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 in London... Soon I will post an explanation about a painting from the National Gallery !

Review (In the place of fallen leaves)

In the place of fallen leaves by Tim Pears is the life story of a girl call Alison. She lives her life in a western country where inhabitants are traditional and religious people.

Through the storyline we learn to understand this little girl that didn’t talk so much at the beginning. Most of the book turns around the description of what she sees, what she hears and what people explain to her or answer to her questions. The mentality of this time makes me think about how a teenager lives nowadays. We are not afraid anymore of older people. I believe adults are, more than anything else, friends that want us to grow up in a world we can understand by ourselves. Years ago, what adults wanted was to have their children helping them with housework. Before, people needed to work to survive, now we can take time for culture. And you should know that culture is the future.

In the childhood of Alison, she is a girl that lives the present. I remember she said something like she doesn’t want to grow up because then she will be unable to swim with boys in the river without a swimsuit. If people would live the present many of us would be happier today. I am sure that the key for happiness is in living the present and leave the past in the past and what is to come let it come. Sartre says: “the present, nothing but the present”.

While she grows up and sees her body change like the one of her older sister Pamela we learn some details of the daily life of her family. The grandmother has inspired me a lot. She lives the life with admiration for it. As technology arrives in their little town new things appeared. For example, the television. For her it is an instrument that shows us that life is something that goes around and comes around. The future is in the past and the past will be in the future.

Life is one, and even if you are afraid of tomorrow you will one day realize that every single problem will resolve itself one day and that’s why we must know that no one in this world can be one hundred percent sad. Life is one and life is beautiful!

Alison leaves her country to study, even though she will lose an important person to her, Jonathan. Her fate was to face up to the outside world that was waiting for her. If one day I lose a valuable person, I would smile with sadness. I will be sad because to lose someone we love is something we are not set up to face. And I will smile to have the chance to meet this wonderful person. In any case, people make us learn something about life or make us learn something about us. People are life because all of us have a different point of view and the build-up of them will be the answer of life!

How beauty feels?

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_seymour_how_beauty_feels#t-1016359

(Abstract)

A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object — how do we tell that something is beautiful? And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it.

(Opinion)

A beautiful thing is something that tells us something. For example, in human’s photography the most important and beautiful is often the eyes. Why? Because there will be where we can catch the essence of someone. It is where there is the main message that a person transmits.

“We see things not as they are, but as we are” says Richard Seymour. He let us understand that things are beautiful because we see them beautiful. Just trying to find something universally beautiful for everybody we will find that there are none. That means we see the only beauty we create by looking at something and not because something it is really beautiful.

Now we can understand why canons of beauty through history have changed constantly or why we see something beautiful now and years after it looks ugly. The true beauty exists in us. In the way we look at what surrounds us.

Is there a real you?

https://www.ted.com/talks/julian_baggini_is_there_a_real_you#t-706979

(Abstract)

What makes you, you? Is it how you think of yourself, how others think of you, or something else entirely? Philosopher Julian Baggini draws from philosophy and neuroscience to give a surprising answer.

(Opinion)

“We don't have to find ourselves we have to create it” says Julian Baggini. I consider his different vision on essence very interesting.

I used to hear that through our lives we use to discover ourselves learning about us as we were discovering the history of a book. This idea is quite a mechanical vision, as we were built with different kinds of things we still don’t know and which finally define who we are. It is like history was already previously drawn and the future was not to write but to discover. 

I think everything is the result of something else. Whatever we chose to do, we are changing something. Why? Because when energy gives off, it always creates disorder.

Because disorder can be put in order, ourselves can be changed in what we want to be. We just have to create it. Therefore, put in order a disorder made of our experiences and knowledge.

Our disorganized choices we have taken in the past, define who we are in the present order.

Are words so important?

In my view, yes they are. Words enable us to describe what our eyes can see and most of our feelings.

It is said that words are the language of the spirit. Music is the one of the soul and mathematics is the one of the mind. This can be true but I don’t have any proof. I just can say that words explain what we lived and what we are living.

The importance of those words started when we have invented the way to pass them in writing. At that time our history began or at least the one we know.

Is jealousy natural?

At first glance, the word “jealousy” may seem a word that describes people in a negative way. However, if we talk about the nature of the feeling, basing our thoughts on the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, since very young we experience jealousy when, in the case of boys, their father becomes a figure that steals them time from their mother’s attention, and in the case of girls, their mother steals time from their father’s attention. Nevertheless, as Armengol, R., Creixell, J., Riera, R., & Sáinz, F. say, some people experience obsessive or childish feelings of jealousy, but we can all feel that a good and healthy relationship is emotionally threatened. Another thing is how we reason and proceed in those circumstances, in which there are people who can react in a possessive and obsessive way and make this feeling become harmful for both the person being the apparent cause of jealousy and the person activating it.

In my opinion, like all feelings and emotions, jealousy is natural and innate in people and a bad management of it can produce negative social situations. I think that the secret not to get to extreme situations is to learn how to manage it and let the nature of this feeling affect individuals in a regulated way, letting it be a sign of esteem rather than a sense of belonging. Despite the above, every individual is a whole different world and feel in very different ways, which could make us doubt of the nature of feelings and emotions, as in the case of jealousy.

(Armengol, R., Creixell, J., Riera, R., & Sáinz, F. El futur de la psicoanàlisi des d’una perspectiva independent1. “The future of psychoanalysis from an independent perspective”)

INTERNET AND ITS USERS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER

Some people have always tried to change the world for the better.

Nevertheless, we don't always have the same ideas of "a better world". That's why through history we have had dictatorships, or other politic systems where those who were leaders believed that they were proposing the best option.

So, we can say that the idea of a better world is interpretable; all of us have different ideas and I think we all agree with it. 

Even so, I'm sure that few ideas are commonly accepted by the majority, we just don't know yet which ones.

These few ideas, thanks to the internet, can be shared and seen by millions and millions of people. A lot more than years ago without internet.

That's why I believe the Internet users can change the world into a "better one" or in the way people think it will be better.

Although people would change the world, the idea of a better world isn't always included. I think people are egotistical. No one does something without a reason. Even the kindest person does things to make people happy because it make them happy too, and here we are, including our self.

The world don’t stop to turn because of our individuals benefits. Our selfish attitudes make us change things and many changings should change any world. 

The case is; being egotistical will bring us a better world or a bad one ? I just can affirm that the internet has the power of producing a global and universal changing faster as never before. Because nowadays, we live in an interconnected world.