HIDDEN MANDATES

            

“No language can express the power, and beauty, and heroism, and majesty of a mother's love.  It shrinks not where man cowers, and grows stronger where man faints” ~Edwin Hubbell Chapin

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie”.  ~Tenneva Jordan

“Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. “ ~Mildred B. Vermont

Today, I would like to react to something I was told last week:  “Oh, Adela, you are a “madraza””.

First things first: the context.  The sentence was uttered by a male friend of my Husband’s, and it makes reference to my continuous taking care of my son in Buenos Aires.

JASON MRAZ. I´M YOURS. LOVE, POSSESSION AND FREEDOM

JASON MRAZ. I´M YOURS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkHTsc9PU2A

What Jason Mraz is saying in the song:

In the song “I´m yours” Jason Mraz is talking about love, possession and freedom

He talks about love as regards the kind of love you keep towards a lover. Love between two people in a couple.

But he also talks about LOVE in a broader sense: love between all members of the world.

Related to what love is, he says that our destiny is to love and to be loved, and that this is the right time to do that. That is why he suggests “do not hesitate”.

On the other hand, he talks about POSSESSION. He has christened the song “I´M YOURS”. But it is in fact a paradox, because through the lyrics we can observe that he is against all possessions. He says “open up your plans, you are free”.

All of that lead us to the third concept:  FREEDOM. He says that if we reflect upon what we are,  we can find freedom inside our heart.

In conclusion:  Since we are humans, we are utterly free,  we should not possess anyone or be possessed by anyone. But our fate is to love  and through it, through this feeling of love,   somebody (free) will be ours and we will belong to our lover.

STEVE JOBS and the BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Last class we listened to a TED Talk. It is STEVE JOB giving a Commencement Address at Stanford University.   In fact, the talk was not prepared as a “TED talk”, but TED organization took the video and presented it as part of their talks.

The following is what strikes me the most is the “butterfly effect” Steve Job talks about in his lecture:

In the “second story- love and cost”, Steve Job explains that after the moment he created a successful company, he received a dismissal note and had to leave it at once.  But it was precisely because that situation occurred that he was able, later on, to return to the company.  He was by then out of Apple, and because of that, he was blessed with getting to know his beloved partner.  Therefore:  sad facts can contribute to creating the conditions for venturous events. Every fact has its effect on the destiny.  Our life is not already designed. Everything can change, according to different facts that appear to be futile at present.

This “butterfly effect” is particularly meaningful for me, at the life stage I am going through right now:  my son is ill, we have to take care of him and my previous complex and perfect world seems to be tearing into pieces.   Nevertheless, every lesson my son and I learn in these his difficult times will certainly be fruitful in future. That is my hope. Just like Steve Jobs:  we suffer right now, but there is the possibility of a venturous future, with God’s help.  

Source: “HOW TO LIVE BEFORE YOU DIE”. Ted Talk by STEVE JOBS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcZDWo6hiuI