Procrastinators

That's what we all are, just a bunch of procrastinators (and losers too somehow). We spend our whole lives planning things just saying "when I get to high school/when I get to college/as soon as I end uni/when I leave my parents house/next summer/when I get a boyfriend/when I get the right boyfriend/after I retire/before I die, I'll...". We plan hundreds of things, things that we might be able to do just now but we keep telling ourselves that the future is the perfect moment for it. So as the years pass by we realize that we haven't done any of those things we wanted to do and that maybe it is too late.

And don't tell me it hasn't happened to you, and you know it and you want to change it, but you never do so, just thinking that everything will be awesome in a future and that you'll have all the time that you want to travel/learn to do something really useless but that you'd love to do/whatever, and all those things are left behind while we lose our time doing nothing. Wouldn't it just be nice to do the things when we plan them for a future instead of... uh never? Just imagine how many of you wanted to go somewhere but didn't because "Hey, there's a chance I can come here with someone really special" and I say f**k this what's wrong on going to a fancy place on your own? I know there's people who does it and I want to do it too!

And still I know I won't do it because I'm a procrastinator, just that I'm procrastinating my own life (like most of the people...)

People you don't know

Everyday we share moments with people we don't know, we share the same train, the same bus, we walk on the same streets, maybe we take the same elevator in the office, we eat in the same place, we may see one another everyday and never know each others name.

Imagine what would happen if one day we decided to talk to some of this people, just tell them that we see them everyday, our name and that we're pleased to meet them. And imagine they don't think we're crazy, but they like to talk with us. So what if we did that only one day? Who knows how many people we could have meet right now? Maybe the person we're looking for all our lives is just the guy or the girl who takes the same train we do, or maybe our next best friend is the one that leaves the gym when we get in, or who knows? Is it because there's too many people or because of what the society has taught us?

I've been thinking about this lately and, I don't know, I would like to be able to talk to some of these people eventually, ask them about the things they know, meet them in places I wouldn't expect to see them... I'm a romantic at hearth.

Reading

I've always been a pasionate of books and stories, when I was a kid and I couldn't still read I always asked my mom for a story and sometimes I actually told her what I wanted in it. When I learned how to read I started reading my own books, I remember a book about the story of Saint George (it's quite big here in Catalunya I'll write a post about it eventually) which I got exactly on Saint George's day, I believe it was my first book and I was six or seven, by 5th grade (so I was ten) I was reading my mom's books, before that my parents used to buy me a book a week, buying the thicker they could find. When I got to high school (spanish one, so from 13 to 18) we were given books to read and I hated them, I found them dull and childish, when I was 14 or 15 I read The Pillars of the Earth in 3 days, I must say that's a record. I've kept the pace, but unfortunately I haven't had so much time lately. After reading all I could in Spanish I moved to English and that's where I am right now.

Why am I telling you all this? Well, last week I got The Wise Man's Fear (that's The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two) and I couldn't take my eyes off it, I wanted to know what happened I needed to know and when I was finishing it (four days and a half after) I thought that I would not be able to wait till the next one, and while reading it I was happy it was almost a thousand pages long so I would have more to read. Most people doesn't understand this, they don't like reading, but I was brought up among books and when I've got a new book I rather read it than watch TV, I even read while walking or while eating.

And now I don't have anything to read! I need some recommendations, I want to read Dostoyevsky and Kafka, but I also would like to read some Sci-Fi (I bought Foundation Series last year) or Fantasy (though I know nothing will be able to compare to The Kingkiller Chronicle if you haven't read it do it NOW!)

日本 we are with you

This morning I woke up and went to work as usual. When I turned up the computer I checked my email and then I checked the news. And then I found out. I found out what happened in Japan, the quake, the tsunami, everything, and as the hours passed more and more news came.
I went to Japan this summer, it is a lovely country, I was amazed by their people, their food, their culture even if I could stay only for two weeks and I was rushing most of the time. I know they're prepared for this, but this was too much, way too much. I could not help but thinking that 7 months ago I was in Tokyo, for sure close to some of the buildings that have caught fire because of the quake. I've seen pictures of Yokohama and there have been some problems too. Still I didn't get to go north so I've never been to the most affected zone, I've never seen how they live and I don't know how much they will be affected by the consequences of this disaster.
I would love to be of some help, but I know I'm not, I don't think I could be of much help even if I was there. But still I don't think praying is the solution, it may smooth the feelings of people like me, but still it's useless for the people who are suffering, and since I'm an atheist I don't think my prayer would do any good. So instead of praying I'm writing this, to let them know they have people who cares, who's backing them at least emotionally.

English

I'm studying English at an academy, I go there once a week for 3 hours and improve my English. These lessons are aimed for students that are planning to apply for CPE, but there are also lots of students who are not willing to do so. As if I could hear you... so what's the problem? 

I don't want to do the exam this year and maybe I won't even do it next year and sometimes things are too exam specific, most of the times it is okay, but my problem are writing tasks. Why? Because when you've to write a report or a proposal most of the times it is related with college, sports in college, food in college or accommodation around college, I'm not saying it is not useful but I would appreciate other topics that helped us widen our vocabulary or just use our creativity, it would be nice to write short stories in English wouldn't it? (Saying that I might try to write something like this)

There are many ways of learning English and wether if I take or not the exam I would like to keep improving it (shame most of the people here doesn't think like me)

Uni days

The other day I was thinking about my first year at the university and how everything passed by so fast. When one starts the university feels that the end of the degree is in the far future, but now back in hindsight I feel that it was just tomorrow when I started it. I just realized that more than 5 years of my life had flight in a blink... and I feel old, because the older I get the faster the years pass. And I kinda miss those days back then when the only thing I had to do was going to class and when no one knew anyone and everything was new and bright. Of course things changed because nothing stays new forever, but it was a good change after all those years in the school, and I can recall that those years passed by much more slowly.
If I could start again I would live things differently, I don't know exactly how, but in another way for sure...