Quite a day...

I had quite a day today, one of those in which so many things happened that you could almost swear that they were actually three days instead of one. Early in the morning I managed to wake up, even after staying up till late last night... which actually brings me to last night.

Last night I went over to Memo's bday party, which was rather fun. I had the chance to had good talks with Julio, Alba and Julian, as well to see a bunch of people that I hadn't seen in a while. Most of them are working for IBM now, and they seem a happy bunch. Julian is always nice, and the talks with Julio and Alba were a little "deeper", about life and what we want from it. With Julio I talked about following dreams and moving on, going somewhere, loosing those things that keep us tied down... with Alba I pretty much talked about the same thing, why did I leave Innox and all... she told me she was shocked when she realized that I had done it, but after a while she undestood me quite well... after all she took about 6 months off to think about things before she decided to get a job, and made sure which was the path she wanted to follow...

The talk with Alba was nice enough that I completelly forgot that I was suppósed to pick victor up from chapultepec, so I had to run off the place with Julian to pick him off... man I felt so guilty!!!... poor victor... I couldn't apologize enough...

Anyway, back to this day... I woke up early to go to the weekly karaokulta meeting, arrived over there and meet Everardo's wife Estela... it was odd because Eve wasn't around so I arrived to his place and she was a little forced to open and all, but it was nice to finally meet her, she is a nice girl. A little after Jeziel arrived, and then Eve... we started taking but then something came up with Estela... and surprise!!!... I think Dante is getting into this world a little early!!!... Dante is Eve's son who is about to be born, he was supposed to born in say two weeks, but I guess it was too much time to wait so he decided to show up today... that was something!... Of course the meeting was cancelled, we worked things out, talked with them, bid them luck, and saw them depart to this new adventure in their life... man I was so nervous for them!!!... a baby!!!!...

So it was just Jeziel and me now, we decided to go over to the TEC, do some research at the library about architecture for the comic, and so we worked soem hours on ideas for different places, kinds of buildings of the civilizations and all. At about 3pm a cop came over to kick us out of the library because it was closing time. And so we walked out, went by the car, and then sat in a bench for about 2 and a half hours!!!... we just talked and talked for a long time... and it was pretty cool. Its always very pleasant to have one of those talks.

Of course we talked about a 100 different things, but one of them was religion and human beliefs. One of the things that we were discussing is how most of religions today are based on fear... fear to do something shameful in the eyes of the Lord, fear to go to hell, fear to be punished... they are based on fear and guilt... which sucks. And then I stared developing this idea about the ancient greeks, since I am reading about them and their beliefs. It was very interesting to find a wonderful conection there.

The "craddle" of out western civilization, the foundation of the arts, aesthetics, the sports spirit, mathematics, phisics, philosophy, architecture and all those things come from the ancient greece. Just a tiny little spot on the map was able to bring so many things to this world, that were the basis of what we see today. Even the democracy and those government ideas from ancient greece and rome.

And it's interesting to see that culture flourished so much in a civilization that had "human gods"... a civilization whose deities made mistakes... one in which people did not fear hell or such a damnation, Hades was the Lord of the underworld, but he was no Satan. The did believed in right and wrong, punishment and reward, but their sense was so much different. Their Zeus would flirt around with girls and would love boys, the goddesses wanted love and attention, cupid the god of love would cause man to do crazy things and seem evil at times... but so is love. Their civilization was built around a bunch of gods that did not only represented the best qualities of humans, but the worst as well, which made them even more human...

Could there really be a connection?... how much can we judge or determine from a civilization by the way their gods act and do?... how much can we learn from them and expect from them?. And how much can we grow today in a world were the tools of belief are fear and guilt?. I was just interested to see a hint of connection there. Maybe it's a topic in which I will do more research, and maybe too it will be an interesting idea finder for some story to write in the near future.

Now I am at home, waitig for some visits to come over... reading a kick ass comic that is causing me to not be able to do much else (100 bullets), and waiting to check my email and download a character that I really want to ink, it's sudra... he he he... more on that soon.

So cheers... life is good.