Blurb
Juan de Dios is about to become an adult. He lives with his father but never sees him. They have different timetables and their relationship is similar to a flatmate one.
He is now studying a lot and he will soon complete his last school year.
He can´t stand the classes: 6 hours a day is too much for him and is about to get stuck.
He likes to study but has hardly time to do it. In addition classes make he be knackered
When the last year ends, Juande gets so pleased and has a lot of time to get ready for the university entrance test.
Nevertheless, there is a problem! now his timetable is inverted and his father plays music at mornings. How will he study?
He quickly finds a curious way to do it.
jueves, 23 de mayo de 2013
Things I´ll do before I die.
Before I die...
...I´ll adopt the pug with the most bulging eyes in the world. I´ll call him Franco
...I´ll sneak in the area 51 with a Captain America costume. Then, I´ll be retrying it for a week with different costumes, such as ninja turttle or Robin Hood.
...I´ll pay the best artist in the world to make a portrait of me. I´ll grimace.
...I´ll borrow a lot of traffic cones and I´ll change the traffic of a big city.
...I´ll go to a trial walking like birds do, skipping instead of walking.
...I´ll show off my motorbike riding it in underwear in a big city center.
...I´ll take a nap everyday in a mattress shop. I´ll try to do it everyday for a long time although they ask me to leave the first time
...I´ll construct a bridge above the palace I´ll live in. Then I´ll tell all my family and friends where my house is.
...I´l go to the driving school by car
...I´ll break a guinness record
...I´ll change an old fashioned car engine by a lamborghini one. Then I´ll frustrate the rest of the drivers
...I´ll be the stuntman in a martial arts film.
...I´ll dedicate one the best buildings I´ll design to my aunt Leslie.
...I´ll adopt the pug with the most bulging eyes in the world. I´ll call him Franco
...I´ll sneak in the area 51 with a Captain America costume. Then, I´ll be retrying it for a week with different costumes, such as ninja turttle or Robin Hood.
...I´ll pay the best artist in the world to make a portrait of me. I´ll grimace.
...I´ll borrow a lot of traffic cones and I´ll change the traffic of a big city.
...I´ll go to a trial walking like birds do, skipping instead of walking.
...I´ll show off my motorbike riding it in underwear in a big city center.
...I´ll take a nap everyday in a mattress shop. I´ll try to do it everyday for a long time although they ask me to leave the first time
...I´ll construct a bridge above the palace I´ll live in. Then I´ll tell all my family and friends where my house is.
...I´l go to the driving school by car
...I´ll break a guinness record
...I´ll change an old fashioned car engine by a lamborghini one. Then I´ll frustrate the rest of the drivers
...I´ll be the stuntman in a martial arts film.
...I´ll dedicate one the best buildings I´ll design to my aunt Leslie.
Quoting
I´ll write about two quotes:
I)"It´s only after we´ve lost everything that we´re free to do anything" From the film "Fight club"
II) "El hombre no posee naturaleza sino historia" From the book "El tema de nuestro tiempo" By Ortega y Gasset
Contextualización: Al hablar del hombre de historia, me refiero al que está rodeado por los hechos pasados, el cálculo ineludible del futuro, una sociedad que marca todas las pautas y unas aspiraciones vitales plenamente capitalistas.
I find these two quotes so meaningful because I think that the human been hasn´t only evolved postively. We are not animals because we have the ability to think, what is a huge advantage for our specie.
Our survival is guaranteed, but, since the greek philosophers gave all the importance to the reason, we´ve aspired to happiness using it.
As Ortega y Gasset said, humans don´t have nature anymore, and from my point of view, thats the main obstacle
All the things we have, all the people we want to protect, the house we´re already paying, the job we aspire to, or the one we don´t want to loose are positive things for the history man.
But the nature man disappears when we have all these things, and we can´t be happy if we don´t put them together. (I mean the history and nature man)
The nature man is absolutely free to do anything, he doesn´t know any morals and he doesn´t have anything to loose. He lives like an animal.
Our body has been designed to be like that, so that the happiness feeling is only produced when nature man reaches his aspirations.
Nevertheless, we´ve lost it all, we are subjugated to artificial morals and society made us contain our instincts.
