You don’t know their history if you see a beggar on the street.
You aren’t sure that if you help them with money, they’ll use this money in a very unethical way.
If someone asks for money on a social network, you don’t know, again, their history.
The solution in that case? Go to an NGO, tell them your story, make them spread your story, and vouch for you.
If such an NGO doesn’t exist (but I think it does), it needs to be invented.
If you do a thing over and over again, you will tend to become good with it.
Repeating the same sermon each Sunday and doing a similar praying ritual over and over again will make you better.
If you see a movie or read a book once, you’ll discover many things. Doing it again and again after some years pass will make you an expert in it.
It’s like taking a PhD.
In conclusion, I think it’s a good thing that some things tend to repeat.
Într-un clip vechi de tot se zice:
Să nu uităm că drogurile astea sunt foarte periculoase. Unii oameni mor, sau mai rău: ajung la spital.
E de departe cea mai mare teamă a mea, interacțiunea cu orice formă de spital. Preventiv, fac tot felul de analize, merg la dentist, mă vaccinez, încerc să trăiesc sănătos, fac ce pot preventiv. Dar teama rămâne.
A doua ar fi câinii (care, dacă te mușcă, pot să te aducă la spital).
A treia ar fi când cineva se comportă agresiv, verbal sau nu numai, față de mine.
Paradoxal, nu îmi e teamă de viitor atât de mult. Războaie, cutremure, evenimente majore – acestea mă îngrijorează, dar nu sperie.
Nu am fobie, dar e o formă de stres și partea legată de interacțiuni umane, vorbit în public, alte asemenea.
Mai e și frica de înălțimi.
“I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” ― Mark Twain
There is a scene in a movie (I think it was a documentary) with an old person making fake IDs for Jews during the Second World War.
The person said they were working for very long periods of time, hardly ever sleeping, always thinking that they could save another life with their work.
And there’s this scene from Schindler’s List: I could have saved one more (ending scene).
Dr. Alexandru Pesamosca and Dr. Niculina Bratu hardly had any life outside of helping others.
In life, you do things – work, have fun, relax, concentrate, get more results, do more things.
It’s important to see how much you can have an impact on others.
And having just one more little impact.
Nu doresc să fie interzise, dar consider că sunt contra lor, în principiu.
Partea plăcută (ceva atipic, un spectacol) e mai slabă decât partea neplăcută (posibile accidente, stres pentru câini).
Mi-ar plăcea să fie în afara localităților, acolo nu aș avea nicio problemă.
E un stres să te plimbi pe afară în perioada Revelionului.
Îmi plac artificiile din acelea mici, cu steluțe (un băț foarte subțire, pe măsură ce arde, ies steluțe).
E un articol care zice: Every year spent in school or university improves life expectancy, study says | Education | The Guardian.
Eu mă gândesc că în general oamenii care au studii probabil au avut o situație financiară mai bună înainte să facă studiile (că cine își permite să facă o facultate, are și o viață mai bună), și ulterior, probabil îi e mai ușor să aibă grijă de sănătate, și alte lucruri, care pentru cineva care nu are acces la studii sunt mai greu de atins. Dar e posibil și să fie ceva gen „dacă ai ambiție de vreo 16 ani de școală, poate ești mai riguros și cu sănătatea ta”. :)
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If I’d known a famous person right when the person was little known, I’d talk to them easily. As time passed, I’d talk less and less to them if they became famous.
Let’s say I’d known Bishop Robert Emmet Barron since he was not famous. Sure, I can talk to him. As time passed, I’d talk less and less to him.
This is natural – his time becomes more valuable, and he can do better things in the world than talk to me.
I know people who worry about wars, pandemics, economics, and other things at a macro level.
For some reason or another, they also make mistakes at the micro-level.
I’m much more interested in tactics than in strategy.
It doesn’t take a lot of information to know what to do at a strategy level.
It takes a lot of information to know what to do at a micro-level.
My practical tip? Know just a bit of strategy and lots of tactics.
Reclamele de la Coca-Cola din anii ’90-’00 (țin minte o reclamă în metrou între Romană și Universitate parcă, te uitai pe geamul metroului și niște urși polari beau Cola, cadru cu cadru era reclama pusă între stațiile de metrou și tu o vedeai ca animație.
Reclamele la Connex. (îmi plăcea stilul lor)
Reclamele la Banca Transilvania.
Reclamele la eMAG. (doar unele) – aici a fost reinforcement, mi-au întărit aprecierea.
Astea sunt cu „sunt conștient de impactul lor”, dar sunt probabil altele la care nu eram conștient de impact, și a contat, totuși. Adică nu pot să îmi zic că îmi place o reclamă la Palmolive, dar când sunt în magazin contează că am văzut reclamă la produs.
Îmi plac reclamele de aici: Clipurile mele favorite de pe YouTube – Blog de Olivian Breda.
Și, în general, îmi plac reclamele care îmi provoacă o emoție, fie ea râs sau altceva.
Sometimes, I read warnings – „This is a poor movie/book/song/place.”
The thing is, if we consider the Pareto principle to be true, most of the things out there are of poor quality.
If 80% of things are bad, and out of the good 20, another 80% is not that great, it brings little value to mention what is of poor quality.
Also, it doesn’t take much to determine whether a movie is worth seeing or not.
On the other hand, if we are talking about something debatable and with lots of pros/cons, in this case, yes, I want to hear some opinions.
For example, choosing to spend a vacation in a place brings a lot of factors to weigh in.
Again, choosing to live in a place/country requires many things to look at.
Sure, it’s not a bad thing to mention „Oh, you’ll waste your time by watching the movie X”.
OK, that’s not bad, although I could surely get that information elsewhere.
Also, if I can, I will write to the author of something and give them negative feedback (not in all cases, of course; otherwise, I’d spend my waking time writing complaint emails).
Also, I prefer not to give definitive solutions – This movie is 100% good/bad. It might be that I like it/dislike it, but it’s almost certainly not 100% good/bad.
It’s also of low importance. The reviews of the Napoleon movie tend to be negative. But there are other criteria for watching the movie.
In conclusion, I prefer to give positive, not negative, recommendations and debate the „big” themes.