Religion

Religion really is a controversial idea & I like the fact I can really give my opinion towards it in this blog. Religion is somewhat of a social control over people since the humans adquired the knowledge that made us a superior race, because I see that the average human needs a bigger figure to rely on, because thats an explanation to things that humans have no knowledge of. But when clever people saw how humans relied on a bigger figure, people started to take advantage of it and created the churches, which reunited followers of a certain religion and gave an economical advantage to the ones that where the leaders of those temples. But still religion is a good thing, I really like to see people doing good things because of it. But I feel better when I do things to make my self happy, when I do things for my own good knowing that it is the right thing to do and not do it because it is what religion tells me its the right thing. I find better when humans do the right thing just because they want to and not because they should do, because you are showing what you really can and will do, meanwhile in religion there are many persons that they are being hypocrite doing things they are not feeling like doing, they just do it for "purification of the soul". I believe in the human power, in the power of nature and in the idea that the universe is immeasurable in respect to a human's capacity of understanding, humans will never be able to comprehend it. Earth is 4.6 billion years old, scaling that to 46 years, humans have just been here for 4 hours. So we have to be realists and accept that the power of nature is the biggest power there exists, bigger than us and bigger than religion.

War

Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes war as "a state of usually open and declared armed hostile between states or nations." But through my eyes war is so much more. War is the lack of maturity between human civilization, because problems in this world can be solved by so many other ways. We can solve conflicts talking, voting, or even the same population opposing to international conflicts between nations.

But in the other hand, somehow I sometimes see war as the natural way to balance population because we see in animals how they tend to prey each other in order to eat and to create a balance in the world. But us humans, we have no animal that preys us and we are obviously overpopulated, so somehow humans need to balance and thats an instinct, and when civilizations are made differences are established, differences people within the civilization accept as normal. Those differences make conflicts between civilizations and there comes war, and I can say that war is the way humans "naturally" control their population, but because there is a vast number of persons out there, wars turn out to be such at a big scale.

Death

As I hear the word "death" rapidly comes to my head Andy Irons. He was an APS (Association of Surfing Professionals) surfer which was a very successful competitor, wining various world titles and many events. He was a big idol to me since I was really small because to him surfing was literally everything and he had this unique style of surfing so consistent that I couldn't believe. As the 2010 ASP World Tour came to a beginning, they announced the 2010 Rip Curl Pro at Middles Beach, Isabela, Puerto Rico and I was so stoked to think that I would now see all these surfers in front of me. The contest window started on Oct. 30, but as no waves showed up it was delayed. But, on November 2nd, 2010 Andy Irons was found lying dead on his bed on a hotel. People say that dengue killed him, others that he had a terrible ill, but autopsy showed that he had been using various drugs that combined could turn out to be lethal. That was a big turn and disaster for the surfing history, because Andy at that time was at the top 3 surfers, he also had his wife, Lyndie, pregnant with 7 months and their child was born the opening day of the final contest of the 2010 World Tour. So the death of Andy Irons was no joke to the surfing industry. Even in Hawaii they have the Andy Irons Day so you could imagine what a big figure this surfer was for them.

Happiness

Happiness, a really broad topic huh? Well happiness is something really relative because each person has different points of view, but since this blog is about me then I'll like to talk about what is happiness to me.

Happiness is having peace of mind, living waiting for what's going to happen tomorrow because today prized me an adventure, so you know tomorrow there'll be another one awaiting for you. By this I mean living a life by the sea, living a life where you feel happy with yourself. In my case I'd rather be surfing than anything else in the world. Thats true happiness for me, but sadly we live in a world that money is everything and you have to work for your shit. Thats no problem for me if I'm working on what I want to do. Happiness to me its not that far away, I live it everyday I grab my surfboard and head to the salty waters of our island, because that's like a mental relief, where I disconnect from everything easily, from every problem, from every negative vibe. Surfing its so catchy because once you realize how easy is to feel good by doing it, you'll just want to grab your stuff and head to the beach. It's like a morning coffee, or maybe better. Its something you have to live because there are no words to explain to you how is that feeling of standing on a surfboard riding a wave.

Introduction

About my blog! Well this blog its about my English Class in the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey with the professor Iara Segarra. Weekly I'll be posting some narrative writing about certain broad topics which I'll have to narrow down. It will be a fun ride because the weekly topics are really controversial which I can take my ideas to a whole new level, there are practically no limits so I just expect to do my best! I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I'll do!