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I was listening some 80’s songs on the radio, “Show must go on” from Queen and “Material Girl” from Madonna and this decade started coming back to my mind. One of the tapes I first bought during my teenager years, was a Madonna’s one. Probably influenced by her songs being all the time on the radio.

I also remember when I heard Queen for the first time at a friend’s house. This friend loved Queen and he had all their vinyls available on the market. At this time, not all of them were published and Queen was not as famous as it became some years later, at least for my circle of friends. It was 1985 I remember that this year we also went to see the film “Back to the Future” and we entered the cinema 10 or 15 minutes after the film started, so we saw the scene where Marty McFly arrived to Twin Pines to see Doc Emmett Brown’s experiment. We never knew what had happened this previous 15 minutes until one or two years later we saw again the film on videotape (DVD’s were not invented yet)

We saw lots of films with Queen’s songs: “Iron Eagle” with the theme “One Vision”. “The Highlanders” with “Princes of the Universe”, “Who Wants to Live Forever”… Almost every song on their “A Kind of Magic” album was on this film or had been composed for it.

80’s was a decade of fabulous groups with lots of new songs and we also saw lots of new fabulous films too from Steven Spielberg. It will always be an unforgettable decade to me. Maybe because that’s the decade in which we could say that “I woke up from my childhood” to meet music and films. I’m still remembered in my circle of friends for introducing Queen to them

Freddie Mercury was a very special singer. One in eight thousand millions, which is roughly the population of the world. He got a very special unique style. He was a Real Artist. You could feel he was singing because he loved doing it. This was his success’ secret. The name of the group “Queen” was chosen by him.

One of the tapes I bought from Queen was “A kind of magic”. Yes, “a tape” I never had a record player. My parents bought one, but they gifted it to a friend without even unpacking it. We didn’t have any vinyls at home and they thought that I was too young for this things yet, and probably I was, because this happened some years before the decade I’m talking about. The question is: Why did they bought one then if they already knew this? I really don’t know, but it is one of this things that happen for some reason. Anyway, as I understood since very young how valuable money was, I never wanted to spend too much from my teenage money and as tapes were cheaper than any other media it never was a problem for me. Not having a vinyl record player made me being one of the first teenagers to have a CD player, because this was also the decade when Compact Discs came to light. I remember the sensation of having one of this disks in your hands. You could play with the light on it, watching all this colors coming out and its reflection on the ceiling. One of of the coolest things for me, was the ability to jump to any track you wanted in seconds (this was something very difficult to achieve with tapes)

An unforgettable decade, yes. As I said before, maybe we are marked for those things that we see when we “wake up from our childhood”, the same way a creature is marked by the vision of the first thing they see when they open their eyes on this world, and start following it, thinking that it must be their mother. That’s probably why we think that a specific decade is our decade, or “The Decade” with Capital Letters assuming it must be, as fantastic to everyone as it was for us. After this decade, not too many things get to us as easily as they did before. Now we know a lot more things and we are not as easy to impress as we were before.

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All we know that nowadays there are ghost towns. Places were a lot of people used to live but there is nobody anymore. A lot of people made an effort building them and now they are completely deserted. It happened because they were built around a mine or some other kind of resource and when this resource got depleted everybody went to another place because this resource was the only reason for living there.

Nowadays we have one ghost city that I know: Chernobyl. The reason to become a Ghost City was, of course, human hand. A human error that caused a great disaster and forced people to leave their homes in the city.

As I said before, there are no other Ghosts Cities “that I know”. At least really deserted ones, because sometimes this term is used to describe places where population has decreased to the minimum but I mean a completely deserted city. This may occur with lots of cities, if not all, one day. Today we live in cities because is were you can find the best job positions, but with the growth of communications and Internet, Telework is becoming a reality, and this job opportunities are starting to knock at your door wherever you are. New generations are more aware of Telecommuting, and they feel comfortable with it, but world is still ruled by a not so technologically minded generation.

This new generations will rule the world very soon and a lot of people with economic freedom will leave cities to live in a more healthy place without contamination, rush hours and stress. They will work at home and lots of businesses which are related to people living and working in a city will disappear and hence working positions with them. People won’t want to live in a desert city in which its “resources” have been depleted. Old generations will remain there because city has been their home for a long time and they will want to live there till their death and then, the city will became a ghost city and a new era will have come.

We can make this affirmation the other way: Where would you live if you could work from home? Would you live in a city?

Two ending extra thoughts:
- Some time ago, when lifts were not a commercial reality yet, people wanted living on the first floors because using the stairs to get to the last floors was something nobody liked, so flats at lower levels were more expensive than last floor flats and rich people always lived on ground or first floors. Then technology came in scene. Lifts became a reality and everybody wanted to live on attics because up there it wasn’t as noisy as at street level, you could enjoy direct sunlight and it was as living somewhere out of the city.

