ILUSIONAK

Published by DEIA, April 21, 2011





It is very easy to say that we should have illusion when everything is going all right, when our vital expectations are intact. What's difficult is keeping the same attitude when something goes the wrong way, a disease or an event can tarnish all that until then we believed and became the illusion and the passion into memories of a dream we wanted.
Jason Becker is a born guitar player in United States, July of 1969. From a very young boy he began to play the guitar by ear, in a self-educated way, and soon he was interpreting Dylan's, Clapton’s, Hendrix’s songs etc so that, thanks to his unorthodox way of evolving, went beyond the influences of his teachers and managed to develop an own style becoming one of the best guitar players of all times. At the age of 20 Jason was diagnosed with the disease of Lou Gehrig, a disease that left him at wheelchair.
But this has not made him quit and now, instead of interpreting, he composes music and continues to be working and fighting to break new frontiers, becoming another example of the amazing capacity of the human being to surpass obstacles, transforming a feeling of survival into something almost miraculous and fascinating. The true effort is finding a way to be able to grab on hope, even when that that we were excited about had disappeared forever. Normally it is necessary to knock down the barriers that we all have internally, the ones that almost always are nourished by the suffering and the fear of loss and to failure. Why people with so hard lives a priori achieve so many goals and dreams while others not? The fear to lose what we have tortures us, belittle us and makes us not be all that we can be. It is complicated that that one that believes that has nothing to lose is afraid of it and perhaps... Won't that be its true secret and at the same time paradoxically his true fortune? Let's brush fear aside and let's enjoy of what life offers us, it is an obligation.
So... Gentlemen do game !

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INAUTERIAK

Published by DEIA, March 10, 2011


In the course of the year there are events because of their characteristics keeps a narrow relation with us all. Still I remember those disguises of Indians, cowboys or anything else that we used to dress ourselves up to go out into the street and to have a good time, and "legally" for some days, to be able to be what one wanted to be.

I suppose that as in so many other things that the essences of these festivals do not remain much today. At the present almost all the celebrations, for much of legend or history that they treasure, they have become just mere days of enjoyment, a time of leisure, becoming scarcer.

It is not clear the origin of these festivals so colorists and happy as are the festivals of carnivals. There are several theories about it but I believe that the most exact talks to us about a pagan’s origins festival recovered or adapted, one more time, by the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. The word Carnival comes from the Italian word "Carnevale", which means "the epoch in which you can eat meat," so what, as it is known, precedes Lent that goes from the Ash Wednesday to the Holy Thursday being an epoch of reflection and penance according to the Catholic rite. That means that, supposedly, the carnival would function as a kind of final goodbye to give way to an epoch of crisis and spiritual transformation. Today although in a very "light” way, as it keeps on being everything in our society, we keep on disguising ourselves and feeling that for a moment in our life is another with different circumstances, adding a little bit of mental health to our stressed spirit.

But there is a type of daily carnival in the course of the year in which, unlike to the other, the disguise we wear is inside, hiding a lot of things that we do not like while we circumvent other ones that we are ignorant of, returning to interpret that different paper even if we look outside or to our inner self. And so on 364 days a year ... after the carnival: out with the disguises, out with the masks and Why not? To always have fun. What prevent us?

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