As the Earth enters critical cycles, natural and human-provoked, the interest in life on other planets has increased exponentially. Still, the question remains: why, to this date, have we not encountered intelligent extraterrestrials yet?

I fell in love on a starry night
Beneath a rain of shooting stars
What a beautiful sight!
I held her in my arms

When multiplied, weaknesses may become unmanageable forces. Ignorance, for example, might be a weakness; however, if it multiplies, it becomes a power. The power of ignorance has defied wisdom and common sense, defeated civilizations, and conquered the human spirit through millennia.

Creativity applies to any industry. It’s the root of civilization, and so it must be encouraged.
Indeed, we all agree, but how can I boost my creativity?
Many friends and colleagues asked me this question, and to the best of my knowledge and experience, I respond:

1. To boost your creativity, keep your mind, eyes, and ears open 24 hours a day. Yes, 24 hours, because most great ideas come in dreams. So, most importantly, try to remember your dreams.
If you cannot remember your dream, invent one.

When I was a kid, nine years old or so, at the table at dinner time, which happened to be the most significant moment of the day, we all, the family, gathered around the table. The dinner table had mandatory salt and pepper shakers and an oil and vinegar dispenser set.

What's life's purpose? I asked myself
And you, my friend, my brother, I know
You ask yourself the same question
Yet we must convince ourselves we're not alone
My friend, my brother, I don't want to distract you
From whatever keeps you busy or not
But we must focus on our eyes when focusing on nothingness

Nowadays, people favour learning from screens rather than from books. Reading a book demands concentration, thinking, and imagination, which most people avoid. So they favour screens because screens deliver the whole thing instantly, thus diminishing the efforts required to read a book. Several factors may influence this sad trend: new technologies, time, space, volume, cost, life demands, etc.

When I was a boy, I had the feeling
That I had a bird nesting in my chest
A powerful feeling, a powerful bird
I used to watch myself in the mirror
To challenge the relentless stare of the bird
Observing me, scrutinizing me

I dreamed I was born
At a time, one day, somewhere
Among pain, screams, sweat, and blood
My dream was so unreal
Yet I felt alive, crying, breathing
My heart beating
And I was there, a newborn
Me, being held in the hands of destiny

The good, if brief, twice good. The bad, if brief, is not so bad.

The secrets of a long-lasting, happy marriage are space and distance. You will have a happy life together if you respect each other’s space and distance. Marriage is like a delicate clock where every gear turns in rhythm and harmony and fits together at the exact time, thus moving forward in balance every moment, every day, every year. The other pieces of this clock are patience, respect, love, comprehension, and forgiveness.

Since the beginning of civilization, books have been the compass that guides humankind to either heaven or hell and, sometimes, to paradise. Regretfully, people nowadays read little and mostly don’t even understand what they read.

TRUTH is not a static thing. It’s like a fish in the water. Like a bird in the air. We see it, but we cannot get it. It’s like the wind. We feel it, but we cannot grasp it. However you represent it, TRUTH seems to irremediably fade away from our moral landscape.

A poet is a philosopher
A lover of mirages, an architect of thoughts
Mirages and thoughts are verses of a poem
You're a poet if you build a road
And you walk on it
A road that goes through people's hearts
Tears and joy

Are you worried about how the first line in your book must be? You should do so because it will invite your readers to visit the world you have created. However, you must also worry about the last line.

She and I were friends
Friendship added spice to our lives
And so it went until one moment
While wishing each other good night
At her doorstep
She whispered something in my ear
What it was, I don’t remember
I only remember we were friends

As painful as it is, we must learn about our limitations. We should know if the light we pursue is not a moon ray or if what we are chasing is a ghost or an illusion. We should know this because our spiritual peace, money, happiness, and health are at stake on the road to success.

Food for Thought.

Why, with all the power we possess as children of an almighty god, masters of all on Earth, discoverers of the unknown, explorers of outer space, conquerors of nature?

Why do we, scholars of all sciences, seekers of truth, creators of lies, why can't we, with all the power invested in us, find happiness?

My statement, highlighted below, invokes a profound reflection on the meaning of life. Since the beginning of times, suffering has accompanied humankind, and thus, suffering has been subject to deep study by thinkers, philosophers, and humanists, as well as most religions have built the core of their beliefs in suffering and sacrifice. Martyrs and heroes for diverse causes throughout the centuries have found that suffering is how to reach God or find life's meaning.

I was standing before a bouquet
Left on your grave by some unknown good soul
A long time ago, I must say
For the flowers had withered already
To the point of becoming thus brittle
Almost dust