The Deceptive Dance of the Immediate: Unraveling Ephemeral Pleasure from Deep and Lasting Happiness. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – In everyday language, pleasure and happiness are often used as synonyms. However, although they are related, they are profoundly different experiences. Seeking what makes you feel good, avoiding pain, and repeating pleasant experiences seems like a logical formula. Yet, over…
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Beyond the toasts and the clamor, the end of the year whispers an outstanding invitation: to inhabit the silence, to name that which is wounded, and to discover that forgiveness is not forgetting, but rather the light luggage we need to begin anew. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – Time makes no noise; the year does not announce its closure.…
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In an uncertain December, the invitation to introspection becomes a beacon: a journey toward reconciliation with the wounds of the past and inner forgiveness, transforming memory into a guide for inhabiting the present with clarity and building a future of hope rooted in human compassion. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – This has been a year in which we have…
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A journey through the brightness and shadows of progress, where innovation advances at high speed while social reality remains divided between those who can reach it and those who can only watch from afar. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – We live in an era in which humanity has witnessed unprecedented medical and technological advances. Science seems to brush against…
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An invitation to return to what truly matters: when December steps away from consumerism and regains its power to heal, unite, and remind us. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – We enter this month with hope shining in our eyes, trying to illuminate our hearts. In my article “The Echo Behind the Lights,” I show how the market turns this…
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A journey to the hidden heart of violence: where absences speak louder than gunshots. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – The history of social conflicts is as old as humanity itself. In every era we have tried to understand them, repress them, suppress them, negotiate them, sometimes endure them or simply ignore them. Society is a living being created by…
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In a world that sways between the noise of the present and the shadows of the past, commemorating becomes an act of ethical resistance: a living reminder that peace is not inherited, it is built, and that each gesture —a flower, a name, a silence— sustains the fragile promise of a more humane future. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes –…
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How the media transform the Christmas season into an emotional pedagogy—and what we can still salvage from its radiance. By Claudia Benítez HoyLunes – Everything shines: shop windows are filled, perfect families show their faces in the streets, hugs look straight out of a catalogue, the same movies and songs are repeated, and the trees do not lose a…
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We live amid a saturation of perfect images and indifference to the pain of others. In a world where violence disguises itself as normality and well-being becomes a simulation, true resistance can be as simple —and as difficult— as learning to feel again. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes — In times when the growing threat of war wavers like a…
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Between fragility and hope: when love becomes the force that defies cancer. By Claudia Benitez HoyLunes – Within the body, a garden blooms — delicate flowers, beautiful even in their fragility. Where life once overflowed, now dwells a silent battle: that faceless visitor spreading like an endless winter. The skin remembers every touch, every scar that tells a story…
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