiplier effect, as the rock-fall in the lake, the ripples formed and are spreading, and all that just by re-Christianize the environment or society. That was precisely the example we have received of the Early Christians: for the second century and were widespread throughout the Mediterranean basin because they had great faith, an entrepreneurial spirit and great courage and boldness, virtues, no doubt, we imitate this critical juncture of our time.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Volunteer Completion Letter Template
Winners: A novel about overcoming addictions
note in the society of our time, they are many emotional disturbances manifested in anorexia, bulimia, addiction to alcohol, drugs, Internet, video games ... Consumption of barbiturates in Mexico has increased at an alarming rate and, unfortunately, is increasingly common for young people die in car accidents and alcohol abuse.
Other times we find ourselves professionals, who aspire to have a meteoric career success and resort to different drugs to yield more labor, but in the end, the body passes its destructive and relentless bill.
No less serious is the situation of instability in the behavior of aborted women. Psychiatry has been characterized as the "post-abortion syndrome." O
called "dry drunk syndrome", ie people who had made a point to stop drinking, but as there are medical indications and inside are not entirely persuaded of their determination, they go to other addictions, such as snuff smoking excessively, gamble or go frequently to gambling, fantasy and start businesses outside the Actually, having a long series of affairs. These patients report that never before had this type of behavior until, with help from her doctor, are persuaded that the root of the problem is that his mind kept turning obsessively around alcohol.
Originally, Dr. Ernesto Bolio-renowned psychiatrist, and I thought to write a treatise on this kind of emotional.
But we thought it might be most striking in the present novel form of various characters that show us all their troubles, their physical and moral sufferings, fears, loneliness and uncertainty.
characters are deliberately close to our everyday reality of flesh and bone, which might be an acquaintance of ours, a friend, family member with this disorder and often do not know how to help.
This book shows how it is used in the treatment of psychotherapy, feedback sessions, the key ideas of these diseases, for example, that are binding, they do not respect age, sex or nationality, you have to lifetime and, periodically, we must be going with the specialist and the meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous for the proper maintenance and avoid painful relapses.
The protagonist, Armando Gutierrez, is a successful TV host, who works under a lot of stress until late at night, with virtually no rest on weekends. Go to the consumption of cocaine to keep this frantic pace, until it happens as expected: in the middle has a recording session and left hemiplegic stroke.
then is taken to a hospital, out of his serious condition, and is necessary to be admitted to a psychiatric clinic to quit their addiction, rehabilitation and has give an approach to disability.
This popular TV host is the theme of the novel that is featuring other characters from the Psychiatric: Toño, a young man who was engaged in drug dealing, Marcela, a teenager with apparent problem of lesbianism but claimed that deep affection his parents, Luis, a young man who consumed illicit drugs, and suffered irreversible brain damage, Daniel, a professional who suffered the trauma of the suicide of a brother and a pathologically possessive mother, Elijah, a young man living in lies and deception ( pathological liar), Lucy, who asserted that extremely obese looked in the mirror, but his physique was almost cadaverous, due to anorexia, "Tachito", a teenager who started with the addiction to the internet and video games and eventually became addicted to the "disqualification" Ulises an artist who suffered from hallucinations due to violence Domestic ...
In preparing this paper I interviewed numerous psychiatrists and patients in Spain and Mexico. I collected valuable evidence to present to the public, while respecting their privacy and the dose of literary creation logic to preserve their anonymity.
But this is not a book merely complaint. The approach we have tried to give you is to overcome personal. Because what this novel shows us that inner world of his characters: their struggles, their fall, their mistakes, to see how they get up after his apparent failures and resume, with new vigor, his desire to improve and to avoid making the same errors.
Similarly, the novel "Winners" has helped us to present a modern trend of Psychiatry. Ie not enough merely to recommend psychotherapy or the patient to take certain drugs, but encourage him to aspire to have values \u200b\u200band virtues, to have a sound basis for overcoming their addictions.
therefore referred to the need to rely on a Supreme Being and to build on the person transcendent values. They proposed to patients that, if corrected his ravings, can you regain your self-esteem and well as men return to work, your family and contribute to the common good of society.
In short, these plants can once again have great ideals in their lives, to be leaders. Both Dr. Ernesto Bolio and I have witnessed countless cases of patients who gave a strong and determined will achieve personal battle to overcome their problems. Therefore, we have not hesitated to title this novel: "Victors" (1).
(1) Bolio, and Ernesto Espinoza, Raul, Winners, Panorama Editorial, Mexico, 2011. 238 pages. You can buy prestigious bookstores
note in the society of our time, they are many emotional disturbances manifested in anorexia, bulimia, addiction to alcohol, drugs, Internet, video games ... Consumption of barbiturates in Mexico has increased at an alarming rate and, unfortunately, is increasingly common for young people die in car accidents and alcohol abuse.
Other times we find ourselves professionals, who aspire to have a meteoric career success and resort to different drugs to yield more labor, but in the end, the body passes its destructive and relentless bill.
No less serious is the situation of instability in the behavior of aborted women. Psychiatry has been characterized as the "post-abortion syndrome." O
called "dry drunk syndrome", ie people who had made a point to stop drinking, but as there are medical indications and inside are not entirely persuaded of their determination, they go to other addictions, such as snuff smoking excessively, gamble or go frequently to gambling, fantasy and start businesses outside the Actually, having a long series of affairs. These patients report that never before had this type of behavior until, with help from her doctor, are persuaded that the root of the problem is that his mind kept turning obsessively around alcohol.
