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“Cualquier intento de establecer la fortaleza interna del recluso bajo las condiciones de un campo de concentración pasa antes que nada por el acierto de mostrarle una meta futura. Las palabras de Nietzsche: “Quien tiene algo por qué vivir es capaz de soportar cualquier cómo” pudieran ser la motivación que guía todas las acciones con respecto a los prisioneros. Siempre que se presentaba la oportunidad, era preciso inculcarles un porqué de su vivir, a fin de endurecerles para soportar el terrible cómo de su existencia. Desgraciado de aquel que no viera ningún sentido en su vida, ninguna meta, ninguna intencionalidad y, por tanto, ninguna finalidad en vivirla, ése estaba perdido. En realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino si la vida espera algo de nosotros. Tenemos que dejar de hacernos preguntas sobre el significado de la vida y, en vez de ello, pensar en nosotros como seres a quienes la vida les inquiera continua e incesantemente. Vivir significa asumir la responsabilidad de encontrar la respuesta correcta a los problemas que ello plantea.”

— V. E. Frankl, El hombre en busca del sentido. Herder, 1993.

Calendario del Desván

CALENDARIO DEL DESVAN

Marco A. Romero

La historia de todo ser humano se puede resumir en un historia de amor.... 

Amor desviado, amor contradictorio; amor malsano, amor malvado; amor renegado, amor irreverente; amor odiado... amor suplicado.

Las venas y las arterias contaminadas de pasiones y dolores que brotan y fluyen entre las partes, para generar acciones en otros -las que fueran- que hicieran sentir el cuerpo vivo y sentirse también querido en el dolor; y amado, en relación igualmente a la infringida por el dolor.

Agresión y Amor. Agreder lo que se ama, agrederlo para sentirlo tuyo, de tu propiedad, para arrojarlo o pisotearlo, para infamiarlo o crucificarlo, para bendecirlo o maldecirlo porque después del infierno viene el cielo, después del golpe la sanidad, después del sufrimiento la armonía. 

Los polos opuestos, los polos que no se pueden reconciliar pues si se reconcilian no funcionan y algo anda mal...

Es mío y nada más que mío; para besarlo o crucificarlo, para amarlo o bendecirlo, para sangrarlo o sanarlo... pero mío, sólo mío... sólo mío...

La historia de amor se puede resumir como una guerra, en una lucha constante y prolongada por conquistar amores; amores que se dieron, amores que no se dieron.

Los unos y los otros empantanados en batallas campales que generan actos de locura en ambos lados, y a las cicatrices y heridas infringidas le suceden también la ruptura en el funcionamiento normal -equilibrado, diríamos- de la estructura.

Guerras empecinadas, sin tregua y a morir, por conquistar el amor de otros cuando normal debiera fluir… 

Quién quebrará el embrujo, quién, quién, quién?

En el aspecto personal, de interrelación de uno a otro amigo, cada uno buscaba en el otro lo que uno deseaba para sí, y nunca se dieron cuenta de las bondades que su misma persona tenía, al estar mirando frecuentemente -y de soslayo- las actuaciones ajenas del vecino. 

Y así pasaron los días, los días se convirtieron en años, las quejas se fueron convirtiendo en ruidos cotidianos como las hojarascas en el otoño al ser arrastradas por el viento, hasta que los años menguaron la piel, marchitaron la juventud, sin que los antigüos patrones se sustituyeran por otros nuevos de armonía, fraternidad y felicidad...

Y éstas son sólo visiones, 

no constituyen juicios de verdad, 

sino sentires personales, 

pensamientos... 

que salen del desván..

#Frasescelebres

Capitulo 4: La gente empezó a enamorarse de los cuerpos, cuando las mentes dejaron de valer la pena.

Ms Beautiful lo sabia, y lo sabia bien. 

Ella sabia que la belleza es temporal, y sabia que la belleza pasa con los años, por eso no hacia de su belleza su orgullo, y cómo la amaba y admiraba Walter por ello. Podia hacer juegos con su belleza, como cualquier otra mujer, pero no dejaba que se le subiera a la cabeza, porque lo más maravilloso de ella estaba en su mente. 

