Autor: Tomas Cano

The Flight of the Shooting Star
It was summer, certainly very hot, two children played in the garden whilst their mothers called constantly to have dinner, night-time was falling.They stopped playing and began to count the stars, each time they found more as darkness covered the valley. Suddenly they began to see shooting stars and they stretched out on the grass which had begun to get damp. They gazed enthusiastically from right to left . There were shooting stars appearing everywhere with their luminous lines.
Suddenly two shooting stars appeared at the children’s feet.
They were paralized as the stars began to transform in to another two children.
“What are you doing here?” Said one of the stars.
They were unable to utter a single word but stood up and the bravest one began speaking to them
“We’re counting the stars”
“And how many have you counted?”
“I don’t know”· said the lad
“Why don’t you climb up one of these trees – perhaps you can see more?”
“Our mother won’t let us”
The braver child said to them
“Why are you falling stars?”
One of them replied
“Because our life on earth was fleeting”
“What happened to you” asked the most timid of the two
“I was a pilot and one day my plane crashed in to the sea. I had written a book but I had to go very young and since then as I was a pilot I continue to fly as a shooting star and I continue to show men how to live life”.
Cont…/…
– 2 –
“What was your plane like?” said the braver one
“It was a twin engined P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft, but you won’t know about what type of plane I’m talking about”
With his little hand, the more timid of the two pulled at the sleeve of the jumper of his friend and said
“Ask the other star something – he’s very quiet”
Without any hesitation he asked the second star
“And did you also leave this world in a flash?”
He took a few minutes to reply, he just looked at them and suddenly said
“That’s the way it is. Look at the palms of my hand”
and he showed them to him.
There were marks where nails had been, as well as on his feet and forehead and he also had scratches as if he had been fighting with a cat, thought the child.
“Who caused you those injuries”
He replied “Man – they are injuries of love and forgiveness”
“And have you forgiven those who hurt you so much?”
“Yes, all of them”
“And why are you a shooting star”
“Because it is my mission to cover all the corners of the earth and forgive those who hurt others and to bring love to those that need it”
“Can I kiss your wounds if they hurt” said the boy
“It’s not necessary – you have a clean soul – and your friend also”
“Keep counting stars. They are nothing more than the light of those, that for one reason or another, went before their time”
“If you look for your grandparents or any other human being, you will find them amongst the stars”
That said, the two shooting stars departed but not giving thanks for letting them rest in their garden.
The second shooting star said
“One day you will both play in my garden”
TOMAS CANO

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The Entrepreneurs
When one reaches a certain age, one acquires, without wanting to, a certain licence to express what one feels, either by word of mouth or the written word.
During my lifetime, I have known a number of entrepreneurs and business people in both the tourism and aviation industries. Some have reached the peak of their professional careers with deserved success.
I am humbly addressing these words to the new generation of entrepreneurs: those who are just beginning; our society needs them.
I would recommend that they all read the poem “Invictus” and not pay much attention to the gurus and coaches of Human Resources.
In spite of what one usually hears, it is untrue that success follows failure. Normally this is not the case; more failures can occur and after the failures nobody has the grace to forget or forgive them.
Your past stays with you forever.
Every time you fail, continue to pick yourself up. Nobody will be beside you to help you get up. You will get your self up. Never mind whether your head is bleeding or you fall 500 times, getting back up is the most important thing.
Do not expect the forgiveness of those that have accompanied you in your companies and have seen you fall. The average employee will not forgive you, neither the university student or engineer. They will be incapable of accepting that you create companies and jobs and he has not done this in spite of his years at university.
Continue the battle and keep getting up each day to fulfill your dreams and try to see with your heart rather than with your eyes. This will never fail.
Unsurprisingly but without resentment, you will be able to see how something you have created has become 30 years old and everyone is unjustifiably celebrating the occasion, when you were part of those 30 years in a proportion of 5. To clarify this point: they celebrate 30 but forget that 5 of those years, you, together with other people of incalculable value, are ignored. They subtract 5 years of your life without any guilt; it is not important for me to continue, but above all do not forget to get up once again.
Somebody told me the other day that during a celebration at a large Spanish aviation company, their current Managing Director carried out a monologue with two chairs, to the satisfaction of the audience. Do not forget that when you undertake something, along the way you will come across clowns, speculators, and other types of shark. Do not fall in to the trap of thinking that nothing has been worthwhile; you should just get up once again.
After your falls, some will say or comment during forums “he must be helped to restore his good name!” This is false – nobody will want to play with someone who is on the ground – they risk getting their hands dirty. They do not understand that when a man is on the ground, not only should he be helped to get up but also supported.
Do not forget that life is a mere theatre with actors, some good but the majority mediocre.

