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Passing the years is not the same for everyone, but the time is consistently clocking; it doesn't matter if you are resistant to it. With these, maturity comes, and many changes and things that before appeared no make sense to you now make sense. Unconsciously we are evolving towards a better (I hope) version of ourselves; the years make us wiser and more experienced to afford new challenges. With maturity, things will begin to make sense; here is a brief list of things that will change with time. ▨ You'll only call friends only a few people. ▨ Your family is one of the most critical aspects of your life. ▨ You will value more the quiet spaces and calm plans. ▨ Mind clearness is a virtue that you have to cultivate every day. ▨ You will accept the advice of older people. ▨ Experience is based on failures. ▨ The learning process is not linear. ▨ Ups and downs will give you a better perspective of life. ▨ Your lower back and knees will start to pain 🧟. ▨ You will enjoy more a cup...

In most of the activities you will do throughout your life, you will find a middle group of people you'll have to work with. Many times, I have struggled with persons with that I don't sympathize at all. In high school, I had the luck of making good friends that still consider very close friends, and I had the fortune to stay in touch with some of them. But sometimes, I have the terrible fate of being in situations I prefer to avoid. In college, I was cautious; I tried to select the people I wanted to surround myself with, making me more isolated and methodic. But, sometimes, I was fortunate to be in the same place with good people; I made some good friends too. When I finished college and began working, I realized that the work ambient is utterly different from high school and college. The people there are only focused on their activities, and there is no chance of having a good conversation or thinking about making new friends, there are exceptions, sure, but the most is thus...

In my college ages, I often used to dream about my future, how being my life if I... You know the rest of the story; I think everyone has had these fictions in which we are the protagonists of our lives and accomplished all our goals. I was a daydreamer, and I refused the fact of leaving this habit; I constantly thought about it, but I didn't do anything about that. I saw myself as a superhero, just like a Marvel movie or a rock star who had everything he attempted at the end of the story. These thoughts were reduced over time, and when I finished college, I barely had these thoughts. When I started to work, I hardly had time to worry about whether or not I had these. The dreamer had come to their end. When I realised all the time I wasted having this conducts, I was ashamed of myself; I didn't have enough conscience of the split reality of fantasising. I am aware now that I was hiding my insecurities to stay in a comfortable zone, my thoughts. Nowadays, I am more conscious abo...

After two weeks of manifestations and shortages, many cases of vandalism and force abuse from the police and protesters, the only loser, the people, are claiming for a solution that ends this conflict and allows them to return to their everyday life. Are we prepared to start with dialogue after two weeks of violence? Is violence the only way to be listened to?  Over time, the problem only seems to get worse, the death data is rising, and the total number of deaths reached the three people confirmed. The government encourage the indigenous to dialogue, while the protesters claim equity and better prices for their products, among other eight claims. The indigenous, primarily farmers, are arguing for better controls on the gas price, better quality of education, better health system, and better security system amid a wave of violence that face the country. A manifest that contains all these claims were presented to the government. On the other hand, the president has been pronounced m...

Despite the current situation that faces my home country, I have decided to delay a blog writing about that (it is hard to explain without falling into fanaticism, I have to admit it).  Changing of theme, these days I was asking myself about life, I had many thoughts about how faster years pass and how these were changing us, Recently I was reading and listening to how can manage our time, how can I improve the time that I have; and making that I found a quote that said "memento mori" translated in English as "remember you will die". Are we living the lives we want to live? Or simply, we are automats leaving to pass the time and postpone our dreams. Do you enjoy the things you do? Our time here is limited, and sometimes we don't realize them. I was often completely obsessed with do the best in each aspect of my life; I couldn't even enjoy things I loved before; my mind was always overwhelmed by thousands of these thoughts. I couldn't carry this anymore. ...

New beginnings are not easy at all; in fact, it is too hard for me to adapt to a new schedule and then a long period of no activity. The body must adjust to these recent changes and overcome resistance. Inside my mind, some thoughts make me feel exhausted. Often at the end of the work, I come to my house exhausted. Habits make the person, and when we finally acquire a new habit, this is more probably to fight these struggles. Recently I was thinking about my life, how many times I surrendered without fighting, or how many times I have given up before reaching my objectives. Short answer, a lot of times. To let behind the fatigue, I take a long walk while listening to some podcast or music; for thirty minutes, I lost and disconnected entirely from the world. That allows me to take a breath and be auto-critic with myself. Exercise is something that lets me focus on myself and relax me, at the time I improve my physical condition. Practice gratitude is on my pending; I have to be more gra...

Sunday noon is the perfect day to write another story about my younger age, but this time is a history with another perspective, but it has a good narrative and many anecdotes I would like to share with you. It was the end of 2009, I was 15 years old at that moment, and I barely practised any sports at that time, I was in a swimming class and a football camp before, but it was only for a few months. I was assisting in the fourth year of high school, and I have faced the changes everyone experiments with at that age. I remember that I was lazy and without motivation at that time, and I think this concerned my parents. My grades in high school weren't good, and I started feeling lost in life. So, one day was the grades notification; I remember that day because I had the poorest grades I ever had some time. Instead of punishing me, my dad came that noon with a giant blue table ping pong; I never had a fascination with that sport, but the size and the fact that it was new and came with...