Why?

 The world is a whole mystery.  Life is really a mystery. Why? Isn't that the question that we ask ourselves the most? At least I do, but I never get many answers. We don't have time. No time to think, question, reflect. Why? Why do we keep on asking if we never get the answer? Why do we keep on struggling to know every single detail?

 Since day one we touch, experiment, investigate, look around trying to understand. We've been always trying to understand how. How energy flows, how particles move, how the sky is blue. I believe that every single person has a mission in the world, we are not here to follow the crowd, we are here to discover, change.

  What are you here for? Haven't you always wondered? Are we here to create? To question? To learn? I have always believed in each single person being one tiny chance to change the human perspective of life. I am sure that there is a lot more in life than what we get nowadays. Life was once something else, a different concept, it was what you made from it.

    Each day our lives become more structured. I refuse to think that we are born, we go to school, we study a career, maybe form a family, get old and finally we die.

Why do we agree with this? Why do we let ourselves be controlled by a government? Why are we so structured in everything? Maybe we know so much that we cannot appreciate what life is really about, what we want to achieve in it, not what we have to. We might think that life is now right just the way it is, but how can we be so sure if we don't know how a different world would taste? We only know this way of living, the one we are used to. We need to find a new way that focuses on what we want, and in making the most out of life in every single day without

stopping.

  You can do it. We can do it.

  What do you want? I want to control my own destiny.

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul. -

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed. -

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate;

I am the captain of my soul.

   William Ernest Henley wrote this poem, when he was in hospital with tuberculosis. He contracted a tubercular infection that led to his leg being amputated below the knee. Later on the same thing happened to the second one, but he refused to have it amputated. He sought for the help of a new doctor who had developed an antiseptic medicine and almost two years later he got out of hospital. Those times were dark for Henley, and we can really appreciate that in this poem.

   Even in horrible circumstances, Henley refused to let life defeat him, but instead he rose up and fought back. He did not waste his time crying over what he had lost, but instead focused on getting better. He refused to submit to the idea that someone else was in control of his life.

I keep on repeating to myself. "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul".

Nelson Mandela was inspired by this poem. He helped bring equality to South Africa being a Negro. That is my role model, someone who makes the impossible possible.

   Why? Why should we do this? Why should we listen to this thirteen-year-old girl? How is she even so sure about something so complicated?

"Sometimes it's not the questions that are hard, it's the answers."
 We might need to stop questioning a bit, and live.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde

Hearts Content

Celebrating "Friends day"in my country I did this project with some videos I had on my phone! I hope you like it! :)

Clike here: Hearts Content Video

"Natural Selection" in society

For the ones who haven’t heard about it, “natural selection” is Darwin’s famous theorem.  It can be explained as survival of the fittest as well. I first thought about it just as a theory for animals, plants, not humans...but I was wrong,sadly. Yes, it is not that much like it in humans, but I would definitively consider it so. 

How can this happen to us? Lets picture high school environment, if you are up to date with all the trends, all the slang used, all the music everyone listens to, then you “fit in”.

On the other side, you might not be the one who parties every weekend, the one with the coolest clothes, you might be a “geek”, a “freak”, or any of the labels that people use on others who are different.

What happens to these people? Do they survive? This time our answer has to do with why I consider this “natural selection” in our society really similar to the one for wildlife. We might not die because of this, but we suffer and go through lots of changes such as:  personality, appearance, ways of thinking, desires, basically our true selves change radically just for acceptance.

Personally, I can tell that it is difficult to go back. For girls it is really important to be like a Barbie, perfect, pretty and thin, to be up to date with all the trends, and showing little -or none- intelligence. I admit I love each and every of my English classes, no matter what subject it is, and I could never accept that with my friends around, but once I discovered the people that were a good influence to me, this changed and I started being myself again.