And this is the meaning I find in the film "fight club", in which a "happy" history man got stuck and literally destroid everything he had.
He created a figthing club for people who want to disconnect from their civilized lifes, and they all reached a mind freedom that really made them enjoy.
Does it sound crazy? sure! You´re a history man!
I)"It´s only after we´ve lost everything that we´re free to do anything" From the film "Fight club"
II) "El hombre no posee naturaleza sino historia" From the book "El tema de nuestro tiempo" By Ortega y Gasset
Contextualización: Al hablar del hombre de historia, me refiero al que está rodeado por los hechos pasados, el cálculo ineludible del futuro, una sociedad que marca todas las pautas y unas aspiraciones vitales plenamente capitalistas.
I find these two quotes so meaningful because I think that the human been hasn´t only evolved postively. We are not animals because we have the ability to think, what is a huge advantage for our specie.
Our survival is guaranteed, but, since the greek philosophers gave all the importance to the reason, we´ve aspired to happiness using it.
As Ortega y Gasset said, humans don´t have nature anymore, and from my point of view, thats the main obstacle
All the things we have, all the people we want to protect, the house we´re already paying, the job we aspire to, or the one we don´t want to loose are positive things for the history man.
But the nature man disappears when we have all these things, and we can´t be happy if we don´t put them together. (I mean the history and nature man)
The nature man is absolutely free to do anything, he doesn´t know any morals and he doesn´t have anything to loose. He lives like an animal.
Our body has been designed to be like that, so that the happiness feeling is only produced when nature man reaches his aspirations.
Nevertheless, we´ve lost it all, we are subjugated to artificial morals and society made us contain our instincts.
And this is the meaning I find in the film "fight club", in which a "happy" history man got stuck and literally destroid everything he had.
He created a figthing club for people who want to disconnect from their civilized lifes, and they all reached a mind freedom that really made them enjoy.
Does it sound crazy? sure! You´re a history man!
domingo, 17 de marzo de 2013
Stereotypes
Not because I´m gay it means that I act like a woman.
Not because I´m a woman it means that I act like a gay. Oh wait!!
Not because I´m losing it means I´m lost
Just because I´m a politician it doesn´t means that you can´t trust me
Not because I have piercings it means I prefer drugs before books
Not because I failed the first term it means that I´ll fail in June
Just because a I use glasses it means that I´m a nerd/intelligent/cultivated person
Not because it´s sunny it´s a happier day
Not because I´m a woman I´ve more stereorypes to fight.
Not because I´m a man it means that I can´t share my problems and weaknesses
Not because I eat a little bit of chocolate it means that I´m giving up my diet
Not because I´m a woman it means that I act like a gay. Oh wait!!
Not because I´m losing it means I´m lost
Just because I´m a politician it doesn´t means that you can´t trust me
Not because I have piercings it means I prefer drugs before books
Not because I failed the first term it means that I´ll fail in June
Just because a I use glasses it means that I´m a nerd/intelligent/cultivated person
Not because it´s sunny it´s a happier day
Not because I´m a woman I´ve more stereorypes to fight.
Not because I´m a man it means that I can´t share my problems and weaknesses
Not because I eat a little bit of chocolate it means that I´m giving up my diet
Phoetry
Don´t stop being attentiveand raise your eyes from the floor
because once you have already grown
and all the rules of this game are known
you stop being willing to humbly take
any dvergent way.
You don´t discover with those hungry eyes
the lessons of every day.
So stay awake and change your mind
because the only secret to be wise
is never stop learning like a child
Love
"Love doesn´t exist. We spend our lives running after it but we´ll never find it".
I don´t think so. We are used to thinking that love is what we´ve always seen in Hollywood films.
Everybody would like to have that kind of love, but we have to realise that in the real life it´s much more difficult.
The first and most important step is finding the other person. It should happen spontaneusly, we can´t dedicate our lifes to look for someone. From my point of view, it´s better to learn to build and love yourself when you´re alone. Otherwise, you´ll choose hastily and you´ll have a pathetic dependence in your partner that will destroy you when he or she breaks up.
To put it in a nutsell, you have to be seasoned, rational and be able to live happily when you´re alone if you want a good love experience.
