What About Sports?

What is it with sports? Why is there so much excitement for this special games taken place in a certain area? There is something about sports that makes them very important. To many people, they are just silly games that have no importance what so ever on the way we live or the problems society faces; as a matter of fact, sports have a lot to do with some of the problems in our society. Sports have a lot of negative and positive factors that I'am going to write about. For example, did you ever notice that sports can unify many people in one place and make them shout the same word and hug each other in victory, but as a downside the loser team and fans may take very personally and end with violence. People may lose the true importance of this called "games". Sports are about passion, glory, grace, competitiveness, and most of all respect. It's is not about showing how much you can "rock" at it, is about who well yo handle it. Of course we all like to celebrate for the good things, there is nothing bad with it, but is important to do it with respect.

I think that is what sports are about. They were created for a better purpose than violence and agression, we as sports fans must act responsible and respectful. We must just enjoy the game. Isn't that what is all about?

It starts with you

I was doing my ethics homework and I got this idea of doing this blog post about it. I mean, we are all talking about global problems, problems in our society or in other societies; and we should really start to take some action for every one of them.

As answered some questions about values I came to the sense that it starts at the individual level. We know what values are, we have a moral code, we know what right and what is wrong. We should all think about the actions we do every day, even when you brush your teeth, you should think about it and consider if there is something you could do to make it be better to conrtibute for a greater good. Big steps start with small actions, lets save water, treat everyone with respect, don't throw trash on the floor, use your car less, be honest, be responsible, be respectful, and do all the good things that you can do. Every day when you are about to go to sleep, think back on your day and see what you did to help, trust me, you will feel better.

We All Need Each Other

How do you feel when you see a malnourished person? Have you helped in any way the people suffering in Haiti? Do you do your social service because you have to or because it is something you enjoy doing? Have you thought in stop thinking about yourself for a moment, and spend a little time with people with a disability, with a disease, children without parents, and old men?

We need to admit that we are selfish, that we think in ourlserves all the time. We never realize that there are other people around us who are suffering.

But, there are some people (a few ones), who have decided to share their time with people who need us. Consequently, some organizations have been created.

Examples of these organizations are: UNIDOS, Un Paso a Tiempo, UNACARI, and a lot of orphanages or houses in which they receive children without parents or whose parents are not able to give them a good quality of life.

But, these organizations need people to help them; this is the main reason why social service has been created.

Social service is considered a time in which people practice social justice, a good quality of life, and the development of the full potential of each individual (which I consider its main objective).

Social service is impulsed in most of the schools, at junior high-school, high-school, and college, and it is an activity that you can experience in your free time. Besides taking advantage of your time, you are also giving someone a piece of love.

I invite you all not to be selfish, share, live sharing, smile sharing, enjoy sharing. We are all humans, we do not know our fate. Maybe tomorrow we would have nothing to eat, or we would be disabled, or we would lose our family. Take advantage of your belongings, your abilities, and the people around you; but also, think about other people, people who are suffering, people who are facing a problem and need of someone to support them.

We are all like a puzzle, many different pieces, many different forms, many different colors. We all need each other, we depend on each other, we must help each other to complete the puzzle the best way!

The positive side of learning

As students, most of us are always complaining about our situation; we have a lot of things to do. We have a lot of homework, we have exams and we are always busy.

We are used to see the negative side of everything; we are unable to see that we are having an opportunity that no all the people can have.

Going to school has a lot of benefits like learning about sciences, spelling, grammar, you can develop your social skills and the most important thing: you are being prepared to succeed in most of the aspects of our lives.

It is true that education starts at home; the first thing that your parents teach you is a set of values that will be present every day of your life.

This education is the base of your knowledge, and as you grow up, you start mixing it with everything that you are being taught, and that is how your education at school becomes crucial.

We have to take that chance, I know that we can get tired of everything that we are constantly doing; homework, projects and a lot of things, but if we analyze, we will be able to get a lot of knowledege; we will be able to learn a lot of things through experiences, and at the end, we will have the satisfaction that we worked hard and we got what we wanted.

SHOUT FOR EQUALITY!

2010 is here and we are still facing problems with equality between men and women. Many statistics show that inequality is something that it is learned at home and by our culture. But 2010 is time to shout for equality we can not continue living in a community having inequialities between humans(men and women) that have the same capacity to make things possible. Things can not continue this way beacuse everyone is the same no matter what gender you are, what you wear, or where you live. Inequality has to be a lot with discrimination. The term discrimination that refers to the treatment taken against to a certain people or group. Inequality between men and women is like a kind os discrimination because they think women like things. The thing is that women are EQUAL to men only with different physical characteristics. In my thursday exam I read something about inequal payment of 21% less to women even if they have more studies than men. This are the kind of thing we need to change for our future and for our kids future. The kind of thing that our parents lived we do not have the necessity to face them because they are not fair. So it is your decision the type of life you want for you and for your kids. We need to shout for equality now!