domingo, 29 de marzo de 2009
martes, 24 de marzo de 2009
Fate...

"I got to thinking about fate. That crazy concept that we're not really responsible for the course our lives take. That it's all predestined, written in the stars. Maybe that explains why, if you live in a city, where you can't even see the stars, your love life tends to feel a little more random. And even if our every man, every kiss, every heartache, is pre-ordered from some cosmic catalogue, can we still take a wrong step and wander off our own personal milky way? I couldn't help but wonder, can you make a mistake and miss your fate?
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cites. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know that the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."
Sex and the city. I heart NY, season 4
viernes, 6 de febrero de 2009
Strangers on a train

In recent weeks I have been very involved in the world of electronic engineering, to be more specific I'm doing the final project to graduate, which is aimed at testing the application of a statistical method to predict losses in a network. Because of this, I have been reading about statistics and I've found it reaaally interesting and has amazing applications in daily life.
uncertainty is one of the most important concepts in the theory of information which is a really important one for communications (communication related to engineering); but just yesterday I was talking with my friends and one of my friends came out with a theory that he learned in his communications' classes (related to interpersonal comm) and I just found it very cool the theory is called as "stranger on a train theory", this theory is in fact related with uncertainty, with reduction of uncertainty, and it says that people have stated the need to reduce uncertainty about others gaining information about them. The information gained can then use to predict the behavior of another. So when you are in a bus, a supermarket or wherever the information you have of people is just provided by the senses, the way someone smells or looks like, so you feel the need to reduce uncertainty, and how cool is to reduce uncertainty :).
uncertainty is one of the most important concepts in the theory of information which is a really important one for communications (communication related to engineering); but just yesterday I was talking with my friends and one of my friends came out with a theory that he learned in his communications' classes (related to interpersonal comm) and I just found it very cool the theory is called as "stranger on a train theory", this theory is in fact related with uncertainty, with reduction of uncertainty, and it says that people have stated the need to reduce uncertainty about others gaining information about them. The information gained can then use to predict the behavior of another. So when you are in a bus, a supermarket or wherever the information you have of people is just provided by the senses, the way someone smells or looks like, so you feel the need to reduce uncertainty, and how cool is to reduce uncertainty :).
domingo, 11 de enero de 2009
Luck...

One of the most excellent things I like to have is: control, so thinking about that, thinking about losing control on things; I got into the concept of luck, and I found a really interesting definition:
Luck (also called fortunity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. Luck can be good or bad (as in; Good fortune or misfortune)
references: http://www.answers.com/topic/luck
Then I thought about how it and It's really funny how we can justify everything that happens in our life with luck, but maybe we are not looking beyond, maybe it was not good or bad luck, maybe there is not something like luck, what if everything depends on the decisions you take or the things you do, in the path you chose...Anyway in a different point of view Woody Allen once said:
"People are afraid to acknowledge or to face what huge dependency they have on luck,". "There's a tendency to think we have great control over our lives or some control, but the truth of the matter is that we don't have the control that you think. You think you have control - you think if you get up in the morning, you exercise, you eat right and don't smoke, you will be healthy. But it doesn't work that way - you still get cancer and you still get hit by a bus. So much is luck. But if you face that, it's a very unpleasant feeling. You like to feel 'I have some control over events' ... You do have some control, but much less than you think, and that's why I wanted to make the movie."
Luck (also called fortunity) is a chance happening, or that which happens beyond a person's control. Luck can be good or bad (as in; Good fortune or misfortune)
references: http://www.answers.com/topic/luck
Then I thought about how it and It's really funny how we can justify everything that happens in our life with luck, but maybe we are not looking beyond, maybe it was not good or bad luck, maybe there is not something like luck, what if everything depends on the decisions you take or the things you do, in the path you chose...Anyway in a different point of view Woody Allen once said:
"People are afraid to acknowledge or to face what huge dependency they have on luck,". "There's a tendency to think we have great control over our lives or some control, but the truth of the matter is that we don't have the control that you think. You think you have control - you think if you get up in the morning, you exercise, you eat right and don't smoke, you will be healthy. But it doesn't work that way - you still get cancer and you still get hit by a bus. So much is luck. But if you face that, it's a very unpleasant feeling. You like to feel 'I have some control over events' ... You do have some control, but much less than you think, and that's why I wanted to make the movie."
martes, 30 de diciembre de 2008
Heraclitus was right!!

About 2 years ago I went through a kind of painful situation, which at the end was like a trauma, I was really scare of living something like that again; it was like when you fall in your first bike ride and doesn't want to take your bike anymore.
Some weeks ago I had to face again that situation, and finally everything went just perfect; In fact better than what I was expecting and now I feel extremely happy. At the end I realized that I was not completely healed from the 2 years ago situation, that I had to face it again, I had to compare it with the new one and I have to accept that I won't go through that again because Heraclitus was freaking right: "You cannot step into the same river twice, for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you."
sábado, 20 de diciembre de 2008
Comfortable
"Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, and denying it doesn't change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world, head on, guns blazing... Denial. It's not just a river in Egypt. It's a freakin' ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?
Some days ... the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and probably, and when you least expect it, the world rights itself again.We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still, the expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.
A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming, when we don't have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear" Grey's anatomy
Some days ... the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and probably, and when you least expect it, the world rights itself again.We all think we’re going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But sometimes expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected. You got to wonder why we cling to our expectations, because the expected is just what keeps us steady. Standing. Still, the expected's just the beginning, the unexpected is what changes our lives.
A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right, and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building. Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming, when we don't have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear" Grey's anatomy
martes, 28 de octubre de 2008
Changes...
Today I was thinking how difficult can be changing, as someone said Change is the only constant in life, we are unavoidably exposed to changes, but thinking about that, sometimes you don’t have the last word on the changes that happen in your life they just happen and when they happen the reaction can be not that good; so, it would always be better to have the control of changing, right? But why we are sometimes so scare of changing, being afraid of changing means that you feel satisfied with everything in your life but if it’s like that then a lot of things probably changed before reaching this state, something had to fall, Something had to move to get to this point and if you are not satisfied with something in your life then why so scare of changing, why not taking the risk for improving your life, why not having the courage, why we are so scare even to small changes when this could be one key thing to succeed...
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