Thursday, September 26, 2013

Do you like to being alone?

According to Eric Klinenberg in his opinion paper One's Crowd  nowadays more people are living alone than never. This seems to reflect the modern values such as freedom and individualism. In my opinion, living alone when you are young has more positive points than negative points. Privacy, freedom and self-realization are the main advantages of living alone.

Privacy is one something high valued in our society. Many people spend money just to protect their intimacy and when you live alone you have full privacy. Nobody will invade your space, cross the limits,because the whole space is for you.

In addition, you have freedom to come and go when you want, and invite who you want to come to your home. You will also have freedom to be alone to just think. Is difficult to have sometime alone just to think, usually people tend to not respect it, specially, my friends, although I respect them,because I understand the importance of this kind of moment. The freedom also does respect to time because you won't have children or family to take care, so you will have more time to socialize and go to events.

Finally,  live alone is a challenge. In terms of organization and finances every day presents a new obstacle to be overcame. So when you starts to manage them   have a great feeling of self realization, you start to get more mature and in the end of each month you will realize how much you growth and how many problems you solved. This brings a great feeling of accomplishment.

To sum up, living alone is great experience and adds a lot of new values and experience to our lives, and also give a lot of privacy, freedom and a feeling of self-realization are the most notorious advantages of living by yourself.

Friday, September 13, 2013

A Perfect World


Today was presented to me a simple question: "What is your idea of perfect world?". Well, it made me think a lot about what I consider as a perfect world. So I started to make a research about it,my goal was to see different opinions and studies related to the topic. After a while I realized that a perfect world is almost a consensus, what everybody describes as their idea a perfect world is, actually,  a Utopia.According to Wikipedia Utopia is a society or community that posses perfect qualities.

Usually people describe their perfect world as a place as an Utopia where everything is perfect,everybody loves each other, every day is the same thing. But for me, it sounds a little boring. I mean a world without wars, without poverty, without hunger and  all those bad things is a great place and I want those things. To be a  perfect world those things are necessary,but we also need a little of emotion, something to fight for.

That's why in my perfect world a would let the capitalism as economic system,because one of the good things about it is the meritocracy: you gain what you deserve. The bad thing about it is the fact of just a small group of people keep the majority of the money and control everything,and this must be changed.In a perfect world we would have a better income distribution and the democracy would work the way is meant to be.

The most complicated thing would be respectful  to our peers,because the main cause to conflicts is the intolerance. For this we don't have a formula or a revolutionary solution, we have to invest in better schools and universities and also start to give an example to the next generations by respecting the others believes, opinions and etc.

Another thing that should be included is an international constitution,like Human Rights, but more complete. Talking about general topics for a good life in society and each country would be able to adapt it according to their reality.

In conclusion, this is what I think that makes a perfect world: a universal system of justice, a free and great health system, no hunger, no wars, a system based on meritocracy and were everybody respects the other.