Different tastes, different lifestyles

It’s part of people’s liberties to choose how to lead life. As a result, some are constantly in search of new horizons, while others happily keep the status quo. Indeed, the world of difference there is in people’s lifestyles is the absolute proof that one man’s meat is another man’s poison.

Let’s focus on the ‘dynamic’ approach to life. This kind of lifestyle is typically chosen by those who avidly seek for new life experiences. These people really enjoy having to adapt themselves to new life situations. Looking for new jobs, being in contact with new people, moving from one city to another and the like get their adrenalin flowing. And this is, apparently, what “change lovers” enjoy the most. In fact, the idea of leading an uneventful life becomes a real threat looming over their heads.

There is also the ‘static’ approach to life. This lifestyle is the one picked by people who greatly fear changes. It’s part of their nature to rule out the slightest possibility of having their lives altered in any way. Do you know anyone who hasn’t taken up a golden opportunity for not wanting to leave home and move abroad? Well, that person falls within this group. But mind you: playing safe may have its drawbacks. People can miss the chance of getting ahead and achieving more ambitious goals in life.

Personally, I believe that the combination of the two different lifestyles would make a good choice for me. ‘Being on the move’ throughout my entire life doesn’t suit me at all. I would feel the need to settle down so as to enjoy personal life achievements. However, leading a monotonous life is neither my cup of tea. Life can become much more enriching if we’re ready to take risks and to adapt to slight changes.

All in all, it’s up to you to decide which lifestyle to adopt. If you haven’t yet made up your mind, it’s not late then to remind you that both styles have benefits to offer. So, not sticking to one of them all throughout your life can prove quite fruitful.

Face to face vs. ‘screen to sreen’ communication

The growing trend of using the computer as the main means of communication is putting face to face contact under threat. While it is true that the computer has improved communication to a great extent, it is also a fact that the indiscriminate use of this technological device as a means of communication can have some negative effects.

To begin with, the fact that nowadays people can contact each other while lying onto bed, wearing their pyjamas is making social meeting less and less frequent. To my mind, this is absolutely unacceptable. Communicating with our friends and relatives through the screen will never be as powerful as face-to-face contact, no matter the many technological devices to come. Face to face contact has the power of communicating not only words, but feelings, emotions, sensations. If we replace personal interaction with screen-to-screen communication to a full extent, we will lose the capacity of perceiving others’ feelings in the long-run, which will turn us into impersonal and cold beings.

Another risk of abandoning social meeting altogether is that people will end up meeting new people only via the Internet. At first sight you may think there’s nothing dangerous about it, but on second thoughts you will surely agree it’s a highly risky behaviour. Users of the internet have no guarantee whether the person behind the screen is good-natured or a murder. The potential danger is even more credible if you consider the number of teens that have been kidnapped after having met with the person they ‘got to know’ chatting.

However, despite these potential hazards of communicating exclusively via the internet, there are still people who believe, and even hope, computers can replace face-to-face contact to a full extent. Yet, to my mind they should reflect on the adverse effects that abandoning personal contact could bring about.

To sum up, I believe we should become aware of the importance of face-to-face communication among humans. Although communication via the internet is an invaluable source we can take advantage of, I do think regular social meetings should be kept and prioritized.

2010 knows child labour

It is common knowledge that childhood should be a fantastic time of play and discovery. It is a time to be free and full of wonder. However, a considerable number of children are deprived of having a happy childhood as a result of child labour. Despite living in the era of great technological advances and astonishing discoveries in every field, we can still find children working endless hours, doing any kind of job you care to name.

There are some organizations which have already started to take measures to fight child labour. What these groups propose is that we, consumers, join a boycott campaign on goods whose production involves the work of children.

To my mind, it should be the government who take actions to tackle this serious and worrying issue. But, it appears that governors are not willing to wipe out child labour. They seem to turn a blind eye over the matter and wash their hands of it. What is more, although a series of laws has been passed in order to ban child labour, they are not respected in most of the cases and there is nobody to punish those who go against the law.