The Hand
The child walked up the steep street holding his father’s hand, the father having to pull him along. The street had no tarmac and the child tripped over the stones along the way, out of breath and with tears running down his cheeks.
The child was aware that the enormous doorway of the institution was awaiting him at the end of the street and he was conscious that this was the border between the warmth of his father and the misery of an education, which he did not understand and would never understand, because that place lacked the the fundemental virtue of life: that which complements all virtues: humaneness. But the worse thing of all was that he was not going to see his father again for a long time. The door was blue, turning to the colour of lead in some places due to the weather; the rain and the wind.
The child held his father’s hand and did not want to let go for any reason although the strength of his parent made it an impossible task. He knew that when he arrived at the hospice, or institution or whatever it was, a Franciscan nun would take him in and keep him there but even so when his father turned his back and started to go back down to the street again, he tried to break free from the woman wearing a habit and ran after his father sobbing and hanging on to his hand so that he could take him away with him. But the end was always the same: his father lovingly taking him back to the old nun, who was waiting. She was waiting with an undescribable smile, with the certainty of someone who knows what the end would be after those sobs and the aching heart of another child.
Today this child thinks of that hand more than ever; his father’s hand, his hands, those that, when older, he kissed with love the day the elderly father departed from this life. Alone, he said to himself “now you are leaving me forever, orphanned of hands and heart ……. that heart that was left out of breath when he was left as a child, at the old institution”.

THE SUITCASE
The crestfallen man firmly held his old suitcase which had travelled with him nearly all around the world. In times of splendour it went with him everywhere and it seemed that this suitcase shone, not because it was new but because he was a man that was appreciated wherever he went. Friends and enemies would fight to be able to see him or just to ask his opinion, because he believed at that time that he could touch the stars with the tips of his fingers.
But all that had changed. He suddenly found himself alone in an antiquated hostel in the old town of that province and placing his suitcase on the bed he looked at it and did not know whether to open it or simply leave it there and contemplate it, recalling all the places in the world they had been together.
He sat and stayed for a long time wondering what to do and how to start afresh.
He was being punished for breaking one of the golden rules: “One must never fight against fools with their tools!” He was aware that his punishment was going to be a long one. He did not know how long it was going to last but his sadness took over his heart, this heart that he thought had been capable of giving its utmost, or perhaps not. It had simply done its best to give and sow with the hope of one day reaping at least a small fruit. But in his heart he knew this was not going to be the case.
In the end he decided not to open the suitcase but to venture out on to the street; he needed to be with people.
He walked and walked trying to recognise a friendly face and strained to see if within those people he could find some human warmth which he had on occasion, given to someone else. But as time went by, and the more he walked, a suffocating feeling made him realise for the first time that he was in a strange city and the more faces he saw the stranger they became.
He approached a small bar and sat at one of the few tables that were on the terrace and for the first time felt alone and began to cry. Tears did not fill his eyes but his heart cried. Nothing and no-one could console him. He could only think of man’s evil. He thought he would try to remember how many good hearted folk he had known but suddenly he did not know how or could not count them. It was more than he was able to do and his tears and emotional state would not let him.
After a while he realised that a part of his life had come to an end and, looking up to heaven, could do no more than try to take refuge in his faith; his faith in God, although he realised that this was no longer fashionable. Man in the end is just himself and his possessions.
He suddenly thought that perhaps it was all a punishment; a way of showing him a new life, that even though it may not be to his liking, he had no alternative but to accept it, as something superior to him had decided it was to be that way.
After asking for something to drink he thought for a long time and threw back the drink, to try to quench his thirst.
He started to walk again without knowing where he was going until he was tired and returned to his sad hostel, opened the door and the first thing he saw was that his suitcase had remained on the bed and he finally decided to open it. When he did so he could not contain his surprise as he realised that everything that was in there was pure vanity and hot air.
TOMAS CANO

Harían  falta varios eventos como el de Fitur al año para poder hacer entrega de todas las medallas a todos nuestros amigos.

Cuando uno llega a cierta edad obtiene sin querer ciertas licencias para expresar lo que siente o bien en conversaciones o bien escribiendo.
He conocido en el transcurso de mi vida a bastantes emprendedores y empresarios en nuestro sector turístico y en la aviación, algunos han llegado al cenit de sus carreras profesionales con merecido éxito. Estas letras las dirijo humildemente a los emprendedores de nueva generación, aquellos que empiezan pues nuestra sociedad precisa de ellos.
A todos ellos recomendarles que lean el poema Invictus, y no presten mucha atención en general a los coach y gurus especialistas de recursos humanos, no es cierto que, en contra de lo que se suele decir, después de un fracaso, estará el éxito, normalmente no es así, pueden venir más fracasos. Y ante los fracasos nadie tiene la dignidad suficiente de olvidarlos, ni los perdona, tu pasado te persigue constantemente, cada vez que caigas vuelve a levantarte, nadie estará a tu lado para ayudarte te levantarás tu solo, no importa si tu cabeza está ensangrentada, ni si tus caídas son tantas como quinientas, levantarte siempre es lo que importa. No esperes el perdón en general de aquellos que te han acompañado en tus empresas y te han visto caer. El simple empleado no te perdonará, el ingeniero o universitario tampoco lo hará porque no podrá soportar que tu emprendas empresas y crees puestos de trabajo, y él no lo haya hecho a pesar de sus años de universidad. Sigue luchando y levantando todos los días para realizar tus sueños y procura ver con el corazón más que con los ojos, el jamás te fallará.
Podrás ver no sin sorpresa pero seguro que sin rencor como algo que tu has creado y ha llegado a cumplir treinta años todos lo celebran con injusta alegría cuando tu fuiste parte de esos treinta años en una proporción de cinco, para que me entiendas celebran treinta y se olvidan de que cinco de esos años, tu mismo unido a otras personas de incalculable valor son ignorados, te sustraen cinco años de tu vida sin ningún rubor, no importa sigue y sobre todo no olvides levantarte de nuevo.
Me contaban recientemente que en una gran empresa de aviación española, su actual Director General durante una celebración efectuaba un monologo con dos sillas, para satisfacción del populacho, no olvides que una vez emprendas algo encontrarás en el camino payasos, especuladores, y otros tipos de tiburones, no caigas en la trampa de pensar que nada a merecido la pena, levantarte de nuevo es lo que debes hacer. Algunos, después de tus caídas dirán o comentarán en algunos foros, ¡Habría que ayudarle restituir su nombre¡; es falso nadie querrá jugar con alguien que está en el suelo, se ensuciarían las manos de polvo. No entienden que cuando un hombre esta en el suelo no solo hay que levantarlo, también sostenerlo, no olvides que la vida es un mero teatro con actores, buenos y en su mayoría mediocres.

