Esopo, Iriarte y Samaniego.

I had to leave my country six years ago to motivate myself.    Which I did, in the most unexpected way. It's not a secret to myself, the more I've lived, the more I've realised that, throughout  my life I always wanted to be motivated by others; I went to psychoanalysis for a while, I was looking for motivation there too... and all I had to do was to seek motivation within my own self, with my own way of being, my own thinking, my decisions.  Six years ago, leaving my country was surely the first time I got an opportunity to motivate myself. I didn’t knew it then, but the living in another country, having to learn a new language (not ‘adapting myself to a new culture’, because cultures are completely independent to oneself), and exposing myself to any possible kind of people, would become the first thing in my life I felt genuinely proud of doing, proud of such nosedive. With that doubtful, yet accurate self encouragement, I planted a seed of freedom, and la...

1. Connect with yourself, find a mobile. I had to learn English because I moved to study degree in a different country, which din't speak Spanish at all. I arrived to Malaysia knowing in English only how to introduce myself, and when I saw the path ahead, I panicked and I thought "I will never learn" .  I started the English course from level 4 after passing the introductory exam... I did not know how did I actually ended up in a 4th level, but well, there I was, frequently lost in class. I never thought on learning English because I never saw the need on speaking other language, but when you can't speak, you can't be yourself, and I was craving to. In the class I always wanted to participate, but I was too shy, and whenever there was a group of classmates talking I wanted to be there, make jokes, what a normal David will do. I couldn't easily find myself within this -by then- weird language, but i n Spanish I was always outspoken, I loved talking and ma...

Why is it the media so alarmed because Donald Trump does not care about climate change? Since when are they so comitted to this subject anyways? I have an idea of climate change; I love aviation... but, you know what truly kills our atmosphere beyond our companies on the ground? The engines on the aircrafts. Since 1999, CO2 emissions from international aviation have increased 83 per cent. This accounts for 4 to 9 % of the total climate change impact of human activity. This wo n't change, because it sustain a chain of unstoppable monsters. I'll give an example to get worry about; In this moment of apogee for saving the planet, in this times in which the magnifying glass is being used everywhere to spot where the environment it's threatened, Airbus and Boeing -leaders in the aviation industry-, have only concentrated on developing aircrafts that reduce fuel consumptions for the airlines. Paradoxically, although airlines want to pay less for fuel, a part of the i...

I am not sure. It was an accident.  When I was 15 years old, rummaging my grandfather’s library I found a Lumix camera from the 50’s, with a variable collection of lenses, crystal lenses, a Super 8 camera and a more modern Sony video camera, from the 80’s. Nobody in my family ever told me about my grandpa’s hobby, probably because nobody understood its value. I never got to meet him, but on the films he had there, whenever I hold them against the light, I could just see beautiful frames. For instance he had some pictures from a very famous place in my hometown, a chain of waterfalls of brownish stones. I was there thousand times, but the frames in my grandfather’s films seemed unreal, as I didn’t know that place. He captured not only water, but the trees around, and the birds, I will never forget how significant the frames of the birds against the overexposed sky were to me.  Much later in my life I started studying film and consequently my parents got me a DSLR. Wi...

I learnt something about justice when I was in my 1st year of High School. Back in the days intimidation wasn't something labeled as bullying, but I suffered at times from this, sporadicly. There was this classmate of mine which had a crush on the same girl I had a crush on... this friendly, popular girl that smiles at everyone. So this guy and I didn’t have the greatest relationship ever, however we used to spend some time together, because we were both very unnoticed in the school. We used to fight over silly things, I don’t even remember one specifically, but I remember the relationship was always uncomfortable.  One morning, outside the classroom, within the recess time, I was with few friends, talking. This guy comes to me to be annoying as always and ignoring him was always my weapon. I was maybe even afraid of raising my voice, but back then when I was bullied, I couldn’t really frame myself fighting with anyone. To fight requires to be angry, with life, with oneself,...

"No sé como podrán mis labios pronunciar, la frase de un adiós cuando vaya a partir. Será un momento triste y cruel que hará a mi corazón sentir la pena de la ausencia que es más dura que el morir" -Carlos Bonet.

Abuela, hace mucho tiempo que, por costumbre no me refiero a ti con ese sustantivo. Pero hoy tal palabra no solo posee sustancia, si no también, el atributo de lo fijo de un sustantivo como lo fijo de mi sentimiento por ti. La distancia nos ha enmarcado de silencio, cuando siempre estuve allí para escucharte y hablarte; desde niño, tus oídos siempre estuvieron dispuestos a mis narraciones. Soñé ésta noche contigo, hace mucho que no recibo tu abrazo, y hace mucho que lo extraño. Mira, hoy te escribo estas líneas, procuro ser tan pulcro y entretenido como tantas otras líneas que leíste en tu vida, procuro ser tu atención, cual novela recién comprada para ti de la mano de alguna de tus hijas. En mi sueño de anoche, tu te preparabas para partir de éste mundo, imposible no recordar, muy agradablemente, que quizá desde las navidades de 2004 nos decías, que quizá las próximas no estarías aquí. Que sorpresa te ha dado la vida, quién sabe realmente por qué, pero ya más de 90 ciclos has experim...