One Thing

I can't be just one thing. Every time I have to write a description of myself for a profile, I struggle a little remembering people telling me "But how can you be this and that at the same time?"
Well, I was convinced that there wasn't an easy answer for that. Until now. Today I discovered that in fact there is an easy answer: "I can't help it".
I am a vegetarian that doesn't hate people that have other diet choices. Including strict vegans and true carnivores. I live in a country where people eat cow meat in a regular basis and the rest of the world consider our cows as the best meat in the world. My family has a very strong "asado" tradition. They cook a whole cow on a stake on fire made from a pile of wood. Well, I'm not trying to convince them to change it. I just don't eat what I don't feel I like. Meat is one of these things. I love cooking and one of my idols is Anthony Bourdain. Even if he hates vegetarians. I think I understand him. He doesn't hate vegetarians per se. He hates the fact that most of them doesn't care about good cooking and great taste. I would hate that too because one of the things that make me incredibly happy is to be able to cook and eat good tasty food whenever I want.
I am a buddhist. I practice meditation twice a day, for two hours. I don't pretend that everybody in the world meditates and practices vipassana meditation. Or zen. Everyone has their path. This is mine and I enjoy every step or it.
I love nature and I love machines. Computers among all. The Internet. Cellphones. Mechanisms. All the great things we can enjoy in our 21st. century. I love the 21st. century. I also love museums. Great artists like Caravaggio or Klimt, for example. I'm not ashamed to say that I felt true emotion when I saw Klimt's "The Kiss" IRL. Yes, I cried In Real Life. Real tears. Of real emotion and gratitude to be able to see the actual painting. I had a similar emotion when I had my first ultrabook, an ASUS Vivobook. So beautiful. I feel so grateful to be able to work every day using such a beautiful object. I have to admit that I didn't cry. No tears over my beautiful ASUS Vivobook.
I'm happy. I can't help it. If someone doesn't understand that I love and enjoy "Pride and Prejudice" as much as "Hannibal" or "Grimm" or "The Hunger Games", so be it. I can't really help it.
Thanks for reading.
Be Happy!

Procrastination

Every day we procrastinate because we are not "in the mood" to do something right now, right this moment. We try not to add dates or hours to things. We try to forget about deadlines, auto-imposed deadlines over all. That is the way of the procrastinator.
And all of a sudden it's been seven months. What in earth have I been doing the last seven months? Why didn't I write more?
I was just waiting for "inspiration", the "right moment". I wanted to learn more about things. Have something more interesting to say about things. Learn how to get better photographs. Perhaps buy a new semi-profesional camera to replace my old Sony Cybershot now that I can take better photos with my Moto X.
I know it's not the Sony Cybershot. I know it's me. I have a million pictures in my mind, but I am not that resourceful to bring them to reality.
Words are my thing. Words have always been my thing. Not pictures, not drawing. I profoundly admire photographers and visual artists. I love their work. I enjoy their work so much. But my work is made of words. Perhaps some numbers, but mostly words.
My life is made of words.
And silence, of course.

Ready, Steady, Go!

This is a start. This is a first step. There are millions taking a first step this second, this minute. But this is still my first step, my fresh start. Mine. Unique.
What helped me first with the idea of this blog was 750words.com
I loved the idea of writing 750 words a day and I thought it was going to be easy, but it's not. So the challenge now is 750 words of good writing, good content, for each one of my projects, every day.
I have been doing the research and I have accumulated material so I just need to sort it out, right?
Other site that helped me was Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project. I started following it before the book was released. The idea of test-driving the studies and theories about how to be happier and writing about it is awesome.
There are many books, movies, stories, practices and people that inspire me daily. Perhaps I'll write about them here, perhaps I wont.
Right now I just wanted to start, write a little, being here, present, just writing some words. Let's see what happens.

Hello World!

Beautiful emptiness
Surrounds me
I take small steps
I'm making progress
In a non-specific way

Depeche Mode - My Little Universe