formal education = respect ????

Its been a long way , got to London a while ago, and started to check on the culture from the inside.
discovered that the formality and diplomacy are just a cover for hypocrisy. No respect is valuable if it's not from the heart.
respect is very easy to break and quite hard to build.
I've encountered some fuc*** stup*** people for whatever reason don't say hello, or nod their heads, raise their hands or attempt any kind of gesture to greet whoever it is entering the room or space around them.
there is no need to talk about culture, or religion, countries, whatever you can think of as a reason "excuse", motive as you wish to call it, when you approach someone of your own kind ( human ) there is a basic form of respect there hidden that needs to be attended, no matter what culture, religion or whatever country you come from.
Animals sniff each others asses for gods sake, at least they have that... which is far better that the shi*** we have for each other... !!!
right, it might be a litter too much for us, but at least they have the basics covered, even without an developed conscience, whatever you say... they respect each other period.
here in London, where all cultures meet, and live together "in peace" you'll find that people living in a sheared house would enter a room with more people inside and won't say hello, and act as you were not there !!!
first time that happened to me was shocking !!!! honestly, and later developed some kind of aversion for that person.
tried to understood the reasons for that behavior but could not find anything acceptable, except a very mentally ill person.
and this is how all cultures live here pretending to stand each other... but the truth is, they are so fed up of each other that are not even respecting the basics of human interaction. And then you wonder why our history its full of wars since the begging of time ????

you can all go back to your countries now.... !!!! and start behaving as a human being again !!!!

IMMORTALITY

is funny how do we convince ourselves, selfcheating.
power of will might cure a disease or cause it. this power is not the key by it self,
it takes "ages" to gain, to develop this will power and it is not enough if it's not coming along with the right judgment, the right and the wrong thing to to.
which puts us back at the beginning because every day is as important as the next day and no differences should be made between them.
nothing should be that important to make us angry or loose our control...
you might have been cheating yourself all this time, no more "special days" ever, that would imply 2 things, up to you
1) every day is a celebration or
2) no more birthdays, no more Xmas, no day is different than the day before

people dies all the time for all kinds of reasons. why won't you die ? because your will power is there to save you ? make you eternal ?
the good thing is that not thinking about death, thinking about your immortality it will help you to live in the present, the exact moment you are now
that's the key !!!!!!!!
now and only now.... you are alive, don't waste any second in vain because
life is precious and it is happening right now .
your lifetime is priceless , make it your most important asset , take care of it as if your life was depending on it.... wow.. wait a sec, it is depending on it, you are one step away from heaven or hell every second...!!!!!!!!!!!! wake up already !!!
things change , people die, stars stop shinning, so what... lifetime is the other key,
nothing lasts forever; so what !!!

die hard, die free

Dead language

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

before and after

we, humans, have many things in common, but the most important is the change.
those who claim not to change, those who stick to their old patterns every day, those who don't embrace the change as something natural are not simply wrong, but probably unstable, sad, stressed or sick.
stop for a second and think about this;
how many "before and after" moments do you have in your life?
not just those events that marked you, like death or sickness, that's more than ovbious, i'm talking about those moments you attempted to make them happend even if they worked out or not.
I am not talking about if what we attempted to do was successful or not.
because things that end up the wrong way, will lead us to somewhere else, different than the other choice we had, and that will lead us to another place even more different, and so on ... until you realize that if it had not been for that first decition you took, you might not be where you are now.
the logic here is devastating: please think about it, if you follow the same path every day, same time, same pace, less chances you have to encounter something new, something that could be this " before and after" moment we all are looking for.
the more "before and after" moments you have in your memory bank, the better your inner life will be.
you will look back and feel that you really lived your life fully and aware that there's no regret because this is the human nature, which is the nature of the universe: change itself.
embrace that, and you will be embracing truth. your truth.