Orbitor (iarăşi)

Orbitor - Corpul

Peretele era, în întregime, un uriaș insectar. Ordonați în rânduri şi coloane, pe toată suprafața îşi întindeau aripile fluturi, cei mai mari şi mai frumos colorați ce-ar fi putut fi văzuți vreodată. Aripi largi şi puternice, cu doi ochi micuți în partea de jos, corpuri groase şi inelate. Câte-un piron de oţel, înfipt în corpuri, între două inele, țintuindu-le pe cutele satinului sidefiu cu care era peretele îmbrăcat.

Câte-o plăcuţă de alamă gravată cu câte-un nume sub fiecare dintre ei. O, frumusețe, de ce gura ta e mereu atât de amară? De ce e cumplit orice înger? De ce numim monstru orice minune inepuizabilă? Pe plăcile de alamă nu erau înscrise nume de genuri şi specii, ci nume de femei: Corrie, Petra, Gertie, Ans, Joke… şi triumfătoarele trofee cu aripile-ntinse nu erau gingașe lepidoptere, ci oase iliace, prinse pe vertebrele lor, centuri pelviene, largi, generoase, de femei ce fuseseră iubite cu patimă, bazine ce ocrotiseră cândva feţi ghemuiți, visători, cu faţa umbrită de aripile fluturelui matern.

Mircea CărtărescuOrbitor. Corpul

It’s a damn cold night

Tryin’ to figure out this life.

Quoted

How to Create an Abundance Mentality

from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Much of society seems to be built on a scarcity mentality. It’s a mentality that tells people that there is a lack in life, that opportunities are few and far between. This is, of course, useful for society because if people feel that there is a lack, then you can get them to buy stuff. And so the economy and society can continue to live and prosper by reinforcing a scarcity mentality in people.
The scarcity mentality can be quite painful for the individual and create a lot of unnecessary fear, anxiety and desperation. An abundance mentality, on the other hand, tells you that there are always new chances and opportunities. This relieves much of the pressure you may feel if you have a scarcity mentality that makes you think that you’ve only got one shot right now. Or it makes you feel like an utter failure just because you stumbled and things didn’t work out. An abundance mentality can help you improve your performance since with it, you’re creating a lot less pressure and anxieties within your own mind.
Here are a few tips to create and reinforce your own abundance mentality.

Steps

  1. Look for the symptoms of a scarcity mentality. If you have a scarcity mentality then you will probably take things too seriously. You may think to yourself: “If I fail, the sky will fall”. It probably won’t, though. But you think it will, you become overly nervous and POOF! you have invited that failure because your negativity becomes an FUCK obstacle on your path to success. If it’s a game, then you may fumble with the ball. If it’s an exam, then you may not have been able to sleep and will perform poorly on the test. If it’s a date, you may come over as too needy and nervous and not as your usual, more relaxed self.
  2. Focus on the abundance, not on the lack. What you focus on, you will see in your world. Since you can’t take in everything around you, your reticular activation system – your focus system in the mind – will bring into focus what you focus your thoughts on.This will allow you to see the abundance in your world that you may be missing right now. If you, for instance, have a lack of money, then don’t focus on your lack. Focus and think about the abundance of possibilities in the world to make money. Soon ideas and opportunities to make that happen will start to “pop up” in your world. It’s almost a bit freaky how things that holds solutions for you – perhaps books or acquaintances – that have been there in the background for quite a while just one day suddenly jump out at you.
  3. Appreciate. One quick way to revert from the pretty normal habit of thinking about what you don’t have is simply to appreciate. Appreciate your food, life, your roof, your friends and family and so on. This can not only turn a sour mood into a more positive one within minutes, but it can also help you notice opportunities you have missed or forgotten about. And it’ll create a more open vibe within you, a vibe that makes it easier to focus on the abundance. So, make a habit of appreciating something in your life for a few minutes each day.
  4. Get an abundance vibe from other people. Since you get a scarcity mentality from, say, advertising and media, then you can change your input to change your mentality. Cut down on watching the news. Record your favourite shows and skip the commercials. Or just cut down on your TV and media consumption, period. Replace the scarcity vibe you get from that input. How do you do that? “Hang out” with people that have an abundance mentality. Read, listen to and watch personal development material. Besides reading your favourite personal development blogs, read success stories in books and magazines. Have a positive attitude to the abundance and success of your friends, family and co-workers. Hang out with people in real life who have more of an abundance mentality and less of a scarcity mentality. Be selective with what you put into your mind. Create your own environment of abundance.
  5. Share the wealth. One very good way to acknowledge how much you have is to share it. Do you feel like you’re not making enough money? Give some away. Not enough love? Give some away. Not enough validation, appreciation, recognition? Give it all away. It’s hard for something to feel scarce when you’re giving it away.
  6. Create win-win situations. People with a scarcity mentality tend to see every relationship is win-lose, as in: “It’s either you or me, buddy, and I want it to be me.” People with an abundance mentality, on the other hand, try to create mutually beneficial relationships in which both parties can win. [1] Instead of winning an argument, for example, try to reach a consensus that you both can be happy with. Instead of competing, collaborate.
  7. Remind yourself. It’s very easy to slip back into your old thought patterns. You just forget about what you should be thinking about. A useful tool to keep yourself from slipping is to use external reminders. You can, for example, use written notes posted at places you can’t avoid seeing several times each day – your workspace, fridge and mirrors – or put a bracelet on your wrist. Seeing words or quotes that remind you of your new abundance mentality can help your mind snap back into the right headspace once again.

