I wasn't even surprised, my memory froze, because the past ended when it joined the present. My thoughts dried up when the future migrated to the present. I was left without a story, without reason, without a direction to go on. Still, there was no more day or night, only darkness. No faces could be seen, only shadows, no bodies, only silhouettes. The love that is made of longing and hope ended, and a great emptiness set in, not even the hatred, made of memories, lasted. The jealousy, the envy, that feed on vanity and comparisons, succumbed. The long-awaited truth finally reigned, because the world of certainty, of immobility, was established, implacable, incontestable. Everything revealed, our dreams finished, the magic ended and with it our existence. With immortality present and conscious eternity, there was nothing left to do, not even to pray. Desperate, suffocated and with a jump, I woke up, and toasted the heavens, giving thanks for the timeline that continues, despite our ...
The expression “offer the other cheek” has always intrigued me. Analyzing the various situations in which a meeting, a difficult meeting, was successful, I found that there was a pattern. The first reaction was to try to control the anger, the anguish, that is, to lower, to zero the uncontrolling emotions, negative emotions, and to reach a neutral stage that would allow us to move on to a moment of favorable, positive emotions. The key point of the reversal was not to focus the blame, not to look for the culprit, and to offer a way out of the situation. Then there was the pattern, seeing the facts, getting out of blame, focusing on the solution. So it was to analyze what happened, and move as quickly as possible in search of the result. The cycle has shown that there is a transition point in it that if not surpassed, the situation will not resolve, slip or worsen. If something new is not offered that breaks the sequence, turns the emotions on the positive side and makes everyone look a...