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I was watching “The Crown” yesterday and there’s a scene where a man from africa kiss the feet of the newborn queen Elizabeth to give his condolences to her.

After this, all the men and women start saying a phrase out loud together. Like a ritual.

Right now when someone dies we give our condolences, maybe we go to the funeral, but that’s it. We don’t recognize death and its appearances like people did before, in tribal groups or samurais.

There was some kind of “Honor” that made them different. The way they respected death and treated the people who lost their ones.

Now death is part of our lives so much we forget too consider it. We see death on tv shows so often that death itself is a common concept. Not something big to understand, but something small that passes by.

That respect was also some kind of mindfulness they had that we are continuing to lose.

At least for me I found that writing at night is more difficult. I’m more dizzy and confused, thoughts scattered through my mind.

How can the night owls people do it? I continuously wonder how people can live sleeping less. To me a good sleep is essential to have energy, mental clarity and so on.

I wonder if we are all different or we have undergone a different conditioning in life.
Maybe we can “learn” to ignore the signals from our body and simply sleep less and be sufficiently effective. who knows.

I’m seriously thinking of putting 2 buckets once you enter our house. One with smartphones with sounds on (because you’re waiting for something), one with sound off and add the rule that if a smartphone is in the sound off bucket it can’t be touched, if a smartphone is in the sound on bucket it can be touched only if it rings.

I wonder what habits would change.

I went to the dentist today and he told me a secret.

They have one of those whitening machines using UV-rays.
They work fine, but the rays are dangerous for the eye.

Guess what, the company behind the machine gives you eyeglasses to protect your eyes, wonderful right?
Which color are the sunglasses? Glad you asked.

Orange.
This way, after looking at orange things for 20 minutes, things will be more blue, and your teeth more white.

Marketing magic. But is everything like that? Are we doomed by marketing and cosmetic?
I’m starting to think that bad marketing exists because we want it.
Aesthetic is something cosmetic.

The need to be beautiful, to compare and look beautiful, is cosmetic.
Marketing is cosmetic too. Is all about getting out your need of comparison, the need to be better, superior, evolved.

Would we think the same way if we didn’t think we need white teeth?

I remember there was this time where my singing teacher asked me to sing in a musical. One of the lead singers was ill and I was a perfect substitute.

I accepted, I was scared but I went through it all.
I was very very anxious the day of the show, it was a beautiful summer night and I remember that I did broke up with my ex-gf few weeks earlier.
I was somewhat hoping she’d get there, she knew I was doing that.

Instead of her, many friends came to see me, even though the show wasn’t their type of show, even though I also messed up in the vocal solo.

Looking back, it was awesome. I got to do a musical, to experience something out of my comfort zone. My friends were all there and we did all enjoy the moment.
At that time though, it felt like a bad day. I was expecting my ex to show up, and since it didn’t happened, I considered a bad day.

A good day or a bad day is, in the moment, only the evaluation of a single element of the whole day.
We miss the vision, we miss the overall group of events that make a day bad or good.
Looking back, I decided it was a bad day based on a single outcome when all the rest of the events were fantastic, and this somewhat proves to me that we focus too much on thing that are too little for us instead of checking out the big game, the strategy, life.