Thursday, August 18, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Herido, Jorge Debravo
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| Jorge Debravo Fuente: http://www.los-poetas.com/k/biojorge.htm |
Rara vez (creo que nunca lo he hecho) publico cosas que no son mías, sin embargo hace unos días leí un poema increible, de esos que parecen haber sido escritos para el momento en que uno los leyó, lo busqué en Internet para compartirlo y no lo encontré. Así que he decidido compartirlo con el mundo por este medio, para quien los busque, para quien lo encuentre por casualidad, para quien lo aprecie, en fin para quien lo lea.
Herido
Herido estoy, herido
en la mitad derecha del amor,
en la mitad izquierda del recuerdo,
en el mejor mendrugo de esperanza...
Herido estoy y herido
he de seguir hablando y comprendiendo.
Herido en este sitio donde Dios se nos clava
y el deseo se nos clava
y se nos clava el sueño.
Busco palabras dulces como pozos de amor,
corpóreas y amorosas como cántaros llenos,
y la herida me sigue
sangrando piel adentro,
como si el alma, líquida,
se me escapara a sorbos por los huesos.
-Jorge Debravo
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Picture of you
Staring at a picture of you
Wondering about the places I’d like to see,
Where I’d like to go,
Books I wanna read.
It all seems better
If I share it
It all seem better
If I share it with you.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Emotional babble
Today is a day packed with a lot of intense emotions, like most of the days of this previous week, but I guess that today I might be a bit more susceptible to the events happening around me.
Exactly one year ago I arrived in Bonn for the internship that gave birth to this blog, which implies that tomorrow will be exactly one year from the day I started working at Deutsche Telekom. This is in itself reason enough to experience a lot of emotions, but there is something else that has me were I stand...
I had a talk with someone who is very dear to me once, and she said something about celebrating those special dates in your life when special things often happen and it is not about celebrating anniversaries or birthdays. It is about celebrating dates in which for some unknown reason your life usually changes.
I have at least 3 of those dates in my life.
One of them is the 13th of January (which also happens to be the birthday of one of my closest friends). On the 13th of January 2008 I left Costa Rica towards Japan to participate in SWY, and on the same date two years later I was accepted to do an internship at Deutsche Telekom.
May 23rd is another one. I know I was born on that date so it seems a bit contradicting that I am including my own birthday on my list of special days if birthdays are special for most people but I have a different reasons beyond the traditional birthday cake and presents to regard this date as a common turning point in my life. Back in 2001 I was celebrating my birthday and got into a fight during the morning with my brother that then I later took with me to school, where I... well lets just say I messed up. My mess earned me a 3 day suspension from school and a year on "probation". This event shaped much of my high-school experience and a great part of who I am in both positive and negative ways (if I was there, I would do it again). A few years later, in 2003, I started my first relationship on May 23rd. The relationship lasted about 10 months ( the mess lasted a lot longer) and even if it could be regarded by many as a simple high-school romance it meant a lot at the time and I believe it had a great influence on what came later.
So, why am I'm regarding the 14th of March as a new inflection point?
Well since life has a sense of humor I will start working on my new job tomorrow, exactly one year after I started working at DT.
Which takes me back to were I began. Today I am not only dealing with all the memories and the saudade of Bonn, my friends and my life there, I'm also dealing with the memories and the saudade of the world I left here in Costa Rica before my departure and to which I shall never return; besides that, I'm handling all the expectations and the excitment about starting a new phase of my life and my new job and if these wasn't enough, I am extremely worried about my friends in Japan. I know this last issue is the biggest one and it is the one the worries me the most and I can do nothing but pray for them and their families, so I do pray.
I am very thankful about my time in Germany (Europe), which was both harsh and pleasing at the same time. Without it, I wouldn't be who I am today and I really like most of who I am now and I feel very proud of some of the things I achieved there. Besides I got to meet lost of amazing (and lots of not so amazing) people who taught me a lot and with whom I shared a lot of wonderful memories. With some I managed to forged really strong friendships, I also had the chance to get closer with old friends and to share with people I had been meaning to meet with for a long time. How I value of all of this, I cannot explain.