Su belleza era solo un instrumento de su personalidad que la naturaleza le habia otorgado, era solo un complemento apreciado en su persona, que cuando se conectaba con su mente, trabajando belleza y el racicionio, hacían bomba, explosión, juegos pirotécnicos en una fiesta con glamour, porque su mente era maravillosa.

Miss Beautiful, amaba a la gente, y tenia un tremendo amor por el ser humano, tan inmenso como el amor por si misma, pero no la coloquen en el lado opuesto, donde alguien viene a destruir su amor y sus amores, porque arderá Troya, tormentas y rayos electrizantes que dejarán quemados a los que se envuelvan en ello.

La mente de Ms Beautiful, el compromiso de Ms Beautiful, era el proposito, una mente con un propósito, pegando una tercera cualidad a una hermosa mujer que podia como los pavoreales, extender todos sus hermosos plumajes ante el hombre de su agrado.

Por eso Walter no amaba su cuerpo, amaba su mente. 

Ella tenia una mente maravillosa. 

Perspectives

2.-Seems to me you are thinking in a broader audience, and it knock my head “Why not"?”. Why should you submit your writings into a reduced web space, when you can think in a broader audience, so that is a yes.

3.- I’m not afraid to go that road. I got no fear to go into that road. I got no lack mentality in the sense that I’m not able to do it in an awesome way. I’m confident in that respect, and I know that I can kick some ass

4.- The problem is going into the web where you don’t know, who is evaluating what, under what rules, who are the participants, who are the judges. Judges dressed in the web as bartenders, or drunken people, or people that do not really know about writing stories?

Secondly, it seems to me that writing sometimes is related to a culture, and every culture is different. “Ciudades Desiertas” de Enrique Aviles Fabila has that concept, a Mexican looking into the American culture, and taking a look at the USA from his perspective that he call those cities  “Ciudades Desiertas”, y después miras a Ernest Hemingway “For whom the Bells Tolls” and there you see a gringo looking at the Spanish culture, in a very deep social transformation.

What does that means?  Who is going to judge,  under what rules, under what concept? and good luck there!

However, if there is a real one chance, like hispanic literature with hispanic judges, there might be a chance.

Why?

Because those perspectives varies depending on the culture, as I proved in the paragraph above. And talking about culture, “women” are not seen seemingly the same in the American culture than in the Mexican culture. In the Mexican culture, women are a token, vital icon of society expecting to have some roles into the family that varies differently from the American society, more liberated, and mixed in the supposedly “equality gender”.  (And man arrested for supposedly beat a wife with no evidence, but for the sake of this night, let’s put him in jail. Child support for the husband in a cheating wife? What the heck? ) Those issues might be a wonderful topic to explore. Are we in an equal society in every aspect of life?

“One thousand And One Night with Miss Beautiful” still has some doubts about that role, between the Mexican and the American way of life.

5.- To submit, an article, into a web site, where there is a lack of rules, clear rules, real names, leads into fake polls, that’s why I have been insisting into going real, because real, counts, and there is no cheating audiences, no cheating surveys, no cheating counts, etc etc etc. (Do you agree with me?, do I lie in that sense?)

6.- On this end of the rope, there’s a man trying to go for a line of honor and respect doing wonderful things with my own hands, and I said “wonderful” because my hands and my body and my soul are connected into creating wonderful never seen, nor done, nor expected things (I said trying becauseI don't do things perfectly all the time); and on the other side of the rope, cheating games, fake people, fake statistics responding in a cheated way to a man that is giving the opposite, the best?

7.- P.D : I never work against me. My strengths I develop more, and my other skills are my strengths in a developing circle. We are humans, not binary human beings as computers going for yes as “1″, and “no” for 0. We are only humans, not R2D2 lifting the hand according to a command “1″,  and “0″ for No (Do not do it!) We are humans may friend! 

Hey and DO NOT DO those #$%^&^ ID’s. I HATE them! Me caen USURA!  (Mexican slang referring to the most hated issue, in a mouth of a well being raised highly educated human being of the Mexican upper class).

* Ms Therapist? Can we go for a session into how I started to hate fake ID?

How To Write Friendships Pt. 2

🦢        ―        &. FRIENDSHIPS . ( steps to develop friendships )

4) Give Them A History That Shines Through.

