In 2017 United Kingdom suffered 5 terrorist attacks. This year, in the Queen's Christmas speach this was a really important topic, the terrorist outrages. The Queen mentioned the courage and the bravery of the victims who survived. She met and talked to the young audience of the concert on Manchester where 22 people got killed by the attack, so this message was based on evidence. Other issues to which the Queen reffered are the family, faith, good will and peace.
The first radio queen's speach was given in 1952 and it lasted 3 minutes. It's an important english tradition, which nowadays involves BBC, Sky New and ITN broadcasters.
Here you can watch the speach from this Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsOMQqGmI1c
Monday 25 December 2017
New Year's resolutions
I am sure that you are trying to figure it out how to be happier, reacher, more organized or what you are up to on 2018! Have you made a list of your New Year's resolutions? I haven't done it yet, but there are some ideas in my mind of what should it represent. I read one article about "How to be happier in 2018" which might interest you, so I decided to tell you about some ideas in a nutshell.
At first you should eliminate your tendency of negative thinking, if you get able to learn from hurtful situations, you will be ready to face them or even avoid them in the future.
Acknowledge why are you in a bed mood cycle. When you think consciously about it, you can face it easier then when you press on forgetting.
Give yourself advices as if you were trying to help your friend.
Think about the positive things which happened to you, about your success.
Write down (maybe in a form of a diary) what is your struggle. Then rewrite it from the point of view of a neutral observer. You will see a big difference.
Move! Active people are more happy and healthy.
Remember that the happiness as pesimism are infectious, so go for spending time with positive people mostly.
Share with us your New Year's resolutions list if you would like to inspire more people who might read it.
Good luck! :)
At first you should eliminate your tendency of negative thinking, if you get able to learn from hurtful situations, you will be ready to face them or even avoid them in the future.
Acknowledge why are you in a bed mood cycle. When you think consciously about it, you can face it easier then when you press on forgetting.
Give yourself advices as if you were trying to help your friend.
Think about the positive things which happened to you, about your success.
Write down (maybe in a form of a diary) what is your struggle. Then rewrite it from the point of view of a neutral observer. You will see a big difference.
Move! Active people are more happy and healthy.
Remember that the happiness as pesimism are infectious, so go for spending time with positive people mostly.
Share with us your New Year's resolutions list if you would like to inspire more people who might read it.
Good luck! :)
Scotland
As I have much free time this Christmas break, I read a lot and make some plans for the New Year. One of the object of my reading activity are National Geographic magazines. Recently I read one article about Scotland which made me want to go there immediately. Of course I won't go there right now but this country can figure on my list of places to visit in 2018. What attracts me the most in Scotland? The castles in the beautiful fresh green environment, the buildings which show you how the families in XVth century leaved.
The life music played in the in the pubs, for example in Glasgow as I read, is something that you must experience there! In Poland it is not so much in common to listen to a life music show in every bar.
If you prefer staying in the nature and rest a bit of the noisy and crowded city I would propose you to visit Loch Lomond, the National Park 25 km from Glasgow. There are many lakes and forests, mountains. From the touristic point of view what would catch your attention are the castles and the ruins which you can investigate over there.
If you are a fan of literature you should definitely see the Eilean Donan castle with which the poem "Lady on the Lake" of Walter Skott is connected, or the castle of Glamis (where in the Duncan's hall died the king from Macbeth of Shakespeare). Other interesting castles you can find in Aberdeen. This little text I shared with you can make you eager to visit Scotland, or to read more about this country :)
The life music played in the in the pubs, for example in Glasgow as I read, is something that you must experience there! In Poland it is not so much in common to listen to a life music show in every bar.
If you prefer staying in the nature and rest a bit of the noisy and crowded city I would propose you to visit Loch Lomond, the National Park 25 km from Glasgow. There are many lakes and forests, mountains. From the touristic point of view what would catch your attention are the castles and the ruins which you can investigate over there.