Originally, Dr. Ernesto Bolio-renowned psychiatrist, and I thought to write a treatise on this kind of emotional.
But we thought it might be most striking in the present novel form of various characters that show us all their troubles, their physical and moral sufferings, fears, loneliness and uncertainty.
characters are deliberately close to our everyday reality of flesh and bone, which might be an acquaintance of ours, a friend, family member with this disorder and often do not know how to help.
This book shows how it is used in the treatment of psychotherapy, feedback sessions, the key ideas of these diseases, for example, that are binding, they do not respect age, sex or nationality, you have to lifetime and, periodically, we must be going with the specialist and the meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous for the proper maintenance and avoid painful relapses.
The protagonist, Armando Gutierrez, is a successful TV host, who works under a lot of stress until late at night, with virtually no rest on weekends. Go to the consumption of cocaine to keep this frantic pace, until it happens as expected: in the middle has a recording session and left hemiplegic stroke.
then is taken to a hospital, out of his serious condition, and is necessary to be admitted to a psychiatric clinic to quit their addiction, rehabilitation and has give an approach to disability.
This popular TV host is the theme of the novel that is featuring other characters from the Psychiatric: Toño, a young man who was engaged in drug dealing, Marcela, a teenager with apparent problem of lesbianism but claimed that deep affection his parents, Luis, a young man who consumed illicit drugs, and suffered irreversible brain damage, Daniel, a professional who suffered the trauma of the suicide of a brother and a pathologically possessive mother, Elijah, a young man living in lies and deception ( pathological liar), Lucy, who asserted that extremely obese looked in the mirror, but his physique was almost cadaverous, due to anorexia, "Tachito", a teenager who started with the addiction to the internet and video games and eventually became addicted to the "disqualification" Ulises an artist who suffered from hallucinations due to violence Domestic ...
In preparing this paper I interviewed numerous psychiatrists and patients in Spain and Mexico. I collected valuable evidence to present to the public, while respecting their privacy and the dose of literary creation logic to preserve their anonymity.
But this is not a book merely complaint. The approach we have tried to give you is to overcome personal. Because what this novel shows us that inner world of his characters: their struggles, their fall, their mistakes, to see how they get up after his apparent failures and resume, with new vigor, his desire to improve and to avoid making the same errors.
Similarly, the novel "Winners" has helped us to present a modern trend of Psychiatry. Ie not enough merely to recommend psychotherapy or the patient to take certain drugs, but encourage him to aspire to have values \u200b\u200band virtues, to have a sound basis for overcoming their addictions.
therefore referred to the need to rely on a Supreme Being and to build on the person transcendent values. They proposed to patients that, if corrected his ravings, can you regain your self-esteem and well as men return to work, your family and contribute to the common good of society.
In short, these plants can once again have great ideals in their lives, to be leaders. Both Dr. Ernesto Bolio and I have witnessed countless cases of patients who gave a strong and determined will achieve personal battle to overcome their problems. Therefore, we have not hesitated to title this novel: "Victors" (1).
(1) Bolio, and Ernesto Espinoza, Raul, Winners, Panorama Editorial, Mexico, 2011. 238 pages. You can buy
Monday, January 17, 2011
Bf Gf Quotes, Sayings
Sunday, January 16, 2011
What If My Pinky Toe Itches
Jim Morrison: a "fallen hero" of the rock generation
In the summer of 1966, my high school psychology teacher went to California to take a few refresher courses in their specialty. He returned in early 1967 as we were quite friends, I went to talk with him to his office to tell me their impressions. I remember asking:
- What's new in San Francisco?
Without hesitation he replied:
"-The hippie movement. Proclaim the old ideas of utopian socialism and free love, live in small communities, maintain an open opposition to almost all the provisions of the present society, visten de modo estrafalario (según ellos, más “natural”) y consumen diversos tipos de drogas, desde marihuana hasta estupefacientes más fuertes como la heroína y la cocaína. Han hecho del Pop Rock su bandera para expandir su ideología que la denominan “Psicodélica”. Lo que más me sorprende, es que este movimiento se está extendiendo rápidamente entre algunos jóvenes de muchos estados de norteamérica”.
Este relato se me quedó hondamente grabado por las inmediatas consecuencias posteriores: como era costumbre que un buen número de estudiantes mexicanos se fueran a tomar cursos de inglés durante las vacaciones, en poco tiempo, cientos de nuestros jóvenes were influenced by this movement and many returned significantly changed because it became fashionable to take drugs, usually mixed with alcohol. At this behavior is colloquially called "be cool" or "be lightened."
were placed as icons or idols to musicians, singers, Pop Rock guitarists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, or groups, such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, Cream,
Pink Floyd ... "-The U.S. group revelation of 1967 has been with The Doors singer Jim Morrison, are excellent musicians!," a friend told me recently arrived from Los Angeles where he had been studying for several years.
recognize that many of the songs I liked the aforementioned groups. Melodies were musically accomplished because some of them had gone through the Conservatory of Music but sometimes the lyrics of their songs conveyed his philosophy of life.
