Fossilized future

Gasoline prices (USA) 

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We live in an growing dependence of oil... our society each time, not only for comfortably but also for its development and subsistence, demonstrates an increasing need of energy and this is gotten directly or indirectly through the oil consumption.
We are constantly in contact with a vast information that, for times, we do not deal basically with the lack of time...basically, it's in our conscience that one more time justice fool us all... the oil, due to external politics, raise its prices constantly, reaching, at this moment, dangerously high levels... The people forced to a sudden adaptation... cannot say that they weren't warned for similar situations... but they can, without any doubts, say that the actuals prices are unreal and speculative... I believe that when crisis between the United States and Iran is over, falling prices practiced for the oil is waited. However, keeping realistic, I believe vehement that the prices will never get lowered to its real value... I believe that this chance will be considered for, even so to reduce, to keep the prices into a inflationated level.
People do not cannot obtain a continuous realistic notion of the situation and with some more distorted perspectives of the so called "reality" they will be led to believe that the current situation will keep on a possible instability way directing the conjuncture of the moment into a deep crisis situation. People, even so maintain present that oil will not last forever and knowing that there are alternatives to fuel existence, prefer keeping, of wild way, to acquire cars with gasoline and diesel engines, not being transparent about their preference for already available alternative energies with very nice appealed prices... which is, then, the reason to keep preference for oil? Having knowledge of existence of other energy sources sufficiently more environment friendly or less pollutant, why aren't they considered for the healthiness of our descendants? So that we can invest in a better and lasting future, shouldn't be better and viable to abstain from machines and cars more expensive and fast for others more ecological and slow ones? Let us pay attention on our children photos and let us answer to the following question: After all to who belongs the future? Will be our future or our decedent's future?

Do we truly see?

O futebol e o mundo 

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I saw... you didn't see... he didn't see and nobody else seems to have seen...
The society became strangely funny with soccer.
I'm not fanatic by this sport, even so I do appreciate a good game... however, when one of the most representative soccer clubs of Lisbon plays, it wont be traffic anymore... I've the idea of everyone had simply disappeared being only me here, forgotten... nobody in the streets... where will they be?... will it be holiday?... of course not... they will be grabbed to some TV... or a radio... or probably in a stadium...
At this bad moment of economy that we are living, we used to say that "life's expensive" and that "the money doesn't give for everything"... but for soccer there's always money!
Some months ago, in one of my last bus trips, I attended to a family conversation... a couple with two children. The family chief had the brilliant idea to buy a scarf of its soccer club in March... I immediately understood that things, for that family, such as to the majority of Portuguese family, didn't run fine in the mater of finances... only by the woman reaction when such purchase was shown to her...
Portugal lives soccer intensely... nobody can speak, never, of that its soccer club doesn't play the satisfactory performance to reach gold. For all of us have the idea of the amplitude of everything I'm write here, I suggest that you all abstain for soccer only for a week... and observe the coffee talks... in the work... in any place... I'm not sure that such thing will be possible at all... the subject becomes vicious... and such situation is considers by me even most concerned when I analyze children behavior... these even so with questions of simple answer, or generalist culture, they shown that such subject doesn't have for the moment or pertaining for a school season (when, it was or should have been teched in the past year)... but when the subject is soccer, they obtain, without any doubt exactly say the classification that each club have as well as who is the best player and where the respective goals had been marked... you all breathe soccer... when this doesn't bring to you any added valuable... Even the politics I think they take advantage of "important" games... the quality of life in Portugal is not the better... all the people shows their dissatisfaction only until the o moment that their club gets an important victory.
I feel that people live the soccer as if their own existence depended of it... will it be possible that soccer players offers a commission to each fan, of what they earn?... it will be possible that when their soccer club loses a game their boss fans deducts something to theirs? With all of that, I do not only can understand the reason of the soccer to be in current state... in full decay... Will it be that, after all, the "bench trainers" doesn't understand soccer at all?

Intentions treated

Religions 

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Happy Easter to all... are my most sincere wishes for today to all visiting catholics... however, the question for today is the following for you: "what about the worshipers of other religions?"... it seems that we live in a country where would reign freedom of religion (at least, politically it is tried passes this kind of message), but that doesn't seems to happen...
Pay attention to our today morning TV programing... honestly, can we remember such covering referring to another religion events as the given to Catholic?
And what about the holidays? I, myself, agree that if every important days of every religions had become holiday, then would turn to continuous vacations for sure... but let us think on this fact:
How would you, catholics, feel if you had to work in Christmas... or in Easter... or even the day of God's Body... how would be not have the chance of, in family, celebrate so important days... But being the Catholic religion, such as the portuguese society, opened to the differences... why that is not considered? Why cannot the believers of other religions celebrate in family, equally important days for their own religions? Why have they not to work in days without any meaning for them and to work, without the family presence, in so important days as the Ramadan is for the Muslim religion?
It seems that all the advertising campaigns trying to show the equality between the men, exactly as different different they are... aren't more than intentions... at the bottom... we are and always be different.