If you are a fan of literature you should definitely see the Eilean Donan castle with which the poem "Lady on the Lake" of Walter Skott is connected, or the castle of Glamis (where in the Duncan's hall died the king from Macbeth of Shakespeare). Other interesting castles you can find in Aberdeen. This little text I shared with you can make you eager to visit Scotland, or to read more about this country :)
Strange Christmas traditions: Spain
Christmas time is the time of being with our families, eating too much, exchanging presents. Apart from that, in every country or even family, the Christmas traditions differ. I find as the strangest tradition I have ever heard about, the "pooing man Caganer" from Catalunya. The man in question looks charming. It a wooden "sculpture" of a peasant man who wears a typical catalan red cup and trousers down taking a poo. The name of this character in a literal translation means "the crapper".
The Caganer comes home on the 8th of December and starting from this day it gets ready for the Christmas Eve. The children fid it with godies, so on the proper day it is ready to poo it out, and in that extraordinary way give presents to the kids. Nobody knows where and when from comes this tradition, but probably it comes from the 18th century.
The Caganer comes home on the 8th of December and starting from this day it gets ready for the Christmas Eve. The children fid it with godies, so on the proper day it is ready to poo it out, and in that extraordinary way give presents to the kids. Nobody knows where and when from comes this tradition, but probably it comes from the 18th century.
How do you see the world?
Today I would like to share with you my opinion about the movie "The Room" from 2015. I called this post "How do you see the world?", because one of the most important threads of this movie is the perception of the world. How would you imagine the world if you were closed in one room since you were born?
The main characters of the plot are a woman called Joy and her son Jack. Joy was kidnapped as a teenager and trapped in a little cupboard in the garden of old Nick. After two years spent in "a room" she gave birth to Jack. The boy was growing in this place, deprived of natural light, other human beings etc. His whole world was "the room". Jack had a TV on which he saw other people, but he thought they were not real, as all what the TV had to offer. The first time his mother told him that there, on the other side of the wall the other world existed, he couldn't believe at the first moment, later on he started making questions. Little Jack dares us to rethink the things that surround us and seem to be so banal. There are less and less things that can surprise us, whereas Jack, perceives everything as remarkable. I strongly recommend this movie, even with it's dramatic story, it can give you valuable reflection on life and human relations.
"The room" directed by Lenny Abrahamson was filmed in Toronto (Canada) in 2015.
Here is the link to the official UK trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBdUPAjiVQ
The main characters of the plot are a woman called Joy and her son Jack. Joy was kidnapped as a teenager and trapped in a little cupboard in the garden of old Nick. After two years spent in "a room" she gave birth to Jack. The boy was growing in this place, deprived of natural light, other human beings etc. His whole world was "the room". Jack had a TV on which he saw other people, but he thought they were not real, as all what the TV had to offer. The first time his mother told him that there, on the other side of the wall the other world existed, he couldn't believe at the first moment, later on he started making questions. Little Jack dares us to rethink the things that surround us and seem to be so banal. There are less and less things that can surprise us, whereas Jack, perceives everything as remarkable. I strongly recommend this movie, even with it's dramatic story, it can give you valuable reflection on life and human relations.
"The room" directed by Lenny Abrahamson was filmed in Toronto (Canada) in 2015.
Here is the link to the official UK trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBdUPAjiVQ
Monday 11 December 2017
Time limit
Have you ever thought about how would it be if we could have 48 hours for only one day? I have, many times. The main restriction in life in my opinion is the time limit. Not only we have for everyday just 24 hours to complit all of our plans for a day, but also we have no idea of the time that is left for us on Earth. "It is so hard to leave- until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world"; as John Green says in "Paper towers". What about our time perception? When we have too much free time, often we do nothing special. The individual perception of time space is where the validation comes from. When you actually see genuine people enjoying the way they spend their leisure time, you know they are not wasting it. I would rather have a lifetime of doing what makes sense to me than chase the others, to be all the time in a frenetic pace of life that the world has nowadays. To be well-adjusted we should know what is our time perception.
The scientists used to believe that the sense of time was created by a kind of internal clock, but currently as it is investigated, it turns out that it looks a bit different that was supposed to. The neurons follow the same pattern which does not depend on the speed of acting, but over a longer interval of time the patter is stretched and over a shorter one it is compressed. Our brain is more like a rubber band than a clock, in this case. So the sense of time depends on us! Don't rush if you don't want to. Below, I propose you to read this article about the "Slow city" project.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=83085&page=1
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