- Some more time ago, first settlements were next to rivers so people could have fresh water and probably houses built riverside were most wanted and most expensive. Then current water became a reality and this changed people’s mind, making them wanting to live in maybe a different area.

Time and technology change uses and customs. Prepare yourself and your descendants for the next change.

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It is said that one of the things to do in life is to find the Secret of Life and tell everybody.

I’m not sure about having found it but maybe the secret of life is that “We are All the Same”. I mean that we are led by feelings. All we tend thinking that we are the only sensitive person in this world or at least a very sensitive person compared to the rest. We think that others are stronger persons than we are. We think that we are the only ones who can love as much as we do. But the truth is that “We are All the Same”. All we have loving feelings, emotions and we are not as tough as we like thinking.

That’s what I think the secret of life is. It means that we should be able to communicate with anybody as if we were talking to ourselves and able to connect with anybody’s feelings. All this in theory of course, because if you try to get to anybody with this, their first reaction will be to show you that they don’t care about this things. This reaction is led by fear of being hurt. Everybody builds the personality they think they should have or they should show to others and if you want to get in, you will have to break this first layer. This makes it a little bit more difficult, but if you show this people that you are as they really are inside themselves, they will open their hearts to you. It is not easy. You will need practice and you will find people that have opened to someone else and don’t want to open to anybody else. This are the tough ones, but they are not impossible. You just have to try harder with them.

Maybe you are thinking right now that I’m wrong because you are not like this, but think that there is not only one “you”. One thing is the “you” you think you are, and another thing is the “you” that you really are”, and not many people knows about the existence of the real “you”.

Maybe there are also other “secrets of life” like, for example, living the present. But by now I have chosen only one.

If you know about other secrets, let us know leaving a comment. Thanks!

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Day after day we keep doing the same things. Waking up, going to work, having our lunch… Everyday the same things till we get to our free weekly day (if we have any)

All this looks a little bit boring, but would it be better if we could do whatever we want? Could be, but it depends on your lifestyle (or the new lifestyle you would choose to live if you were able to do it)

If you stayed at home all day in front of your computer or television, it could be worse, because you could feel lonely at some point. If you live with someone, then you won’t feel lonely, but monotony would harass your lives.

If you opt by going out to visit new places, you will break with monotony, but it will probably become monotone after lots of days doing this… Or maybe not?  It depends on the schedule. If you do the same everyday at the same exact hour, you will get tired of it very soon.

It doesn’t matter what we do. Monotony appears when we keep doing the same, day after day, so we have to try breaking the monotony whenever there’s a chance. It makes our lives more interesting. Needles to say that you must do something you feel comfortable with. If you live with someone, you must agree on something that both like. Otherwise one of you will be very happy and the other won’t.

By doing something different, your days look longer and more intense. You really enjoy life! It is something we all should do everyday.

One of the main problems to do this, is money. Maybe you would like traveling somewhere, but if you haven’t money you can’t afford it and you will have to work to get some money and travel when you have enough.

Whats the solution then? Probably the solution is Being Rich to do whatever you want, whenever you want, without worrying about money.

Bruce Lee once said “Be water my friend” which was a very good tip, but I think it would be better saying “Be Rich, my Friend”.

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Greg House is a doctor on a TV series. The first time I watched it, I felt very identified with Doctor House. He is a very intuitive professional that knows very well how medicine works and sees and interprets symptoms and details in every case.I’m not a doctor, but this is exactly what I feel in my field of knowledge. I see things with extreme clarity  where others don’t see anything and keep guessing all the time till they find a “kind of” “possible solution” that most of times is completely wrong.

I compare this feeling to what an average intelligence adult would feel in a kindergarten.

Yes, been an adult in a kindergarten is a fairly good advantage. You can tell the kids which is the right way to do something, but as they think they are intelligent enough, they keep doing whatever they think is right until they understand it is not going to work.Being an adult in a kinder-garden is something frustrating, if you want anything solved the right way, you must do it yourself, so, whats the point on having so many kids around? That’s why this kind of people are lonely. They are fed up of stupidities.

As you are good at your job, your boss promotes you to a management position and you have to deal with a group of kids that don’t know where their feet are. At some point, you try to awake observation and reflexion on them, so you have to stress a bit the situation, so they feel forced to think. Of course, you have to demonstrate first that you see further than them, but this is something that comes with time.

On the first chapters, Dr. House was a strict but nice and kind of listening person, very professional and a little bit eccentric yes, but on the last chapters, he has become a stupid selfish person (I’m talking about the 3^rd season)

People that are good at their jobs, are also good on lots of other things, so they should be good as managers too. And if like House, you count on people, that means that you should tolerate them. And if you are intelligent enough to see what other people can’t, you should be intelligent enough to see whenever you are wrong.

The more intelligent you are, the wiser you become and wisdom makes you more respectable with others. So this means that House is a complete contradictory fiction led by viewers who are probably asking for what is happening right now.

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