I remember you at times,
on the riverstream that brings
day to day little things
swinging away on the curls and ripples
of time,
of dead hours after noons,
of little whiles dozing off as the summer breathes breezes.
And I can handle, it’s okay,
it is true
that the smallest of all men
even them get through times
when hope seems lost and nothing left is undone.
I can handle that. I can handle it always.
Always, but when
I remember you at night times.
I worship music
as moon lakes reveal
I breathe the forest wind
by the time after rains
please
always you
you
I
you
“Mi tercera máxima fue procurar siempre vencerme a mí mismo antes que a la fortuna, y alterar mis deseos antes que el orden del mundo, y generalmente acostumbrarme a creer que nada hay que esté enteramente en nuestro poder sino nuestros propios pensamientos, de suerte que después de haber obrado lo mejor que hemos podido, en lo tocante a las cosas exteriores, todo lo que falla en el éxito es para nosotros absolutamente imposible.
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. The occurrence of cognitive dissonance is a consequence of a person performing an action that contradicts personal beliefs, ideals, and values; and also occurs when confronted with new information that contradicts said beliefs, ideals, and values.
— Cognitive dissonance: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance, Aug 4, 2018.
Mi propia reacción a los más recientes avances en parametrizar la ecuación de Drake y poner fin a la paradoja de Fermi puede ser ilustrada, irónicamente, con un par de pasajes de una novela de ciencia ficción con colonias humanas en otros planetas:
“In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.”
― Martin Silenus (Dan Simmons): Hyperion (1989).