The other main difference between Hollywood and reality love is connivance.
In the films we usually watch an euphoric and idealized one which doesn´t correspond to real life coupleIn conclusion, I think that we can believe in love only if we don´t confuse it with what movies show us. s coexistence.
I don´t think so. We are used to thinking that love is what we´ve always seen in Hollywood films.
Everybody would like to have that kind of love, but we have to realise that in the real life it´s much more difficult.The first and most important step is finding the other person. It should happen spontaneusly, we can´t dedicate our lifes to look for someone. From my point of view, it´s better to learn to build and love yourself when you´re alone. Otherwise, you´ll choose hastily and you´ll have a pathetic dependence in your partner that will destroy you when he or she breaks up.
To put it in a nutsell, you have to be seasoned, rational and be able to live happily when you´re alone if you want a good love experience.
The other main difference between Hollywood and reality love is connivance.
In the films we usually watch an euphoric and idealized one which doesn´t correspond to real life coupleIn conclusion, I think that we can believe in love only if we don´t confuse it with what movies show us. s coexistence.
A thank you letter.
Part One:
Leslie Had to struggle for life since she was born. She was the sixth of seven siblings.
Her mother´s favorite daugthers were the prettiest ones and Leslie wasn´t one of them so she was treated in a worse way or even mistreated.
She told me once that when she was a child, she used to hide behind the corridor door and cry for hours.
She were already young when she emancipated: she needed to scape from that house so she married the wrong man
Arturo wasn´t a good husbad so that he ignored Leslie´s problems and left her alone when she suffered her first cancer.
That part of her life made her such a sensitive person.
She studied a lot and learnt to play many musical instruments. She was the most cultivated person I´ve ever known and she taugh me lots of things.
My biological mother is a feckless person so Leslie have always been the good example that inspires me. We had a very close friendship
As a consequence of a backward medication, she had another two cancers, but she fought until the last day.
I´m sure that anyone would prefer the death before a life like that, and that´s why I found Leslie an extraordinary person: I´ve never seen her without a smile in her face trying to share it with us instead of sadness.
Part 2, the letter:
Dear Leslie, as you know, I´m not a believer, but there is a reason why I wish the existence of a second life. It´s you. I miss you. I miss your jokes, our games... and I would like to be able to thank you again for letting me grow up in a better way.
You changed me a lot.
You´re the first close person I´ve ever lost and I can´t stand the hankering.
Someone like you deserves to remain forever instead of suffer and die too young.
When I study phylosofers attempts to demonstrate or prove the existence of god, I think that my only argument is that a divine justice wouldn´t let you suffer as you did.
Thank you for sharing your last years with me.
Leslie Had to struggle for life since she was born. She was the sixth of seven siblings.
Her mother´s favorite daugthers were the prettiest ones and Leslie wasn´t one of them so she was treated in a worse way or even mistreated.
She told me once that when she was a child, she used to hide behind the corridor door and cry for hours.
She were already young when she emancipated: she needed to scape from that house so she married the wrong man
Arturo wasn´t a good husbad so that he ignored Leslie´s problems and left her alone when she suffered her first cancer.
That part of her life made her such a sensitive person.She studied a lot and learnt to play many musical instruments. She was the most cultivated person I´ve ever known and she taugh me lots of things.
My biological mother is a feckless person so Leslie have always been the good example that inspires me. We had a very close friendship
As a consequence of a backward medication, she had another two cancers, but she fought until the last day.
I´m sure that anyone would prefer the death before a life like that, and that´s why I found Leslie an extraordinary person: I´ve never seen her without a smile in her face trying to share it with us instead of sadness.
Part 2, the letter:
Dear Leslie, as you know, I´m not a believer, but there is a reason why I wish the existence of a second life. It´s you. I miss you. I miss your jokes, our games... and I would like to be able to thank you again for letting me grow up in a better way.
You changed me a lot.
You´re the first close person I´ve ever lost and I can´t stand the hankering.
Someone like you deserves to remain forever instead of suffer and die too young.
When I study phylosofers attempts to demonstrate or prove the existence of god, I think that my only argument is that a divine justice wouldn´t let you suffer as you did.
Thank you for sharing your last years with me.
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