Posted by Raul on January 31, 2011
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The girl insists of the need for a fancy restaurant where to have lunch.
Paying for the bill with an “overheated” credit card.
His sport utility vehicle have all powered system, “as it suppose to be”
But the engine oil hasn’t been changed in the past seven thousand miles!
We live in a world that shows us one reality, and we interact in a world that has a completely different reality…the one in our minds.
So we see, hear and interact in a physical world and reality that has nothing to do with the reality of the world we think we interact in.
-I am a high class person because I don’t accept less than … (fill in the blank)
-He pretends his reality so not to be less than me
-I compete with his worded reality so not to be left behind
-We believe our worded realities as true realities until the whole system collapses
He was laughing as we talked about the supposedly realities of the supposedly being that interact in a supposedly physical world.
“It’s all in your mind” He said
“But what about the tangible reality of the physical objects?” I asked
“Are they really physical?” He replied
He got a point…so I had to pay for the coffees!
Raul
Posted by Raul on January 27, 2011
So the sheep keeps dreaming of being a wolf, yet spends an entire life being a sheep. But because it doesn’t work, the sheep pretends to be a wolf. Then the sheep talks, walks and smiles like a wolf, but still remains a sheep. The corral is covered with signs saying “You Are a Wolf!” And with contentment, the sheep accepts the lying words as the truth of its world.
So the sheep learns one day it has to step on the other sheep to be above, but has to fight the common thought of holding hands with love. So the sheep rebels and fight the common thought, just to find itself being left alone.
Until one day it discovered the common thought was promoted by the creators of the signs.
<How could it be? Such a contradiction on its own! Who’s behind this?> the sheep asked in a thought, and “Mirrors” was the response word.
So the sheep types and types, while the sheep reads and reads, while the sheep cries and cries, while the sheep dreams and dreams.
“My goodness, you are a sheep!”
“I’m sorry ma-a-a-a’am, I’m a wolf”
“But you have a wooly skin”
“But I have cold thoughts!”
So one day the sheep woke up from its daydreaming and found a wolf by its side, seating on the floor.
“What are you dong here?” It asked.
“I’m your counselor” was the wolf’s response.
Plop!
Posted by Raul on December 30, 2010
Ahh…those freaking New Year’s resolutions that as a norm we never follow. Even if we finally change the “Should I” for the “I Should”, they still seem to dance around the fire making fun of our willpower, like the vision of a candy store seems to make fun to his desires in a child’s eyes.
So close…so far away! Human instincts at war with human logic. Memberships forgotten; books with a growing topping of dust; written lists that slowly fusion with the walls, to the point of never being seen again…or at least with normal eyes. Instead the surrounding walls become the screaming consciousness to the senses for the avoided promises, bringing another point to the score of weight to be carried in tired shoulders for the years to come.
And yet, every new year the memories from past promises join the new ones, to conform the new bulk to avoid by the inner thoughts that fight the logic of it all.
Don’t take this post seriously…I’m just making fun of us all, including myself. It is not a criticism of our willpower, but a celebration of our humanity.
So what is my New Year’s resolution? I think I’ll let my sarcasm flow more freely in 2011 
By the way…I took this picture at night while doing my delivery job. I don’t know if Santa is taking a nap after so much work, or if the party was so good that he ended up on the lawn completely drunk! Those inflatable decorations can be cute when up and funny when down.
Funny though that somehow it resembles our own ways at this time of the year: The spirit of Christmas combined with the party attitude that can be seen all around.
One of my wife’s colleagues told her of something funny that happened when taking her 3 years old grand-kid to see Santa at the mall: While seating in Santa’s lap, Santa asked him: “What would you like for Christmas?”, and he answered: “What do you got?”
Smart kid, no doubt!
Happy 2011 to everyone!
Raul
Posted by Raul on December 10, 2010
Choosing a CD to play sometimes can be just overwhelming!
After so many years collecting the music we like and love, we may end up with a huge collection of albums. And when the time to choose comes around, we might not decide so easily what we want to listen.
It does happen not only about music, but almost about everything in life related to the accumulation of material stuff. Pictures, books, movies, even pens collected in a jar for any time use.
Sometimes I think of myself of a little, furred creature, that takes anything and everything around that can carry, to hide it in a hole in the ground, not even knowing for what reason!
Then I look around the house and wonder how all this stuff got here? (chip-chip-chip…I’m that furred creature, remember?).
We do tend to accumulate “just in case” as an element of security and self assurance; then we have to deal with the accumulated stuff as a chain that prevent us from going around to explore new grounds (we have to protect our treasures!).
A human being, born naked, but with a powerful brain capable of learning and adapting; and a amazing body that allows him to interact in a physical medium; becomes a furry creature dedicated to the accumulation of physical elements, to be surrounded in a hole by the treasures that takes the amazing capabilities of its brain to just the feelings of something going wrong. How curious creatures we are!
(Chip…chip…chip)
Raul
Posted by Raul on November 25, 2010
About commenting in other blogs:
Stopping commenting in other blogs that I read was because of being really busy with many things, including my vehicle that started to ask for many more repairs after the initial ones. What supposed to be a winter preparation, with the addition of an “ice breaker” in front, and the re-doing of the wiring for the emergency lights, turned into a complete front suspension replacing and the 30,000 miles interval maintenance (the vehicle reached 260,000).
At the other hands, and without even thinking about it at first, the no commenting issue became a test on its own. How many of the comments we make in other blogs are mostly because of being nice, rather than being really impressed by the post?
From what I can see, there are many different plugins that help to see statistics such: Where the commenters come from; the time of the day, etc. But they don’t say anything about the thoughts and feelings the commenter might have when making a comment (helpful, supportive, selfish, or simply boredom). So how do we really know? (Besides of the comment itself).
There are ways to analyze the data so to get different conclusions about this, but in my opinion, just letting the water rest will tell us if it’ll remain, or secretly (slowly or quickly) drain out.
You see, it is very easy that overtime, what started as genuine mutual support, turns into a routine action that cannot be easily be away from by the fear of being expelled of the circle. If we create a round holding hands, dancing and singing together, turning around with a smile and a sense of community and support, and then we decide to release ourselves from the circle, we risk to be left out and forgotten by the ones still in the circle.
How many bloggers remain commenting by the fear of abandonment? (I know I can be very nasty sometimes!).
I’m not saying people who keep commenting are afraid of being forgotten. I’m sure most of the times the continuous commenting comes from a genuine interest and have nothing to do with sustaining a “round”; but there is a possibility that, in some instances, some people might be commenting more as a task in the process of blogging to sustain readership, than a real desire of participation.
I know in my case I like to leave comments when I feel I have something to say; and that’s’ why I might seem to be away from visiting sometimes. And the same seems to happen with the people who visit this blog; which I thank you for that…receiving comments without meaning are not what we expect, right?
So what started as a short break to complete some other tasks in the physical world quickly became another experiment of mine, in order to see what would happen, and what would be the reactions.
What I noticed is that, even though the comments received were reduced, statistics showed an increase in readership. (plop!)
And about receiving comments?
Those are fun, aren’t they? It gives us a sense of being heard, even if statistics show twenty visitors only. And when statistics show a continuous increase in readership, but there’re no comments received, logic will say things are going good, but feelings get hit by a sense of loneliness.
We are such weird creatures! Aren’t we?
Raul
