My Goals

Dear Lourdes,

I'm Paula Valenzuela Turró and I'm seventeen years old. I live in Castelló D'Empúries with my family and I play basketball in the village team. I like playing all kind of sports, reading and hang out with my friends.

When I finish high school, I want to study English Studies in the University of Barcelona, but I'm also interested in the career of Tourism. Also, I would love to spend a year or so in another country and study there for a while. I think that it's a great opportunity to be independent and learn new languages and experiences.

And with that said,

Regards.

Paula Valenzuela Turró

You say

I'm going to try to explain a few things about our society.

In the last decade, with the advanced technology and social media, everyone knows what you're doing. We post photos of our friends, family, pets... Also we follow our favorite celebrities and we try to be like them. 

All of this could be really cool and stuff but sometimes turns out to be pretty annoying and even dangerous sometimes. We don't realize that EVERYONE can see what we're posting. It destroys step by step our personallity because we always want to be like him/her because he/she is cool, popular, etc. Also we care too much about how people will react when they see us or our photos and even where you are and with who. 

Personally I think we're becoming dolls of the society. Everytime someone wears something that's ''not cool'', listens to different music or even looks different physically, we end up making fun of that someone and don't even think about the possibility of that someone being friend with you. That's really sad and childish. 

It looks like we're afraid of the unknown and we only care of how popular we are. And that's the actual true.

News

As every 12th of October Spain celebrates its national party but not everyone is happy about to celebrate it. In this article the author explains us why and how people who disagree whit this celebration reacts.

This festivity it's given at the end of the conquist of America, where the spanish language and culture was extended across the new found continent. That's the main problem that makes people dislike the 12th of October celebration. They think that we shouldn't be celebrating such a violent thing that had happened and that instead, we should feel ashamed and empathize with how the native american felt.

Another fact that gives so much hate to this party is the people who wants the independence for Catalonia. The independentists say that, as they don't feel spanish, there's nothing to celebrate and that they'll go to work anyway. 

I particulary don't have anything against this celebration but I agree with it being the celebration of something violent. But look at the catalan national party, every 11th of September we celebrate a defeat, so I guess every culture and country has its meanings for these festivties.

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS

Four years ago I started reading a book series called The Mortal Instruments. I was really excited when I was reading the first book because it shows you a completely different world that you can barely imagine, a world full of demons disguised as random citizens. 
The books follows the life of a teenager called Clary Fray who, while partying in New York, meets a group of pretty weird ''people''. Since there Clary's life changes completely and she's accidentally  thrown to a secret world where she seems to be the key of everything. (I finish the plot here because I don't want to do any spoilers to anyone).

When I ended the first book I knew that there was a movie of it already. I was really excited for it but I ended up really disappointed and I didn't even finished it because the characters weren't at all like the book ones and the movie in general was too short and simple for the many things that happened in the first book. 

But last year It was released a TV Show about The Mortal Instruments. At first I didn't get too excited because of the way the movie was made but I thought that maybe with a TV show they could have more time to explain the story with every detail. So I get excited again and for the trailers that I saw It was going to be way better than the movie. And they did it, It really shows you the story very well and At least the characters look like the originals and didn't change any hair colour or anything, like in the movie, because If you've read the books It's really disappointing when something so good becames really bad. 

Why 30 is not the new 20

Meg Jay is a psychologist who gave a talk about how wrong are people about the concept that the 30s are the new 20s. 

In this talk, she talks about things like work, studies and marriage, things that usually people used to do when the were in their 20s. But nowadays the thought we have about the 20s decade is seen as an irrelevant period of your life when you can be independent and don't worry about important stuff. 

That's why Meg Jay tries to explain that they're wrong about this, because it's in these years that we became the person we will be as an adult and decide how our future is going to be. Also, she says that It's much better make these decisions as earlier as possible because if you don't, you'll see everybody else settled and you'd want all the things that they've achieved but maybe you won't have time.

Personally, I agree with most of the things that she said, but Meg seems to make us believe that we only have to organize our future and make these importants decisions, when I think that It's not all about that because we're still young and we have to enjoy life and have fun.