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RICARDO BLUME
Newspaper articles
(This is the compilation of some articles published in the newspaper El Comercio of Lima Peru between 1981 and 1988)
Do not throw the sponge
What you see, hear, and read almost always is discouraging. This one about to give up, feeling a bit 'groggy', on the verge of throwing the sponge and ask for pita and hump.
The horrible phrase, without a way out and without hope: This is not fixed by anyone, it is almost always on the surface of the lips, when you see what you see, hear what you hear and read what you read.
But there is no choice but to overcome, lean on the ropes of this ring of national life, draw strength from weakness, take new energy, clench your jaw and continue the fight.
Disappoint is shortness of breath; breath is essential and to breathe is to live.
If there is hope while there is life, while there is breathing there is life.
RICARDO BLUME
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| Ricardo Blume |
Newspaper articles
(This is the compilation of some articles published in the newspaper El Comercio of Lima Peru between 1981 and 1988)
Do not throw the sponge
What you see, hear, and read almost always is discouraging. This one about to give up, feeling a bit 'groggy', on the verge of throwing the sponge and ask for pita and hump.
The horrible phrase, without a way out and without hope: This is not fixed by anyone, it is almost always on the surface of the lips, when you see what you see, hear what you hear and read what you read.
But there is no choice but to overcome, lean on the ropes of this ring of national life, draw strength from weakness, take new energy, clench your jaw and continue the fight.
Disappoint is shortness of breath; breath is essential and to breathe is to live.
If there is hope while there is life, while there is breathing there is life.
To be discouraged is to die.
Discouragement is a moral, spiritual or soul feeling, however you want.
Therefore, a discouraged man is a moral dead man.
From the point of view of the spirit is a kind of vegetable.
Discouragement is a moral, spiritual or soul feeling, however you want.
Therefore, a discouraged man is a moral dead man.
From the point of view of the spirit is a kind of vegetable.
I have always
believed that the famous phrase of Raimondi (Peru is a beggar sitting on a gold
bank) has no direct and literal meaning: that we live like beggars having an
incalculable mineral wealth.
I interpret it in another way: we are a beggar because we are sitting.
When we stand up, we will discover the golden bank of our possibilities as a nation, as a group of human beings. We will be beggars or we will live like beggars or we will look like beggars while we sit waiting for someone to do for us what only we have to do.
I interpret it in another way: we are a beggar because we are sitting.
When we stand up, we will discover the golden bank of our possibilities as a nation, as a group of human beings. We will be beggars or we will live like beggars or we will look like beggars while we sit waiting for someone to do for us what only we have to do.
What is this that nobody fixes?
This is arranged by us. We have to fix it ourselves. Nothing more and nothing less than us. Pulling together for the same side. But how? Where to start?
This is arranged by us. We have to fix it ourselves. Nothing more and nothing less than us. Pulling together for the same side. But how? Where to start?
Every journey,
however long, begins with a first step.
And in this national tour, that first step is oneself. Each one of us.
Because if I do not start by changing my attitude, if I do not take my first step in one direction, what is the use of trumpeting to the four winds that you have to stand up?
If you or I are not brilliant leaders, with great and refreshing ideas, capable of dragging a whole country to change their attitude and stand up, let's hold on to that old aphorism of medicine that I like so much: first, do not hurt.
If I do not know how to cure the sick, at least I avoid what I think hurts
And in this national tour, that first step is oneself. Each one of us.
Because if I do not start by changing my attitude, if I do not take my first step in one direction, what is the use of trumpeting to the four winds that you have to stand up?
If you or I are not brilliant leaders, with great and refreshing ideas, capable of dragging a whole country to change their attitude and stand up, let's hold on to that old aphorism of medicine that I like so much: first, do not hurt.
If I do not know how to cure the sick, at least I avoid what I think hurts
What would be an
elementary way of starting not to harm the nation we are all?
I can think of a very simple one: to comply with the laws scrupulously. Not only that general law that constitutes us as a nation, but also the natural laws of human coexistence,
The regulations and norms that have been established to live in peace, order and freedom.
Let's start by respecting them one by one, all norms and rules dictate by authorities to see if we can counteract all those who do not comply.
I can think of a very simple one: to comply with the laws scrupulously. Not only that general law that constitutes us as a nation, but also the natural laws of human coexistence,
The regulations and norms that have been established to live in peace, order and freedom.
Let's start by respecting them one by one, all norms and rules dictate by authorities to see if we can counteract all those who do not comply.
Perhaps to begin to fulfill these small rules,
to begin to take the first steps, in this simple crawling of civilization,
gives us the sensation of being doing something to improve; that at least we're
not hurting So, at least today, we will not let ourselves win by
discouragement, we will not get to throw away the sponge or pronounce the
horrible phrase: This is not fixed by anyone.
If we fall into discouragement, into hopelessness, skepticism or ‘To me what! Then we will be irretrievably lost. Do not throw away the sponge. I relied on the strength that will give us the coordinated union of all pulling towards the same side.
Perhaps neither you nor I can see the fruits of this seed that we plant so painfully today, on the verge of despair, in the midst of incomprehension, skepticism, mockery or indifference.
But with us the human species is not extinguished.
We have a moral obligation to leave to those who come, a world less dirty and uninhabitable than the one we receive. Let's get up so we can find the golden bank of our possibilities as a nation. Please do not throw away the sponge.
Lima, February 3, 1983
the Author.
Editor's note:
This article by Ricardo Blume addressed to the nation through the readers of El Comercio, is also a healthy reflection for each one of us, as individuals who hold challenges in our way through life.
With love,
Rubén
If we fall into discouragement, into hopelessness, skepticism or ‘To me what! Then we will be irretrievably lost. Do not throw away the sponge. I relied on the strength that will give us the coordinated union of all pulling towards the same side.
Perhaps neither you nor I can see the fruits of this seed that we plant so painfully today, on the verge of despair, in the midst of incomprehension, skepticism, mockery or indifference.
But with us the human species is not extinguished.
We have a moral obligation to leave to those who come, a world less dirty and uninhabitable than the one we receive. Let's get up so we can find the golden bank of our possibilities as a nation. Please do not throw away the sponge.
Lima, February 3, 1983
the Author.
Editor's note:
This article by Ricardo Blume addressed to the nation through the readers of El Comercio, is also a healthy reflection for each one of us, as individuals who hold challenges in our way through life.
With love,
Rubén
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