You are not depressed… just distracted.
Happy thoughts
My translation of “Reflexiones” by Facundo Cabral http://misdocumentos.webcindario.com/reflexionescabral
You are not depressed… just distracted, distracted of this
life that populates in you. Distracted of the life that surrounds
you, dolphins, forests, seas, mountains, rivers.
Dont fall on what your brother fell on, who suffers due to a human
being when there is more than 6,400 millions (according to google”s
“world population”). Furthermore, it is not so bad to live alone.
I have fun by deciding what I want to do at every moment and thanks
to solitude, I know myself, which is constitutive for life.
Dont fall in what your father felt, feeling old when he is sixty but
forgets that Moses lead off the Exodus when he was eighty and
Rubinstein played Chopin like no other when he was ninety, just to
quote two renamed cases.
You are not depressed, you are just distracted. That is why you think
you have lost something, which is impossible since everything has been
given to you. You didn’t even make a hair on your head, therefore you
cant be owner of nothing. Furthermore, life doesn’t take things
away from you but it relieves you….lightens you so you can fly higher
to achieve plenitude. It is a school from the cradle to the grave,
therefore, what you call problems are just lessons.
You didn’t lose anybody, the ones who passed away
simply got ahead of us because we are just voyeurs headed in
that direction. And, the best part of him, his love, will always stay
in you heart.
Who could say that Jesus is dead? There is no dead.. there is
“moving”. And on the other side there is great marvelous people:
Gandhi, Miguel Angel, Whitman, St Agustin, Mother Theresa your
grandpa and my mom among them, who believed poorness is closer to
love since money distracts us with plenty of things and draws us
apart since it makes us grow distrusted.
Do whatever you love and you will be happy. Who does what
he loves is blessedly condemned to success, which will arrive in
the moment it must arrive since all that is to be will be, and will
arrive naturally. Avoid doing things for obligation or engagement
but for love. Then, you will reach plenitude and among all that plenitude
anything will be possible with no effort, because it is moved by the natural
force of life, the one that kept me going when
the plane with my daughter and my wife felt down, the one that kept me
alive when the doctors said I had only three or four months of life.
God gave you the task of taking care of one human being, yourself.
Only you will be able to make yourself free and happy. Only then you
will be able to fully share your life with others. Remember these
words: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Reconcile with yourself, sit in front of a mirror and think that the
creature you see is a master piece of God, choose right now
to be happy because happiness is an acquisition. Furthermore,
happiness is not a right, but a duty because if you are unhappy,
you will make unhappy everyone else around you. One single man
without talent nor spunk to live, ordered the death of
six millions of fellow Jews.
There are so many things to enjoy and our journey in this land is so short
that suffering is just a waste of time. We must learn to enjoy the coming snow,
the spring flowers, the Perusa chocolate, the French baguette bread, the
Mexican tacos, the Chilean wine, the Colombian coffee, the oceans,
the rivers, the Brazilian football, the One Thousand and One Nights, books as
the Divine Comedy, The Quixote or Pedro Paramo, romantic boleros by Manzanero,
and for the intellectual poetry by Whitman, classical music by
Mahler, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven, paints by Rembrandt,
Caravaggio, Velazquez, Picasso and Tamayo among other wonders.
If you happen to have HIV or cancer, there is two things that could
happen and both of them are good. If it beats you, it will liberate
you from the bothersome body (I am hungry, I am cold, I am
sleepy, I feel like…, I am right, I have doubts)… and, if you beat it,
you will be humbler, more grateful…therefore you will be happy and
pleased easily, relieved from any guilt, responsibility and vanity,
ready to live every moment profoundly as it should be.
You are not depressed, you are just unemployed.
Help that child that needs you, that child who will be partners with
your son. Help the elders so the youngsters will help you when you
grow old. Remember that serving others is a certain happiness,
like when you care for nature for those to come. Give without limits
and you will receive much more than you expect. Love until you
become the most loved, even more, until you become the pure
essence of Love.
Do not be confused by those few homiciders and suiciders. Goodness
is bigger although you can see it because it is silent. A bomb makes
more noice than a caressing but there are millions of caressings feeding
life per each destroying bomb. Isn´t it worth it?
If God had a freezer, He would have your picture on it; if He had a
wallet, He would have your picture in it. He sends flowers to you every
spring. He sends you a sunrise every morning. He is ready to listen
every time you are willing to talk. He could live every place in the universe
He likes but He choose your heart. He is crazy about you!!
Face it up, my friend!!
God never promised you days without pain; Laughter without sorrow,
sun without rain but He did promise strength for your every single day,
consolation to your tears and light in your way.