But I would like to focus on Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors. The year 2011 marks 40 years of his death from a heroin overdose. I deliberately wanted to advance, before starting the memorial tributes on this popular singer, to objectively analyze his life and his career.
This group The Doors "was released in 1966, and properly his fame started in 1967 with his hit "Light My Fire", until 1971. In most of the lyrics of songs of their poet and singer, Jim Morrison, have a dramatic tone, despairing, fatalistic, hedonistic, poetry reminds me of so-called "damned poet" of the nineteenth-century French literature, as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. In his song "The End" says the so-called "Oedipus complex", which analyzed in detail the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.
We know that Morrison was an autodidact and a relentless bookworm. He was influenced by authors such as Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac, William Blake and special form Aldous Huxley, who recommended the use of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD.
I never understand the attitudes of Morrison on stage, facing the audience, because he used to act in a exotic, bizarre. I always had the impression that in the midst of their desperate search for pleasure, a character was terribly lonely, solitary confinement and dissatisfied with his life: the drugs were his escape.
Because he knew that Morrison used alcohol and hard drugs and their music revolved obsessively around the destruction, death, to an existence without meaning or values. I was also influenced by the "Beat Generation" in the early fifties, who proclaimed nihilism and seeking to experiment with drugs to achieve originality in artistic creation.
Likewise, I believe that the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, also managed to sink in its approach to life. For Sartre, at the absurdity of human existence and the fact that "we are beings inevitably destined to die," the only viable and endurable of this "dead end" is the immediate pleasure, which is presented as "here today and now. "
Morrison wrote some great tunes from Pop Rock, considered classics, but had an unexpected ending in Paris, when death surprised him because of his excesses of barbiturates and anarchic and chaotic life.
not stop calling attention to his artistic career lasted little more than five years and was cut slightly at age 27. Some believe he committed suicide, but is a non-confirmed. I think the epitaph on his grave in France, sums up its turbulent inner world: "Everyone has their own demon."
last year recalled the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Also overdose. To these are added a long list of rock superstars, "as Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones Kurt Cobian, Robert Johnson ... All of them also died very young and with a bright future ahead for their undeniable artistic talents.
Others have been detained on several occasions, rehabilitation centers and drug detoxification as the sophistication of The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. Many others were left with irreversible brain and organ damage.
One of those featured guitarists, Eric Clapton, in his song "Strange Mix" gives the impression that not only sings but desperately yells his generation, who have been driven by the self-destructive world of drugs. Sings: "I say you want to 'experience' with a new mix of drugs, what kind of fool are you? Do not you realize that you're risking their lives? "
Many young people from different countries, who follow their idols of rock and ventured into the use of barbiturates, were killed, others were too emotional and fell an uncontrollable addiction. Recently
a renowned psychiatrist told me that addictions are compulsive. And in many cases, when a person is fond of alcohol or drugs, lose control, no longer master of himself and tends to be practically the whole day thinking about how return to their addiction. Only through humility to ask for help, carefully follow the medical advice and appropriate treatment of psychotherapy, can go back and move forward. Knowing also that this addiction will remain in their behavior for life and, if neglected, can have a severe relapse.
Right now being debated in Mexico and other countries the issue of legalization of drugs and, in certain circles of young people and in some clubs in our country, has turned into fashion immoderate consumption of alcohol and of some drugs, I think that is good to take stock of what happened to those "heroes Fallen Pop Rock and how many young people who imitated their lives destroyed, dashed his studies and, therefore, his career, damaged their families, their courtship and marriage, their children emotionally affected ... A very close
the "superstar" of rock, Jimi Hendrix (who died of an overdose in 1970) revealed the following: "I do not know why you have so much admiration. In the end, fell sharply in its artistic quality. He was my friend and visited him frequently. Almost all day he was drugged or asleep. Around him a cloud of sycophants who stole their money and valuables had few, all known abused him and Jimi was able to defend themselves. His mind was no longer in this world. In his last months seemed to be completely unrealistic. It gave him great shame. It did not take too much science to know that the victim would die from their addiction to drugs. "
A timely reflection on these events is that, no doubt, women and men of all time, we naturally tend to pursue happiness. The longing to be happy with us in this life and the Hereafter. But there are backdoors that lead to the precipice of self destruction as happened with the hippie movement and these "fallen heroes" of rock. Again, we see in our time many young people has lost the sense of their lives, what really has value. Seem to feel that life is just a joke, an endless fun, a long, hollow laugh.
remember as a reaction against this harmful tendency in the seventies when Disco music predominates, with singers like John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, were presented as models to young people who are healthy fun at parties, dancing happily at the Disco, but without drugs and popularized the phrase: "I
" step "with drugs. I will not die as a poor hippie.
Around 40, I think it is useful and helpful to remember these tragic events such as Jim Morrison, so many rock stars and hundreds of his followers who died from drugs and narrate the new generations, who have not had to live all the time of mass confusion and disorientation ideological order that take out, as they say, experience in "somebody else."
In the summer of 1966, my high school psychology teacher went to California to take a few refresher courses in their specialty. He returned in early 1967 as we were quite friends, I went to talk with him to his office to tell me their impressions. I remember asking:
- What's new in San Francisco?
