December 23, 2007

Art

James Joyce brings us a marvelous description of art and beauty. First he try to set a limit to how an art form should be observed, saying that ‘(...) to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of beauty we have to come to understand (...)’. We have to observe that with this definition he makes us see Art as a representation of Beauty in forms that can be perceived by anyone, not only the artist himself.

He does so artisticaly, using the expression ‘from the gross earth’, as did God when He “formed man of the dust of the ground”.

December 07, 2007

The Blue

You can't always run away from your past. You have to face it and, sometimes, try to fix it. Maybe it won't do a thing to change the present, but it will change you, and that's the whole point.

The time flows in my diferent ways. The most complex is how it drags you on and on, endlessly, changing you deep inside. This is the way we grow. Change yourself, change your surroundings, change the world. We always try to leave our mark in this world. However... does it really matters?

As I perceive, what really matters is how you change over the time, if you master the way it tries to change you and, instead of running against the current, change the current itself. No! Of course I'm not trying to say that I'm a time-traveler or something like that. I'm just trying to say that we can decide and control the efects that time has over your life.

Trying to change how time affects you life is hard. But we have to try.

Make amends to the Past.
Enjoy the Present.
The Future? Well... let the future become the Present...