“When life gives you one thousand reasons for crying, show that you have
one thousand and one reasons to brake into a smile”.
NO ESTÁS DEPRIMIDO, ESTÁS DISTRAIDO
por Facundo Cabral
No estás deprimido, estás distraído, distraído de la vida que te puebla.
Distraído de la vida que te rodea: Delfines, bosques, mares, montañas, ríos.
No caigas en lo que cayó tu hermano, que sufre por un ser humano cuando en el mundo hay 5,600 millones.
Además, no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a la soledad me conozco; algo fundamental para vivir.
No caigas en lo que cayó tu padre, que se siente viejo porque tiene 70 años, olvidando que Moisés dirigía el éxodo a los 80 y Rubistein interpretaba como nadie a Chopin a los 90. Sólo citar dos casos conocidos.
No estás deprimido, estás distraído, por eso crees que perdiste algo, lo que es imposible, porque todo te fue dado. No hiciste ni un sólo pelo de tu cabeza por lo tanto no puedes ser dueño de nada.
Además la vida no te quita cosas, te libera de cosas. Te aliviana para que vueles más alto, para que alcances la plenitud. De la cuna a la tumba es una escuela, por eso lo que llamas problemas son lecciones. No perdiste a nadie, el que murió simplemente se nos adelantó, porque para allá vamos todos. Además lo mejor de él, el amor, sigue en tu corazón. ¿Quién podría decir que Jesús está muerto? No hay muerte: hay mudanza. Y del otro lado te espera gente maravillosa: Gandhi, Michelangelo, Whitman, San Agustín, la Madre Teresa, tu abuela y mi madre, que creía que la pobreza está más cerca del amor, porque el dinero nos distrae con demasiadas cosas, y nos aleja por que nos hace desconfiados.
Haz sólo lo que amas y serás feliz, y el que hace lo que ama, está benditamente condenado al éxito, que llegará cuando deba llegar, porque lo que debe ser será, y llegará naturalmente. No hagas nada por obligación ni por compromiso, sino por amor. Entonces habrá plenitud, y en esa plenitud todo es posible. Y sin esfuerzo porque te mueve la fuerza natural de la vida, la que me levantó cuando se cayó el avión con mi mujer y mi hija; la que me mantuvo vivo cuando los médicos me diagnosticaban 3 ó 4 meses de vida. Dios te puso un ser humano a cargo, y eres tú mismo. A ti debes hacerte libre y feliz, después podrás compartir la vida verdadera con los demás. Recuerda a Jesús: “Amarás al prójimo como a ti mismo”.
Reconcíliate contigo, ponte frente al espejo y piensa que esa criatura que estás viendo es obra de Dios; y decide ahora mismo ser feliz porque la felicidad es una adquisición.
Además, la felicidad no es un derecho sino un deber porque si no eres feliz, estás amargando a todo el barrio. Un sólo hombre que no tuvo ni talento ni valor para vivir, mando matar seis millones de hermanos judíos. Hay tantas cosas para gozar y nuestro paso por la tierra es tan corto, que sufrir es una pérdida de tiempo. Tenemos para gozar la nieve del invierno y las flores de la primavera, el chocolate de la Perusa, la baguette francesa, los tacos mexicanos, el vino chileno, los mares y los ríos, el fútbol de los brasileros, Las Mil y Una Noches, la Divina Comedia, el Quijote, el Pedro Páramo, los boleros de Manzanero y las poesías de Whitman, Mäiller, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Caraballo, Rembrandt, Velásquez, Picasso y Tamayo, entre tantas maravillas.
Y si tienes cáncer o SIDA, pueden pasar dos cosas y las dos son buenas; si te gana, te libera del cuerpo que es tan molesto: tengo hambre, tengo frío, tengo sueño, tengo ganas, tengo razón, tengo dudas … y si le ganas, serás más humilde, más agradecido, por lo tanto, fácilmente feliz. Libre del tremendo peso de la culpa, la responsabilidad, y la vanidad, dispuesto a vivir cada instante profundamente como debe ser.
No estás deprimido, estás desocupado. Ayuda al niño que te necesita, ese niño será socio de tu hijo. Ayuda a los viejos, y los jóvenes te ayudarán cuando lo seas. Además el servicio es una felicidad segura, como gozar a la naturaleza y cuidarla para el que vendrá. Da sin medida y te darán sin medidas.
Ama hasta convertirte en lo amado, más aún hasta convertirte en el mismísimo amor. Y que no te confundan unos pocos homicidas y suicidas, el bien es mayoría pero no se nota porque es silencioso, una bomba hace más ruido que una caricia, pero por cada bomba que le destruyan hay millones de caricias, que alimentan la vida. |