Without hesitation he replied:
"-The hippie movement. Proclaim the old ideas of utopian socialism and free love, live in small communities, maintain an open opposition to almost all the provisions of the present society, visten de modo estrafalario (según ellos, más “natural”) y consumen diversos tipos de drogas, desde marihuana hasta estupefacientes más fuertes como la heroína y la cocaína. Han hecho del Pop Rock su bandera para expandir su ideología que la denominan “Psicodélica”. Lo que más me sorprende, es que este movimiento se está extendiendo rápidamente entre algunos jóvenes de muchos estados de norteamérica”.
Este relato se me quedó hondamente grabado por las inmediatas consecuencias posteriores: como era costumbre que un buen número de estudiantes mexicanos se fueran a tomar cursos de inglés durante las vacaciones, en poco tiempo, cientos de nuestros jóvenes were influenced by this movement and many returned significantly changed because it became fashionable to take drugs, usually mixed with alcohol. At this behavior is colloquially called "be cool" or "be lightened."
were placed as icons or idols to musicians, singers, Pop Rock guitarists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, or groups, such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, Cream,
Pink Floyd ... "-The U.S. group revelation of 1967 has been with The Doors singer Jim Morrison, are excellent musicians!," a friend told me recently arrived from Los Angeles where he had been studying for several years.
recognize that many of the songs I liked the aforementioned groups. Melodies were musically accomplished because some of them had gone through the Conservatory of Music but sometimes the lyrics of their songs conveyed his philosophy of life.
But I would like to focus on Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors. The year 2011 marks 40 years of his death from a heroin overdose. I deliberately wanted to advance, before starting the memorial tributes on this popular singer, to objectively analyze his life and his career.
This group The Doors "was released in 1966, and properly his fame started in 1967 with his hit "Light My Fire", until 1971. In most of the lyrics of songs of their poet and singer, Jim Morrison, have a dramatic tone, despairing, fatalistic, hedonistic, poetry reminds me of so-called "damned poet" of the nineteenth-century French literature, as Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud. In his song "The End" says the so-called "Oedipus complex", which analyzed in detail the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.
We know that Morrison was an autodidact and a relentless bookworm. He was influenced by authors such as Nietzsche, Jack Kerouac, William Blake and special form Aldous Huxley, who recommended the use of hallucinogenic drugs like LSD.
I never understand the attitudes of Morrison on stage, facing the audience, because he used to act in a exotic, bizarre. I always had the impression that in the midst of their desperate search for pleasure, a character was terribly lonely, solitary confinement and dissatisfied with his life: the drugs were his escape.
Because he knew that Morrison used alcohol and hard drugs and their music revolved obsessively around the destruction, death, to an existence without meaning or values. I was also influenced by the "Beat Generation" in the early fifties, who proclaimed nihilism and seeking to experiment with drugs to achieve originality in artistic creation.
Likewise, I believe that the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, also managed to sink in its approach to life. For Sartre, at the absurdity of human existence and the fact that "we are beings inevitably destined to die," the only viable and endurable of this "dead end" is the immediate pleasure, which is presented as "here today and now. "
Morrison wrote some great tunes from Pop Rock, considered classics, but had an unexpected ending in Paris, when death surprised him because of his excesses of barbiturates and anarchic and chaotic life.
not stop calling attention to his artistic career lasted little more than five years and was cut slightly at age 27. Some believe he committed suicide, but is a non-confirmed. I think the epitaph on his grave in France, sums up its turbulent inner world: "Everyone has their own demon."
last year recalled the deaths of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Also overdose. To these are added a long list of rock superstars, "as Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones Kurt Cobian, Robert Johnson ... All of them also died very young and with a bright future ahead for their undeniable artistic talents.
Others have been detained on several occasions, rehabilitation centers and drug detoxification as the sophistication of The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. Many others were left with irreversible brain and organ damage.
One of those featured guitarists, Eric Clapton, in his song "Strange Mix" gives the impression that not only sings but desperately yells his generation, who have been driven by the self-destructive world of drugs. Sings: "I say you want to 'experience' with a new mix of drugs, what kind of fool are you? Do not you realize that you're risking their lives? "
Many young people from different countries, who follow their idols of rock and ventured into the use of barbiturates, were killed, others were too emotional and fell an uncontrollable addiction. Recently
a renowned psychiatrist told me that addictions are compulsive. And in many cases, when a person is fond of alcohol or drugs, lose control, no longer master of himself and tends to be practically the whole day thinking about how return to their addiction. Only through humility to ask for help, carefully follow the medical advice and appropriate treatment of psychotherapy, can go back and move forward. Knowing also that this addiction will remain in their behavior for life and, if neglected, can have a severe relapse.
