Papers papers PAPERS!!

“Si la Visa universal se extiende el día en que nacemos y caduca en la muerte, porque te persiguen mojado si el cónsul de los cielos ya te dio permiso.”

Ricardo Arjona is one of the most talented singers from Latin America. I discovered him years ago when someone dedicated a song from him to me. I fell in love almost immediately of the lyrics of every one of his songs. They always tell a story full of truths and I always think “He has just the right words”.

Now, I’m aware of the fact that not everybody likes Arjona. Nevertheless, I wanted to reflect a little bit about his last song “Mojado”.

When I heard it for the first time I got caught by the tune, the music. Later on I started paying attention to the lyrics. Mojados are those who try to cross illegally the borders in order to get to the other country. They are in search for new opportunities and a better life.

The song describes pretty well what these people have to go through when they are trying to cross to the other side. But, what I focused my attention on when I heard the song was that particular phrase that I wrote above.

Somehow I think that what the lyric is trying is point at is to the lack of freedom. We need this Visa to live whenever we want freely. And thinking about it, we depend upon a paper. We depend upon PAPERS! We live for them and die for them. We need a paper to buy food; we are born and exist only if there is a paper that corroborates it. Our own identity is written on paper.

We human beings have developed a system that makes life (every aspect of it) possible only because of a paper!

Maybe I’m being too extreme but I feel that our life is meaningless without these documents.

Lies, truths and stories

Sunday morning. My dad is watching TV but not really paying attention to the images on the screen. I sat next to him; he looks at me and my sister and pronounces some words.

"A lie that everybody considers to be true and a story that seems to be a lie"

At first neither my sister nor me could understand was he was talking about. He then explained that he had heard that phrase from someone else during the weekend.

An eleven year-old girl was almost raped on her way to school. The situation had been handled by the police who investigated the case and who were after the man the little girl had accused. A psychoanalyst had talked to the girl to keep her calm and to get some more information.

That is the lie.

Two days later the family discovered that the little girl had invented the whole story because she didn’t want to go to the school. She had even used her friends in order to make her story more credible.

That is the story. It got my dad thinking how was possible that a young girl could have invented such a story just because she didn’t want go to school.

But the phrase made me think about something different. There are always lies that everybody consider to be true, and everybody has some story that seem to be a lie. Many people at least once in their lives had created an extraordinary story out of a lie and it is so well portrayed that nobody ever dares to doubt of it.

On the other hand, some stories are so amazing that seem to be taken from a movie and that is why nobody believes them.

Now you think. Do you have a lie that everybody considers to be true or a story that seems to be a lie?

Set fire to the fire

They say that once more nature has shown its fury. 

The infernal heat for two or three days, the drought and the unceasing wind in San Luis were factors that aggravated the problem. Nevertheless, in this case nature has been damaged and, once more, by human carelesness.

How many times we don not consider our actions as harmful whenever we lit a cigarette or when we build campfires. We do not take into account that although nature is not property of anyone, it is in fact everybody's duty and obligation to preserve it.

This wildfire in our province has affected not only nature by many people's lives. The fire in some areas was extremely close to the population and in fact, the dissaster took one fireman's life.

Many are the factors that can cause a wildfire I just mention one that has to do with non intentional fire, with accidents.

Now think of the idea of someone starting a fire just for fun. Pyromaniacs burning a forest only for the pleasure. That is even worse!

 

Take a look at the picture. Check the panorama and reflect upon the image. Can you imagine someone enjoying looking at this? How is it having fun with this? Or is it that that person is mocking at nature, mocking at the people whose houses are about to be destroyed because of the fire, or mocking at the firemen that give their lives to stop the dissaster?

Considers this, buts most importantly, try to do something about it.

Big smiles in darkness

Red Bracelets is a outsatnding tv series from Brazil full of emotions that it certanly made its audience weep every chapter.
Based on the novel The Yellow World (2008) by Albert Espinosa, this story was aired on TNT channel after the famouse film director Steven Spilberg noticed it.
Red Bracelets tell the story of a group of teenagers spending their days in a hospital due to their illnesses. The story revolves around their everyday life facing each one of them the difficulties of their own conditions. They become friends in darkness and their desire is to fight together for a chance to live.
Here I give a trailer of the series. Enjoy!