Friday, October 25, 2013

The best lesson my grandparent (or any parent or relative) taught was...


The first things you learn in life is usually related to your family. The way they raise you and teach things for life is very reflective on your personality and character. There are some values that will accompany you for the rest of your life and these are the most important things you will learn in life. And that is where the parents have their leading and most significant job: teach their children!
When I think of my childhood and try to force my first memories, the main thing I see in my mind is the image of my parents. In fact, they were the most important teachers in my life, most of all, they always tried to put me to walk on the right path. Consequently, it seems hard to say one best thing that I learned through them. However, besides all the values they taught me there is one that I appreciate the most: respect for the next. 
Whoever the person is and wherever she/he came from, you must respect her/him. It's not up to us to judge any person by anything and if we give respect to others, they will give it to us. If everyone respect each other, there will be no reason for most of the problems in world.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Stretching Your Positive Mind

When I arrived at Maryland I knew for sure that this would be one of the best experiences in my life. Studying abroad is not always easy, it comes with some challenges of being in a foreign country. However, the English course and the life in the university are making me feel really comfortable and happy. In the first place, it is one of the best ways of knowing how to live together withe a lot of different people, from different places and cultures. For an example, in US there is so many people from opposite nationalities and when I had the chance to get to know them it made me change my mind about some negative aspects that I used to have.
As much as I enjoy living here, I have to admit that besides all of this I feel homesick. The culture is, sometimes, so contrasting. In other words, there are a lot of things that I could do in my home country that I can't here and the opposite too. I need to adapt to another kind of life which, sometimes, is great and other times are not that good.

Friday, September 27, 2013

Do you like being alone?

                When it comes to stay alone, people have a lot of opposite  opinions. Sometimes, they even misunderstand and think that it has the same meaning of being alone. However, this are two different significances. For some, staying alone just for one night is terrible and, in the other hand, for others spending time alone in your bedroom is the best feeling.
                We all need some moment alone to think and to reflect. However, some people enjoy spending more time than just doing this kind of stuff alone. In fact, they like to stay alone and do a lot of activities by themselves, for an example, eating, walking, working, and more. In other hand, other types of people think this is a bad way of living because for them, it is just not healthy. First, they prefer to have a friends with them all the time. Then, they go everywhere with someone and don't want to be alone.
                These are two different sides, two extremes. Of course, there are intermediate people who don't fit in the extremes but between them. This different in the relations with people kind of define us for we will have different friends and relationships depending on the way we treat them.

Friday, September 13, 2013

A Perfect World

                A perfect world, in my opinion, is something impossible. I can write about a lot of things that would make it perfect, however, believing that this will, once, come true is an utopia. Since the world is so huge and there is billions of people living on it it seems really hard to enter into an agreement because we have so many different opinions.
               When we think about this subject the first thought we have is about world piece. As The Beatles would say "Imagine all the people living life in piece". Wouldn't it be nice? No wars, no prejudice, no people killing the others for money. It's tough to live like this when the opinions of what is right and what is wrong are so much different in some ways. In a perfect world the people would know how to live together respecting the differences from other people.
               In a perfect world people would focus on fighting the poverty, the hunger and the sex and social differences. To make this world come true we need equality between everyone. In conclusion, combating the differences is the first step to enter in this perfect world because one of the things that most separate the people is it.