Right now being debated in Mexico and other countries the issue of legalization of drugs and, in certain circles of young people and in some clubs in our country, has turned into fashion immoderate consumption of alcohol and of some drugs, I think that is good to take stock of what happened to those "heroes Fallen Pop Rock and how many young people who imitated their lives destroyed, dashed his studies and, therefore, his career, damaged their families, their courtship and marriage, their children emotionally affected ... A very close
the "superstar" of rock, Jimi Hendrix (who died of an overdose in 1970) revealed the following: "I do not know why you have so much admiration. In the end, fell sharply in its artistic quality. He was my friend and visited him frequently. Almost all day he was drugged or asleep. Around him a cloud of sycophants who stole their money and valuables had few, all known abused him and Jimi was able to defend themselves. His mind was no longer in this world. In his last months seemed to be completely unrealistic. It gave him great shame. It did not take too much science to know that the victim would die from their addiction to drugs. "
A timely reflection on these events is that, no doubt, women and men of all time, we naturally tend to pursue happiness. The longing to be happy with us in this life and the Hereafter. But there are backdoors that lead to the precipice of self destruction as happened with the hippie movement and these "fallen heroes" of rock. Again, we see in our time many young people has lost the sense of their lives, what really has value. Seem to feel that life is just a joke, an endless fun, a long, hollow laugh.
remember as a reaction against this harmful tendency in the seventies when Disco music predominates, with singers like John Travolta and Olivia Newton John, were presented as models to young people who are healthy fun at parties, dancing happily at the Disco, but without drugs and popularized the phrase: "I
" step "with drugs. I will not die as a poor hippie.
Around 40, I think it is useful and helpful to remember these tragic events such as Jim Morrison, so many rock stars and hundreds of his followers who died from drugs and narrate the new generations, who have not had to live all the time of mass confusion and disorientation ideological order that take out, as they say, experience in "somebody else."
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Breaking Confidentiality In Work Place
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Biffy Clyro Mountains Score Piano
Purchases of Santos Reyes en Chapultepec
At the intersection of Hill Avenue and Paseo de la Reforma has stopped a minibus, which runs with few passengers. There is a long queue of people slowly begin to rise. I also incorporated the moving vehicle. Soon the bus was full and soon filled the hall with people standing. But the driver remains impassive and decide not to advance, while his assistant calls out to those who are passing on the sidewalk:
- Metro "Auditorium!
comes an old lady, old kilos, which carries a pair of bulky bags, and asks:
- Will all Reform? Metro
-Up "Auditorium", ma'am. If you want to help you with your bags ...
"Thank you, young man. A dropper
more passengers are arriving. The driver, about 30 years and a scruffy beard, he tells those who are standing:
- will not blister, if you cuddle up and leave more to back up the passage!
is noon and the bus is burst. The heat and air locked unbearable. Someone shouts:
- let's go now, driver!
- Who said that?! "Driver turns in a menacing tone.
- For us, we feed you, dude! "Replied a tall, robust and of the same age, sitting in the front seat.
The driver gets angry and gets flushed with that comment. Then asks his assistant changed:
- What do we do?
-friend, no way, and I scrubbed, better go! "He said resignedly his friend.
finally start the rickety bus, rattling everywhere. In the front seat listening to this conversation of a young lady - very made-up face-to her friend:
"I tell my daughter, what do you bring the Three Kings?
"I said, a doll" Barbie ", but mounted on a motorcycle and a pink suit.
"I say unto you, and why it has to be to force a" Barbie "? There are many other very nice dolls.
"I says, what's up, Mommy, is that" Barbie "is a lot like you, is very pretty. And then gives me a hug.
"And then I think, ordered kid, and he gave me where it hurts most, in the vanity, how can I deny that gift?
finally arrived at the bus stop Chapultepec, opposite the museum Anthropology. Contemplate the sculptures of Jorge Marin with winged figures and their curious angels. The friend says:
"I do not want to go from here, but I take a picture, with those golden wings in the background. Before them, a woman is old enough, that have been in a wheelchair, and with a relative difficulty of climbs to the concrete block, just off the wings. Stands and looks at the camera: "See Mom
, but he smiles and stretches his arms, like you're flying! Mrs. due
, joking and pleased.
road and I am behind the Museum of Contemporary Art. There is a man who sells puppets "El Chavo del Ocho" "The Chilindrina", "El Quico" ... I put in a squatting position to look at them closely and playing with them.
"Do not look to move to" Chavo "must use his thumb back and that is a natural shift. Look, just, like my child. I see your child, about four years, handled with particular skill at "La Chilindrina." Several passersby stop, fun, to gauge the ability of the child.
"Those are indeed useful toys that make children more" sharp. " And unlike those who sell now. "I said the Lord to ensure sale.
buy a couple of puppets. Then I headed for another post and watch this scene:
"I want a soccer ball for my kid. How do I get it? "Says a parent.
"That he is worth 200 pesos. "Says the seller.
"Make it 150. -Buyer responds with agility.
"Okay, but" there dies. " Duda
dad and says: "I think
still expensive. You better look elsewhere-end.
forwards a few steps forward. The seller then yells, "I leave
120, but that was it.
- You go! "Replied the clever buyer happy.
I keep going through the posts. The day is clear and the sun shines, but an air blowing cold. I remember my uncle who is completely bald, he asked me a gift a wool cap, which at night is placed in the head, to sleep and not go cold or cold.
- Does wool hats, but those that are nice and warm? I ask a lady apiñonada and middle-aged.
"Well there are some that I have taken my parents and sleep very comfortable. Just note: my dad passes of 92 and my mommy and 90 years old. We live by the direction of Ajusco and makes a cold "stripping." Thank God I have always been provided with life and health for many years!
- How wonderful to have a parent as older and that good health! "He said, adding:" Well, please give me coffee that cap.
Along with this position, there is another that sells dolls with shirts and hats of different football teams. There comes a young, 31, accompanied by his wife, and asks:
- Do you have a doll wearing the shirt of the Pumas?
"Sure," replies the salesman is the best selling. And gives it away.
