I don't know, I just had a desire to rant about something and this something has been in a tiny corner of my tiny mind for a while. I'm sure at some point or another, anyone can say that language barriers are a bitch. They suck. I think mostly they create disadvantages, but I guess there are some advantages too. It's a double edged sword, though, since a person can't speak, read and write on every possible language on Earth (which apparently a quick google search says there are about 7,000 languages in the world) so anyone is bound to come across something that they want to understand but can't because they don't speak that language. Advantages can be that there might be more literature written in one language than another, for example. Some languages are barely spoken except for a few hundred or thousand people, so there won't be many books translated to their language. Those people may have to learn another more widely spoken language as well, and that's ok.

So where is the problem then? The problem that I sometimes find myself thinking about is when people use language as some sort of a status. They think that if they speak a certain language it somehow makes them better than people who don't. Of course, that ties into nationalism and racism, which are both bad though I have come across some people who tried to argue that nationalism is ok and I just don't know if I should have wasted my time trying to explain to them why it's not. I'm not so smart anyways.

"Language snobs" I see a lot online, since the World Wide Web is world wide and people say and do things online that they would never do to anyone in the non-virtual world. There are many people who translate things from one language to another and are cool about it. They don't act all important or like everyone who reads their stuff is now somehow indebted to them. And that's nice. But of course there are those that don't and it's annoying. Usually, I don't read their stuff if they want to act that way, since they are in no way, shape important. I can live without their shit, they didn't even write the original shit so it's not theirs in the first place, and there will always be others who are nice about translating that shit. That's the thing about a language: there are many people who speak it. Create your own language and our own stuff and translate it. Then maybe you'll be a little more important. Right now, those people act childish, and maybe that's who they are - a bunch of kids - and I'm being a meanie.

Anyways, yup, that's my rant: I think people who think that speaking another language makes them better than those who don't need to reassess their heads. Besides it being discriminatory (even if you don't agree that it's racist or nationalistic, it's just discriminating based on something that someone might not be able to do since a person can't do everything) , it also shows their own lack of confidence in themselves that they have to hold on to anything that can make them feel that they are better than someone else. They grab on to languages, things that most human beings over the age of two are capable of using (even if a little). Really it's just sad, kind of maybe not that important, and probably not even worth four paragraphs. But oh well.

Maybe someone will read this and think about it a little. Maybe someone who thinks they can act like shit because of this might think about their attitude a little. Maybe not.

¿Que es la navidad?

Es la ternura del pasado,
el valor del presente
y la esperanza del futuro.

Es el deseo más sincero
de que cada taza se rebose
con bendiciones ricas y eternas,
y de que cada camino nos lleve a la paz.

que estas navidades sean tiempos de amor y reflexion ,
muchas bendiciones un besooo inmesoo muackkk!!!!!

I'm in desperate need of a break from... well, everything and everyone. I don't like how I feel or who I am right now. I've lost confidence, faith, hope, compassion and joy. I don't love ME right now so it's no wonder I'm having a hard time showing love to anyone else. I need a solo vacation - an escape. I need to get my head screwed on straight and examine my heart. I need to figure out what it is that is making me so miserable lately, draw it out and deal with it.

I'm thankful for all the amazing people in my life who are teaching me how to love, how to be loved, and how to function as a kind and decent person in the world. I'm still learning, but I feel fortunate to have such beautiful souls around me.

Also, for family - family being the people who love you, no matter what.

Happy Thanksgiving.

.... algo especial traerá este día!

Rumbo a al tono de halloween





Feliz bodas de plata Lily Campos y Jorge Flores, lo siento por no poder estar presente, me siento muy orgulloso de tenerlos como padres y gracias por ser mi motor de toda la vida..... Los amo hasta mas alla de las estrellas, el cielo y el universo... Feliz cumpleaños mami, mis mejores deseos para esa mujer tan admirable... gracias por estar siempre conmigo!

Dios tiene una visión panorámica de absolutamente todo, El es el único que puede decidir que situaciones son buenas o malas para nosotros, El es el único que puede juzgar ..... Gracias a ti por todas las oportunidades que se están presentando dia a dia ... Gracias!

Dios dame mucha fortaleza . . . necesito afrontar estas pruebas de vida . . . Tú serás el único que juzgará . .

That's what I've been doing lately! I love singing...lol

Wish you guys were here with me!

TÚ eres tu AHORA y tú DESPUES piensa bien que quieres hacer, SABIENDO ESA VERDAD!