Si el pueblo fuera música | Ishto Juevez | TEDxPuenteDeLosChocoyos
And you listen to me. Hello, life, a long road. The road, a metaphor to describe life. How did we get here? Walking, what brings us here? How did we decide, on a Saturday at an early hour, to come and sit in this space and share the word? What is it that truly moves us and pushes our steps? What inspires us? I must confess that I hadn't prepared my talk. I brought a couple of papers, which are the best part. I woke up this morning knowing that I had a talk today, that I was coming to talk with you, and in fact, I woke up earlier than the time I set on the alarm because my mind was already working. I am a musician. Besides being a musician, I am a gypsy. I am a wanderer. Life has taught me to improvise. As Milan Kundera would say, life is like a kind of show in which we never have the chance to rehearse and then present it. We don't have the chance to correct it. We are always present, seeing the stimuli and receiving the flow of what comes to us and improvising on it. And as I was telling you, I am a musician, and I also spent many years traveling abroad. From Guatemala, I had my career secured, I had many things that were, in a way, on track, there was a plan, but something wasn't complete, and I decided to leave my comfort zone, grab my backpack, and start walking. What the journey taught me, among other things, is that the universe is interacting with us all the time. In fact, it was the reason I was walking that I ended up connecting with music, which was like my dream, let's say. I was already working in music; I had discovered music from a very young age. In fact, the first thing I did with a guitar, which was my grandfather's guitar, was stand on it and jump on it until I broke it. And curiously, the journey sometimes presents us with contradictory things, opposites, let's say. What is negative sometimes pushes us towards something positive, and what is negative and positive sometimes leads to something negative, and we don't have true control, at least in my understanding. It's something that's happening to us all the time; something is leading us, there's a divine plan, or we're simply at the mercy of the flow of things that are happening to us. I wanted to talk about this topic; in fact, as I mentioned, I started I woke up thinking about this. I'm an improviser, and actually, when I'm with the guitar, I'm very comfortable. Right now, I'm completely out of my depth, like a complete novice. But I've decided to do this with my life, and I've decided to do this because that's precisely what drives me to face challenges and grow. We're talking about how we go from small to large, how to follow our dreams. And in a way, I've always believed that facing our fears has a reward beyond what the initial reason presents. Let's just say that was the story of my life. At 23, I decided to leave my career, grab my backpack, grab a guitar, and head south. Actually, I went in the opposite direction because many people migrate north, right? And I said, "Well, I want to go south because everyone there speaks Spanish." And it's like nobody goes that way, right? I like to play with contradictions. And I find myself at a point in my life in Costa Rica, which was the country that taught me to live off my music, and I'm without savings, without money. And I see the question, and the question is very clear: from the fear of what How am I going to live? How am I going to survive? I have the possibility of returning home, which is my comfort zone, the area where I know people and I'm sure someone will give me food. I decided to do the opposite. I decided to face my fear and walk with my feet into the void to see where it would lead me. In fact, I was selling shredded coconut sweets this morning, which was like my business idea for how I was going to continue traveling. A friend bought the coconut sweets I had and told me, "No, you're a musician. I've heard you sing. You have to do what you have to do because you know it." I got on the bus, which is in the university area of San Jose, Costa Rica. I had already broken the paradigm because I knew in Guatemala that many singers live off that on the street. I mean, the possibility of it was already known, although in a way, I was terrified. There was no limit in my mind, and that spoke to me about my dignity. It made me think that asking for money and doing something like that went against my dignity. I do it both on buses with a little guitar, which I'm traveling with today, in fact. That day I received enough money not only to pay for the place where I was living and a couple of meals, but also for another day. The reason for that is that there's a transformation in my path and in my understanding of life. I can live off my music, something many people had told me before: "You can't do this to live off your music, it's not possible in Guatemala, it doesn't exist, we're not in the right place." It changed my life, and continuing to travel to South America gave me the opportunity to continue my journey. Because of that, I became a musician. I'm a musician who continues to travel. In a way, I ask myself the same question: to evaluate my comfort zone and see if I'm getting confused by being too comfortable. Are we following a divine plan? Are we following our hearts? Are we the ones deciding our steps, or is it something that guides us? Science says that 95% of our actions are involuntary. What does that