be pessimistic!

Many people tell me I am wrong and they do not agree with me at any point. But this is what I think.

                Imagine you are waiting for something very important to happen. For example, you are waiting to be told the results of the scholarship you applied for. The organizers are going to call you to tell you whether you were selected to travel to England or not.  What should you think in my opinion? Well, I think it is better to think negatively: “I´m not the one who will be selected, I won’t travel because I´m not really sure of my conditions, etc. etc. etc.)”.

So, what you might be wondering is: what for? Why should I be so pessimistic?

Well basically because if you are told you were not selected, it is as if you had prepared yourself for that response in advance and, therefore, you do not feel that bad!

Now, what happens if you are told you won and you are the one going to travel to England? Wouldn’t you be extremely happy and much more surprised? I think you would.

This is my theory and it has always worked for me! Now, what about you? Are you pessimist? Does it work for you?

For me, it does J 

A "salty" post

                Last night I heard there is a new kind of “law” or something like that, that forbids the owners of restaurants, bars and the like to put the salt shaker on the table. Apparently the reason of this decision is that people tend to add more salt to their meals and that some of them even do it before testing the food.  

                Of course I understand the reason, and I agree with the fact that adding too much salt to your food is absolutely unhealthy. However, can you think of eating salad without salt? What about “asado”? Some foods change their flavor completely if you don’t add salt. I know that, if in a restaurant, you ask any member of the staff serving at table to bring you the salt shaker, they will. Nevertheless, what bothers me in a way is the fact the THEY decide for you.  

                What I would say to authorities or to whoever created that regulation is:

“Thank you very much! I really appreciate your taking care of me and my health, but I am the one deciding on my life. I am absolutely conscious of the disadvantages and dangers of eating too much salt (I actually don’t eat much, really) but it is I who want to decide and what I decide is not to eat tasteless pieces of food. If you want to take care of people’s lives, teach them about the problems that consuming too much salt can bring, but do not take salt away from our food.” THANK YOU! J

To my mum :P

There is a saying that expresses the idea that if a man wants to know how his girlfriend will be like when they marry, he has to observe and pay special attention to the attitudes of his girlfriend’s mum.  In that way, he would know what to expect from his being not single any longer. Supposing this idea has something of a truth, it could be said that it is, in a way, predisposing a woman to be like her mother and, therefore, influencing the person’s behavior and attitudes.
“Oh! You are exactly like your mom!” “You resemble her so much that when I heard you say that, I thought they were your mum’s words.” (Haven’t you ever heard that?)
Well, I think there are two ways in which a girl can develop her personality when coming to adulthood and, especially, when having her own children. Either she tries (conscious or unconsciously) to imitate her mother and tries to keep in mind all the things she has taught her, or she creates an enormous gap between the way her mother is like and the way she is like.
What has happened to me is that I used to tell myself: “I will never do this or the other in the way my mum does” (this was usually thought when I got angry). However I shouldn’t have said “never”. There are many times in which I find myself using words which are characteristic of my mum’s vocabulary and, sometimes, I even behave like her and solve situations in the same way she would solve them.
 I think this happens, not because she is my mum or because there is a saying which says so but because I have been educated by her. I believe that, unconsciously and inevitably, when you live with someone, you start borrowing some gestures, ideas and attitudes of that person (call it mum, friend, boyfriend). Haven’t you ever met a couple that shares the same ideas, likes the same things and hate the same things as well? Well, I think it is because of that.
          So, my point is: never say “I will never do that in the way my mum does” because, believe me, you end up doing it! :P

And, to finish, some pictures of my mum and I J 

before 

  If she ever gets to know I uploaded that picture, she kills me! 

Four years ago