"The mirror and the dreams are similar things, it is like the image of man before himself. " (J. Saramago)

"The mirror and the dreams are similar things, it is like the image of man before himself. "
(J. Saramago)



Nowadays, more or less everyone has the notion that thanks to social networks, we often get into the lives of people we barely know. But this only means that it is not the appearances that deceive us ... we are ourselves who deceive ourselves when we do not want to see things as they really are.

"People do not choose the dreams they have, they are the dreams that people choose, I have never heard them tell anyone, but it must be." (In The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Ed. ., p.143). José Saramago also said of what he considered a "Fundamental Rule of Life" that "when we say good or evil ... there are a series of small satellites of these great planets, which are the small goodness, the small evil, small envy, small dedication ..... In the background is what makes people's lives, that is, of weaknesses, weaknesses ...... On the other hand, for people to whom this has some importance, it is important to have as a fundamental rule of life do not hurt others. From the moment we are concerned to respect this simple rule of human coexistence, it is not worth while to lose ourselves in great philosophies about good and evil. "Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you" seems a selfish point of view, but it is the only one of the sort where one arrives not at selfishness but at human relation. (José Saramago, in "Diário da Madeira Magazine, June 1994")

"We all feel today that personal selfishness, self-indulgence, lack of generosity, small cowardice of everyday life all contribute to this pernicious form of mental blindness that consists of being in the world and not seeing the world, or just seeing it which, at any moment, is likely to serve our interests. I think we pay little attention to what actually decides everything in our life, to the organ we carry inside our heads: the brain. Everything we are about to say is a product of the powers or capacities of the brain: language, vocabulary more or less extensive, more or less rich, more or less expressive, beliefs, loves, hatreds, God and the devil, everything is inside our head. Out of our head there is nothing. "(José Saramago)

That is why suddenly we are led to say that "it will all be a matter of chance"! Now, as we all know, "nothing happens in life by chance, for everything there is a motive and a solution" that depends on our interpretation and our action to make "reality" this fact or event. So, in fact I think that nothing happens by mere chance, there is no "luck"! There is a meaning behind every little fact. We may not be able to see it at once, but it will not take much time for this to happen, as long as we want to take the "risk" of facing it.

There are those who say that "everything has already been" written "and there is nothing else to be done to change our history in this world ... ..but we are choices that we make, so the story is written according to our desires and risks that we are available to run! "

 "Dreams are dreams, and in dreams there is no firmness," said my grandmother Josefa. (Contrapunto de América Latina, Buenos Aires, nº 9, July-September 2007In José Saramago in his Words)