This week I have lived some funny stories showing how small our world is…
* First, on Friday night. A friend was commenting another friend her last years’ story: “Last year I was studying a MBA in Sevilla…”. At this point her friend’s face changed: “It’s weird… Yesterday, a colleague of me came with me in my car because we both left very late from work, and she had a son who also was in a MBA for Engineers last year in Seville…” “Do you know his name?” “Javi, but I don’t know the surname. But the mother’s name is Marisa” And then I shouted to another guy in that living-room (we were about 20): “Javiiii!!! What’s your mother’s Name?” “Marisa”, he answered me… Funny, isn’t it?
* Second, saturday night. I was in a birthday. 50 people. I talked to a guy who came from Alicante (we didn’t know one to each other) and after some hours he said me: “It’s funny, I met here a girl who was in my school in Alicante!” Later on, I went to met her, “so, you are the one from Alicante?” “Yes, I am” “So am I” “Yes, I know, you are Nacho” O_o “Do you know me?” “Yes, you are a friend of Mario” “Ohhhh, we went out in the same group for some time!!!” “Yes” Wow. That was 9 years ago, and we meet suddenly in Madrid (6 million people living here)
* And third one. On Friday I talked to my ex-boss from Seville. I asked him about his son (he was considering going into Erasmus), and he said me “He’s in Karlsruhe” “Nice place, I have a friend there also… Maybe they know one to each other”. Today, I met Inda‘s sister in MSN: “Hey there! (…) Do you know this guy?” “Yeeeeeeeeeees, he’s one of my best friends here”. 😀
I like this kind of things. It’s also nice when you see a strange coincidence in Linkedin or Facebook. 🙂
Curiosos contrastes en este artículo y apoteósica frase final. Olé!
gratitud.
(Del lat. gratitūdo).
1. f. Sentimiento que nos obliga a estimar el beneficio o favor que se nos ha hecho o ha querido hacer, y a corresponder a él de alguna manera.
ingrato, ta.
(Del lat. ingrātus)
1. adj. Desagradecido, que olvida o desconoce los beneficios recibidos.
2. adj. Desapacible, áspero, desagradable.
3. adj. Que no corresponde al trabajo que cuesta labrarlo, conservarlo o mejorarlo.
If we put a frog in a pot with boiling water, immediately it tries to escape. But, if we put that frog in room temperature water, and we don’t frighten it, it remains quite. When the temperature is changed from 21 to 26 degrees, the frog does nothing, and it even seems to be having fun. The more the temperature increases, the more stunned the frog is, and finally it cannot go out from the pot.
The frog stays in the pot and it is cooked, although nothing prevents it to exit from the pot. Why? Because its internal system to detect threats in order to survive is prepared for sudden changes in the environment, but not slow and gradual ones.
In The Fifth Discipline, of Peter Senge.
Seen in ¡Que paren las máquinas! (allí está en español).
Hace unos años había en TV3 un programa llamado Malalts de Tele, con una sección llamada Altres límits que ponía cortes de otros programas/cadenas bastante curiosos…
Después de un rato buscando en Youtube, he seleccionado estos dos vídeos que son el resumen de dos años. Sencillamente espectacular. No hace falta que sepáis catalán para entenderlo…
AVISO: Hay alguna parte no apta para estómagos sensibles… He avisado.
El sábado estuve de senderismo con el COIT. Ventajas de estar en Madrid: no habrá playa, pero tiene una hermosa sierra, con sus ríos y sus arbolitos y esas cosas que hay en el campo, y por las que se puede andar. Esta vez fue por la ribera del río Edesma, en la vertiente segoviana de Navacerrada.
