From Money to Self-Respect via Education

Only when it's about gain, profit and financial profit, do we judge as important a humanity - humanistic change to the better?

I happened to read an article in NY Times today about a study showing that wheh kindergarten education is well provided, with excellent teachers, children tend to be significantly more successful in the adulthood, in every aspect of it (professional, family, savings etc...).
And that means gain and less trouble for the society.

So, in the aftermath of this study there are educational committees deciding to change their teacher-casting strategies. They (finally!) fire the worse of them, and hire and (hopefully?) pay more and support the best of them.
And this is good.

But, do we always have to make humanistic choices by financial gain?
When are we really going to choose the best for us humans simply by showing the self-respect and self-value that we possess de facto in our lives?
I really hope that this day is not far away.

Check the NY Times article on the link.

The Creativity "Hut"

It appears that scientists search our brains in order to find where exactly creativity is nested (check the title's link).
OK, that's fine and hopefully their future findings will contribute productively (or even creatively) to social or political aspects of daily life. For example, if scientists finally really brain-map the creativity centrum (or centra), I suggest that the moment a political "man" or "woman" presents himself or herself to elections, we should first scan his/her brain while asking him/her questions about serious political affairs, and we should wait and see whether his/ her brain scanning shows any important activity to the creativity area.
Imagine what would happen! I fathom that we might have some difficulty to nominate the majority of the already existing politicians...
Huhhhh, it's so nice to produce high quality fiction (...!), but while we are still here and now, and before anyone can guarantee us our politically (or scientifically) correct creative behavior, can we do something really, really creative?

My suggestions on that, next time!

Luck or Lack?

Only recently has it crossed my mind that these two words -luck and lack- apart from their almost common spelling, they also may have something else in common. This could be the filter through which we see life. If we feel lucky, no lack is present. If we feel lack, we see no luck in our life.

People believe that it's not really up to us to choose between luck or lack in our lives. Nevertheless, I believe that the choice remains strictly in our hands. 

Whether we feel lucky or in the lack of something, it is our own very personal decision. I guess that this personal decision is the primary button for activating the law of attraction in our lives.
If I believe that I am lucky, luck (good luck, to be more precise and clear) appears in every possible ways in my life. On the other hand, If I feel that I lack of things and chances in my life, then I will experience my life through the perspective of complete lack, starvation, poverty, and all the relative expressions of "lack".

Maybe, the color of life depends on the way our eyes see it...

the "love" factor: choice beyond bonds and guilts

The other day, a friend of mine told me how she described to her parents the way she was dealing with their relation. She merely told them that she loved them both dearly, but she didn't like hanging out with them. She was acknowledging the fact that they were her parents and that wouldn't change, but she was feeling that they had nothing in common as far as choices in personal life, art, food, politics, dreaming, goals-setup were concerned.
She put a lot of effort to describe to me the awe and the astounding silence that dashed into that living-room, the moment she spelled the words! After all these years of "civilized" discussions and not-so civilized ones; after all the times she tried to explain to them that she could not lead her life the way they wanted; after all these years she was accusing herself of feeling profoundly ashamed of them; now she finally said the very few but decisive and sincere words.

I want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for sharing with me this precious episode of her life. These few magical words liberated me from my own family-bonds confinement. This magic spell gave me the possibility to observe the dimension in my life that was always there, but my eyes -full of remorses, well educated guilts and social ''musts''- were untrained to see.

It can be so true, you know, to love one's parents profoundly for they've given one's gift of life. But that does not mean one has to mimic one's parents choices, points of view, lives. If that were the case, imagine what would happen (and it had happened plenty of times in the human past). It means no boldness to new adventures and new life pathways. No boldness equals no creation that is needed order to bring progress and evolution to humanity. No creation equals no pleasure, no joy, no laughter, no reasons for true life.

Now, in my early thirties, I know I love both of my parents, but they are so different from me. I cannot be (or worse, become) what they wish me to; or better become that lost and unrealized ambition they keep on their minds, which they project on me. I knew ever since the beginning of my life that I was different from them. I guess most children do. I cannot blame them for not sharing this opinion with me.
Right now I'm happy to admit that my priority is to consciously give my unconditioned love to the person that is always around me, following me so devotedly, with a lot of support and precious consulting. Myself.

I cannot help it, if they are angry with me. It's their choice, and I fully respect it. But the most important this "magic spell" offered to my life was that I'm not afraid any more of the "oneness" effect, because, even this one is a mere illusion. We are never alone or abandoned. It 's always up to our personal choice the way we feel.