Because you will probably once in your life need this. (I do)
2.3.16
16.2.16
Starry sky
I like his song because it transmits a nice feeling. It’s very uplifting, it’s cheerful, it’s happy. Today’s morning I really wanted to feel those feelings again.
Cause you’re a sky full of stars.
It’s such a heavenly feel.
I miss this heavenly feel, I miss the stars, I miss the sky.
Cause you get lighter the more it gets dark.
I miss the sky full of stars.
I want to feel this feeling again.
Then I remember all the wonderful people I have met, in other places, at other times, on very different situations. How they smile, how they live, how they enjoy life. As I once said, people worth it to travel around the world to get to know. I have taken a tiny part of what they are, I have used a little piece of the brightness they irradiate, I hope they don’t mind. I took that for myself, I have used that light to paint my sky, to fill it with stars.
I have a sky, full of stars, that reminds me of a heavenly feel. Every single star, far up there, is a nice memory I have with someone I got to know.
Thank you all for shining upon me.
Cause you’re a sky full of stars.
It’s such a heavenly feel.
I miss this heavenly feel, I miss the stars, I miss the sky.
Cause you get lighter the more it gets dark.
I miss the sky full of stars.
I want to feel this feeling again.
Then I remember all the wonderful people I have met, in other places, at other times, on very different situations. How they smile, how they live, how they enjoy life. As I once said, people worth it to travel around the world to get to know. I have taken a tiny part of what they are, I have used a little piece of the brightness they irradiate, I hope they don’t mind. I took that for myself, I have used that light to paint my sky, to fill it with stars.
I have a sky, full of stars, that reminds me of a heavenly feel. Every single star, far up there, is a nice memory I have with someone I got to know.
Thank you all for shining upon me.
It's time
This text should have been posted one year ago, and it actually relates to a previous post titled 'time to wake up'. So this is more like ‘Part Two’.
What happens when one sets a goal, and keeps it above all others? When things don’t seem to work out well, the most common thing is to give it up. But sometimes, not reaching the goal can also be a motivation to try again, to try harder.
I have put this goal so high, and it has been so difficult to reach that I cannot even say how much I had to give up, I started to doubt whether it was worth it or not. I have to acknowledge it has been hard, I almost felt like I have been left with nothing.
But things have changed, I am about to reach this so longed goal.
Now I see it this way. I have been preparing, planning, designing something almost without knowing. I have focused on setting up the foundations. That is why from afar it is not remarkable, because most of it is just a preparation, barely noticeable. But the setting is strong, the design is well planned. Good things take time, and the best things are always hard to reach.
I set the framework so that no matter what, this will work out, I will make it work. I am building myself, I will build this future, it’s time to make it real. This is the big divide, this is how it all starts… so, bring it on, I can’t wait.
https://youtu.be/yJTil1luypM
What happens when one sets a goal, and keeps it above all others? When things don’t seem to work out well, the most common thing is to give it up. But sometimes, not reaching the goal can also be a motivation to try again, to try harder.
I have put this goal so high, and it has been so difficult to reach that I cannot even say how much I had to give up, I started to doubt whether it was worth it or not. I have to acknowledge it has been hard, I almost felt like I have been left with nothing.
But things have changed, I am about to reach this so longed goal.
Now I see it this way. I have been preparing, planning, designing something almost without knowing. I have focused on setting up the foundations. That is why from afar it is not remarkable, because most of it is just a preparation, barely noticeable. But the setting is strong, the design is well planned. Good things take time, and the best things are always hard to reach.
I set the framework so that no matter what, this will work out, I will make it work. I am building myself, I will build this future, it’s time to make it real. This is the big divide, this is how it all starts… so, bring it on, I can’t wait.
https://youtu.be/yJTil1luypM
9.12.13
Addendum
What are feelings?
To tell you the truth, I don't know.
But I can tell you a couple of things I have learned on the way. First, they are not easy to define.
Researchers have found that our brain can be divided in 3 well defined sections, the core section regulates the basic vital functions, like breath or hunger, the section surrounding it deals with basic controls and behaviors, like the instincts and hormones, and the outer section, that wraps it all up is the one in charge of the most complicated processes we as humans perform, from everyday life tasks like choosing today's clothes, to composing a symphony or a PhD thesis in philosophy.
Especially the 3rd part, the one in charge of the abstract and rational thoughts, is what we have believed to make us human, to set us apart from the animal kingdom. But that does not mean we can simply get rid of the other two parts and be called humans. What creature can walk on Earth bragging it has no instincts, or even more, no system regulating its basic functions.
The brain has been growing from its core since the beginning, building more and better structures, evolving. However, it has not completely gotten rid of the previous versions; it has built itself upon them. They are actually older than the third section, by several million years. They hold a wisdom hard to understand by reason, if ever, that was acquired at early stages of evolution, and they helped us survive for ages. They have brought us this far.
So yes, instincts, hormones and feelings are handled by the second section of our brains. And yes, they may be seen as a memory of our previous lives, of the times when we were hunters-gatherers organized in tribes, as nomads threatened everyday by predators. But there is more to it than that.
If we study human children behavior, and behavior of several animals that we say are smart, we can find a couple of interesting similarities. Evidence shows most animals have feelings: the simplest example is when we consider a mammal mother defending its babies. How about monkeys? They show a pretty wide variety of feelings, from the simple ones like rage or joy, to more complicated ones like envy or friendship. Chimpanzees are famous for developing an intelligence level comparable to a 5 year old human. Apparently they also have similar capabilities for feelings. The point is that humans can develop much more intelligence in later stages of life, just the same as with feelings. There is no clear evidence of any animal showing the most complicated feelings that humans develop in adulthood, like jealousy, untrustworthy, and so on.
