It was inspired in another blog, when I noticed quite a few people here were able to write in Spanish.
It’s not discriminatory at all, so if you can understand Spanish you are invited to come in. It’s not necessary writing in Spanish if you are not confident enough in this language. We all can understand English too.
A veces desisto de responder algún hilo, porque no encuentro la manera de decir lo que pienso en inglés; ¿Les ha pasado alguna ves?
Otras veces me molesta la falta de consideración de algunos miembros que escriben en una jerga tan cerrada que me es difícil (sino imposible) descifrarla totalmente.
Otras veces me sorprende que nativos de habla inglesa cometan gruesos errores de ortografía o de sintaxis ¿Han notado la cantidad de nativos que confunden ‘than’ con ‘then’?
Este blog es para que digas lo que quieras en español (o en inglés)
Today is the longest day of the year here. The sunrise is at 5:30 AM and the sunset at 21:30 P.M.
As a rare coincidence, today is also the shortest night
How is it in your region?
I’ve noticed that people from so called ‘Western world’ manage more or less the same kind of humor. So it’s easy for us (those who belong to this), to get irony etc. But people from out of this western environment seem to get other code. Their sense of humor looks sort of naive or too simple to me.
Of course this is just my opinion and I don’t intend any offense. I’m just trying to get the cultural differences.
Have anyone else noticed it or is it just me?
My doctor told me: ‘Congratulations!!! You will live a long life.’
Then I thought if that was a good or a bad news.
Happens that I have been taking conscious about what might expect from the future.
I have recently found there is a kind of elder discrimination, even from those who are already old.
Some woman told me: ‘old men smell old’. That is the first time I hear that
Another woman told me: ‘old men bound to have prostate issues; I don’t want to involve with’
Plus all calamities you will find according you are getting older.
So my thought still is: is it worth to have a long life?
In many countries, especially in the huge China, it's seen a future with an alarming surplus of males.
Only in China, by the year 2020, there will be 30 million more men than women of marriageable age. It will be in part due to a state policy which has limited many families to one child, combined with an ancient prejudice in favor of sons.
Once again the hands of men breaking the nature balance.
With this perspective, I wonder how will be this site 20 or 30 years further
For those of us over 40, hoarding things seems to be a strong habit.
So we keep tons of things that we generally never will use.
In contrast with younger generations, who like changing their cell phones as if they were shirts, we resist changing things that are still working, just because now there are more modern ones with more functions.
I wonder whether it is a particular habit, in our case inherited from our grandparents, since many of them came to Argentina running away from a miserable postwar Europe, or if it is just a generational difference happening everywhere.
Reading many profiles I can guess (with relative success), the religion of each one just knowing the country they belong to.
That makes me think that believe and religions are inculcated massively regarding the place of the world and the environment you have the chance to birth and raise.
It seems that some people are willing to be believers by destiny, and they will be whether Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, or whatever just by chance.
Which makes the logic for the religion you chose, more or less the same logic for the football team you chose to be a fan.
What surprises me is the vehemence with they defend their religion as the only one which has the total true, when indeed there are many more doubts and questions without answers about the life after death (if hopefully there is any).
So folks, please let the arrogance aside and admit we know almost nothing about what will happen beyond.
I‘ve heard some young people saying they are bored (here and in real life as well).
Today they have the most amazing devices and technology that I’d never imagined when I was a boy. However they don’t appreciate what are available because they got used to them. I remember when I was a child I used to wait the whole day to watch the only cartoon that only lasted ½ hour every day. Instead today kids are overwhelmed with hundreds of channel 24 hours transmitting, high definition, etc.
Consequently: they get bored.
I never imagined I’d write and share with people all around the world and I appreciate it too much. Hopefully I’ll not ever get used to it so I avoid getting bored.
It seems to me that older guys like me, who have lived and remember the past, can appreciate what we have today. In contrast those who were born with this new technology are too used to them and therefore they feel themselves bored.
At the beginning I was astonished here seeing the great variety of people from different backgrounds, cultures, languages…
Now that I have read a lot of your stories I’m astonished seeing how alike people are regardless their backgrounds, cultures, languages…
It seems all human beings have similar problems and behaviors through the whole planet, and it’s even astonishing anyway.
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