It's funny how life works, a week ago I was visiting a dear friend in Valparaiso, disconnecting myself from everything back at home, just trying to live day to day and enjoying the relaxed environment in a city where everything seems to move slower or at a different pace, a city where I discovered my inner self and at the same time helped me to broaden my mind.
During my stay in Valparaiso I received two job offers, the first one was just an interview, wasn't that important though, and the second was a real offer; they wanted me to be the interpreter in a business and technical meeting. Due to those two reasons I had to come back to Stgo to prepare myself for the upcoming interpretation. I gather all the relevant(technical) information and I inmerse myself into an extrange but interesting topic. I spent almost 12 hours reaserching and studying to be ready for the job (I think is important to mention that it was my first interpretation) .
The moment arrived and I was ready, sitting in the lobby waiting for my "boss". After waiting 20 minutes, destiny came into play. The person I was supposed to interpret did not speak English at all so I had to go back to my house.
I got paid anyway which is good, but I would have loved doing that interpretation.
I can't complain cuz it is what it is
jueves, 21 de febrero de 2013
lunes, 11 de febrero de 2013
JEdi mind tricks
wow, don't know where to start, i am just writing what comes out of my head with no filter whatsoever. life has been good, not as good as i would like, but i cant complain. As you already know, i don't have a job,( steady job) because is not in me, i will have to have one someday, but not now. Last year I worked for a University teaching English of course, but the project ended so now I'm between jobs, a quite common situation in my life which allows me to decipher all kinds of emotions and feelings that go thru my body.
Today i heard some news that took me aback and got me thinking. i've been wondering what kind of structure or set of rules we have for situations like this. i use the word "rules" to represent mental instructions we give ourselves to deal with situations which can cause some uneasiness, or lack of comfort in our normal day to day.
The first thing that came to my mind was the mental stability of the person. One can be easily affected by things if ones mental state is damaged or weak. But who can claim that they have a perfect state of mind, i dont think anyone can do it, so how do we deal with the situation. In my opinion , mind can be trained to withstand such moments, in fact I believe that we have trained the mind our whole life. It's like the movie inception where u can train your brain to repel unwanted things, we create our own panic rooms inside the brain which give us some sort of security (mental).
As I was saying, mental structure is important, however, there are other factors involved.
The emotional aspect is one of them and it can't be left aside. No matter how analytic one thinks one is there are some emotions that can't be handle as soon as they appear, one of them being hate. when u are overwhelmed by emotions your analytic side completely disappears and you helpless once again. emotions can be hard to control, and we all know there is a big amount of crimes committed under the "influence " of this "natural Drugs calls emotions". But then again, the emotional side can be trained, u can't say you haven't heard the term emotionally impaired, well that's not the solution but is cool. The real solution is to identify the emotion you are feeling and then deal with it. of course is easier said than done but is a start.
well I got nothing else to say, I think I ran out of mental fuel if I ever had some
it is what it is.
Today i heard some news that took me aback and got me thinking. i've been wondering what kind of structure or set of rules we have for situations like this. i use the word "rules" to represent mental instructions we give ourselves to deal with situations which can cause some uneasiness, or lack of comfort in our normal day to day.
The first thing that came to my mind was the mental stability of the person. One can be easily affected by things if ones mental state is damaged or weak. But who can claim that they have a perfect state of mind, i dont think anyone can do it, so how do we deal with the situation. In my opinion , mind can be trained to withstand such moments, in fact I believe that we have trained the mind our whole life. It's like the movie inception where u can train your brain to repel unwanted things, we create our own panic rooms inside the brain which give us some sort of security (mental).
As I was saying, mental structure is important, however, there are other factors involved.
The emotional aspect is one of them and it can't be left aside. No matter how analytic one thinks one is there are some emotions that can't be handle as soon as they appear, one of them being hate. when u are overwhelmed by emotions your analytic side completely disappears and you helpless once again. emotions can be hard to control, and we all know there is a big amount of crimes committed under the "influence " of this "natural Drugs calls emotions". But then again, the emotional side can be trained, u can't say you haven't heard the term emotionally impaired, well that's not the solution but is cool. The real solution is to identify the emotion you are feeling and then deal with it. of course is easier said than done but is a start.
well I got nothing else to say, I think I ran out of mental fuel if I ever had some
it is what it is.
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