AZULES COMO EL MAR PROFUNDO
Azules como el mar profundo
son los ojos del hijo que traje al mundo,
ancha como una pradera sembrada
es la sonrisa que ilumina su mirada,
tiernas como flores de montaña
son las palabras con las que me habla,
inmensos como el universo infinito
son los latidos de su corazón querido.
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It was just another Coronavirus Sunday between the solitary
walls of my home. Although after several months of isolation I was still
feeling able to face what was going on, for some reason on that particular
Sunday the idea of spending another day among my thoughts and memories became a
little too hard to accept. Sages crave for the loneliness of the desert to face
their lives and their visions and understand them; unfortunately, I am not a
sage and the lack of social activities makes my days too long and too desolate.
Social isolation leaves me alone with the painful events of my life, and when my
aloneness lasts too long, I find it difficult to understand the meaning of
existence. Despite my reluctance to face another day with myself, I decided to
make the best of it and looked for a book that would help me use the time
wisely; I decided to use the time to clarify some of my unfinished businesses.
It was then that I suddenly remembered Baruch Spinoza, that magnificent philosopher
rejected by his Jewish Elders for having understood that divinity is not a Being
from another world but the logic order of Nature. Spinoza said that all phenomena, including
human choices and actions, respond to an internal order of cause and effect. He
added that Nature processes occur by necessity and none of them could have occurred
differently. In other words, it is what it is, and if we wish to avoid hating
others or living in desperation, we need to accept what is. In his life Spinoza lived through
very difficult situations to the point of almost being stabbed to death by a religious
fanatic. However, being a brilliant mind, he reached the conclusion that it is
useless to argue with the flow of events. Much wiser it is to understand that
everything that happens in life has a cause, and the only thing we can do is to
accept the fact that what we are facing is the effect of such a cause. Although
most of the time we ignore what the causes of our suffering are, acceptance is
an imperative. After closing the book on Spinoza, I decided that the best thing
for me to do was to forget about my unfinished businesses and have a nice glass
of wine on the balcony.
Estoy acá, en mi casa, a solas. Acaba de terminar la Navidad y yo siento que lo que me rodea sabe a Nochebuena, a caminos de arena, a ese ai...
