Gains from my recent routine

This life looks a lot like an embroidery with a multi-colored design, stretched out by two wooden hoops just like we did at school. Each stitch that we give today, becomes a mark of the design that in its totality represents our lives, and that by the way while we do not make the final knot, it will be incomplete. Each strand connects with one that we have made before, in another color, in another time, in another stitch, in a different space; and it will also be connected to other actions that sooner or later will remind us of good or bad moments of our passage through life.

The other day a professor of those who have the magic formula of changing the world, but enough pessimism to ensure that the country can not change or that the only way out is the right knife-wrenching wrist on the left, gave us this challenge:

"Tell me one thing you see of this life, that makes you happy.

For a moment I hesitated, but took hold of what I had already said. I made him see simple facts from a routine week that bring us complete satisfaction, if we dedicate enough passion to it. Finally, I don't know if he was convinced because it is difficult to talk about the taste of oranges to those who have never tasted one. Record, I live in a Central American country that is at the end of the table of violence, poverty and corruption.

I would not change for anything, go to the Olympic track on Friday afternoon, and after a few laps in reverse reward of the chicharrones de la Granja El Carmen, sit with this individual and see how his innocence, immaturity, rebellion and dreams remember that I myself would change many things to know that he is happy. Because that makes me happy. Even those that are part of my freedom and passion but that would put it at risk.

At 13 years old, he has the dreams that will make him successful beyond what I have been. And that makes me happy, despite the challenging years to come and it's already the days when he questions the rules, he raises his voice... but he also hugs and says "I love you daddy".

After presenting the Demonstration experiment of geolocation, has come to be sure that he has one of the best teachers of Natural Sciences. Although he also confessed to me that he is convinced that she herself did not understand the subject, after she said "We should all be interested in these satellite computers".

Surely there are things in life that are going very badly, but that your daughter gets on you and tells you that she enjoys those two hours of Friday afternoon ... life changes you.

Although in the photo the shirt is falling down and it seems that I am pregnant, I love the photo, the position and his smile.

It is those little moments in life that remind us that life has meaning. Don't believe it, I'm worried that this 10-year-old girl spends a few minutes in the mirror and has too early a taste for shoes.

But living in the moment adds flavor to words. Having her like gum on my back and doing the camel race, not only confirms that I am no longer 27 years old ... also that I still enjoy it.

Last night we started that 3,000 piece puzzle again. Even though my wife will resent the dining room table for a couple of weeks, it's time to be together that counts.

My mother who is visiting my house joined in and almost woke up working on a passion that she says she has only been able to enjoy now that she has grandchildren. And boy does he enjoy it!

On Sunday afternoon, while eating a delicious Thai salad at La Crepería, I meditated a little on how many times time is running out, regretting the decisions we may have made. For that girl at school we never saw again, for the career we abandoned for the one we now have.

And just that can make us waste time on the things that we now have and that should bring us pieces of joy. Although we are not happy with the exchange policy, because the balance of payments is negative or because the Busan Agreement will be just one more step to show that the politicians of this country cannot carry it out.

I like the sign that is in the entrance of this Creperie, to the bottom of the image that in the letter of Isabel Allende says:

I regret the diets, the delicious dishes rejected by vanity, as much as I regret the times of making the love that I have stopped doing for taking care of pending tasks or puritanical virtue, since making love is a component of good health, inspires creation and is part of the path of the soul ... Unfortunately it took me 30 years to know!

We make decisions in life because we love what we have. The memory of the past is the evidence of the sewing of the soul. It could not be more intense, and if it is no longer so, the memory is.

The things that make us happy in life, in the long run, are the ones we should not change in our weekly routine.