Dry Tongue While Leeping

Tom Sawyer and work. The fine art of renovation!

We and the world. We and the life. A report is often confrontational. How many times we think that the world is not as it should be, that life is unfair, we deserve more and better, others do not understand, we have misunderstood, our head is a goat ...
If we could do things as we want, then yes, the world would be better. Everywhere: at work, in our family, neighbors, even our friends - that wonderful person, gambissima exceptional, that we love - and yet she always makes the usual mistakes and does not understand, if only we listen to some 'more would be so simple could have so much more ...

We would do better. In a megalomania that involves us all more or less, we have a clear picture of the situation, linear, crystalline, especially with regard to the lives of others. In our life, when things do not go and it becomes impossible to accept (the reality clashes too much with our awareness of how things should be, to be fair), then try to change: people, events, things. And in this endless attempt to change things, perhaps to leave a mark on the world, we realize that change is an unlikely out (if ever possible) and certainly not lasting. All things spin and the static - even if we delude ourselves to find deterministically in things and people - just not of this world.

ignore perhaps the easiest way. That is not indifference, resignation, depression where we fall often when we realize that the world and people are not there to be modified by us. No. Apart from the illusion (or wishful thinking, or aspiration) to change the world, and depression, there is a third way, which is to change ourselves . And 'the very essence of Eastern philosophies and perhaps even Western ones (some, at least). A growing awareness that the Life is a river and we can enjoy our little adventure on the raft, small monads in a world that often do not understand (but do we?) and sometimes we do not own to love, if only we let ourselves be guided by the water and watched the show, taking part with the lightness of the test possibility that accepts the limits of its function (how much effort saved in not having / wanting to change the world!) and that people should be loved with all their faults.

It seems to me that this concept is expressed in a clear in a quote from Twain located in an old book but very young (and still available in stores), written by three leading figures of the mythical Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto , Watzlawick, Weakland and Fish. Good reading.

"It's Saturday afternoon holiday for everyone except for Tom Sawyer that punishment must whiten thirty jardi of fence, nine feet high. Life seems empty el'esistenza's just a heavy burden. But it is not the work that is unbearable, especially torments him the idea that his companions passed him and teased him because he has to work. But in this dark and hopeless, says Mark Twain, the enlightened inspiration. A great, magnificent inspiration. Shortly after a young man appears, just the guy he most feared for his sarcasm. "

"Hey, old man, a bit 'hard labor, right?"
"Oh, are you, Well? I had not even agree that you were there ... "
" Look, I'm going to swim the river, now. Do not you like to come too? But perhaps you prefer to work, right? But of course that you prefer ... "
Tom stared at the boy for a moment, then asked:" What you call work? "
'Well, what you do now, is not a job?"
Tom took up the brush and answers with great indifference, 'Well, in a sense it is, and in some sense is not. What I know is that a positive like Tom Sawyer. "
"What a story you want me to drink? Did you enjoy doing the painter? ".
The brush continued undeterred.
"If I have fun? Well, 'I can not understand why I should not have fun. Perhaps a fence to whiten find it all, every day? "
The observations of work in a new vision. Ben stopped nibbling an apple. Tom moved with extreme care in the brush up and down, then withdrew to observe the effect, tapped here, a nudge there, but still seemed pleased. Ben watching every move, and always was interested Moreover, he felt more attracted to the job. Suddenly he said: "Look, Tom, let me whitewash a little to me."

Source:
Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch, Change . Training and problem solving , Astrolabe, 1974
Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Huckelberry Finn, Einaudi, Torino, 1963

Hoarse And Buggy Road Sign

remember not to take on holiday bad thoughts

"On the third day, the little prince about the planet infested with baobab. The baobab trees before they begin to become big by being small and if you are not diligent in eliminating become large, take over, eat the planet and any possibility to survive.
"On the planet the little prince we are, as on all planets, herbs good and bad. This means that: good seeds of herbs good and bad seeds of weeds. But seeds are invisible. They sleep in the secret of the earth until one or the other grabs the imagination awake. Then you stretch, at first timidly and pushes toward the sun a beautiful twig harmless. If it is a branch of radish or rose bush, you can leave it as it wants to check. But if it is a bad plant, one must tear away, as soon as it is recognized. There were some terrible seeds on the planet the little prince were the seeds of the baobab. The soil was infested with them. Now, a baobab, if you arrive too late, no longer able to get rid of it. littered all over the planet. It pierces with its roots. And if the planet is too small and too numerous baobab trees, they do explode.

"It 's a matter of discipline - he told me later the little prince - when you have finished washing in the morning, care needs to be done with cleaning the planet. We must force yourself to regularly tear the baobab stands out from them just like to look a lot like roses when they are small. It is a tedious job, but very easy. "

(...) and so I say: "Children! Beware of the baobabs! "

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, Bompiani, 1993

Quadriderm For Pimples

Under the summer sun, not Everything is well lit by the light of the Settlement, and for this reason, it happens to burn even more. I doubt you are hot under the scorching sun, and since there is always a good roast in doubt, I decided to try to explain how and why certain phenomena occur.
We talk for example of Justification. What are they and how they implement the psychophysical processes that lead .. I know that a citizen to vote for cav.Berlusconi? A desire to see him in power. I doubt this is of course not all those brave dodger well aware of receiving benefits from this fact. Because if you see the fight for survival every day consumed in the portfolio, I do not see How Mr. Berlusconi can help you.
And I say that in these days of ferocious parliamentary contrast should be obvious that this is not just a party "selfless" (it is only a few selected "other", including "other law").
But maybe I'm wrong, because this government tactic I call "obvious" is not entirely new, then the time to realize what stuff .. there, there.
So how do you get to vote for the Great Mogul, the owner of domain names and domains?
My theory. Given in Italy that politics takes more and more like the improbable, unlikely as it becomes passion in politics;
therefore be read in the newspapers in a hurry and fury, just to know what happens, or do not read newspapers, in total denial, in disregard of the global political
then you create a large portion of citizens who are not way more, we do not understand politics, and all those senatoroni, those deputatoni, those economistoni, professoroni , opinionistoni who knows what they say;
but here is finally someone who speaks like our bartender, here's someone with which to continue the talk to the hairdresser! It seems looming un'orizzonte of understandability, we can now finally understand the politics!

