In the last 4-5 years I have been living in a life in 1-year-terms. Ever year, I change my job, my house, the country I live in and the friends that I see... And every year during the period of "deciding what to do next year" this question comes up to my mind: Why should I find a job and work? Why don't I just stop?
I think that I start questioning this because I start feeling tired at the 2/3 of the term, and I start getting rejections in my job search. Still, this does not make my question invalid.
If we go back to the originals, the humankind worked for survival. They needed to find food and shelter to be able to survive, so they worked. As my hometown is not economically demanding, I believe that I could live there without an economical constraint that endangers my survival. So why should I work?
I also believe that capitalism created a generation who only thinks about consuming. If I work, my role in the world will be to feed the needs of those who can afford buying the services / goods the company I work for offers. Many of the companies that my profile fits in does not provide added value to the world, they only serve for satisfying the needs of the people who can afford. So why should I work?
Also, every country in the world want to have the same standards as the developed countries have now. I believe that the earth does not have enough resources to offer to humankind to get every human live in the standards of a developed country.(Unfortunately, this is a fact that if there are 12 people in a room where there are resources for only 10 people, any two of them will not have a good fortune.) So instead of working for the capitalist system if I were to work for the improvement of the poor's situation, I'm not sure if I would be working for a good purpose. So why should I work?
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I'm amazed by the fact that how my perspective on similar topics can change drastically every time I think about it. Maybe this is what it takes to be 25 :)
My world is miles of endless roads That leaves a trail of broken dreams Where have you been I hear you say I'll meet you at the Blue Cafe 'Cause, this is where the one who knows Meets the one who does not care Cards of fate, the older shows The younger one, who dares to take The chance of no return Where have you been? Where are you going to? I want to know what is new I want to go with you What have you seen? What do you know is new? Where are you going to? 'Cause I want to go with you |
Yeah, it's already spring in Madrid, and I started enjoying the nice weather and the big park in Madrid! I have some photos uploaded to flickr of one of the days we were there... just in case you wanna see more of our randomness...
I use Google Analytics to track my blog's traffic so I found out that 93.33% of my visitors use Firefox. So I decided that it would be relevant to share these new add-ons with you.
I like Firefox generally I prefer it to other browsers. But there's a main problem with the tables: You cannot copy paste the tables as you do it in Internet Explorer :\ If you are actually "working" and need to extract some data from a website it is almost impossible to do it with Firefox.
So I researched a bit and found these great tools that allows you to copy paste the tables, and even do more stuff with them:
1- Table2Clipboard 0.2.1: Allows you to copy to clipboard the selected rows/colums - or all the table - from a website
2-TableTools 0.26: Sort, filter or copy any table (ctrl+alt+click sorts, ctrl+shift+click filters ... )
These two tools allow you to play with Firefox tables as they are on Excel.
Attention: Addictive :P
I moved to the 7th house in the last 8 years. I lived in 2 different houses in İstanbul, 1 in Mexico, 2 in the Netherlands and 2 in Spain.
But I know that I am not fed up with moving around yet! There are many more countries to live in, so do many more houses :)
If we have ever talked about me, you should have already heard that I describe myself as social alcoholic. I don't know if this term exists as I use it but I can explain what I mean.
It is not social drinker: Social drinking refers to casual collateral drinking without the intent to get drunk. (Wikipedia)
It is not pure alcoholism: Alcoholism refers to any condition that results in the continued consumption of alcoholic beverages despite health problems and negative social consequences (Wikipedia)
It is somewhere in between. I haven't actually suffered health problems or important negative social consequences of my drinking habit but I can easily say that I have been drinking a lot more than an average person.
Some may think that the amount I drink is normal. Actually I have heard people saying that. In opposition to that, I think that the amount of social alcoholics around is so much that the people think that this is normal.
Since I arrived to Madrid, I have been having the most non-alcoholic period of my life since 15. It's weird though, Spain is all about partying and drinking for people at my age, but somehow it did not stimulate the alcoholic inside me :) Lately I have been drinking maximum once a week, or even less. Record low!
As per my values and according to the way I wanna live my life, alcohol should almost disappear from my life. In the near future, when I settle down, I want to be drinking less than a usual social drinker, or maybe stop completely.
Now I question this non-alcoholic period in Madrid... Is it the end of alcoholism for me or just a short break?
Time will answer my question I guess :)
I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am the itch you cannot reach!
I am Darkwing Duck!
