Category: Blog

We all think slavery is bad, right? And I agree.

Many violent kind of slavery are unacceptable.
But are we considering all the cases?

In the Etruscan civilization the so-called slaves were very precious and they were all treated well.
Some of the slaves were also beautiful, and they were considered something important in society.

So, what about the Etruscan civilization? How can we define those slaves?
I can surely say they were working to serve their master and they got food and help from him/her.
They served their master through helping him/her in the daily task.

Now let’s talk about services and virtual assistant.
What they do is to help people with some daily task they prefer not to handle.

It’s not slavery, we pay for the service and we expect the service to be done in the constraints we agreed upon.

But is that far from slavery? From the Etruscan slavery?
I surely didn’t live at those times but I think we’re not that far.

Yesterday I was in a church were a children got baptized.
What I loved about this was the deep faith and how the priest and the people had such a strong respect and faith.

This is not common. Religions, god, faith, are often a commodity.
We use them in the dark times and forget them in the good times, but this wasn’t the case.

When you see people having so much faith without being blind, a faith that’s human and heavenly, then you realize the value of those sacred moments.

Before the printed paper, people wouldn’t know that they had vision problems, because they couldn’t/wouldn’t  read, thus it was impossible for them to diagnose such issue.

When the first books and newspapers came out, the population instantly knew there was something wrong with their sight.
Not every one, but some did.

Up until then, it was normal.
For everyone suffering from vision problems it was normal to see like that, because they couldn’t knew what was the baseline.

Sometimes we face the same problem everyday. It’s not a matter of tech evolution, but it also depends on how we listen to our body.

For example: Do you think you’re breathing correctly or not? What if there’s something missing and you’re not breathing 100%?

It’s easy to diagnose a big problem, but the small ones? They are often unnoticed because we think it’s the baseline, the normal thing, the usual.

In fact, aside from analyzing ourselves every day with tools, we can’t really know what’s normal and what’s not regarding our health status unless an evident problem arise.

Today I discovered that many people like Snapchat, and one of the distinctive feature it has is that nothing is stored. Everything is lost within 24hours.

Just like in real life, you lose the memory unless you personally recall it.

This got me thinking. What was the point of keeping memories?
It was to not forget?

I think so, but I’m somewhat concerned about that small part of us that wants some melancholia right away, by looking at old photos and remembering the old times.

We are not meant to live in the past.

Guess what? in life we screw up every single time.
We screw up even when we think we learned how to do it.

We screw up even when we promised we wouldn’t do it anymore.

It’s quite arrogant, isn’t it? That we think we will be able to execute our life perfectly with no errors or glitches.
Even to think to execute perfectly a small part of our life is arrogant.

This arrogance is partly the beauty of life, is part of our human nature and it’s hard to ask someone to not being arrogant this way.

Back to the topic: screwing up.
I did it today, and I will probably do it tomorrow.
Even if I have the best intentions, even if I think I know how things works.
I’ll screw it up with people I love, and I’ll also screw it it inside myself when I won’t be capable to handle my emotion.
To understand where rage or envy comes from.

Let’s take Rage for example.
Rage is a message.
You may think it’s an emotion, right? But in fact you should see it as a message, a fever.

A fever means your body has something wrong.
In this case, you got something wrong with your inner self.
Why? Because if you were totally in peace with it, why in the world would you be angry?

The reason we are angry is that we have something we need to discover and explore.
We need to understand the reason behind rage.
Rage is a symptom.
And “I am angry because X made Y” is part of the symptom, it’s not the virus.

It’s easy to be fooled by rage after all, and here we go screwing things up again.
How easy.

The thing is… we can’t do it perfectly.
We will do it wrong, it’s part of our learning process and while I’m not advocating that “doing things wrong is the only way to progress”, I do think that we have to learn how to get back up.

Because no matter what, you’ll screw up.
And you’ll have to get up and running.
’cause life goes on.