miércoles, 5 de octubre de 2016

aren't words actually more dangerous than actions?




Imagine this, like The Martians Chronicles, that reading books were as playing a musical instrument: we lay our index finger above a book's word sentence and we move it on along with our voice reading; like playing a trumpet, a flute. Words come out in synchrony with the dance of our finger: it might be great but it won’t just be like that. There's a little beyond, and it's that thoughts will also come up from it. So playing book reading will not only be for feeding our spirit (like music does) but getting some knowledge as well. This could mean that at some point people might be empty of ideas, so they'll need to play book reading...  In a way, I guess, we all need some book reading but there can be a kind of danger, and it's that what words are going to be read, what sentences, what ideas. Words may become more dangerous than actions, and that's my doubt for this sharing piece: aren't words actually more dangerous than actions? 



lunes, 3 de octubre de 2016

It is by a fast gesture how the rest notices about us




Let's leave something here. Just for reflection. I saw about an hour ago a lady trying to make it to the next street as fast as she could. She was running energetically. I could see a sort of desperation in her face. It felt so close, so close that I got sad at it… I felt some kind of sorrow on my own. A little later I started wondering if such a feeling tends to be sensed by everyone, and then I realized people don't usually spend too much time at sympathizing neighbors, at least no more than making themselves sympathized. The thing is, and that's perhaps why I want you to read this and also write me about: that it is precisely when we force our body for a quicker move that we realize how we might be feeling, and a little beyond: it is by a fast gesture how the rest notices about us. For instance, if there´s a bit of compassion around, it may be shown by looking at our faces when we act mechanical rather than when we carry intentionally a sad expression expecting to be noticed...  



sábado, 1 de octubre de 2016

we tend to be more objective under second languages, so why not using it?





Regards.

I believe we establish a deeper and more effective exchange of ideas by written words. When someone reads, brain builds a space for thoughts, for memory visitors and reflection guests. They all share and develop themselves in such a room a person is creating with every page turned or every chapter finished.  It is the way we cuddle from the inside. Writing is also so, but from a different perspective. The way we catch a moment in a picture we catch a thought over a paragraph as well. 

I like to catch my thoughts and also enjoy building my own space of reflections by reading others, that’s what I like from posting, that’s what internet and blogging are very useful too. I understand there must be a cover letter every time somebody intents applying for a job. This is something we’re not used to back here in Venezuela. Most of my writing job is posted in Spanish. I’m Spanish speaker but I’m trying this in English because in way I’m enjoying it. Besides, our consciousness changes with the language we speak in (I read an article about it) we tend to be more objective under second languages, so why not using it? I thank you in advance for letting these lines reach your lecture…

Sincerely yours
Orlan Silva
@OrlanSilva

miércoles, 28 de septiembre de 2016

Oh lines, oh abroad!



Eventually the only right left is the right to lie ourselves and learn to feel comfortable at it, which is neither like dreaming or hoping, nope, and of course nor about cheating on or lying to each other. We´re aware of what’s become unaffordable nowadays, still, we keep on posing and posting with this sort of ideal of looking cool, wealthy, perhaps, showing a nice moment framed in a photograph and writing some impressions about a foreign matter, like such a thing matters, and yet we do it so. Some of us, more often than we’d like to, wait on a line for getting some groceries (that’s the day routine in Venezuela) and while we´re waiting, under a very hot morning; laughter and flirts can be noticed. I saw a girl put some make up on when she was reaching the cashier, after that I heard her say she had made it, that she had persuaded the man to allow her take two more packs of milk, so she took four instead of two. This is one of the cases what beauty and make up might be useful for these days, but that’s not why I said we lie to ourselves. In a case like the girl’s she lied to herself previously, when she was telling the man before me that she had a cousin living abroad and that she was taking modeling classes because out there, where her cousin is, there are a lot of job offers for models. The thing is I am her cousin and I’m not living abroad, I was just after the man she spoke with and I know she’s not taking any classes at all… 


lunes, 26 de septiembre de 2016

Conversaciones entrecortadas…






Te lo dije, sí, luego de un buen rato de silencio y de que nuestros pulgares copularan con las pantallas del celular, además de reírnos sin mirarnos: te dije lo que pasaría, y me pediste que lo repitiera, porque es que siempre aquel fulano que vive en no sé dónde envió el no sé qué que como siempre, hay que ponerle una pausa a la conversación en vivo; y ése es otro tema, pero lo abordaremos luego: la virtualidad nos ha hecho concebir la idea de que la pausa, así, estilo control remoto; debe hacerse en persona porque lo comunicado a través del celular no puede esperar, y bajo esa idea incluso hasta aguantamos las ganas de ir al baño, cuando no podemos llevarnos el teléfono debido a que se está cargando. Pero bueno. Te dije… te dije que si el referendo no se hacía en el dos mil dieciséis, lo que iba a ocurrir era que, al recoger el veinte por ciento para su solicitud, éste no iba a ser recaudado, pero no porque falte gente, gente hay, y de sobra, sino por las formas, la logística: atravesar la ciudad, hacer la cola, en este momento hay múltiples formas de retener a un puñado de gente en un sector por horas: el metro, la remodelación o más bien reparación de una arteria vial. Hay formas, y van a usarse todas, todas, porque la meta es la noticia: conseguir la afirmación para el mundo: que nuestra democracia ha hablado, que la oposición no tiene la gente, pero como respetamos la voluntad de los firmantes (que técnicamente y con premeditación y alevosía van a ser menos que los que participaron en las elecciones presidenciales), igual vamos a convocar el tan anhelado referendo revocatorio por allá, por el final del primer trimestre del año que viene. De esta manera se podrán retrasar las elecciones de gobernadores y conseguir una coyuntura electoral, la cual obligará a los poderes a priorizar qué debemos elegir primero. Se puede pasar un tiempo en eso, y todos querrán una cara, una consigna, un mensaje: un presupuesto, porque todo esto se hace con dinero,  y por dinero nos dirán también lo que se debe priorizar… te me quedaste viendo, sin prestarme mucha atención. Creo que el cuento te lo hice muy largo y te hice perder la idea de lo que ibas a decirme, porque así son las conversaciones de hoy; entrecortadas por el teléfono. Creo más bien que el teléfono nos entrecorta los pensamientos, por eso quizás nos cuesta tanto la acción. Ir, buscar, revisar, leer bien, qué va… Te molestaste pero luego se te pasó, llegó la comida y teníamos hambre, el aroma finalmente habló y me dijiste entre bocados: si la gente concibe esa idea se desmotivará, y eso el país no se lo puede permitir. Ya hay bastante mediocre por ahí que sonríe con picardía porque conoce al zutano que le consigue la Harina Pan. Eso, entre miles de cosas más que mejor hablamos luego… ni has empezado a comer por tener el teléfono en la mano…