Moreover, unfortunate events have left people without the part of the brain that controls feelings, and science has taken that chance to study them. One of the findings is that they are completely capable of solving rational thinking problems, but they cannot make simple decisions concerned with what they want, say, choosing one option out of two.
They may seem primitive sometimes, but present societies and human behavior itself cannot be understood if we take feelings away. They are a keystone in what it means to be human. As far as I understand, science has not completely explained what feelings are, nor how to control them. But well… sometimes I think… maybe there are things we better ignore.
So, as a conclusion, if you just bump into me walking down the street and ask me: 'Hey you!, what are feelings?' My answer will be:
I don't know.
To tell you the truth, I don't know.
But I can tell you a couple of things I have learned on the way. First, they are not easy to define.
Researchers have found that our brain can be divided in 3 well defined sections, the core section regulates the basic vital functions, like breath or hunger, the section surrounding it deals with basic controls and behaviors, like the instincts and hormones, and the outer section, that wraps it all up is the one in charge of the most complicated processes we as humans perform, from everyday life tasks like choosing today's clothes, to composing a symphony or a PhD thesis in philosophy.
Especially the 3rd part, the one in charge of the abstract and rational thoughts, is what we have believed to make us human, to set us apart from the animal kingdom. But that does not mean we can simply get rid of the other two parts and be called humans. What creature can walk on Earth bragging it has no instincts, or even more, no system regulating its basic functions.
The brain has been growing from its core since the beginning, building more and better structures, evolving. However, it has not completely gotten rid of the previous versions; it has built itself upon them. They are actually older than the third section, by several million years. They hold a wisdom hard to understand by reason, if ever, that was acquired at early stages of evolution, and they helped us survive for ages. They have brought us this far.
So yes, instincts, hormones and feelings are handled by the second section of our brains. And yes, they may be seen as a memory of our previous lives, of the times when we were hunters-gatherers organized in tribes, as nomads threatened everyday by predators. But there is more to it than that.
If we study human children behavior, and behavior of several animals that we say are smart, we can find a couple of interesting similarities. Evidence shows most animals have feelings: the simplest example is when we consider a mammal mother defending its babies. How about monkeys? They show a pretty wide variety of feelings, from the simple ones like rage or joy, to more complicated ones like envy or friendship. Chimpanzees are famous for developing an intelligence level comparable to a 5 year old human. Apparently they also have similar capabilities for feelings. The point is that humans can develop much more intelligence in later stages of life, just the same as with feelings. There is no clear evidence of any animal showing the most complicated feelings that humans develop in adulthood, like jealousy, untrustworthy, and so on.
Moreover, unfortunate events have left people without the part of the brain that controls feelings, and science has taken that chance to study them. One of the findings is that they are completely capable of solving rational thinking problems, but they cannot make simple decisions concerned with what they want, say, choosing one option out of two.
They may seem primitive sometimes, but present societies and human behavior itself cannot be understood if we take feelings away. They are a keystone in what it means to be human. As far as I understand, science has not completely explained what feelings are, nor how to control them. But well… sometimes I think… maybe there are things we better ignore.
So, as a conclusion, if you just bump into me walking down the street and ask me: 'Hey you!, what are feelings?' My answer will be:
I don't know.
3.8.13
Netzwerk
Love and hate are just two sides of the same coin. But with love something very drastic has happened. It is unimaginable how this drastic step was taken by people who had all the good intentions in the world.
You may never have suspected even what has destroyed love. It is the continuous teaching of love that has destroyed it.
Hate is still pure, love is not. When you hate, your hate has an authenticity. And when you love it is only hypocrisy. This has to be understood.
“Sunshine, blue skies
Please go away
My life, it’s filled with gloom
So, day after day, I wish it went away,
I wish it went away.
Let it rain.”
For thousands of years all the religions, politicians, pedagogues, have been teaching one thing, and that one thing is love: Love your enemy, love your neighbor, love your parents, love God.
Why in the beginning did they start this strange series of teachings about love?
They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control. You are possessed by it. You are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings.
And the most basic thing which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love, because if you are possessed by love you can go even against the whole world.
“Sunshine, blue skies
Please go away
My life, it’s filled with gloom
So, day after day, I wish it went away,
I wish it went away.
Let it rain.”
You may never have suspected even what has destroyed love. It is the continuous teaching of love that has destroyed it.
Hate is still pure, love is not. When you hate, your hate has an authenticity. And when you love it is only hypocrisy. This has to be understood.
“Sunshine, blue skies
Please go away
My life, it’s filled with gloom
So, day after day, I wish it went away,
I wish it went away.
Let it rain.”
For thousands of years all the religions, politicians, pedagogues, have been teaching one thing, and that one thing is love: Love your enemy, love your neighbor, love your parents, love God.
Why in the beginning did they start this strange series of teachings about love?
They were afraid of your authentic love, because authentic love is beyond their control. You are possessed by it. You are not the possessor, you are the possessed. And every society wants you to be in control. The society is afraid of your wild nature, it is afraid of your naturalness, so from the very beginning it starts cutting your wings.
And the most basic thing which is dangerous in you is the possibility of love, because if you are possessed by love you can go even against the whole world.
“Sunshine, blue skies
Please go away
My life, it’s filled with gloom
So, day after day, I wish it went away,
I wish it went away.
Let it rain.”
25.7.13
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