Tips

  • When the feeling of scarcity is strong, remember previous times when you had an abundance. Realize that you can recreate similar circumstances once again.
  • A real-world example of the abundance mentality is the “copyleft” movement, which focuses on loosening the restrictions of traditional copyrights. [2] More and more people are licensing their work with GFDL, Creative Commons, or even releasing it into the public domain. For example, Leo Babauta, founder of the popular Zen Habits blog, decided to release all of his content into the public domain. [3] Many programmers share software and programs freely in the spirit of open source. [4]

Warnings

  • Don’t get so carried away with an abundance mentality that you become a people pleaser who lets people take advantage of your generosity. Remember to surround yourself with people who also have an abundance mentality, who give as much as they take, or else “parasites” will drain you and eventually leave you with a scarcity mentality.

Related wikiHows

Sources and Citations

  1. http://thinkexist.com/quotation/people_with_a_scarcity_mentality_tend_to_see/346862.html
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
  3. http://zenhabits.net/2008/01/open-source-blogging-feel-free-to-steal-my-content/
  4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

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Shall be missed

Recviem pentru o amintire

privind spre apus,
amintirea prietenului meu mi-a spus
că a venit vremea să plece şi ea.
undeva.
departe de mine şi gândirea mea.

uşa s-a trântit în urma ta
când te-ai decis atât de brusc
să ieşi din viaţa mea.
odată cu varul sfărâmat pe perete
s-a dus şi amintirea ta.

te vei întoarce poate într-o zi,
când nici tu, nici eu nu vom mai fi:
poate separaţi de ceva peste noi,
sau doar nu vom şti ce eram amândoi -
cine ştie când amintirea ta va reveni.

Antologia de poezie (1)

Mircea Cărtărescu

Când ai nevoie de dragoste

când ai nevoie de dragoste nu ţi se dă dragoste.
când trebuie să iubeşti nu eşti iubit.
când eşti singur nu poţi să scapi de singurătate.
când eşti nefericit nu are sens să o spui.

când vrei să strângi în braţe nu ai pe cine.
când vrei să dai un telefon sunt toţi plecaţi.
când eşti la pământ cine se interesează de tine?
cui îi pasă? cui o să-i pese vreodată?

fii tu lângă mine, gândeşte-te la mine.
poartă-te tandru cu mine, nu mă chinui, nu mă face gelos,
nu mă părăsi, căci n-aş mai suporta încă o ruptură.
fii lângă mine, ţine cu mine.

înţelege-mă, iubeşte-mă, nu-mi trebuie partuze, nici conversaţie,
fii iubita mea permanentă.
hai să uităm regula jocului, să nu mai ştim că sexul e o junglă.
să ne ataşăm, să ajungem la echilibru.

dar nu sper nimic. nu primeşti dragoste
când ai nevoie de dragoste.
când trebuie să iubeşti nu eşti iubit.
când eşti la pamânt nici o femeie nu te cunoaşte.