Now I am very excited to be back, to phase the new challenges coming ahead. Even if the saudade takes hold of me every once in a while, even if I miss how some things were or some people here and there, I will walk on and greet the unknown with a smile.
Exactly one year ago I arrived in Bonn for the internship that gave birth to this blog, which implies that tomorrow will be exactly one year from the day I started working at Deutsche Telekom. This is in itself reason enough to experience a lot of emotions, but there is something else that has me were I stand...
I had a talk with someone who is very dear to me once, and she said something about celebrating those special dates in your life when special things often happen and it is not about celebrating anniversaries or birthdays. It is about celebrating dates in which for some unknown reason your life usually changes.
I have at least 3 of those dates in my life.
One of them is the 13th of January (which also happens to be the birthday of one of my closest friends). On the 13th of January 2008 I left Costa Rica towards Japan to participate in SWY, and on the same date two years later I was accepted to do an internship at Deutsche Telekom.
May 23rd is another one. I know I was born on that date so it seems a bit contradicting that I am including my own birthday on my list of special days if birthdays are special for most people but I have a different reasons beyond the traditional birthday cake and presents to regard this date as a common turning point in my life. Back in 2001 I was celebrating my birthday and got into a fight during the morning with my brother that then I later took with me to school, where I... well lets just say I messed up. My mess earned me a 3 day suspension from school and a year on "probation". This event shaped much of my high-school experience and a great part of who I am in both positive and negative ways (if I was there, I would do it again). A few years later, in 2003, I started my first relationship on May 23rd. The relationship lasted about 10 months ( the mess lasted a lot longer) and even if it could be regarded by many as a simple high-school romance it meant a lot at the time and I believe it had a great influence on what came later.
So, why am I'm regarding the 14th of March as a new inflection point?
Well since life has a sense of humor I will start working on my new job tomorrow, exactly one year after I started working at DT.
Which takes me back to were I began. Today I am not only dealing with all the memories and the saudade of Bonn, my friends and my life there, I'm also dealing with the memories and the saudade of the world I left here in Costa Rica before my departure and to which I shall never return; besides that, I'm handling all the expectations and the excitment about starting a new phase of my life and my new job and if these wasn't enough, I am extremely worried about my friends in Japan. I know this last issue is the biggest one and it is the one the worries me the most and I can do nothing but pray for them and their families, so I do pray.
I am very thankful about my time in Germany (Europe), which was both harsh and pleasing at the same time. Without it, I wouldn't be who I am today and I really like most of who I am now and I feel very proud of some of the things I achieved there. Besides I got to meet lost of amazing (and lots of not so amazing) people who taught me a lot and with whom I shared a lot of wonderful memories. With some I managed to forged really strong friendships, I also had the chance to get closer with old friends and to share with people I had been meaning to meet with for a long time. How I value of all of this, I cannot explain.
Now I am very excited to be back, to phase the new challenges coming ahead. Even if the saudade takes hold of me every once in a while, even if I miss how some things were or some people here and there, I will walk on and greet the unknown with a smile.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Creersela
Constantemente me pregunto muchas cosas, quizá demasiadas, pero una pregunta que me acosa constantemente es qué pasa en este país, qué es lo que nos falta para salir adelante como país. Entendiendo por salir adelante el cerrar las brechas sociales que tanto nos aquejan (en gran parte responsables de la inseguridad), el alcanzar niveles de infraestructura decentes que permitan una mayor calidad de vida, el salir del basurero en que se han convertido todos los lotes baldíos de la ciudad y cualquier otra cosa que se pueda considerar socialmente deseable.
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| Foto: Melenz |
Cada vez que me planteo esas preguntas hago mil y un conjeturas, plateo mil hipótesis distintas, descubro y redescubro el agua tibia, pero siempre hay una idea que aparece en algún momento y de la cuál estoy convencido.
