domingo, 27 de noviembre de 2011

Sin señales de vida



¿Para qué dar señales de vida?
Apenas podría enviarte con el mozo
un mensaje en una servilleta.

Aunque no estés aquí.
Aunque estés a años sombra de distancia
te amo de repente
a las tres de la tarde,
la hora en que los locos
sueñan con ser espantapájaros vestidos de marineros
espantando nubes en los trigales.

No sé si recordarte
es un acto de desesperación o elegancia
en un mundo donde al fin
el único sacramento ha llegado a ser el suicidio.

Tal vez habría que cambiar la palanca del cruce
para que se descarrilen los trenes.
Hacer el amor
en el único Hotel del pueblo
para oír rechinar los molinos de agua
e interrumpir la siesta del teniente de carabineros
y del oficial del Registro Civil.

Si caigo preso por ebriedad o toque de queda
hazme serías de sol con tu espejo de mano
frente al cual te empolvas
como mis compañeras de tiempo de Liceo.

Y no te entretengas
en enseñarle palabras feas a los choroyes.
Enséñales sólo a decir Papá o Centro de Madres.
Acuérdate que estamos en un tiempo donde se habla en voz baja,
y sorber la sopa un día de Banquete de Gala
significa soñar en voz alta.

Qué hermoso es el tiempo de la austeridad.
Las esposas cantan felices
mientras zurcen el terno
único del marido cesante.

Ya nunca más correrá sangre por las calles.
Los roedores están comiendo nuestro queso
en nombre de un futuro
donde todas las cacerolas
estarán rebosantes de sopa,
y los camiones vacilarán bajo el peso del alba.

Aprende a portarte bien
en un país donde la delación será una virtud.
Aprende a viajar en globo
y lanza por la borda todo tu lastre:
Los discos de Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, los Quilapayún,
aprende de memoria los Quincheros y el 7º de Línea.
Olvida las enseñanzas del Nido de Chocolate, Garfield o el Grupo Arica,
quema la autobiografía de Trotsky o la de Freud
o los 20 Poemas de Amor en edición firmada y numerada por el autor.

Acuérdate que no me gustan las artesanías
ni dormir en una carpa en la playa.
Y nunca te hubiese querido más
que a los suplementos deportivos de los lunes.

Y no sigas pensando en los atardeceres en los bosques.
En mi provincia prohibieron hasta el paso de los gitanos.

Y ahora
voy a pedir otro jarrito de chicha con naranja
y tú
mejor enciérrate en un convento.

Estoy leyendo El Grito de Guerra del Ejército de Salvación.
Dicen que la sífilis de nuevo será incurable
y que nuestros hijos pueden soñar en ser economistas o dictadores.


Jorge Teillier

lunes, 21 de noviembre de 2011

Aquellas cosas



(...)Pero entonces bailaban por las calles como peonzas enloquecidas, y yo vacilaba tras ellos como he estado haciendo toda mi vida, mientras sigo a la gente que me interesa, porque la única gente que me interesa es la que está loca, la gente que está loca por vivir, loca por hablar, loca por salvarse, con ganas de todo al mismo tiempo, la gente que nunca bosteza ni habla de lugares comunes, sino que arde, arde como fabulosos cohetes amarillos explotando igual que arañas entre las estrellas.


miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2011

Sobre la felicidad

Transcript

Question: What can people do each day to be happier?

Tal Ben-Shahar: The first thing to do to become happier, paradoxically, is to accept painful emotions, to accept them as a part of being alive. You know, there are two kinds of people who don't experience painful emotions such as anxiety or disappointment, sadness, envy; two kinds of people who don't experience these painful emotions. They are the psychopaths and the dead. So if we experience painful emotions at time, it's actually a good sign. It means that we're not a psychopath and we're alive. The paradox is that when we give ourselves the permission to be human, the permission to experience the full gamut of human emotion. We open ourselves up to positive emotions as well.

Question: Are there specific things people can do?

Tal Ben-Shahar: Then I think -- yeah. Some specific examples, exactly. The number one predictor of well-being of happiness is time, quality time, we spend with our family, friends, people we care about and who care about us. In our modern world, unfortunately this quality time is erroding. A very good predictor of well-being is what psychologist Tim Kasser calls time affluence. Time affluence is the thing that we have time to sit down and chat with our friends while -- not while being on the phone at the same time or text messaging at the same time, being with that person. This is a better predictor.

Physical exercise contributes a great deal to happiness; in fact, there is research showing that regular exercise, three times a week for 30 to 40 minutes of aerobic exercise, could be jogging or walking or aerobics or dancing, three times a week of 30 to 40 minutes of exercise is equivalent to some of our most powerful psychiatric drugs in dealing with depression or sadness or anxiety. We've become a sedentary culture where we park our car next to our workplace or take the train and we don't walk like our fore parents used to. Thousands of years ago our fore parents walked an average of eight miles a day. How far do we walk today? Well it depends on where we park our car. And we pay a high price for it because we weren't made to be to sedentary. We were made to be physically active.

Question: How can we cultivate gratitude?

Tal Ben-Shahar: There are treasures of happiness all around us and within us. The problem is that we only appreciate them when something terrible happens. Usually when we become sick, we appreciate our health. When we lose someone dear to us, we appreciate our life. And we don't need to wait. If we cultivate the habit of gratitude we can significantly increase our levels of happiness. So, for example, research by Robert **** and Mike McAuliffe shows that people who keep a gratitude journal, who each night before going to sleep write at least five things for which they are grateful, big things or little things, are happier, more optimistic, more successful, more likely to achieve their goals, physically healthier; it actually strengthens our immune system, and are more generous and benevolent toward others. This is an intervention that takes three minutes a day with significant positive ramifications.

Question: What happiness techniques are particularly important in today’s world?

Tal Ben-Shahar: Okay. Sorry. One of the most important things that we can do in our modern world is to simplify, to do less rather than more. The problem is that we try and cram more and more things into less and less time, and we pay a price. We pay a price in terms of the quality of the work that we do. We also pay a price in terms of the quality of relationships that we enjoy. So doing less -- for example, switching our phone off for three hours when we get home, or not responding to every e-mail as it arrives, having what I call e-mail-free zones -- these little things, simplifying our lives even slightly, can make a significant difference to our productivity as well as happiness.


Enlace original : http://bigthink.com/ideas/16660