Run for it

I can’t fight the fighter, I keep losing ground,
And I can’t hide the hider with you hanging around:
I can’t and I won’t.

You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking,
You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking.

I can’t love the hater, it’s a losing game,
And never love a quitter, you’ll get left in the rain.

I can’t help the helper when my feet are bound,
I can’t feel you near me if you’re not the only sound:
You are, you’re not.

You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking,
You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking.
You’d better count up your reasons, I’m leaving, I’m leaving,
You’d better count up your reasons, I’m leaving, I’m leaving.

How do you like the way you feel when I leave you?
How do you like the way you feel when I leave you?
Leave you…

You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking,
You’d better run for your life, love, I’m walking, I’m walking.
You’d better count up your reasons, I’m leaving, I’m leaving,
You’d better count up your reasons, I’m leaving, I’m leaving.
You’d better run…

Chacun ses problèmes

Odată trecut miezul verii nu pot să nu constat un adevăr pe cât de incontestabil, pe atât de trecut cu vederea de către mine: atâta vreme cât nu dau eu dublu click pe un nume oarecare din lista mea amărâtă de messenger, nici arhicunoscuta fereastră de dimensiuni 400×600 nu-mi va întuneca ecranul. Dar nu datorită unei defecţiuni tehnice obscure, nu – doar că existenţa mea devine recunoscută numai atunci când îmi este cerut ajutorul, şi îşi pierde această calitate imediat după ce îl voi fi oferit. Mais brefement – chacun ses problèmes.

I wish I was a hunter

I wish I was a hunter in search of different food -
I wish I was the animal which fits into that mood -
I wish I was a person with unlimited breath -
I wish I was a heartbeat that never comes to rest.

Komm zu mir.

Wish – RLR OST

Păcăleala lui Da Vinci

Insomniac fiind azi noapte, am comis-o şi am citit Codul lui Da Vinci. Worst. Book. Ever. Nu pot spune însă că nu mă aşteptam la asta, după dezastrul care a fost Îngeri şi Demoni – prequelul acestei aberaţii literare. Brown pur şi simplu a înghesuit în 500 de pagini o pletoră de inutilităţi pop-culture & urban myths, date pseudo-ştiinţifice, teorii conspiraţionale – pe scurt numai bombe, cât mai controversiale posibil. Nu-i de mirare că public uproar-ul generat i-a ridicat cartea la rang de best-seller & Biblie a paranoicilor (prin extensie toate celelalte avorturi scrise ale sale devenind brusc must read-uri).

One more cookie: la sfârşitul ediţiei din 2003 a CLDV, Rao mă îndeamnă să vizitez site-ul codulluidavinci.ro. Did that too. Frumoasă selecţia de produse oferită de AbissMob SRL (cu sediul în Deva, str. Bejan, bl. 56, ap. 31, înfiinţată în 20.12.2001 – am citat). Într-adevăr, abis.

Puteţi da relaţii!

Peste ce-mi dădu brausăru: saitul Poliţiei Judeţene Iaşi. Departe de mine gândurile rele: doar răscoleam netu’ în căutarea unor informaţii (aparent) top-secrete privind actele necesare eliberării certificatului de cazier judiciar, la cererea unui amic de-al meu – criminal înrăit de altfel (ucigaş în serie de ţânţari).

Dar – oh, dar – şoarecul meu a păcătuit şi a clicăit pe secţiunea “Puteţi da relaţii”, mai precis categoria “Urmăriţi”. Aici intră în acţiune Serviciul de Evidenţă al Populaţiei, care ne pune la dispoziţie în scopul găjbirii acestor crunţi infractori (tâlhari, hoţi de maşini ş.a.m.d.) pozele efectuate la frageda vârstă de 14 anişori, când puiu’ şi-a primit primul buletin. Că deh, ne-om da noi seama cum arată ei acum.

Bref, păcătuiţi băieţi. N-aveţi grijă – pubertatea lucrează pentru voi.

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