"Well, this is for Tony, and Poncho, what doll you bought? - Said turning to her husband.
"One of Atlante. "He replied without hesitation.
-Ora themselves hard put to me, "says the seller-because of those rarely sell. But wait, I will look into the cases that I have behind the store. Soon returns and says:
- What luck he had! Here is the last one I had. And how is that going to Atlanta?
"says my child-safe that answered the lady" to love a team have to suffer. "
"Then your child does know football, I also go to Atlanta! He smiles and shows his rotten teeth.
Time passes and continues to reach more people. Vendors are missing hands to serve as many customers. Others scream louder voice because their merchandise is not requested.
Behind me I hear the conversation of marriage:
- What are you going to want for Christmas present? The wife asks her husband.
"This year, for me nothing. As are many of the family, prefer that all have good toys.
Amid the crush appears smaller than the makeover and the character of "Tinker Bell" from Walt Disney. Her mother says to another friend:
"I said I wanted this for Christmas present. But after a while, I know I'm going to order something else. So I decided to buy a surprise gift.
Finally, I finish my shopping and I go back to the bus stop. Make a long row parents that they have in stock many gifts for their children.
do I admire the generosity of Mexican parents, making many sacrifices and personal sacrifices, often see this show of love and affection to their children! Particularly on the feast of the Three Kings, in which, besides being traditionally great hope for all children, no doubt, plus links and close ties of affection between family members and live with joy this holiday Christian.
- Metro "Auditorium!
comes an old lady, old kilos, which carries a pair of bulky bags, and asks:
- Will all Reform? Metro
-Up "Auditorium", ma'am. If you want to help you with your bags ...
"Thank you, young man. A dropper
more passengers are arriving. The driver, about 30 years and a scruffy beard, he tells those who are standing:
- will not blister, if you cuddle up and leave more to back up the passage!
is noon and the bus is burst. The heat and air locked unbearable. Someone shouts:
- let's go now, driver!
- Who said that?! "Driver turns in a menacing tone.
- For us, we feed you, dude! "Replied a tall, robust and of the same age, sitting in the front seat.
The driver gets angry and gets flushed with that comment. Then asks his assistant changed:
- What do we do?
-friend, no way, and I scrubbed, better go! "He said resignedly his friend.
finally start the rickety bus, rattling everywhere. In the front seat listening to this conversation of a young lady - very made-up face-to her friend:
"I tell my daughter, what do you bring the Three Kings?
"I said, a doll" Barbie ", but mounted on a motorcycle and a pink suit.
"I say unto you, and why it has to be to force a" Barbie "? There are many other very nice dolls.
"I says, what's up, Mommy, is that" Barbie "is a lot like you, is very pretty. And then gives me a hug.
"And then I think, ordered kid, and he gave me where it hurts most, in the vanity, how can I deny that gift?
finally arrived at the bus stop Chapultepec, opposite the museum Anthropology. Contemplate the sculptures of Jorge Marin with winged figures and their curious angels. The friend says:
"I do not want to go from here, but I take a picture, with those golden wings in the background. Before them, a woman is old enough, that have been in a wheelchair, and with a relative difficulty of climbs to the concrete block, just off the wings. Stands and looks at the camera: "See Mom
, but he smiles and stretches his arms, like you're flying! Mrs. due
, joking and pleased.
road and I am behind the Museum of Contemporary Art. There is a man who sells puppets "El Chavo del Ocho" "The Chilindrina", "El Quico" ... I put in a squatting position to look at them closely and playing with them.
"Do not look to move to" Chavo "must use his thumb back and that is a natural shift. Look, just, like my child. I see your child, about four years, handled with particular skill at "La Chilindrina." Several passersby stop, fun, to gauge the ability of the child.
"Those are indeed useful toys that make children more" sharp. " And unlike those who sell now. "I said the Lord to ensure sale.
buy a couple of puppets. Then I headed for another post and watch this scene:
"I want a soccer ball for my kid. How do I get it? "Says a parent.
"That he is worth 200 pesos. "Says the seller.
"Make it 150. -Buyer responds with agility.
"Okay, but" there dies. " Duda
dad and says: "I think
still expensive. You better look elsewhere-end.
forwards a few steps forward. The seller then yells, "I leave
120, but that was it.
- You go! "Replied the clever buyer happy.
I keep going through the posts. The day is clear and the sun shines, but an air blowing cold. I remember my uncle who is completely bald, he asked me a gift a wool cap, which at night is placed in the head, to sleep and not go cold or cold.
- Does wool hats, but those that are nice and warm? I ask a lady apiñonada and middle-aged.
"Well there are some that I have taken my parents and sleep very comfortable. Just note: my dad passes of 92 and my mommy and 90 years old. We live by the direction of Ajusco and makes a cold "stripping." Thank God I have always been provided with life and health for many years!
- How wonderful to have a parent as older and that good health! "He said, adding:" Well, please give me coffee that cap.
Along with this position, there is another that sells dolls with shirts and hats of different football teams. There comes a young, 31, accompanied by his wife, and asks:
- Do you have a doll wearing the shirt of the Pumas?
"Sure," replies the salesman is the best selling. And gives it away.
"Well, this is for Tony, and Poncho, what doll you bought? - Said turning to her husband.
"One of Atlante. "He replied without hesitation.