course, this still does not explain anything, I have not yet unsheathed the cornerstone of my theory: there is a psychic mechanism -enthusiastic which makes understanding and adherence are identified, identification catabolized from office satisfaction released at the decisive moment of understanding, that feeling of perfect match, snatched the required consequential logic.
Suddenly a lexicon becomes available, they unfold in the mind of the Meanings first only dimly suspects. Then, perhaps because of that enthusiasm, that seems logical as the only possible and therefore also to be pursued, and as if by magic you find yourself Berlusconi, Italy at force.
This membership makes it finally possible to comment on the news on tv, fork in hand and morsel malmasticato, whistling nervously or deep in "tsk" when someone uses phrases such as "rights of migrants" social income "environmentally "and accused of communism, under the mocking smile of those who know.
And let's face it, this Italian who is Mr. Berlusconi is well suited, fits beautifully with the model of Italian lazy, casual, careless, cheap, with the subtlety that makes the ridge to the honest and does win in the market. When I think of this prototype of Italian I always face a grin that he rubbed his hands.
Now, I find my perfect theory, but that does not explain why then, confronted with evidence, before the unmasking of the Great Scaltrone, the feed-back is not the case, why is it so hard to change his mind, what breaks.
Half of the Italian population has opted for a state criminal who chooses to break the law, which makes it lawful libito, which makes the law to not enforce the law.
All these voters heard a

why?

Dental Clips For Teeth

;-) What makes me unique?

In August 2007, Professor Randy Pausch (professor of computer science at a prestigious American university and expert in virtual reality) discovers that what he was fighting against cancer the long sentence without hope. Chooses to leave the university to stay close to family and gives one last lecture, last lecture, which was published by Rizzoli in Italy under the title "The Last Lecture. Life explained by a dying man," recommended reading. Draw from this book some initial comments from Randy.

"What makes me unique?" It was
This is the question that I ask myself. Find an answer I might have helped us understand how to set the speech. Sitting in the waiting room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, waiting for medical report of yet, I used Jay (his wife, ed) as the litmus test for some of my ideas.
"Cancer does not make me unique," I said. No doubt about it. The only pancreatic cancer are diagnosed each year more than 37,000 Americans.
I thought long and hard about how to define: teacher, computer, husband, father, son, brother, mentor to my students. These are roles which I have always given value. But which of these I have marked? Although I have always had a rather developed ego, I knew that for this lesson needed something more than mere presumption. I asked myself: "There is something that only I can give?"
And there, suddenly, in the waiting room, I knew exactly what it was. I was literally struck by lightning. All my results were, all I had loved in life originated in dreams and goals I had as a child ... and in fact made almost all of them. My uniqueness, I realized at that time, was residing in all the dreams - some significant, others eccentrics - that have characterized my forty-six years of life. Despite cancer, sat in the waiting room, I understood to be a really lucky man because I've made. In large part, thanks to the teachings received along the way, the extraordinary people I have known. If I had told my story conveying the passion with which I lived, so my class could also help others find the way to realize their dreams. "

Wild Bachlarett Party

theories of what is bad / 1

to spite those who say that I do not glorify never more so than when I complain about something, I will complain about something, in installments.
Today I wanted to expose my comments on the job search. How
made the phrase "you know how to sell"? Yet it is a monster that goes unnoticed. I can write 10 different curricula, and everyone will be talking about me, after I made a strict selection and workings of waste, omissions and additions. This results in 10 different me, one that hides her playful side and theater to act as mail clerk, another who always hands-on and likes to sweat to qualify as a waitress at the tables, with another smile and with a little 'of snobbish to do the job .. and then you have to demonstrate that want to do that job, you are asked: "Why do you want to do this job?"
But when one tries to work first of all because he wants to work? If so there would be no unemployment problem, there would be a place for every person. Unfortunately it is not, especially when you are studying and the profession of your life you're still building. This should be taken for granted! But no! There you have the passion to do the job in a mall for three summer months to replace those who go on vacation, no matter if you have a great desire to work, if you're awake, confident, intelligent and maybe even four days after a good job . No, you have the experience! They are poor in the barrel but I do not think that I miss the experience! But who cares, I am nothing at that moment, back to the table, all split into small pieces.
After a day to send resumes and shake hands, I feel so tired, ridiculed and belittled I see enemies everywhere.
Just today I sent a resume full of joy, because I could tell the truth. But who knows exaggerated, perhaps because it is also wrong to show enthusiasm, because "we want a person who works", what a scandal instead be an individual.

We must follow the illuminating opinion by Italo Calvino, antithesis in a "hard rule" that "a person is placed voluntarily" because without this it would not be himself for himself or for others ", and before:

Or not quite true because human integration is not a mirage or availability of indefinite totality or universality but a deepening of what has been stubborn, given its natural and historical and their own voluntary choice, in un'autocostruzione in a jurisdiction, in a style, a personal code of internal rules and disclaimers active, to follow through?
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