Ave Cesar

Gods retreat 

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Another working day... a monotony... everything the same... the same waking up, the same raise up, the same preparation... the same way, the same destination... the same radio station... but that news! How can be possible that 84 of 194 members of the house of representatives that had signed the presences book have left?... how is it possible that they didn't noticed all the confusion generated for remains 83 going down that immense staircase... even leaving in a moderated way, it would have to be notest, or not? What is in cause is not only the fact of the foreseen voting wasn't performed... It is the given example to the people that they represent. All the demanded sacrifices, we can see that have no reason. These gentlemen who live just like Cesar lived... authentic "human gods". The principle of these gentlemen shown to be "makes what I say, not what I make". There's one thing I cannot understand, and that is the people... why there's not any reaction of them?... everything is remained as if nothing had occurred, situation after situation... the anger corrodes me inside... I start believing that probably is for this fact that the cause of death in Portugal will be due to cardiac problems is increasing exponentially.
After all, we are all different... each time more unequal... the politics, these privileged ones that spend all the money that, with sweat, is placed in their hands... in their own proper... and we, without future in front of us... And everything concludes with a "bred law" for these gentlemen: "the word of the member of the house of representatives makes faith, no needed additional profs".

What future?

Global village 

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Congratulations to me, for my 33th anniversary... I do not feel the same joy anymore for the special day that is... I do not believe such fact is related with the offers I received, in that case I would have reasons for bigger happiness. I think the world... the society, only bring me a huge sadnesses... I still can remember the importance of my anniversary... the first day of the Spring... the Tree day... the first Easter vacations day... so many important events in my birthday. Nowadays who pays attention to nature? Even the seasons seems confused... nothing resembled to the time of my unconscious youth... is only another reason to want to go back in time... not to change any taken decisions, but only to revive my past once again. What goes, there goes... However, I only wait that all the people have earn conscience of the destruction performed to our global village and can, not only change their dirty habits, but also transmit to all their others what can all of us gain with best environmental practices... For us, few things will get, but let us think on our descendants future. Could it be that with small things, so important would become, wont be worth to continue the effort that makes the continuity of our human being and of all the ones that make of this planet our house?

Depressive containment

Depression 

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As we see the time passing by and more we feel we are sinking in the sadness of our interior that calls anxious for the depression of lost feelings, slowly came our ideas that cruelly turns into a desert for the emptiness of uncertainties and desperation of unknowing what we going to find as we walking into the future... all our hopes became diluted by our being and consume for our improper will of the impossibility of exceeding the invisibly higher barriers created by us... without obtaining glimpse of the top, we remain prisoners of ourselves... of ours being, of ours wanting... of the fear that drowns us in at every moment and keeps us in captives, depriving us from our lucidity... of what give us the ability to become and keep intelligent... of be human.
The life, nails us these tricks, in our moments we are kissed with the destiny that will mark us for every single way we will cover, it will open to us some of the doors that will allow us to walk each step, and will close many others. What I wish is notorious, two aspects: Health and richness ... we forget... many times our mental heartiness... several situations exist where the insanities are not considered and because of that the society where we belong does not understand it... not understand it and renegades.
Only when the society modify its values and consider every person as useful, just as it considers all of the other elements, will be able in the future to eradicate truly these illnesses forever... only we can win successfully what we can see and believe.

Lives Management

To manage decisions 

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Often, I am here seated, in front of the computer and the ideas don’t flow with the intensity that I would desire... I think about the day just finished and discover that after all the passed time and I didn’t have a single moment to stop... to think... to clear my mind, to decide clearly how to act... before acting. Short moments, which would bring great advantages, if we spend them to decide...
I think that it’s exactly what’s missing in many managers, the sufficient "cold head” to analyze all the available and adjusted information, to be able to take the right decision.
But, did it was at the right moment?
Perhaps the manager wasn’t sensitized enough to this subject and, for such fact, it did not considerer its relevance nor the enclose, without given attention to the signals when these had initiated its tendency for a concerning situation.
As in life, we all considered decisions less so that the things can follow its way. As higher is our position, more complicated we judge the decision.
Therefore in this sequence of ideas, I conclude that being parents, makes us the ones in the top of the "pyramid"... the taken decisions, always change the route of a life... and the life of the one’s more important to us... we need to be constantly alert for small signals... signals that can pass unobserved...
I have given... attempted to give as much as possible attention to these signals... often premeditated to call my attention. So many times that children to call only our attention, opt for having actions, that know not to be the right ones (or less accepted by the society where they belongs) because they’re only intention it’s to call for the most important persons attention… they’re parents... and they... blind for the quotidian tasks that cover they’re vision, don’t understand that something is constantly be left beyond… forgotten... and only needed a little attention... those that cannot see those needs, should they making a wrong lives management?