#24.- Clapping on the street

It's 8:00 A.M. o'clock. A herd of people walks on the street, in silence, crestfallen, engrossed and routinely. All to the same direction.

The people stop walking in a crossroad at semaphore. The people's faces are off. Some of them smoke a cigarrette. The semaphore turns to green and people cross the street.

In the distance, we can hear some claps increasingly louder. Nobody does anything special, nobody reacts. A bearded guy walks smiling and clapping on the street while the "zombies" continue walking stolidly.

Walking slept  requires a lot of concentration: none smile is permited. (?)

The first thought is, why this bearded guy breaks the morning peace with his annoying claps?

... But this is not the right question. The right question is what are doing these living dead free in the street?


Thanks guy, today, some of us have returned to life!

And if you want more clapping music: http://youtu.be/eu-tRXgOrdg

#23.- Drawing in the sky

There're some days that the sky is specially clean, shining and blue like a colorful paper sheet ready to be drawn.

It seems that the sky is shouting you: "Draw your dreams! Do you have enough space?"

Some aircrafts crossing the sky draw the firsts lines, creating suggestive shapes with the steam of the combustion. The rest is up to you.

This picture reminds me when I was a child and we played to discover figures from the clouds.

It was an easy and funny game. We didn't require any thing more, only imagination and being wake up and having life spark!

Wake up! Raise up your head and stop looking to the ground! Above your head is happening something interesting.

#22.- Doing an exam (English in this case)

There are a lot of people that hate to do exams. Depending of the culture of each person this is comprensible, because is a way to put in evidence the knowledge that you have in the exam arena.
And there are some cultures that punish bad results.

But if you try to shift the point of view and use another word for exam, the things changes a lot. Choose for example some of these alternatives:

• Continuous improving
• How to be better
• Oportunity to grow
• Help to strengthen my weak points

Who is the person that don't wants help to be better? Who is the person that don't wants to shorten the way to the best version of oneself?

From this point of view, every body should love take exams regularly, at school, at university, at work, at life, ... 

My English level is what it is. I'm happy because from now I know that it can improve it! And I know in which areas I should invest more time.

But the question is? Why the companies don't examine regularly and transparently our work as a tool to be better and providing the tools to boost the weak points?


A weak point overcomed is a positive point for a company. Think on it!

#21.- So in love as the beginning

This is an special milestone: 12 years married + 7 seven years we have been engaged.

I can say the same in other words: 12 years building a project, 12 years sharing experiences, 12 years taking care each other, 12 years watering and reinventing the relation, 12 years of commitment, 12 years of confidence, 12 years of happiness... and much more.

But life is not a bed of roses. 12 years is a lot of time for don't appear any problem or dificult moment. As you can imagine, along 12 years Mr. Problem have visited us some times.

But with effort, speaking, looking for the positive part of the things, being candid, giving as much as possible, thinking in the couple more than one self, apologizing when necessary, recognizing own mistakes and work to avoid the repetition of the same ones mistakes, giving hugs, thinking in your partner worries, companionship, keep silence, make visible that your partner is special for you, are only some of the tools that everybody have in his toolbox to keep a relation.

And a marriage (or any other kind of relation) is the core for other social relations: at work, at neighborhood, at the town, at the country, ....  If we want to have a better world we should start taking care of our partner relations. 

Realize that, our behaviour in the relation will be copied by our kids.

If we do this work well, the future is promising. Kids learn by example. I hope have been a good example for my son.

Thanks Montse to be as you are.

#20.- Storks in the Church steeple

Once every some years, when the storks migrate from the arriving cold temperatures from the North to the warmer temperatures of the South, they stop in the town where I live.
Usually they rest in the church steeple. This is the highest place of the town. Each stork has its own space in a peak, like an statue. Depending of the years they need more space and then they occupy the tops of  the cedars. This is what happened today!
The show is beautiful, free, but it only lasts a day (or less). They arrive at the sunset and they leave at the sunrise of the next day.
A lot of excited people come there to take photos of them with the impassive gaze of the storks.
The storks give us a lesson: They abandon their comfortable nest and start a huge travel, flying hundreds of miles to start again in a new place. And every season change the story is repeated. In fact, this supposed discomfort and big effort is what guarantees their survival.
We should learn from them and practice some changes to be prepared or recycled for the future, to apreciate what we have and the cost to get it. They can fly hundreds of miles because their baggage is light.... but We are tied up to our luggage (i.e job, home, family, ...)

The Mother Nature is clever and give lessons to us every day for free. We should only pay attention!