“I have inhabited the Earth for 10 million years, forever riding the waves’ meerschaum… I’ve witnessed indescribable spectacles of light and darkness in the middle of nowhere… I’ve reached the deepest abyss, touched the bottomless pits. I was, I am, and I will be the eternal dweller of the big blue brother, surfing the limitless valleys for 10 million years more. I am a dolphin.”
C.H.Babic
We did it! We are part of history now, and all of us have contributed to make it happen!
Just think for a moment, that in one hundred years, all of us living in the planet now will be gone, but this moment in time, will live for hundreds of years in the future; it will be a source of inspiration that future leaders will come back to, to govern intelligently and wisely. This moment in time will be engraved in history books and oral traditions. Our children, their children and grandchildren will be reading about it and talking about it, passing it to future generations.
They said, after 9/11, to never forget. Tragedies are bumps in the road that make us stronger to continue, but that in my opinion, are better to be forgotten once they suit their purpose. Obama's victory will be indelible from our minds and hearts, because it represents the hope that moves nations and entire generations to work hand in hand to rebuilt what's being destroyed and to change what doesn't work anymore.
So, let's roll our sleeves, all of us, in our minds, our homes, our jobs, our neighborhoods, our cities, our country, our planet, because the moment is now, this historical moment that will put us on the road for change, for a better future. Let's do it more with deeds than words, more with passion that just a sense of duty or necessity, and let's do it for the good of all concerned.
Last night I cried, when I saw the tears in black people's faces. I saw a country redeeming itself after centuries of racial divisions, a country capable of reinventing itself in the face of a new century, a nation looking ahead without fear. I feel lighter today, and I feel everything is possible, for all of us, for all the people like me, that came to this country looking for a better life and future. Today, more than ever before, I feel that I belong!
Anoche desperté mientras dormía
Dejé el lecho en que yacía
y caminé.
Anoche me cubrí toda de estrellas
Crucé paredes sin dejar huellas
Y volé.
Anoche visité otras dimensiones
Avancé en varias direcciones
Y escuché
Anoche vi rostros luminosos
Rocé sus cuerpos curiosos
Y hablé
Anoche desdoblé mi carne entera
salí de adentro para afuera
Y regresé.
C. H. Babic
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Dame la mano
Dame la mano y emprendamos vuelo.
Nos miran desde arriba
Un millar de estrellas
lágrimas fugaces se derraman por el cielo
cuando llora una de ellas.
Dame la mano y muere conmigo
Y sueña un sueño profundo de mariposas.
Abre entonces los ojos y me verás contigo
Cuando la primavera se libre de su blanco abrigo.
Un millar de voces nos llaman desde lejos
Tejidas en música de otros tiempos.
Tu y yo, entonces jóvenes
Jugábamos a imaginarnos viejos.
No esperes más dame la mano
Y olvidemos que estamos vivos
Entrelazados nuestros cuerpos fríos
Por mil años yacerán dormidos.
Y cuando regresemos de este viaje sin rumbo
Te miraré a los ojos para decirte
Dame la mano y piérdete conmigo
En el letargo de un infinito profundo.
C. H. Babic
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The obsessive pursue of youth is a novel concept of our modern world. The representation of a younger, physically stronger society as we see it reflected in movies, magazines, TV, and even in the everyday conversations, has a very specific goal: money. This “goal” has affected men and women psychologically at a mass level. Being young, and try to keep all of us as young as possible for the longest period of time is the ultimate goal of big corporations in the world. And how better way to do it but using mass media to convince the population that young people are the force of society, that being young and beautiful will bring success, money, sex, luck and all sorts of rewards to the “youth” warrior. So, we see a society terrified of passing the age of 40 and soon even 20, as they see it as the beginning of the decline of a human being in every aspect of their existence.
Making all of us believe that we need to preserve our youth, no matter how far do we have to go, appeals to an intrinsic, very human desire: to be an eternal child. We all age physically faster than mentally. We remain little children trapped in adult bodies.
But we can be eternally young, even if our bodies age. We can fight the big corporations strategy to shape us all like Barbie and Ken, eternally young, and “botoxy” beautiful and perfect.
Youth is the foyer of the big luxurious auditorium called life, where we’ll play our societal roles. It is exciting, and vigorous, rebel and careless and of course we want to make it last forever. But age brings with it experience, moments in time acquired while communing with nature, in far away lands, with friends and family or just with ourselves. To get there we need time, and youth doesn’t have enough of it.
So… long live the young at heart, that’s the eternal youth no corporation can touch.
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Mi vida
Qué tienen las flores muertas
Guardado entre los estambres
Un dulce aroma de antaño
Y abejas de mil emjambres
Qué añoran la rocas secas,
Que nunca han tocado el mar
Ni han sido trono de sirenas
Ni han probado la sal
Qué esconden los ojos tristes
Qué encierran en sus pupilas
El dolor de los ausentes
Los recuerdos de otras vidas
Si quieres saber entonces
Qué esconden los ojos tristes
Qué añoran las rocas secas
Qué tienen las flores muertas…
Te tienen a tí, mi vida.
C. H. Babic
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