Our world

We all moan about our lives. We all would like even better lives to us and our children. It is our nature, perfectly acceptable.

But yesterday, watching a documentary about Zimbabwe's forgotten children I realise how good our lives really are.

Knowing that just 50 cents is the annual cost for a child to study there ( as reported on the documentary); and knowing the sky high number of children can not afford it; makes me disbelieve our worldwide kindness.

Robert Gabriel Karigamombe Mugabe has destroyed what used to be one of the best countries in Africa. Has destroyed it economically, politically and culturally.

People of all ages are suffering, but children will pay the highest price.

Please do something!!!

You can contact many international institutions and help in many different ways.

50 cent per week for us is absolutely nothing, but would give 52 more children attending school per each one of us.

I am Portuguese, very proud of our 1974 revolution.

I can not stop thinking what could we do, so the same would be possible in Zimbabwe. Offer a better education to those children seems to be the best way to go forward.

SO PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

Some of the links you can use to help.

http://www.plan-uk.org/becomeasponsor/
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/zimbabwe_27519.html
http://www.savethechildren.net/alliance/media/newsdesk/2008-09-16.html
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sponsor-a-child/africa/zimbabwe

Many thanks for your help!!!

Amizades de hoje!

Hoje! Todos somos amigos.

Somos amigos no Facebook, MySpace, Twitter e outros.

Hoje!

Todos mantemos contacto diario com eles e elas pelos chamados "social networks".

Mas pergunto eu:

Onde se encontram os louvados valores da amizade verdadeiramente dita?

O Manuel da esquina e meu amigo, o amigo do Manuel meu amigo tambem e; mas somente o conheco na net.

Ao mesmo tempo, amigos puros se encontram na mesma mescla listada por ordem alfabetica.

Sem duvida penso que estas novas ferramentas sao de louvar, mas quando levadas ao extremo me levam a analisar o comportamento humano.

Tenho amigos, chamados naturalmente antiquados, que, com algum esforco mantem uma visita irregular a esses sites, outros embeberam de tal forma esta nova cultura que ate nos dizem quando estao prestes a fazer uma visita aos privados.

Estudos mostram, que hoje passamos, em media, mais de duas horas por dia do nosso tempo livre em frente ao computador. Verificamos os emails, visitamos os nossos sites sociais, pesquizamos assuntos de interresse pessoal, vamos as compras e nao podemo-nos esquecer de ir aos sites de "chat" para falarmos com os nossos amigos( MSN, SKYPE, ooVoo, etc).

Nao seria melhor, pergunto eu, convidarmos os nossos AMIGOS e encontrarmo-nos com eles?

Nao estaremos nos a confundir amigos e conhecidos?

Deixo-vos esta questao em aberto e estarei ansioso por saber a vossa opiniao.

Andem la, mais 5 ou menos 5 minutos em frente ao computador, para deixarem a vossa opiniao nao vos fara qualquer diferenca certamente.

First one

Do you get mad when you listen people saying:

"Life is a B****!"
"Life is to be lived"
"Life is what you want it to be"

and so on ...

Made expressions like this makes me curl.

Why???

Lets use those examples and analise it.

1- "Life is a B****!" - If it is so bad, why not giving up on it? - Why spend energy complaining instead of fighting it?

2- "Life is to be lived" - For sure; if not, we would be dead. Never the less, never says HOW is supposed to be lived. - All lifes are differents and presented to ourselves in diferrent ways, therefore it is impossible to generalise.

3- "Life is what you want it to be" - Really??? - Is that so simple? - So why can't we resolve poverty issues? - Why do we still in war in so many parts of the world?

Basically, I refuse to accept general sayings.

What do you think?