Rosa Fair

Last Saturday I was in Rosas. It was the 28th of May of 2016 so I had the chance to be in Rosas the day of the Fair of the Rose.

I could find flower arrangements, art, music, food, art, culture.... I think I photograph almost everything.

At the end of the day I came back to my house with a little smile on my lips bring about all these wonderful things I saw during the day.

A few days after I was curious to know why Roses did this Fair, hence I search information about it on the internet.

I find some and the one that catch my attention was this:

Post pictures of Rosa Fair 2016 with the tag # firarosa2016 Instagram between Friday 27 May at 10 am and Sunday 29 May at 21 pm and participate in the competition.

Prize: 100 € in cash

It was too late for me...

My futurist vision is an alimentation without hamburgers. The ones you find in fast-food. If I can afford, I will say that the society today is healthy.

Perhaps it is merely a tendency. Who knows? Yes it is true that this tendency could change tomorrow, but I am convinced that it will not change and one day this hamburger that represents all fast-food will disappear. It will disappear because one day everybody will realize that the key to a long and healthy life is in a healthy diet and doing sport regularly.

If everyone realizes it there is a high percentage of chance that another problem will appear from but meanwhile we will have eliminated the hamburger. The hamburger that is prejudicial to our health.

Unimportant like

Facebook and Instagram among other detrimental social networks for us have profound and severe modification in our behavior.

I will focus on the “likes”, an emoticon that represent an emotion; in this case to say indirectly that you like the picture that someone shares.

Those “likes” become for many people an element to be happy day to day. Can you see the huge problem this could cause? There are people that share a picture and according to their point of view the picture doesn’t have enough likes, on account of this they start to think things like they are perhaps ugly or not an interesting person. This thinking can end in a bad self-confidence; those people can end up never believing again in their own qualities just for unimportant things like the futile quantity of likes.

<< One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. >> The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

Les gens heureux fument et boivent du café

(“Happy people smoke and drink coffee”)

It was a Thursday. A day like another day.

I started my journey at 8 o'clock in the morning. I went to school with my little white and maroon Vespa and like every day I arrived few minutes late at class.

It was a long day. Some subjects were boring, others really interesting. Some teachers give us homework, others no.

Well, it was a day like everyday.

At 3 o'clock p.m. I arrived tired and hungry at home so before going to sleep, I ate the plate that my mum prepared lovingly for us before we came back from school.

After sleeping and resting myself a little bit I took my school bag. I sat in front of my desk and started to do my homework and study.

In the evening after eating the meal I decided to go to read the book that my mum had recommended me. So, I went upstairs, I went in my room, let my body fall on my bed and started to read the book.

The title of the book was "Les gens heureux fument et boivent du café".

The main character started telling that it's been a year that she had lost her daughter and husband in a car accident.

After the first four pages I stopped because I heard my mum crying down stairs. I decided to go to see what happened, to know what makes my mum cries.

I arrived in front of my mum and my sister and both were crying all the tears of their body.

I asked what happens, but my mum couldn't answer and my sister looked at me during three seconds that seems like an eternity for me.

Finally, my sister could tell me what happened, she said:

-Your piano teacher died in a car accident this Wenesday.

I could not believe what she said. I could not believe what was happening. The time stopped, everything stopped because the tears that started to fall down without control blurred my vision.

<<We expect  that it will be overcome after a certain period of time, and we believe it will be inappropriate and even harmful to disrupt it.>>

Sigmund Freud, about mourning and melancholia.

Dachau

This year I went to Germany and Austria with a school trip. I spent two days in Austria and three days in Germany before coming back to Spain. 

I will focus this redaction in Dachau, a concentration camp we visited in our journey. Why? Simply for all the strange, different and freezing sensations I had felt in this lugubrious place.

*(Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened. Opened in Germany in 1933 by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually, the imprisonment of Jews, ordinary German and Austrian criminals, and eventually foreign nationals from countries that Germany occupied or invaded. The concentration camp in question it is located in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany.)

I went to a place where people underwent unthinkable sufferance. Actually I think no one can really know what those people who died for no reason in this horrid place felt.  I can just say that all these millions and millions of lives that died leave a huge and deep hole in the history of humanity. A hole where there should be hopes and fears, joyfulness and sorrow, smiles and tears… life is fully of distinct feelings. When we kill a person the time is wholly empty.

Everything will stop if our society continues pretending to not see all this awful misery in the world. The things that happen to someone can happen to you, so could we think not just about ourselves and think a little bit for everyone, merely to reach a better world.

<< Undoubtedly we should desire the happiness of those whom love, but not as an alternative to our own. In fact the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves. >> The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

We don’t have time…

I would like to talk about my favourite series but I realize that we don’t have time to watch it for many reasons but the main reason is homework.

Teenagers have too much homework, therefore we do not have an appropriate sleep duration (the appropriate sleep ranges for teenagers is 8-10 hours according to The National Sleep Foundation), we also do not have the time for extracurricular activities where people can improve an ability. Yes, school subjects are not the only knowledge that exists. I believe that music, sports, art are equally as important as than mathematics and Spanish among other school subjects. Another problem and not the least caused by too much homework, is that we cannot socialise with friends.

I suppose that the message is clear, the education system should give less homework to students. A lot of homework is not the key for a better education and Spain is the proof. Spain is one of the OECD countries that load students with more homework at home and have the lower school performance.

Sugar tax: How it will work? (News)

The article in question talks about a new sugar tax that the UK will introduce on the soft drinks industry to fight against child obesity.

It will be aimed at soft drinks, but they said that some drinks will be exempt from the scheme.

Office for Budgetary Responsibility suggests levying at 18p and 24p per liter.

Finally Mr. Osborne said the money raised will be spent on increasing the funding for sport in primary schools.

I would like to center your attention in sugar. A tax only for sugar? Do you agree that very probably behind this sugar tax there another main interest than increasing the funding for sport in primary school? I don’t know which one; perhaps the money raised will be used for something else. In fact, this usually happens, for example Spain did it with a freeway; for financed it the state put turnpikes. After end the reimbursement the state doesn’t remove it.

A better solution could raise awareness of the problem among the general public instead of tax the sugar. For example, they should put in every aliment with a high quantity of sugar a picture showing how many spoons of sugar there in.

Sometimes a picture says more than words, in this case than a tax.

( http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35824071 )