Thursday, October 1, 2009

"Finding magic"

Mercedes- Benz. The commercial. The one were the blond woman goes into a library and tells the librarian she wants a burger and a milkshake. The librarian tells her they're in a library. The woman seems to look around and realize. Then she asks again in a lower voice.
Letters appear. Beauty without inteligence is nothing.

But what else can we say about this commercial besides the obvious?
Coherence.
We all are like that woman sometimes. We go to mass and even though we know we can't talk, we do it anyways. And then, we procalim we really believe Jesus is standing before us.
And that is just a little example of how incoherent we are sometimes, when we say some things, believe others, and do, well, none of the above.
Our lives lack coherence, logic and sense. But sometimes, it is not because we do things that don't go according to what we say we believe, but because we really don't know neither what to believe in nor who we are.
And how can we be coherent with ourselves if we are not yet aware of what defines us and what we stand up for?
That's the main question we need to start asking ourselves. Who are we. What we believe in. What we stand for. What defines us. What we think. And then, we can proceed to make action and self, one. We can start being coherent.

And one part of figuring out who we are, is understanding what virtues we have to improve. What we have to give.

As I like to think about it, "The magician with his tricks. You, with what?"

Once you figure out the answer, stick to it. Do things that if translated would mean your definition. Because sometimes, what we do speaks so loudly that others can't hear what we have to say. Just like the commercial.

WG

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