Opinión.

"La carencia de filtros en los comentarios publicados en los diarios me parece un problema."

Soy persona asidua a los diarios digitales, y aunque últimamente las noticias no se entreguen con mucha calidad (refiriéndome a los diarios Dominicanos), me apasiona un buen debate. Lamentablemente el público que se dispone a comentar en la gran mayoría de los artículos me ha dejado asombrada, y no de buena manera.

Seguro han notado, si se han dispuesto a comentar alguna vez, que en la mayoría de los casos se necesita aprobación antes de que un comentario sea publicado. Entonces está pasando una de dos cosas, los filtros son realmente inexistentes o el manejo de los comentarios es pésimo y medio. Sin intención alguna de violar la libertad de expresión de nadie, no todo lo que se piensa debe ser publicado y menos de manera vulgar y poco educada. 

Es penoso como un grupo de personas se ha dispuesto a llenar los diarios de sandeces, escondiendo su desarticulado pensar detrás de un alias, principalmente en los temas más delicados. Me parece que deben empezar a respetarnos.

Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up.

I came across this video on TEDTalk this morning, and I'm grateful for it. I usually go for the talks related to science and innovation, but once in a while I click on the ones label as inspirational. Admitting that I'm not a person that finds it easy to change old ways, I like to believe that (even so) I'm always adding space and new contributions for improvement within myself. 

This talk has touched some sensitive points in my life right now. Probably as lots of young adults, I find myself struggling with the incertitude of what's next. I'm not static, I'm tracing a path and putting lots of effort into it.. the hardest part is probably the wait, the contingency plans surging in my head, the non stopping time.

Diana Nyad talks about her journey and while doing so makes a few points worth reminding:

1. Never ever give up.

2. You can chase your dreams at any age; you're never too old.

3. Your efforts, along with team work, can get you far.

Cheers to a brave woman that fought for what she wanted to accomplish. We can all do, with patience and hard work.. we just need to be strong and take the punches we'll sure get during the journey. Hope you enjoy the talk, have a good day!.

Commitment and sanity.

These days have been tough. I've isolated myself from the world while chasing a chance to serve the world. Paradoxes flying around everywhere; we sometimes need to run the opposite way in order to catch the necessary impulse.

Setting goals help us move with a purpose and, having a purpose makes us feel we are here for a reason; at least this is what I've learned, so when I commit to something, apparently I really (really) commit. Good for me, right?.. then again, commitment always comes with a price and sometimes we seem unable to distinguish to what grade is that price bad or good for us in the long run?.

To prove yourself and accomplish things based on hard work, to put some horse blinders on and just walk/run towards that goal.. how much is too much?. There's too many opinions, the ones that believe you must give it all for your dreams, and the ones who think you must never sacrifice friends and family in the process of "improvement".

The first group of people believe that somehow we need to be the best version of ourselves in order to give the best to others, so that reasoning makes the efforts and sacrifices worth it in the end. Most of all, they understand that family and friends will always want the best for us and will get the why we must do what we are doing, that neglect is not really the right word to label the situation.

The second group of people see things differently, they believe that the process of reaching a goal involves the rest of the people, that sometimes we need to sacrifice some of our personal achievements to help others achieve as well. They sincerely think that "eyes on the prize" is not the way. There's more to live than achievements and what counts is the process.

Combining the two lines of thinking? that's the ideal, but in reality it's not always as easy. Balance is, to some people, the most wanted upgrade to life. Maybe an aggregated/secondary goal could be finding a balanced middle ground to our main goal.. I don't know, something like that, it's worth the shot.

Which way works better? well, you let me know when you guys find out.. in the mean time, I'll just try to surpass my own demons and be a little more receptive to my surroundings, blinders are tiresome. Hoping I'm able to, life is not as long as we sometimes think.

Casting Crowns - Slow Fade

Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler, philosophy of success.

This talk has a lot of truth in it, wise thoughts formulated a few years ago that still apply to our present society when it comes to the general conception of success. I really don't need to formulate a lot of thought in order to introduce it, cause it certainly speaks for itself. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

"One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. A lot of the time our ideas about what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They’re sucked in from other people. And we also suck in messages from everything from the television to advertising to marketing, etcetera. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we’re truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it’s bad enough not getting what you want, but it’s even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn’t, in fact, what you wanted all along.”

Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler, philosophy of success.

Powerful Illustrations: To make you stop and think.

I loved the work of Polish artist Paul Kuczynski, thought I had to share it with you. Here are some of his illustrations, you can check the others clicking on the link. You can also follow his work trough a Fan Facebook page.

Decisiones y Paralelos.

Esas son todas, ¿verdad que sí?, pero en este caso intentaré delimitar a que me refiero. Muchas veces nos enfrentamos a situaciones ante las que escogemos la decisión más sensata ante la decisión más deseada (o viceversa), en casos sin respuesta correcta. Son más fáciles aquellas situaciones en las que el blanco y negro son palpables; mientras entre decisiones correctas, sin importar si una u otra, muchas veces quedará un sentimiento que cargar.

El equipaje del paralelismo, así lo pienso a veces.. y en cada oportunidad me llega a la mente la película Mr. Nobody. El concepto de esta película blew my mind, porque así como me sentí tan identificada al verla (hace unos dos o tres años ya), imagino que muchos por igual. Cada decisión que tomamos o dejamos acarrea una infinidad de posibilidades, una infinidad de giros a nuestras vidas, ¿no sería increíble la oportunidad de poder experimentar cada una de esas "vidas paralelas"?.. 

A veces cuando dejaba divagar la mente (cosa que ya hace muy poco), escribía historias de alguna de mis vidas paralelas, lo cual aunque fascinante era ciertamente perder el tiempo. Pensar en decisiones pasadas y sus alternativas consecuencias no lleva a nadie a ningún lado más que al mundo fantástico del "What if?". Aunque pensándolo bien, podría llevar a unos cuantos valientes a recuperar oportunidades "perdidas".. todo siempre dependerá de la persona.  

De todos modos, al ajustar los hábitos de esos años juveniles a los caminos "adultos" que tomamos, aprendemos a ir dejando los universos paralelos.. ¿la razón?, pues realmente no se.. quizás nos tornamos más seguros con respecto a nuestras decisiones, quizás sentimos satisfacción en nuestra presente realidad, quizás aprendemos a asumir más responsabilidad sobre dichas decisiones.. al menos por el lado positivo.

Este es uno de esos inconclusos.. algo que ocurre cuando ataca el espacio en blanco.