Music = Life

     I consider music an essential part of my life.  It is my individual technique of escape, of feeling joy and happiness, of putting myself at ease and simply relax.  I appreciate music and every aspect of it: from the melody, to the lyrics, to the player… when its all so well connected, they can easily create a masterpiece that can blow away your senses.  It is something so powerful that can awake the most deepest of emotions in you; it can be disastrous as well as splendorous and make you have the most amazing of times as well as the most miserable one.

     I grew up in a musical environment because my father is a professional percussionist and my mother directed a chorus for church; so personally I appreciate good music and musicians greatly.  It can be a biased judgment but when I meet a person that plays an instrument, they automatically set a better impression on me.  Maybe because they always surrounded me, I am very fond of musicians.  I admire their special ability to understand sounds and notes and how to combine them to make something so pleasurable.  I think one of the most exciting experiences is listening to a good musician performing live; it sets me in a wonderful state of mind.

     Without question, music is a superb form of expression that greatly influences one’s thoughts, feelings and creates the most wonderful sensations.

Happy V Day!

     Valentine’s Day!  Very special for so many people, big day for businesses, everybody is going wild buying gifts on this commercialized day, trying to impress their loved ones.  They go crazy looking for the perfect gift to express the profound love that runs through their veins and makes them be madly in love... but is never enough.

     For those who are truly in love, those who think they live for that loved one, that other one who is never going to fail you, who is never going to abandon you, who is never going to stop loving you because they feel exactly as you do, because they demonstrate it every day; you think they sincerely love you.

     But I want to share a really good lesson life has taught me: no love is everlasting; no love is so true.  There could be an exception, like really close family, but at the end, nothing is so sure.  When you are truly in love you feel like nothing else in this world matters but your relationship with that person.  You really feel secure and complete because that person complements you in a way nobody does; they fill up your spirit and bring happiness to your soul.   And then, something happens and you learn, or you don’t; and you stay or you leave; and you go over and over again.

     In essence, it’s all just learning experiences.  Every relationship is a special and unique ingredient to the ultimate recipe of our life.  You start cooking with those ingredients as your foundation, and it tastes so good, you think there can never be something as good and you decide to keep that recipe for life.  But then, you meet somebody that makes it different, and you taste it, and it tastes so much better!  So you decide to change, and the learning process never stops because there will never be something as finished or as perfect; nothing will get to the point where it doesn’t need anything else.  There is always going to be space for more.

     So at the end of the day, you are left with what feels like perfection and security at the moment…and you know is not going to be there forever, but you’re so glad is there for you now.

An escape...

    What do you think about when you imagine a place where you can escape? Do you imagine an island in the middle of nowhere, with palm trees and sand all around you, and nothing to hear but the silence that surrounds you? Or do you imagine going to a place with no name, a place where you cannot stay, a place that is no place, just nowhere going in nothingness? What brings you peace? What do you think about when you no longer feel like being where you are? What brings you to that state of mind where you cannot longer feel anxiety or trouble? Where is that place that brings you peace?

   Life can be so ironic. I assure you that whatever brought you peace a while ago is not the same that calms you today. For who would’ve thought that what perturbed my mind yesterday is what brings me happiness today?

   Just the thought of it when I feel troubled gets me in a hopeful mood where I can make it work because there are big things worth fighting for…

   I think of my past, my family, my friends, my culture, my places, and they soothe me, and so ungratefully, I didn’t want to be there! I fought to go away and now they’re my escape: the true place where no lies exist, where everything is right and sincere.

   My escape is to go back, remember my true self and go fight the world again. Recover all the strength I lost by remembering my best times, the best people, and the best places that I can create.