-Ora themselves hard put to me, "says the seller-because of those rarely sell. But wait, I will look into the cases that I have behind the store. Soon returns and says:
- What luck he had! Here is the last one I had. And how is that going to Atlanta?
"says my child-safe that answered the lady" to love a team have to suffer. "
"Then your child does know football, I also go to Atlanta! He smiles and shows his rotten teeth.
Time passes and continues to reach more people. Vendors are missing hands to serve as many customers. Others scream louder voice because their merchandise is not requested.
Behind me I hear the conversation of marriage:
- What are you going to want for Christmas present? The wife asks her husband.
"This year, for me nothing. As are many of the family, prefer that all have good toys.
Amid the crush appears smaller than the makeover and the character of "Tinker Bell" from Walt Disney. Her mother says to another friend:
"I said I wanted this for Christmas present. But after a while, I know I'm going to order something else. So I decided to buy a surprise gift.
Finally, I finish my shopping and I go back to the bus stop. Make a long row parents that they have in stock many gifts for their children.
do I admire the generosity of Mexican parents, making many sacrifices and personal sacrifices, often see this show of love and affection to their children! Particularly on the feast of the Three Kings, in which, besides being traditionally great hope for all children, no doubt, plus links and close ties of affection between family members and live with joy this holiday Christian.
Monday, January 3, 2011
The Highest Bond Energy
¿Por qué se pasa el tiempo tan de prisa?
is completed one year and begins a new one. We are more aware of the transience of time. Yesterday left behind forever, tomorrow will soon be another yesterday and do not know for sure if it will come to us. Only today and now it's all we really have.
remember when I was teaching at a school I noticed with some surprise that one of my former students at the primary had already passed seventh grade. Emerged spontaneously tell me:
- What a short time ago you were in First Grade! Remember that, at the time, told me that what I liked was run and run by the soccer fields fast?
With a look of surprise, he replied:
- Oops, professor, because for me to get Secondary end, it seemed an eternity! Commenting
physicians perception of the passing of time, hormonal changes each person is different from a child undergoing an older man.
I think we all remember that holiday when we were in kindergarten or early elementary years, in fact, we thought "eternal" and planned to do many things.
In contrast, over the decades, gradually we feel that time is running and moving faster.
remember what I told a friend who turned 70 years
"At first, you begin to feel that the weeks glide like butter knife on the soft, barely feel them! After notice that the seasonal changes come sooner than you expected and finally at my age, you have the impression that the decades are equivalent-time-to-one or two years.
Moreover, it is undeniable that looking at things objectively, clocks and chronometers accurately and precisely mark the passing of time. Given that reality is no room for mere subjective sensations.
Many poets and artists have been impacted this. Our Nobel Prize for Literature, Octavio Paz confessed in one of his poems which had impressed him "the time that devours the faces." The writer, Jorge Manrique, inspired by the Bible, commented, "Our lives are like rivers that flow to the sea." Similarly, the poet Rubén Darío wrote those famous lines: "Youth, divine treasure, you're going to not come back ...."
When humans find the elapse of time, without pause or respite, there are two types of reactions: first, be tragic, melancholy of time spent and conclude that death will come the total annihilation of the individual. The second, the Christian is to think that with each passing day we move one step closer to eternal life, to our final destination.
I have witnessed cases of people to have a misguided sense of its existence and death, fall in real neurosis, losing the ultimate meaning of their lives and filled with bitterness and gloom. And
case of many saints, through the history of the Church, who longed for his final encounter with the Lord. Now remember Paul, who with true love, he wrote: "My live is Christ." And considering he reflected that if God gave many years to continue preaching the Gospel, that filled him with joy. But he also said that if the Lord decided to take his presence, saw it as a profit and achieve a long awaited desire: to see face to face the face of Cristo en la Eternidad.
En lo personal, hay un par de frases de este Apóstol de los Gentiles, que siempre me han removido: “La caridad de Cristo nos urge” y “¡El tiempo es breve!”. Y éstas las escribía, no para asustarnos con el tema de la muerte, sino para movernos a los cristianos a saber aprovechar el tiempo que se nos escapa cotidianamente de las manos.
Pero aprovecharlo, ¿de qué modo? En primer lugar, cumpliendo responsablemente con los deberes del propio estado. Exprimiendo minuto a minuto ese horario de trabajo laboral, de tal forma que realicemos nuestros quehaceres con eficacia y perfección, dentro de nuestras naturales limitaciones.
En segundo lugar, dedicando el tiempo need for coexistence and necessary attention to the wife and family. The most important work may have a father or mother is adequately educate their children, because good examples and good virtues that are planted, are never forgotten.
Third is our interest in helping others, assisting with charity work or materials, or with our timely advice and guidance. When there is genuine interest in helping friends (about work or family life, for example), provided we can get a space on the agenda in the midst of our busy schedules. Without forgetting that the main help we can give a friend is closer God, so that you can also share in the eternal happiness of Heaven.
But it has a priority in our time, dedicated to treating God, to pray and to seek to have a daily conversation, trusting and intimate relationship with the Lord as a child talking to his Father and Friend (capitalized) and known to be listened to with great affection.
I find unforgettable memory of that lawyer, who was about 80 years after a brilliant career as a professional, decided to work for free, offering their services in the Diocese of the Archdiocese and also of giving legal advice, sought help many young couples who had difficulties friction and abrasion, for reconciliation and to avoid separation or divorce.
