Death Needs Time - Life Needs Flow

Buzz Submitted by : Mamen Delgado

Buzz: Entrevista beBee a José Ramón López

Link above is an Interview in Spanish by Mamen Delgado and the title means
BeBee interview with José Ramón López: "Publishing in beBee gives a lot of visibility"

After reading the interview linked above, the initial motto it inspired was "death takes time, life takes flow" but the idea of "takes" was a minus, so I have updated this emerging motto to "death needs time - life needs flow".

The whole interview was a life in flow and translated very well.  Mamen has put together some really good interviews lately for two good reasons - first she has a talent for picking great subjects to interview and secondly her style does illicit a very personal conversation - which provides good cameo's of the individual being interviewed, it is like she knows just the right question to ask and the whole process seems effortless - yet the end result is very insightful.

Being that it is just a few hours to Christmas Day comments juxtaposition with greetings, but this interview came ready made with lights that did not require any additional decoration.  It is Mamen who actually reminded me that it was Christmas with her greetings, for I was busy following up sections of the Interview and finding out more about references mentioned.

This when the motto came to me, which now has morphed into the title of this Paradox Wisdom. It occurred to me how arbitrary a year is in terms of planets.  What we celebrate at the end of the year is one complete circling of the Sun.  Yet if Earth had been the fourth planet in our solar system, our year would be 687 days as we know them and not the 366 days we had this leap year.  Even the rotation of Mars provides an extra 40 minutes for a Martian Day.

Instead I thought about what Christmas was a celebration of - which is new beginnings and new birth - yet we look at these times as our year-end holidays, even though the amount of work Christmas takes to put together in some households can hardly be considered a holiday!

The whole festive spirit thing is an exercise in managing credit cards and making sure that one has not left people out, while it is a time of giving, it is even more a time of commercial excess. 

The best time to end a year is actually Halloween - a ghoulish celebration if ever there was one, because at least in my household, it is November when the Christmas season really begins, and it seems to get earlier and earlier in November each year.  So why not make November the prelude to a new beginning or at least make it the closing month.

I only think this way because there has always been a rebellious spirit within me, which over time I have tried to tame, realizing that it is a spirit which simply eats away time, and no wonder I initially wrote "death takes time". 

The person Mamen was interviewing has a blog that I was totally unaware of and that blog content is on beBee

José Ramón López

The act of appreciation is more powerful than the act of following - so as I read through the interview there was new threads appearing of people I would never have heard of before - and I am one who has made Google my abundance buddy - because I believe that the chief blessing of our age is the abundance of information and not scarcity of content - so flow and not time is the chief currency of my personal intelligence.

Though I have not determined why Jose has an apparent interest in the health of senior citizens, that part of his blog entries did catch my eye, though I have only skimmed the main page and not dug into individual buzzes.   With Mamen's interviews, she is also a good writer and I see a relationship with the quality of what Google translates, to the quality of a written blog.  So far I have been very pleased with the clarity of translations - but I have no idea how well my own words translate if a Spanish or Portuguese Bee is translating my words into their language.

What matters coming out reading Mamen's interview was that "Life takes flow" or as it written now "Life Needs Flow" - and where best to discover that, than to look for people who are in flow and flow with them.  No wonder people complain that social media is taking up their time, for they are simply following and following takes away time i.e. needs time.  So I do not follow, I flow and flow is best not an act of following - but a movement of observation and reflection.

Following makes sense to me if one is simply trying to build knowledge and accumulating knowledge may be useful for work applications, but it is also time consumption rather than flow nutrition.   If life needs flow, then where is the eventual flow moving towards?

Here home and family are my chief center and that is what drew me into this interview also, that our own persona inner circle is a circle of love - just as the sun is a circle of energy.  Other families are simply other stars in a human constellation that is a universal village.  Like me José Ramón is a family man but I do not get into flow with similarities but the uniqueness in the similarity.  Just because we have thumbs and fingers does not mean that we possess the same fingerprint.  That is what I like about great interviews - I begin to see a picture emerge of that.

Whether it is the footprint of our life, or the blueprint of work or the fingerprint of our home, my life needs flow.  Flow is not the same thing as time because here flow is a timeless quality.  Life Needs Flow.

PS A touch of synchronicity follows because I came across this at LinkedIn as a great example of "Death Needs Time" so I offer this as a part of my own on-going learning journey here at beBee and not simply because I am scoffing at the dark reality of time or because I have anything resembling a warped sense of humour :

BTW: "Not an Einstein Quote"!!! http://fightland.vice.com/blog/back-to-the-future-lyoto-machida-and-einsteins-three-rules-of-time