Given the government’s attitude towards the issue, it sounds logical then that any of us who agrees that forcing children to work is inadmissible and unethical should contribute to put an end to child labour. And boycotting trade products, which have been made using children workforce, strikes me as a good start.

In addition, I firmly believe that for this boycotting campaign to be effective it would be vital to inform people about the current situation of child labour. So, the first step would be to inform consumers about which the companies that employ children are. In this way, consumers would be able to spot the trades in supermarket shelves.

To conclude, child labour is a common practice involving more and more children every day. Since the government does not show signs of willingness to tackle the problem, it is high time we make every effort to solve this burning issue.

Mum or dad-who is the best?

Mum or dad: who is the best?

Traditionally, it was believed that women could become better parents than men. However, taking into account the drastic changes of women’s role in society, are they still better parents than men? Or is that that equality between the sexes has also been achieved in parenting?

Without doubt, women’s role is society has undergone radical changes. Nowadays, for example, most women no longer stay at home looking after the children; they also work long hours as men do. In fact, in some families traditional roles have been changed: women are the breadwinners while men stay in the house taking care of the children.
This means that after a long working day women return home with little energy to prepare dinner for the children, telling them stories until they drop off, changing nappies and the like. So, 21st century families resort to a new way of organizing household chores. It is no longer women who have to do everything that concerns children’s care; this duty is carried out by both mothers and fathers to the same degree.

It comes as no surprise then to see fathers waiting for their children at the school gates, helping their offspring to do the homework or bathing them. These present situations seem to show that men have adjusted themselves to their new parental role very well. To my mind, these new roles of mothers and fathers are really beneficial to the children, since they can now forge stronger bonds with their fathers, too. In the past, children used to have a closer and warmer relationship with their mothers rather than with their fathers. Today, both fathers and mothers are present figures in the families. The proof of this is that, when in trouble, children shout “help mum!”, or “help dad!” alike.

In conclusion, it seems that the equality between men and women achieved in the world of work, politics and society has also extended to their roles in the family. Today’s women are not able to be full-time mothers, which means that men have a more significant role at parenting than they used to have in the past.

Loads of work pending at your desk. Endless hours of college subjects which cannot be dropped. Timetables crammed with exams and deadlines. There’s no doubt today’s students lead a hectic life. And of course, this characteristic doesn’t go unnoticed. The result is high levels of stress. This suffering has become so common among students that it is has come to be taken as an unimportant and irrelevant condition. However, if you are one of those who suffer from sleep disturbances, muscle tension, headache, gastrointestinal disturbances, and fatigue, then it’s time you acknowledged you are suffering stress and started fighting it.

Those who are ready to beat high levels of stress visit their doctors’ consulting rooms asking the same question: how can I relieve stress? Gloss magazines and TV programmes are keen on spreading advice on how to manage stress, and there is a huge amount of information flying about. As a result, most people end up feeling at a lost with so many ways to combat stress available.

In this article, I’ll focus on six golden steps which, I can assure, will help you win this battle. In the first place, devote a few minutes a day to sitting quietly with closed eyes. This technique should be accompanied by meditation and deep breathing practice. Both actions will help you calm down and start releasing tension. Secondly, exercise regularly, which will allow your body to enhance the production of endorphins. These brain chemicals are known for lifting people’s mood. After the first weeks of training, you will feel a world of difference in your spirit. Furthermore, try not to bottle up inside. It’s a good solution to share your problems with any person you trust and feel comfortable with.

The three resting steps are related to sleep hours, nutrition and personal attitude. Getting enough rest is crucial to keep stress at bay. If you are finding difficulties to sleep, then try reading something soothing or listening to soft pleasant music. As for nutrition, it’s important to eat a healthy and balanced diet and to avoid frozen meals. Finally, having a positive attitude towards your life will undoubtedly accelerate the process of fighting high stress levels. It’s a proper strategy to look on the bright side of things. Whenever your life presents you with any challenge, try not to think of what may wrong. Instead, feel confident that you will do as much as you can to meet your goals.

