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Rushing Through Life

The other day, I was hurrying down the street, worried to fulfill my errands as soon as possible when I came across the most unexpected passerby which forced me to an abrupt halt. Down over the concrete floor, I found a huge snail. I knelt beside to have a better look and take a photograph […]

The Second Step

People say that the first step is always the hardest. Experts entrepreneurs and motivational speakers alike surround the first step with a halo of mysticism as the “barrier breaker”, as the mean to “overcome the fear of failure” or to take “the leap of faith” towards the uncharted territory that our heart so passionately craves […]

Don’t teach your children to love others, teach them to be Honorable.

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” reads in Mark 12:31. Most of Christians grew hearing that there was no greater commandment than this. To love. To love everybody else as we love ourselves. Paradoxically, interpreting this commandment is particularly challenging to everybody, because in some notion sounds even antinatural, considering the fact that the […]

Racism or Narcissism?

Black Lives Matter protests have generated an enormous backlash towards a variety of actions and attitudes flagged as “racist”, especially on the internet. The general discourse has turned dichotomic for my taste, considering the fact that we live—or I like to believe—on a democracy, where a plurality of voices should enrich the society, or at […]

Is Christianity Responsible for Racism in Western Civilization?

Napoleon used to say that “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich,” highlighting not only its relevance within society but also implying that is religion the responsible, in some degree, of upholding the class hierarchy that has permeated since Napoleon until our days. Nowadays, the news of the killing of Afro-American activist […]

Seven Years: One Dead, One Born

On this day, seven years ago, I received a phone call I would never forget. I remember I was working. I was inside my car, getting ready to visit a client, when I received a call in my cellphone. It was my mother. “Please, come quickly to the hospital,” she said with distressed voice and […]

Our Dark Souls and the Search for Humanity.

As we continue our isolation because of the pandemic, we cannot avoid pondering on the fact that by secluding us, we are losing a part of our humanity. And some adventurers dig even deeper, analyzing and questioning their past behavior, wondering about how much of what we do in our ordinary lives defines our humanity. […]

Is Pandemic Transforming us into Strangers?

The world situation is complex. During these critical times, people has been forced to take extreme measures, sometimes with not enough information to be clearly defined as ethical, rendering the difference with the realm randomness, practically nonexistent. For some becoming meaningless. Then the situation becomes absurd. But with governments, people need to abide by the […]

Quarantine: Looking the World with Other Eyes

The current situation the world is enduring due the pandemic is now being referred within the financial argot as the “Lockdown Crisis” or “Lockdown Recession,” because contrary to previous crises, this time, even when a person has cash and the means to expend it, it simply can’t go out to do it. And at a […]

Coronavirus and The Train of Progress

The other day I called my mother and we caught up with the most recent news unveiling in the world surrounding the pandemic produced by Coronavirus (Covid-19). My mother doesn’t watch TV anymore and besides that, she is not a news enthusiast. So, it’s always up to me to summarize the news for her and […]

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