How does this work? Why did it start working? All that matters now is if you are pretty, thin, etc, no one cares much about personality or intelligence, not anymore.  Joining the choir, drama club, or orchestra is not well seen anymore and you can be judged about it, and not even mentioning  joining chess clubs, or playing games such as “dungeons and dragons”.

What is considered geeky? Maybe fantasising with working at Microsoft, enjoying reading a book, being member of a club where you debate about a video game, having friends on internet, enjoying jigsaw puzzles, wearing glasses, between others.

I will never worry about ruling the world, I just care about the world not ruling me. I am not worried anymore about being called: nerd, geek, freak, or weird. It doesn’t bother me anymore.

                   “I’m not weird, I’m limited edition.”

By: Lucia Miri Echavarria

How everything became nothing

We`ve all got those moments...
Those moments that will be with you forever in your mind and that if you want to you can play them over and over again as if they were in a dvd and your mind projected them just as if you were actually living them all over again. 

Memories can be either positive or negative. Positive memories are those that make you smile at the ceiling stupidly, the ones you daydream of or sometimes even dream of. Negative memories are the ones that give us nightmares or bully us from the inside of our heads, tormenting our mind and messing with our thoughts.

Sometimes I think about something so much that I start forgetting the actual thing, just like when I try to remember my dreams... Ironic,  right?. How is it possible that over thinking about an event makes us forget parts of it? What meant everything to you at that time, the only thing you were thinking about starts becoming nothing… Our mind is an entire unknown world that doesn’t have a map, it is unpredictable.

When I was younger I used to complain very much because I believed “I didn’t dream”.  We were once at a friend`s house for a sleepover and when we woke up everybody would tell what they had dreamt about, but I simply couldn’t recall anything of it. I would, maybe, get flashbacks of it…but they were too blurry for me to get a clear picture of it. Now I complain about forgetting what happens…

Everything can become nothing. In fact, it is an interesting paradox.  What means everything to you can vanish in days, hours, minutes, seconds…and we can keep on counting. Your job, a very important person who might be a relative or a friend, a loved one...we can even include things such as, choice, power of will, and again…we can keep on counting.

What if I told you that nothing can become everything? Can it work that way too? When my mind is blank, out of memories to recall either negative or positive, I have my mind and me. There is nobody else than us and a blank page. Big things can turn into little things, but the minutest thing can end up being the biggest. 

By: Lucia Miri Echavarria

ABC of Blogs

After tons of attempts of this new project it is finally here. I must say that it wasn't my fault...then who was it? P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. Wow, that's a long word...Whatever (FOCUS, FOCUS), actually I had another blog but I forgot the password! Oops! So here I am at last, settled and ready to start this project.

Now, I believe blogs always start with a post about who am I or why am I doing this blog but maybe you'll understand while I you start reading...What is really important is that there are no rules, no order, you can begin reading from wherever you want to. I am a teenager with big concerns and who wants to share them with the world so as not to feel so alone in all of this "growing - up" thing...However, we will talk a lot about that later.

I guess I will have to join the mainstream here and tell you a little bit about me. I am 15 years old and currently live in Argentina. Although I am a native spanish speaker, my essence has always been in english...I have been for my whole life to a british school in which I have all of my subjects in english and in spanish, which is fun! (I also know some french, but I didn't continue with it, although I kind of promised I would - PROCRASTINATION again! I swear it wasn't me - but shhh...don't tell my teacher). I have travelled around lots of countries and love getting to know different cultures and parts of the world as well as the people in it. Traveling isn't my only passion, everything involved with art drives me crazy...Some of my hobbies are writing, acting, singing, public speaking, editing videos as well as my own audio/audiovisual projects), painting, cooking, modeling, playing the flute, the guitar (or at least an attempt of learning), etc.
Other than this blog I share some of my life with Youtube! I upload covers every once in a while as well as videos that I edit! Make sure to check it out!

In the sidebar you will find all of my social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Pinterest and Google Plus! :)

Thank you for reading!
- Luli