En la antigua Persia, los funcionarios cercanos al rey, eran llamados por el pueblo el “Ojo del Rey”. ya que el Rey no podia alcanzar todo el imperio esos personajes le comunicaban lo que ocurría en el mismo.
La aviación en nuestro país y sus compañías que operan desde ella tienen muchos “ojos del rey”.
Los comandantes están asustados, tienen miedo porque cualquier empleado ya sea de tierra o de su propia tripulación puede denunciar a los descerebrados reyes que las gestionan lo que hace cualquier empleado.O las decisiones que toman sus pilotos.
Me contaban hace unos días que el jefe de producción de una low cost, ante las quejas de sus pilotos del trato de su unidad de instrucción hacia los pilotos en los entrenamientos dados por sus TRI/TRE, dónde con un poder mal entendido aplican con crueldad un trato inaceptable a sus propios compañeros.
El jefe de producción pregunto a uno de esos pilotos, ¿ Bueno eso es como cuando yo suspendia una asignatura en la Universidad?; a lo que uno de los pilotos le contesto¡ no nosotros ya pasamos por la unversidad esto no es un examen es Instrucción, enseñar, no putear.¡
La aviación es cruel, la tensión en las compañías aéreas es cada vez mas alta entre precisamente los colectivos más sensibles y que juegan con las vidas de las personas, mientras sus gestores ponen más tensión para romper a los colectivos de tripulantes lo más alta posible dividiendoles de forma que su cohesión este totalmente rota con el beneplacito de todos los que gestionan desde arriba hasta entre los propios pilotos o TCPs, hacer la vida cada día más dificil a estos colectivos tan sensibles se ha convertido en la manera de canalizar sobre ellos el odio que se irradia desde los puestos de poder.
Hay un peligro en esta situación es que un día el “ojo del rey”, quede ciego porque haya perdido el control absoluto.

En la antigua Persia, los funcionarios cercanos al rey, eran llamados por el pueblo el “Ojo del Rey”. ya que el Rey no podia alcanzar todo el imperio esos personajes le comunicaban lo que ocurría en el mismo.
La aviación en nuestro país y sus compañías que operan desde ella tienen muchos “ojos del rey”.
Los comandantes están asustados, tienen miedo porque cualquier empleado ya sea de tierra o de su propia tripulación puede denunciar a los descerebrados reyes que las gestionan lo que hace cualquier empleado.O las decisiones que toman sus pilotos.
Me contaban hace unos días que el jefe de producción de una low cost, ante las quejas de sus pilotos del trato de su unidad de instrucción hacia los pilotos en los entrenamientos dados por sus TRI/TRE, dónde con un poder mal entendido aplican con crueldad un trato inaceptable a sus propios compañeros.
El jefe de producción pregunto a uno de esos pilotos, ¿ Bueno eso es como cuando yo suspendia una asignatura en la Universidad?; a lo que uno de los pilotos le contesto¡ no nosotros ya pasamos por la unversidad esto no es un examen es Instrucción, enseñar, no putear.¡
La aviación es cruel, la tensión en las compañías aéreas es cada vez mas alta entre precisamente los colectivos más sensibles y que juegan con las vidas de las personas, mientras sus gestores ponen más tensión para romper a los colectivos de tripulantes lo más alta posible dividiendoles de forma que su cohesión este totalmente rota con el beneplacito de todos los que gestionan desde arriba hasta entre los propios pilotos o TCPs, hacer la vida cada día más dificil a estos colectivos tan sensibles se ha convertido en la manera de canalizar sobre ellos el odio que se irradia desde los puestos de poder.
Hay un peligro en esta situación es que un día el “ojo del rey”, quede ciego porque haya perdido el control absoluto.