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Pride comes before a fall

Mónica Boixeda Sevillian

Snow White’s stepmother is the quintessential prototype of pride: she doesn’t accept that there is someone more beautiful than her. Pride is a deadly sin that is disguised behind many faces. It is considered the worst sin of all by its rejection of any criticism, failure, help or apology. To think you are superior than others can be very destructive indeed.

Are You Dying of Envy?

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Knowing that your neighbour is going to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Lisbon, while you’ve never left the country, thinking of your sister, who is living in a warm country while you are almost freezing to death in winter, loving your best friend just a little less because she can eat as much as she wants without gaining weight while you spend the last 3 years fighting to lose just 4 kilos. How unhappy we are! Envy brings out the worst in people, because we always want what we cannot have. Being jealous means that sometimes we enjoy seeing other people go down. “Envy shows people how miserable people feel and their constant paying attention to what others do or don’t shows just how bored they are” said the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhaur. This quote perfectly explains the concept of envy. Instead of being jealous of that friend who just found a great job, it is better to feel happy and to try to do the same. To admire a person is to be able to value him and to be able to value yourself, too. We are never satisfied, we always want more and more, and we rarely look at what we achieve within our limitations. A football match, for example, shows us a very positive type of envy between the two teams which contribute therefore to fair play. If you are an envious person, you only hurt yourself. You will really suffer thinking about the fact that no one pays attention to you or that you aren’t the centre of attention and that there’s always someone better... read more

A winter without laziness

Mónica Boixeda Budapester

The winter cold keeps you from taking your arm out of the duvet to turn off the alarm clock; your fridge is empty because you were too lazy to go shopping at five when it is almost night time. You need more sun to encourage you to go for a jog or a walk and the kitchen is so cold that you dare not put anything in the microwave for fear of being frozen to death in the wait…. Finally you are late for work and you are really hungry! This is just an example of what one might feel when winter comes, but laziness is also a daily habit. You just need a little push to get rid of it! Laziness is one of the seven deadly sins, original and mortal. Its Latin root means “slow, late, clumsy and heavy” and it is defined as negligence and carelessness concerning the actions of our everyday lives. When one reaches an excess, he can give up on his duties to society and citizenship. The lack of motivation paralyzes many people, making them fall into frustration and poverty. Avoid getting bored by following your passions and desires. But there are those who are workaholics, so hyperactive that they do not know what to rest is. They think that relaxing is a complete waste of time when, in fact, it allows us to charge our batteries and be more productive. Men are made to be creative. Did you know that in Itagui city (Colombia) they have been celebrating the day of laziness since 1985? According to the organizers, “the brain never rests... read more