mean? Right now, I'm going to scratch my ear without being aware of it, and only 5% of my decisions are involuntary. The things I 'm taking are really voluntary, which made me think, well then, what do I want to talk about? I ca n't change my path because the flow of the universe flows in its own way, and I'm kind of improvising, but I can think, consider, and rethink how I face life's stimuli. Like this gentleman who takes photos of water crystals in Mataró said, he showed that when you say "I love you" or "I hate you," the water molecules, the water crystals, manifest either a perfect geometric figure or an amorphous and quite ugly one. Let's say, within this person's more remote study, evaluating the topic of water a bit, he also says that the formula for water, which is H2O, hydrogen and one oxygen, presents us with a very important question for the Earth and for the current state of the planet. We live on a planet that is changing. The water molecule, as I said, has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. Oxygen is the flammable part, the part that transforms. He later said that the oxygen atom is like the masculine part of water, and to balance the molecule, they have to give it two hydrogen atoms, which, as he said, is the part. The feminine aspect adapts, and water shows us a lot about adapting to a space and being contained in a glass or a pool, and in a way, accepting what happens to it. Meanwhile, the oxygen particle, like masculine energy, seeks to transform things. To put it more practically, we do what we want to happen and expect the universe to always do what we want it to do. We are discovering ourselves in what is happening to us and how we face that situation because there are unexpected things, there are accidents. In fact, we learn to trust that the universe will bring us the answers, and that is my life experience. I have been traveling for many years; I spent about 10 years outside of Guatemala with a backpack, and what I learned to observe was that, first of all, being awake and attentive was a very important action, and knowing that that day I needed a place to sleep, something to eat, friends, etc. Arriving in a new land always presents that question. In a way, what travelers develop is this sense of being able to read between the lines, what kind of person each one is in five minutes. cinco segundos porque nuestra vida depende de eso como les digo soy un viajero y fui aprendiendo eso y nunca pasé hambre de hecho siempre tuve una mano amiga a mi parecer confiando y y poniendo en el universo la esperanza cómo se nos van manifestando las cosas más que queriendo transformarlas somos improvisadores todos buscamos crecer buscamos seguir nuestros sueños a veces el confort confunde eso que no traje mi guitarra porque quería contarles algo más también hablando del tema de cómo no podemos planear las cosas escribí una canción una canción que se llama empujoncito esta canción sale a razón de una intercambio con una muchacha y estamos enamorados ella viene a mi casa vienen a visitarme estamos celebrando pues de cierta manera ella se cae y se rompe una costilla y a razón de que se rompe una costilla entonces tiene que ir al hospital la razón de que ya está en el hospital estoy visitando la estoy acompañando le y terminamos de conocernos bien una historia de amor algo positivo salió de algo negativo que había sido pues que se había roto una costilla nosotros haciendo un poco de caso de esos símbolos decidimos sembrar un jardín ahí donde había roto su costilla como para transformar las cosas negativas en positivas So, everything that happens to us, maybe there's a divine plan, maybe not. Science and religion, and isolating all other forms and institutions, don't explain different ways of understanding it. Well, I think we all need a little push to keep going. This song comes precisely from that. The song talks about two parts: the part about humans, the path we walk, and at the same time, well, I want to share this love story with you a little bit, and we'll wrap it up and practice a little longer. Ah, the path of the poor, and along the road to Calvary, and the city, a Templar and a shroud, a hitman. All the children who die daily, we see together the serenade of the neighborhoods. Someone has to provide the necessary species, they also have a heart. Someone has love, they also have a disposition for the occasion, the stimulating universality of vitamins. Ah, your last call calls me to dream of you, even there, where to be. And love in the distance tests me. It fell into the hole without a rib, the Bastille, the rib. There, from where later came worse dates than I am, and funnier ones, and lawyers. Look for me. Look for me below the sky, modest love, love, someone has a heart, someone has love, someone has a disposition for the occasion, the stimulating universality of vitamins, a deposit is what I wanted, so first of all, to thank you all sincerely and to tell you that in the dream, that's what moves us, and it's the irrational part, it's the part of the child, and I was left with, in this modern life in which we live, with social media, I just saw a meme that I found quite interesting, talking about spirituality and religion. The meme said, in religion there is a person sitting in church wishing they were in a canoe on a beautiful lake, while in spirituality it is a person who is in that canoe on that beautiful lake thinking about the great mystery that we are facing every day