Uno de mis mejores amigos es comediante y actor. Ha aparecido en obras de teatro, programas de radio y televisión a nivel local, además da clases y trabaja para entidades benéficas. Pero su encomienda más reciente es adentrarse y explorar el vasto mundo de YouTube. Recientemente ha comenzado a hacer videos de YouTube seriamente. Trato de ayudarlo y apoyarlo en todas sus encomiendas, ya que es como un hermano para mi. Así que este post es un poco de promoción para su video, tratando de ganarle tracción a su página de YouTube,¡ mis disculpas a los que no les gustan esas cosas! Pero tenemos que apoyar a nuestras amistades, ¿o me equivoco?
Anoche publicó un video en el que la aquí presente hace una muy corta aparición. ha estado en los medios locales por años, pero como no soy fanática del "spotlight", nunca he querido aparecer en ninguno de sus videos. Pero para este, digamos que me cogió con la guardia baja. Estaba mayormente dormida, tarde en la noche (después de media noche) cuando me lo pidió. Tramposo que es. El video es un "unboxing" de las cajas de colección de Funko y Marvel Collectors Corps. Si les gusta el video siéntase en la libertad de ver sus otros videos, suscribirse y compartir, deje sus comentarios tanto aquí en el blog como en el video.
One of my best friends is a comedian and an actor. He has appeared in plays, radio and tv shows at a local level, he also teaches and works for charities. But his most recent endeavor is foraging and exploring the vast world of YouTube. He started making YouTube videos seriously recently. I try to help him and cheer him on in his endeavors, his like a brother to me. So, this post is a bit of shameless promotion for his video, trying to get traction to his YouTube page, sorry for that guys! But we have to be there for our friends, don't we?
Last nigh he published a video in which yours truly makes a very short appearance. He's been in the local media for years, but I hate the spotlight, so I've never agreed to appear in anything. But for this one, let's say he kind of got me off guard. I was mostly asleep, late at night (past midnight) when I got his request. Sneaky of him. It's an unboxing of the Funko and Marvel collaboration bimonthly boxes filled with collector's items. I have to warn you, the video is in Spanish, but you don't let that stop you from watching, either way you can see the items he unboxes. If you do speak Spanish, enjoy this one and feel free to check out his other videos. Here's the video I've been talking about. Enjoy!
I have said many times that you should not let your happiness depend on one person. I have also acknowledged that it is a hard thing to acomplish, since exterior factors inevitably affect our mood. But affecting does no mean determining. I have always said that your mood depends solely on the way you react to things and the way you face chalenges that are presented to you.
I have found myself in a great mood these days. And I could say that it´s because good things are happening to me. And indeed they are, but also I have some bad things lurking my way. But I have decided that the good things are more important and that the bad ones will eventually sort themselves out. I have found that establishing a more personal relationship with God has filled me with peace. And I know that not all people believe in God, but most people believe in something greater than themselves or an equivalent. For us, human beings, feeling connected is a very important and fundamental factor for our emotional well being. That connection that we have a yearning for is what drives us all to have a Facebook account, or Twitter, blogger, tmblr or any other site, a telephone or cell phone, etc... It has been long provén that a group of peers is essential to our emotional well being and stability.
So, since external factors do inevitably alter our mood, it´s importan to learn to dela with things and control the way our internal being deals with them. Do not be dependant on any one thing, person or group. I am a firm believer in this. Things, people and groups are ephimerous, nothing ever lasts forever, nothingñ for a long time? yeah, for a lifetime? Maybe, but not forever. Nobody is ever going to be happy all the time. Because shit happens. But when you step on shit, you just keep walking, go over to the grass and clean it off. Shit happens, but don´t let it define you.
SO, what does it all depend on? What does happiness depend on? Well, this is where what I´m always saying comes in. How you feel depends on you. How and what you feel depends on the way you deal with things and the way you react towards things. So it depends on you.
This last weekend I got a visit, a visit I would rather not have had, I got a visit from the blues. Certain things happened with certain people that got my mind working extra on thought I'd rather not have. In my long experience with the blues I have come to find that there are several things that help a lot. First, friends, true friends, the kind of friends that listen to everything I had to say, two and maybe three times, the kind of friends that feel for you and empathize with you. I am lucky enough to have several of these friends, but this last weekend one in special, Eguie, was my salvation. I have come to find that what The Beatles said was true, I do get by with a little help from my friends.
True friends are hard to find, I know it's a cliche, but truer words have never been spoken. So, although this weekend one person gave me a reason to cry and be sad, my friends gave me many more reasons to smile. This friend of mine and me, we have a passion in common, music. This is another ingredient of the cure for the blues. I listened to a lot of music this past weekend, I discovered new music, rediscovered old music and indulged in some of my favorites. I have a special playlist on my iPod for when this happens. Thanks to a little music exchanging with my friend, that playlist grew. Music is powerful. Music heals. It connects us and gives us a sense of not being alone, someone else has been through the same thing and made it to the other side. Through music you can speak to other people or say things you would be able to say other wise, or in such an eloquent way (Cee Lo Green's Fuck You anyone?). How I listen to music varies, sometimes it's while I'm driving, my car is my therapy room. While I'm stuck in traffic I tend to sing, cry and sometimes even scream, after which I tend to feel sooo much better. Other times I'm alone in my bedroom, with the lights off (sometimes with a glass of wine ;-) , but I tend to to this only when I'm alone and know I won't be interrupted, since tears tend to come along), also, I love to hear music while I'm reading, a little background something. This gets me to my other ingredient in the cure for the blues. Reading.
I love to get lost in a good book, and ever since I began law school this has become a reward, a little vacation. I have no time to read for leisure anymore (sadly), but when the blues come to visit, everything else tend to go to hell and I have to indulge in myself, since I'm good for nothing else while in that condition. SO I pick up a good book, put some music on and read. I get so lost in the story that my mind switches off for a while and I forget about the blues or what/who gave them to me. I have a very vivid imagination ( I like to think I owe this partly to the fact that I have always read, since I was a little girl), so vivid that I tend to picture what I read in my mind and sometimes, after reading something, I'm not sure if I read it on a book or saw it on a movie or TV. Which gets me to the last of the ingredients of my cure for the blues (at least the last of the big important, never fail ingredients, there are other but, I've already written way to much), movies and TV.
I find that watching a movie, which movies depends on what caused the blues, also helps. At least just a little, getting lost in someone else's story, making an artificial connection and empathizing with someone else, seeing that there are worse things that people have come out from, that gives me strength. This last weekend I was in the mood for (500) Days Of Summer, The Break-Up, The Way We Where, An Affair To Remember and Back To The Future.
I know for a fact that I have written mire than enough, so write to you later...feel free to comment!!
Music from this weekend:
And more I won't bother you with...
Here are some of the trailers for the movies:
That was for (500) Days Of Summer, one of my favorite movies, it's a gem!!
This one was for The Way We Were another gem, I discovered this one thanks to the girls of Sex And The City.