Estoy convencido de que una parte importante de lo que nos falta para salir adelante es creérnosla. Creer que se pueden hacer las cosas. Descubrir que la verdadera y cruel pobreza, la que genera miseria, es la pobreza mental. Esa que no le permite a uno creer en sí mismo y en su capacidad.
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| Foto: Melenz |
¿Qué llevó a los ticos de finales del siglo XIX e inicios del Siglo XX a iluminar sus cafetales con luz eléctrica; a construir el Teatro Nacional y el ferrocarril al caribe? ¿Qué impulsó luego a crear al ICE, la CNFL y la CCSS? Pues que había locos y locas que creyeron que era posible hacerlo, que los demás los escuchamos y que lo hicimos. Es decir, que nos la creímos.
Hay que ser irracional para ver el pueblo de Arenal e imaginarse un lago y una represa o para imaginarse un cafetal todo iluminado. Como dice George Bernard Shaw: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Y lo que tienen las personas irracionales es que se creen su propia historia y no la que les dicen todos los demás.
Así que el día de hoy yo creo que nos hace falta creérnosla más y animarnos soñar en grande y a luchar por esos sueños y proyectos grandes. No hay que dejarse desanimar por todos los pesimistas que hay en la calle, que creen que los problemas del país no tienen solución, que encuentran mil peros para cualquier propuesta pero no proponen nada, que creen que todo el mundo es corrupto y un montón más de blah blah blah.
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| Foto: Melenz |
En lo que va del año, yo me he dedicado a descubrir San José y el mundo ha confabulado a mi favor con proyectos como el de ChepeCletas, el Art City Tour y el "Enamorate de tu ciudad" del MCJ que me han permitido acercarme de una manera más intensa con un fuerte sentimiento de seguridad. Y hoy mientras veía unas fotos que compartió conmigo uno de mis amigos de ChepeCletas vi un montón de cosas de San José (del San José de hoy) que son increíblemente bellas o dicho en mi lengua natural, un chuzo.
Viendo esas imágenes pensé simplemente una cosa: “Me niego a dejar de creer en San José, me niego a dejar de creer en Costa Rica, me niego a dejar de creérmela”. Así que este año, y si Dios quiere el que sigue y en los que vengan después, voy a ponerle a soñar y a trabajar por ese sueño de país en el que quiero vivir.
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| Foto: Melenz |
Todas las fotos de este post pertencen a Melenz y fueron utilizadas sin su permiso pero con el debido reconocimiento a su creatividad. Para ver más fotos de Costa Rica haga clic sobre el nombre del artista.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
El pito
San José, 8.2.2010
Enderezador de entuertos,bálsamo de Fierabras,
pomada canaria,
eliminador de presas,
liberador de estrés,
pavimentador de calles
creador de caminos,
planificador urbano,
abridor de puertas y portones,
controlador de semáforos,
políglota,
lengua universal,
solucionador de conflictos,
rescatador de doncellas,
piropeador de ángeles,
Alfa y Omega,
cura de todos los males
pito sagrado
por los ticos venerado.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Mi lugar favorito en el mundo
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| Esta foto no es mía. Me la robe de una historia de amor. Es lo que parece ser el lugar favorito de alguien más. Yo al mio... hoy no puedo llegar. |
Es un sitio cálido, bello, de un color caramelo intenso que se dora al sol.
Es una tierra fértil en la que no crecen palmas ni árboles pero siempre hay flores de verano que inundan todo con su olor.
Mi lugar favorito en el mundo es un valle coronado por dos hermosos montes de origen sagrado, de carácter volcánico y de tamaño ideal.
Es un lugar del que manan ríos de pasión, canciones y poemas de amor, donde nacen la paz y habita la verdad.
Mi lugar favorito en el mundo está al sur de tu barbilla, limita al este y al oeste con tus brazos, se extiende infinito hacia el sur, descansa sobre la geografía vivaz de tu pecho y va con vos a todas partes.
Mi lugar favorito en el mundo es un abrazo que te nazca del corazón.
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