By no means do you want them to seem like they just met each other yesterday, if your two friends have known each other for a while now. What you need to do is throw out hints that these friends have known each other for a while ― you need to make the readers curious about these two friends and their history with each other.

And even if your characters meet within the timeline of the story, sneaking in hints that these characters are learning more about each other is a great way to develop your friendship.

Here are a few ways to show that:

1) Give Them An Inside Joke.

2) Give Them A Silly, On-going Argument.

Friends aren’t always going to agree on everything and their points of conflict don’t always have to be some dramatic issue ― they can be arguing over which one is better: Star Trek or Star Wars, they can argue over whether pineapple belong on pizza or not or maybe they argue over who is the taller one.

Giving them a silly, ongoing argument will make the characters feel real and simultaneously reveal different shades of their personality. Not only that, but it also offers a window into how they handle arguments between themselves. Who is the one that gets really worked up? Who is the one who makes all the great points?

3) Utilize Nonverbal Communication.

When you can start communicating with someone without words, that's when you really know someone. For example:

Let your characters be comfortable sitting in silence with each other

Use gestures and facial expressions to convey meaning to each other

Give them an unspoken rule

One friend asks a question, the other answers with silence

They can predict what each other are going to do

5) Create A Glue.

What is keeping your friends from parting ways? Without something to keep them together, your characters might grow apart. What is the glue that keeps this friendship intact? This can be a character, a goal, or the two of them are just thrown into a situation where they can't get away from each other.

One friend is the gardener of the other

The two of them must deliver a secret message to a Jedi

They both go the same extracurricular club 

They are toys who both have been captured by an evil kid who likes to torture toys

One friend can't  achieve his story goal without helping the other friend win a cart race

6) Create Meaningful Scenes.

Now that you have all the key components to an amazing friendship, it’s time to develop it through your story. Insert a few key friendship moments in your novel and show your reader the power of this relationship. 

Here are some ideas:

One friend gives the other a gift

They play a game together

They share a jacket 

They eat food together

They teach each other something

One friend gives the other a foot massage

7) Don't Make Their Relationship Perfect.

People aren’t perfect, and your friends can’t get along together all the time. But that doesn't mean you should stuff in a bunch of contrived conflict between your friendships. Instead, set up situations that will naturally occur because of who these characters are, and what they believe.

Maybe their differences get the better of them, maybe they react differently to a pivotal event in your novel, maybe one of the friend's internal demons gets the better of them, and the other friend has to call them out on it. This only results in more tension between them. This is an especially brilliant method to enhance a character arc.

Or simply make their friendship a more complex. Perhaps your two characters look out for one another, but they are always being compared to one another, and they need to overcome their deep feelings of jealousy for each other or they work well together, but one friend is keeping a lot of secrets from the other.

These complications and character differences not only add to your story, but watching these characters overcome these obstacles and still come out as friends makes your friendship feel more real, deep, and deserved.

One of the greatest moments in life a human being can find, is when a beautiful mind surpasses a formal education. It's up to the human being to discover his purpose in life, outside the limits of a formal education. Talent, thinking outside the box, creativity, challenging minds, putting together all the dots in our lives might create a new product, a new service, a new idea. Steve Jobs, in this wonderful speech at the Stanford University, shows how a human being should trust his/her own instincts and path in life, to think outside the limits of a square education, without stating that is not valuable.

The beginning of every adventure in business depends on trust. How we build it, what we do with it, how we take advantage of it and where we can  go with that trust. Interest topic delivered on TED. Com by Simon Sinek titled "First Why and then Trust".

DESCRIBING THE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF CHARACTERS:

Body

descriptors; ample, athletic, barrel-chested, beefy, blocky, bony, brawny, buff, burly, chubby, chiseled, coltish, curvy, fat, fit, herculean, hulking, lanky, lean, long, long-legged, lush, medium build, muscular, narrow, overweight, plump, pot-bellied, pudgy, round, skeletal, skinny, slender, slim, stocky, strong, stout, strong, taut, toned, wide.

Eyebrows

descriptors; bushy, dark, faint, furry, long, plucked, raised, seductive, shaved, short, sleek, sparse, thin, unruly.

shape; arched, diagonal, peaked, round, s-shaped, straight.

