The World is Mourning… The World is Crying…

Day by day, we get shocked about the horrible terrorism attacks we hear in the news, about the wars…all this wave of catastrophes which affect us as humanity… Immediately, we fill the social media with supportive comments about the “viral” new, which becomes “trendy”… which is great of course!… However… What are we really doing about it?… Have we ever thought about the terrorism attacks we make by trying to impose our ideologies by proclaiming that what we do is “right”, and what others do is “wrong”?… Have we ever thought about the way we kidnap and kill others’ ideologies just cause they differ from ours?…

All this begins from the moment when we don’t respect the diversity… Like someone speaking with a different accent, dressing in a way we are not use to… It goes on by “deciding” the way others should live their lives… (whether if they are “homosexual”, “pregnant and not married”, “divorced”, or “jobless”)… Such will to keep on labeling others… Until the point where we judge others by what they do on their spare time, and “condemn” them for their music taste, or for a simple and insignificant thing such as downloading an app in the cellphone that we think is for “fools”, “idiots”, “desperate”… just cause we don’t use it… Isn’t that one way of terrorism?… Why don’t we get shocked about it?…

We have never thought about the inner fight each and one of these people is going through by being “different”, by accepting themselves as diverse… by trying to integrate into a society that will never stop being “double-moral”, just for the only reason which is the need of “belonging” which we all human beings have… Maybe this fight is similar to the one any of us is going through right now…

Let’s live and let live! Stop being judges, and stop “playing God”… Let’s accept that everybody is different from myself… “Each person is a new world”… Let’s stop hijacking others’ worlds… Stop those “bomb-attacks”… Let’s focus on “living”… What others do or stop doing is THEIR PROBLEM… not ours…

Neighbor’s life concerns to my neighbor… So, let’s focus in the way we live our own one! As Benito Juárez said: “Among individuals, as in nations, the RESPECT for OTHERS’ WILL means PEACE”… We have been taught this since we were little ones… Some of us even were asked to write that phrase several times for homework… Seems it’s been forgotten… Let’s start using it! Let’s keep on performing it!… It is never too late to start!…

Personally, such is the live I try to aim for.. Care about my life… Try not to do what I don’t want others do to me! I live, and let live!…

I know nobody has asked for my opinion…However, this is my Trinchador, and want to share it together with this image which I painted on 2010… Thank you all for taking the time to read it!

Let’s Live and Celebrate Life!

Happy Friday Everybody!

People Translator

Sometimes when you are having a conversation, millions of thoughts pass through your mind. This happened to me in the following story… Precisely, a conversation was happening, when I got a déjà-vu and one question appeared in my mind…”How to understand a person?”… How to understand that person based on his/her procedures, reactions, behaviours, the way they react among us and among others?…

Some minutes passed by, and all of the suddenly, the answer came itself…” We cannot understand people, we can just accept it, love it!

We spend our lives trying to unpuzzle the others’ behaviours, and reactions towards us… Trying to figure out the reason that person did “this” or “that”… One way or another, this is leads us to the break down of our nerves… In addition, our doubts, uncertainties, and fears are growing over and over… This is a clear indicator of how insecure we are… This feelings show how afraid we are of discovering a “truth” which is only created in our minds. The one that will definitely hurt our feelings… All that just for this simple fact: “It is much easier to stay negative, and kill ourselves emotionally; than stay positive and feel good…”

As if all that wouldn’t be enough, we then try to find reasons for all those reactions from the people towards us, we create thousands of different excuses with the only goal which is trying to “understand” them… All that is possible, by our creation of an exhaustive film within our minds… (something that can be extremely tinny or unimportant, we give it the power and raise it up as a terrible Giant).

(I was thinking all those ideas when a word disrupted all of them: “trust”) Then I said to myself once again: “There is no reason to try to find the reason for what “might be”… We need to accept the others just the way they are; without trying to search for reasons or excuse their reactions towards us”.

Once we really accept the person, and start trusting him/her…we can manage to “understand” him/her… However, we cannot “understand”, in order to “accept”…(this is not math)…

It would be so great and convenient just to “understand” in order to “accept”… That way, we would be sure of our answers…”If I understand you, then I accept you”… (Doesn’t that sound very selfish?…)

We could change such conditional for this simple quote: “I accept you, just the way you are…”, and if we still want to figure out a reason for such sentence, we could say: “because I trust you…”

This way, if at some point that person betrays that trust, then we had realised that perhaps, that person was not the right one…we would happily go on our ways… However, in the opposite way, we would be denying ourselves the only and unique opportunity to trust someone that might be worth it… In addition, we would be blocking our right to show our scent and honesty towards the other person…

So… Let’s trust… Heart in hand…

Roberto Bahena

A Star is Born...

The universe consists on millions of galaxies. Inside each of those galaxies, there are tons of constellations, which at the same time are loaded with many stars… That statement makes me realise that our world is a very tiny and small universe, where galaxies (the countries), are created from many constellations (the communities), a place where all the stars live (ourselves).

Perhaps you could say that am grown enough to call myself a “new born” (although many people are born in the biologic way, but not in the real and the emotional one…). Anyways, this place, is like a baby born… One way or another one, this, my Trinchador, is another of those millions of stars which are in the internet galaxy, and part of the blogs’ world.

I dare to call this place as “star”, not because it is a place of light, but because is part of the so many lights that surround this Earthy universe. In addition, the extra-light which touches this site will be because of all of you, my readers. You who take your time to visit and subscribe to this small space. Together we will make that this little star irradiates light in a shinning brightly way.

Once again, may you all be welcome to this place, and thank you very much for letting me be part of your life through this way. 

Live…Love…and Enjoy this Party called Life…

Roberto Bahena

El Trinchador (English Version)

For all those who want to know the real meaning of this word, according to the dictionary, a “trinchador style piece of furniture”, is that one where you set all the crockery for special occasions, the glasses, dishes, cups, tablecloths, etc.

My real meaning goes beyond the meaning itself. Back in childhood, my mom used to have a piece of furniture located in the living room, the one she used to call “el trinchador”. This piece, was of course stuffed with the crockery and tablecloths for the special days. However, as time went by, this piece started to get slowly stuffed with “important stuffs”; such as those tickets that you have to keep after buying something (the ones were placed in the wine glasses), some boardgames, decorative materials, and the most important… some of our “best ID size photos”, you could see how we have changed and grown older with time… In addition, there were also some trips’ souvenirs gotten from our, any family member, or some friends’ trips. These photos and souvenirs were located in the showcase part of this “trinchador”… I must say that nowadays, my mom still has this “trinchador”, the one that she always plans to clean, and get rid of some stuffs…However, all the stuffs in there are so special, that they have remained there till the present days…

Anyways, what I want to say, is that the “trinchador” was stuffed with only special stuffs… Such is the objective of this site…To place only everything which I consider to be special to share with all of you…

May you all be welcome to this blog, my friends!

Thank you so very much for your comments!

Roberto Bahena