All in all, if you are determined to combat stress, a combination of these techniques will bring about successful results. Life is so much enjoyable once you become ‘stress-free’. Therefore, each of the steps outlines before is worth trying.

You’re kucky you have passed your exam. You’re lucky you have such a job. You’re lucky you can go on holiday. You’re lucky you have a car and a house of your own. All too often people attribute life’s fortunes to goood luck, and its misfortunes are simply reduced to a question of bad luck. But, how much of succees is good luck? And how much of failure is the consequence of bad luck? These are interestung questions, which at first glance may seem to have no answer.

However, at a closer look at ‘lucky’ people’s lives, one can realize there are always hard work, perseverance and convincement behind each successful event. This means that if you want yoursef to become a succesful person, you can’t depend on good luck at all. First, you need to set goals in your life. And success will only come when these goals are achieved. In pursuit of that, there are many paths to follow, which are not precisely related to good luck. At a first stage, you will need to find the correct ways to boost your self-confidence. You need to believe in yourself, in your capabilities and strenghts. Then, you will need to make all-out efforts to obtain what you desire. You can see there’s no room for luck up to here. This is so because it is after working arduously hard, facing up obstacles and challenges that, once a desirable goal has been achieved, one gets the feeling of satisfaction for being successful in life.

However, luck in itself, either good or bad can have a role to play in the pursuit of pesonal and professional dreams. Good luck can accelerate the process people go thorugh to reach success, in the same way as bad luck can intervene within this process by making things complex, slower and sometimes demotivated. But, without doubt, in the battle between luck and hard work together with perseverance and convincement, fluke has no chances of notching up victory.

All in all, I believe that luck won’t determine how succesful a person is. This implies that it’s vital to equip chidlren and teens with the concept that if they are willing to achieve objectives in life, they need to be ready to devote huge efforts, energy, and adopt a positive attitude towards themselves.

Indigo children

Have you ever heard of Indigo children? I have heard about it on several occasions but I had no idea of what this term means. So, I decided to look for information about these Indigo children and I’d like to share what I’ve found with you. Hope you find it interesting!

‘Indigo children’ is the label given to the boys and girls who are supposed to have special abilities and traits. These unique powers will allow them to accomplish their mission: to break with old social structures and put an end to unhappiness in the world. These three lines are enough to open the door to heated controversy. On the one hand, some will feel delighted at the mere possibility of having such beings on Earth. With the all too often tragedies that affect the world and the miseries that humans are ready to show, feeling a kind of relief at the possible existence of such powerful beings is only natural and logical. On the other hand, several of you may be splitting your sides at the idea of indigo children. Admittedly, at first glance it seems a bit weird and crazy. However, it’s still interesting to go deeply into the subject.

The concept has gained popularity throughout the 1990 when several books have been published about these special beings. In these sources, Indigo children are depicted as supreme beings that are extraordinarily intelligent and have the capacities of seeing beyond light and hearing any kind of sound including blood flow. They are also very intuitive people and they are able to exercise telepathy. Some ‘indigos’ may even have the power of healing others.

The name Indigo makes reference to the children’s aura colour. The indigo aura colour ‘relates to the third eye, visual and pituitary gland and to intuitive, sensitive, deep feeling’. Their aura results in the possession of unseen qualities.

It’s not clear whether scientific studies have confirmed the existence of these children. Some sources claim that there is no scientific proof to account for indigo children, while others explain that science has proved that indigo children are the result of some kind of alteration in their ADN. Anyway, I believe it’s up to you whether you believe in it or not. What’s your view on the topic? Do you think indigo children are here among us? Or do you disbelieve this theory?