Ears

shape; attached lobe, broad lobe, narrow, pointed, round, square, sticking-out.

Eyes

colour; albino, blue (azure, baby blue, caribbean blue, cobalt, ice blue, light blue, midnight, ocean blue, sky blue, steel blue, storm blue,) brown (amber, dark brown, chestnut, chocolate, ebony, gold, hazel, honey, light brown, mocha, pale gold, sable, sepia, teakwood, topaz, whiskey,) gray (concrete gray, marble, misty gray, raincloud, satin gray, smoky, sterling, sugar gray), green (aquamarine, emerald, evergreen, forest green, jade green, leaf green, olive, moss green, sea green, teal, vale).

descriptors; bedroom, bright, cat-like, dull, glittering, red-rimmed, sharp, small, squinty, sunken, sparkling, teary.

positioning/shape; almond, close-set, cross, deep-set, downturned, heavy-lidded, hooded, monolid, round, slanted, upturned, wide-set.

Face

descriptors; angular, cat-like, hallow, sculpted, sharp, wolfish.

shape; chubby, diamond, heart-shaped, long, narrow, oblong, oval, rectangle, round, square, thin, triangle.

Facial Hair

beard; chin curtain, classic, circle, ducktail, dutch, french fork, garibaldi, goatee, hipster, neckbeard, old dutch, spade, stubble, verdi, winter.

clean-shaven

moustache; anchor, brush, english, fu manchu, handlebar, hooked, horseshoe, imperial, lampshade, mistletoe, pencil, toothbrush, walrus.

sideburns; chin strap, mutton chops.

Hair

colour; blonde (ash blonde, golden blonde, beige, honey, platinum blonde, reddish blonde, strawberry-blonde, sunflower blonde,) brown (amber, butterscotch, caramel, champagne, cool brown, golden brown, chocolate, cinnamon, mahogany,) red (apricot, auburn, copper, ginger, titain-haired,), black (expresso, inky-black, jet black, raven, soft black) grey (charcoal gray, salt-and-pepper, silver, steel gray,), white (bleached, snow-white).

descriptors; bedhead, dull, dry, fine, full, layered, limp, messy, neat, oily, shaggy, shinny, slick, smooth, spiky, tangled, thick, thin, thinning, tousled, wispy, wild, windblown.

length; ankle length, bald, buzzed, collar length, ear length, floor length, hip length, mid-back length, neck length, shaved, shoulder length, waist length.

type; beach waves, bushy, curly, frizzy, natural, permed, puffy, ringlets, spiral, straight, thick, thin, wavy.

Hands; calloused, clammy, delicate, elegant, large, plump, rough, small, smooth, square, sturdy, strong.

Fingernails; acrylic, bitten, chipped, curved, claw-like, dirty, fake, grimy, long, manicured, painted, peeling, pointed, ragged, short, uneven.

Fingers; arthritic, cold, elegant, fat, greasy, knobby, slender, stubby.

Lips/Mouth

colour (lipstick); brown (caramel, coffee, nude, nutmeg,) pink (deep rose, fuchsia, magenta, pale peach, raspberry, rose, ) purple (black cherry, plum, violet, wine,) red (deep red, ruby.)

descriptors; chapped, cracked, dry, full, glossy, lush, narrow, pierced, scabby, small, soft, split, swollen, thin, uneven, wide, wrinkled.

shape; bottom-heavy, bow-turned, cupid’s bow, downturned, oval, pouty, rosebud, sharp, top-heavy.

Nose

descriptors; broad, broken, crooked, dainty, droopy, hooked, long, narrow, pointed, raised, round, short, strong, stubby, thin, turned-up, wide.

shape; button, flared, grecian, hawk, roman.

Skin

descriptors; blemished, bruised, chalky, clear, dewy, dimpled, dirty, dry, flaky, flawless, freckled, glowing, hairy, itchy, lined, oily, pimply, rashy, rough, sagging, satiny, scarred, scratched, smooth, splotchy, spotted, tattooed, uneven, wrinkly.

complexion; black, bronzed, brown, dark, fair, ivory, light, medium, olive, pale, peach, porcelain, rosy, tan, white.