So he worked for many years. When asked how he was in his work as a reconciler between the spouses, I invariably reply: "I think
Mitra work in all the years God gives me life and health. Because I have the illusion to get to Heaven "good backpacks full of good works." This case
uplifting, I think at the end of this year we can, for example, to buy one of these specific purposes: this next year will try to use it better to try closer to God, to work more efficiently, to be a better parent, better husband, to do more work in the service of others, to study this specialty or expertise.
We can inspire, that phrase again he loved Pope John Paul II: "We can always take a 'plus', an addition, a further effort to improve and better ourselves as people."
is completed one year and begins a new one. We are more aware of the transience of time. Yesterday left behind forever, tomorrow will soon be another yesterday and do not know for sure if it will come to us. Only today and now it's all we really have.
remember when I was teaching at a school I noticed with some surprise that one of my former students at the primary had already passed seventh grade. Emerged spontaneously tell me:
- What a short time ago you were in First Grade! Remember that, at the time, told me that what I liked was run and run by the soccer fields fast?
With a look of surprise, he replied:
- Oops, professor, because for me to get Secondary end, it seemed an eternity! Commenting
physicians perception of the passing of time, hormonal changes each person is different from a child undergoing an older man.
I think we all remember that holiday when we were in kindergarten or early elementary years, in fact, we thought "eternal" and planned to do many things.
In contrast, over the decades, gradually we feel that time is running and moving faster.
remember what I told a friend who turned 70 years
"At first, you begin to feel that the weeks glide like butter knife on the soft, barely feel them! After notice that the seasonal changes come sooner than you expected and finally at my age, you have the impression that the decades are equivalent-time-to-one or two years.
Moreover, it is undeniable that looking at things objectively, clocks and chronometers accurately and precisely mark the passing of time. Given that reality is no room for mere subjective sensations.
Many poets and artists have been impacted this. Our Nobel Prize for Literature, Octavio Paz confessed in one of his poems which had impressed him "the time that devours the faces." The writer, Jorge Manrique, inspired by the Bible, commented, "Our lives are like rivers that flow to the sea." Similarly, the poet Rubén Darío wrote those famous lines: "Youth, divine treasure, you're going to not come back ...."
When humans find the elapse of time, without pause or respite, there are two types of reactions: first, be tragic, melancholy of time spent and conclude that death will come the total annihilation of the individual. The second, the Christian is to think that with each passing day we move one step closer to eternal life, to our final destination.
I have witnessed cases of people to have a misguided sense of its existence and death, fall in real neurosis, losing the ultimate meaning of their lives and filled with bitterness and gloom. And
case of many saints, through the history of the Church, who longed for his final encounter with the Lord. Now remember Paul, who with true love, he wrote: "My live is Christ." And considering he reflected that if God gave many years to continue preaching the Gospel, that filled him with joy. But he also said that if the Lord decided to take his presence, saw it as a profit and achieve a long awaited desire: to see face to face the face of Cristo en la Eternidad.
En lo personal, hay un par de frases de este Apóstol de los Gentiles, que siempre me han removido: “La caridad de Cristo nos urge” y “¡El tiempo es breve!”. Y éstas las escribía, no para asustarnos con el tema de la muerte, sino para movernos a los cristianos a saber aprovechar el tiempo que se nos escapa cotidianamente de las manos.
Pero aprovecharlo, ¿de qué modo? En primer lugar, cumpliendo responsablemente con los deberes del propio estado. Exprimiendo minuto a minuto ese horario de trabajo laboral, de tal forma que realicemos nuestros quehaceres con eficacia y perfección, dentro de nuestras naturales limitaciones.
En segundo lugar, dedicando el tiempo need for coexistence and necessary attention to the wife and family. The most important work may have a father or mother is adequately educate their children, because good examples and good virtues that are planted, are never forgotten.
Third is our interest in helping others, assisting with charity work or materials, or with our timely advice and guidance. When there is genuine interest in helping friends (about work or family life, for example), provided we can get a space on the agenda in the midst of our busy schedules. Without forgetting that the main help we can give a friend is closer God, so that you can also share in the eternal happiness of Heaven.
But it has a priority in our time, dedicated to treating God, to pray and to seek to have a daily conversation, trusting and intimate relationship with the Lord as a child talking to his Father and Friend (capitalized) and known to be listened to with great affection.
I find unforgettable memory of that lawyer, who was about 80 years after a brilliant career as a professional, decided to work for free, offering their services in the Diocese of the Archdiocese and also of giving legal advice, sought help many young couples who had difficulties friction and abrasion, for reconciliation and to avoid separation or divorce.
So he worked for many years. When asked how he was in his work as a reconciler between the spouses, I invariably reply: "I think
Mitra work in all the years God gives me life and health. Because I have the illusion to get to Heaven "good backpacks full of good works." This case
uplifting, I think at the end of this year we can, for example, to buy one of these specific purposes: this next year will try to use it better to try closer to God, to work more efficiently, to be a better parent, better husband, to do more work in the service of others, to study this specialty or expertise.
We can inspire, that phrase again he loved Pope John Paul II: "We can always take a 'plus', an addition, a further effort to improve and better ourselves as people."
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