Dear reader (if there is any...)

It's been a while since I last posted here. Two months! But now I'm back on track... that is, am I going to post anything here for the next two months? Who knows? So it's your duty to keep visiting this blog to check it out.
So, speaking of uncertainty, I think this is a nice topic to write.

What's certain about life? There is just one thing we can be certain of: death. Still, you're never certain when you will meet it.
You get up in the morning and you do have plans. But who told you will make it to the end of the day to see them fulfilled?
Let's say it's 7 in the morning. You get up, go to the kitchen and have breakfast. Then you head out to work and stay there all day. When you leave, you get on the bus, a guy holding a gun gets on the bus and...
Well, what happens? You don't know. Maybe that's when you meet your maker.
Nothing is certain... so although you have plans, despite the fact you think you have control over everything, be certain that your not certain about anything.

It is funny to see how men and women relate to each other. It is obviously something natural because men were made for women and women were made for men. However, there is a lot of mystery surrounding this so called natural process. Men complain about women and women complain about men, but they end up needing each other and complementing each other.
Go out on the street and ask someone what they think about the opposite sex and you will see that most of the replies will be related to understanding what men and women think. Knowing what is going on in the head of person of the opposite sex might just be something like knowing the right number to win the lottery.
Speaking as a man, I can say that women are just incomprehensible. Most of them seem to talk in a way and act completely differently. They are not coherent at all and since their most tender age they start showing signs of how unable to understand they will be.
Women also have the ability to be mysterious. It is almost never possible to figure out what they are thinking or what is crossing their minds. Usually the guy is very confident he understands what is going on in a certain situation with a girl, but when he sees it he’s been lost for a long time. And when he asks the girl what she thinks about it all she smirks and loses him even more.
But I know that this is a man’s opinion about it all. In recent conversations with some girls, they told me they also think men are complex and not easy to figure out. They say we think too much about sex and that we do not care about their feelings. They say they want to find the right man, a decent guy they can marry and start a family with and that it is really complicated to find.
I know that I have talked more about women than men, but I can’t exclude myself from the universe of men trying to understand women. But there is a reason why men and women try to figure each other out and it is because they were made for each other. And need each other, so they try to find an easy way to relate to one another. The Bottom line is both men and women haven’t been made to be understood, but to live with each other the way they are. And that is especially applied to women – the ones I complained so much about – since they have to be loved and not necessarily understood.

You...

You who make my heart beat faster, you who make my hands shake cold, you who make me shiver all night long. Oh you whose smile calms my nerves, you whose touch warms my body and whose attention makes me sleep as an angel.
There's just no girl like you and nobody but you will do. What should I do to have your heart, to be with you and not fear? How could I not get caught in my feelings and stop thinking when I see you?
Oh you, you...

How weird it is when all you know comes apart at the seams. It is something we ought to be prepared for because we never know when it's going to happen. Maybe never, but maybe some day you will get up and find out that all you'd believed till the day before was a lie. What now?
It is not easy to face a new day when there's nothing firm you can hold on to and it is not easy to feel motivated when everything around seems to make no sense at all. Now's when you must take a break and think. The problem is that the world we live in will probably not give you this break because you never know when a new crisis is coming - and probably not when your vacation is scheduled.

Life is full of lessons. One of them is that you should never underestimate anybody. If you do, some surprises await you down the road. Who would have thought that little guy or that little girl would be or do what you've never imagined they would?
There's this guy I thought knew nothing about life and really looked that way. But when I really saw it, I was mistaken and it turned out he knew a lot more than I thought he did and probably some lots of stuff more than I.
This other girl surprised me too when she came up with some very bright ideas to help me solve a problem with another girl and during a discussion we had over a polemic subject.
You can't just be so judgemental about people. You'll have very bitter surprises or very nice ones - it depends on how you look at them - up or down.

Today, I'm here to write about the importance of friends in our lives. Weren't you going to write a series on the seven deadly sins, John? Well, I've just changed my mind.

It is essential that a man have friends in his life. No one was made to live by themselves. It is of the utmost importance that no person live by themselves. And that's why friends exist - to make life more colorful and full of joy.

One might say he does not like meeting people and making friends because maybe he's been so disappointed in them. But I'll tell you what. After you become friends with someone, it's your duty to love them and be there for them, no matter what. Oh what if they disappoint you? Well, friends are just like family - after you got them, you can't choose anymore. If your mother does something that upsets you, will you stop loving her or at least talking to her? I mean, some people do it, but it is not the right thing to do. Many of my friends have done things that really got me down, but what did I do? Did I isolate myself from them? Did I just forget them and all the good times we had spent together? No, sir, I didn't. I didn't because I'm not expected to give up on my friends, but to forgive and to keep being their friend.
Can you imagine if you would just stop talking to everyone who upsets you? I mean, probably the best thing to do would be to move to another planet because there's nothing you can do to avoid being hurt by someone. This happens due to human unpredictability which causes curious things to occur. So all you have to do is love your friends and love making friends because although they might disappoint you one day, it is more likely that they will be there to help you in time of need.

The seven deadly sins

Dear friends,

Here's a series of posts related to the most common attitudes in society in general. The seven deadly sins reflect in a very curious way how people deal with life.
First of all, I'd like to stress that biblically, these sins are NOT considered to be deadly. As John says in his first book, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9) The only sin the won't be forgiven is blasfemy against the Holy Spirit - but that's pretty much enough for another post.

The first sin I'm going to talk about is PRIDE. According to http://www.deadlysins.com/sins/index.htm, pride is is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.

Well, it is widely known that pride is present in every society, group of people, civilization. Men tend to see themselves as independent of God and think they can all do anything they want as they want. However, it not like this.
Pride is the very smell of a society in an advanced stage of decomposition. Every person has at least once commited this sin, but just because they have doesn't mean that they're proud. But have you noticed how haughty people act? It's the most rediculous thing... and they don't even need to say a word to cause enmity to arise. The way they walk, talk, think and look down on others show their readiness for bad relationships. This problem can well affect rich, middle class or poor people. It is funny to see how they behave.

Rich people are proud of what they have. "Have you seen my new mansion by the lake? What about my last trip to Europe - have you seen the pictures?". They think they can get more privileges than others and believe their money can buy them everything, even judicial decisions. Little do they know what I know...

Middle class people now. This one is really interesting. They're too proud to be rich - criticize the way affluent people act, say that if they had such a big amount of money, they wouldn't spend it so unwisely and so on. However, they're also too proud to be poor. "Oh, what will my colleagues think if they find out my shoes aren't original?" "What will people say when they find out I didn't go to the mall because I was out of money?" "Honey, today my boss is coming to pay us a visit. Bring out the best china we have so that he won't think we're a bunch of white trash."
Little do they know what I know...

Poor people. There are some very peculiar cases in this class. Some people know they are poor and they work hard to get a better life. Others know they have no money, but accept their situation. Nevertheless, there is this group of people who neither try to improve their living nor accept their situation. If someone tries to help them by giving them clothes or food, they say they don't need this kind of assistance. When they go to the mall or somewhere they know they'll find better off people, they wear their best clothes and act arrogantly to show they too are well-off.

Little do they know what I know...

Of course, the kind of pride I talked about in today's post was the financial one, as there are so many types I could've written about.
What I know is that people worry too much about their social status and situation... they worry about what other people will think about them and they keep trying to prove they're better than others by showing off. Little do they know what I know...

And I know that all of them are equal. All of them take a dump at least once a day and it does stink! All of them need to shower or else they will smell badly... as the saying goes, "The better-ff stink, but can afford to buy perfume."