Just thinking...

I was thinking about life. Well, it's a lot of time that I think about life and the reason of our existence...

The first time was when I attended the first or second year of high school. My friends used to listen to music, practice some sports... My favorite topic was astronomy, my head was always turned upwards to the sky, at night.

Due to personal reasons (long story), I could never had a degree in Astronomy or Astrophysics, but the passion is still there. Now that I'm very close to 50, I'm aware about so many things that I could not even imagine when I was 15.

Now it should be time for study, for meditation, but I have no time...

The frustration is huge, but hey, that's life.

Moon

Dedicated to the first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong.

Mum

Mum left us suddenly on April 21st, this year; after the pain (oh well, after the first impact of the pain, because the pain remains), I thought a lot about what life means to me and what was her contribute.

I write software and firmware.

That's my job. For this reason I wanted to give her a tribute, hidden in the sources.

/*
*  This software is dedicated to my Mum 
*               (B 31-8-1937 + 21-4-2012)
*  She dedicated a large part of her life to my education, and
*  I'll always be grateful to her for that. If today can do my
*  job is largely due to her success teaching me to think.
*
*  Ad maiora.*/

Thank you, mum, I love you.

Dedicated to Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Don't forget

Too often we forget where we come from; worse, we forget that one day we'll die.

What of us will survive?

Life

One life is not enough to embrace all the aspects of Nature and Physics.
One life is not enough to love all the loves we have.
One life is not enough to hug all the friends we meet.
One life is not enough to read all the books we would like to read.
One life is not enough to appreciate the little hands of our sons or our parents when they caress us on the arm.
One life is not enough to understand how much we throw away.

But.

One life is too much when you're badly sick.
One life is too much when you're bombed from the sky and you don't even know why.
One life is too much to hold your mind when you're mad.
One life is too much for those who throw it away with drugs.
One life is too much when you spend your time mourning.
One life is too much when you lose a son or a daughter.

Insomnia

I suffer from insomnia, from time to time. I've never found a good definition. Until now.

Insomnia:

"It's the cost of being human and having the capacity to worry about the future and chew over the past."


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