Thank you Nature

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In this post I will be writing about a habit that I have for about 6 months now and that is to thank nature for all the good things that happened in my day, to describe the ones that I see has bad and try to look them on a different perspective to understand what good came or will come out of them (most times I can't figure that out), and lastly I ask her to watch over the ones I love.
Now, this is my habit but when I say nature, that's how I see it, but if you are a christian you might thank Jesus Christ. I call it nature because that's something I really care about and that was always really important to me (nature, the elements and our senses) and it is easier for me, looking at the stars, to imagine a being that watches over us who is alive but not humanlike, that is everything: us, the stars, the trees, the animals, everything. And this being guides us through our path if we dare to listen. To listen what? To listen to our intuition because that is him too.
But I also wanna say that this belief, this faith ain't all sunshines and rainbows because there will be times when I ask myself: What the fuck is the meaning of this, what do you want me to do, what do I want to do and what it'll be for? And the shitty part is you will never get an instant answer, maybe if you don't give up you will see signs that may or not be an indication of an answer.
And to finish this post I want to say that I don't always thank nature because there is one night that I tell her to fuck herself and that night is the New Year's Eve at midnight. At that time I tell her to fuck herself for all the bad things that happened to me and that I didn't find an answer for, but I also understand that maybe I wasn't looking in the right way or maybe I shouldn't be trying to find answers.

Zen in Everyday Life

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In this post I will talk about a book that is inspiring me and that book is: Zen in the Martial Arts, from the writer Joe Hyams. More specifically I will talk about a chapter within that book that is expanding my view the most and that chapter is: process not product.
On this chapter the writer is having tea with his Hapkidô master (master Han) and he tells him that he can never do things in a satisfactory way unless he is willing to give himself time. Hyams tells the master that he is patient, and master Han answers that he wasn't talking about patience because having patience is the capability of resisting calmly but giving yourself time is actively working toward a goal without establishing a limit to where you want to reach (Hyams, 1979).
This last sentence is really interesting because that is always something at least I do. I impose upon myself the idea that within a certain amount of time I'll have to reach objective X and if I don't reach it I feel like that time was wasted. And other times I do reach that goal but the result isn't much better also because I get that slight satisfaction and think that it is cool, I reached my goal but what follows is: either quitting because I didn't put more challenging goals; or this process repeats.
Joe Hyams proposes to eliminate the notion of deadline from our heads because doing that will make your body, mind and spirit lighter and more relaxed, therefore improving more in whatever you want to improve.
I don't share that thought entirely. On the one hand I agree that in things you will do in the "long run" you should do that, everyday work toward getting better, learning more but without setting yourself limits, just small goals that don't work as barriers but as boosters that help you break your limits. On the other hand I know that in today's society, in school or in our everyday jobs we have deadlines to accomplish and that if we don't, there will be consequences like when you don't deliver a paper in time, you get 0. Relating the later example I think we should define those same small goals everyday so that when the time to deliver that paper comes you will have it finished with much less stress than if you had it written the night before.
So, to conclude this post, we should give ourselves time to get better every single day and not try to reach a big goal in a very small period of time or you will not get much better and you will be really stressed. How? Putting small goals everyday that push us to stop limiting ourselves.

Inspiration Inside an Animal

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There is one animal in my house or more accurately in my backyard that inspires me everyday, and that animal is my dog, Botero.

Why does he inspire you?He's just a dog...  Indeed he's "just a dog" as much as we are "just humans" but he is an inspiration to me in my everyday life because he is a 11 years old Saint Bernard that has arthritis and for this reason he has a lot of difficulty to walk and to get up everyday. And you would think that with this disease would come symptoms like depression for not being able to play and run properly like every dog loves, but that isn't the case because he has a really strong personality that can be happy with little, even when life is taking the little out of him.
So, to end this post I can say that when I feel down, I sometimes look at my dog as an inspiration. If he can be happy with so little and can find the strength to get up every day, I can too since I luckily own more than him (I know that the minds of dogs and humans aren't equal) and unlike him I have the possibility and power to change what makes me upset, I just need the will (that comes more easily with the push of ... inspirations).

A beginning of a Wider Sight

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My goal with this blog is: first of all, to help me get the will, the motivation and determination to travel to new places, meet new people, taste new foods and in a general way, broaden my vision of the world because I think that's my life's purpose (at least at the moment); and secondly, but of similar importance, to share with the readers of this blog my experiences and perceptions in order to inspire or just to influence them to do as I will or at least try to do.
The main subjects of this blog will be related to places that I travel to and visit, foods I taste, recipes I experiment, books I read that have enlarged my spectrum of the world. Or, in a simple way, things that contribute to my life's purpose be it on a physical, mental, sensorial or spiritual level.