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The stories we tell

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If you were to write a story, what type of story would it be? Would it be a tale of dragons and heroes? What form would it take? Would it be a horror tale of vampires and victims or a sweet love story? Would it be a story of your adventures and the mighty you conquering the world?

Whatever story you choose to tell, a story is just a story. It is a story in your mind. Whatever you choose to believe and to think, it is finally a shape, a vision, a fragment of reality, a subjective representation in your mind of all “what is” around you. You might say, for instance, -but nothing travels faster than the speed of light, that is a fact-. Is it really? What if something could travel faster than the speed of light? What if the reality that we see is just a tiny fraction of everything “what is”? What if there are energy fields and waves that our bodies just cannot perceive? It is from any point of view, quite difficult to believe that we are completely aware of everything around us. We measure life and the universe from a very limited 5-senses perspective and we go around making assumptions about everything, fitting what happens around us to our story. I mean, there are even colors that we don’t manage to see and sounds we can’t hear. We can’t even hear what dogs can. What if there was a lot more out there that we just don’t perceive? What if there were even beings around us that we can’t see nor touch? oh wait, we call them ghosts.

I was in a workshop earlier this week. The host would ask everyone to present themselves and to answer a simple but powerful question: “what makes you happy?”. People named several things and activities that would make them happy, like good food, shopping, traveling, the little things, spending time with loved ones and so on. Pretty reasonable and legitimate answers. Most of the attendants mentioned external things, people or experiences to define happiness. What kind of definitions are those? Aren’t we too focused on the external world? Shouldn’t we be looking into inner realms?, even the question points to something external. We keep defining ourselves through separation and identification with external entities: The more luxury clothes I have, the better, distinct and happier person I am. The better job I get, the happier person I become. We keep telling ourselves those stories. Stories of success, power and status. -I am John Doe, engineer, athletic, famous philanthropist and entrepreneur. A dynamic and career-oriented person-. But, are those stories who we really are?

Whatever concept or idea of yourself you might have, remember something important: it is an idea, a mental structure, a story in your mind. It is not what the “real you” is about. All mental structures one day can fall. You can suddenly lose everything, all your possessions and status. One day you will retire and you will not be anymore the top and successful manager, member of that spectacular organization. You will be one more, a senior, perhaps with heart or back problems. Even more, one day you will die. When you die, people won’t write on your headstone: “John Doe, successful manager, raised sales by 20% and owned several properties and a Porsche”. I guess people would rather write something like “beloved husband (or wife)”. Moreover, one day your whole family might die and the beloved husband story won’t be true anymore. So what are you going to do if all those stories come to an end? Will there still be a you in you?

 “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water” Bruce Lee

Of course, there will be a you, but most importantly, there is a you within you, right now, in this very present moment. The key to recognizing that you within you is the realization that all those stories about you, your life and the world are just that, stories in your mind. It is realizing that you need to shift away from the talking mind and the ideas that your body and yourself are a solid and separated entity. Your body is actually more than 80% water and is formed by millions of atoms and cells that belong to this world. It is that energy that puts your atoms together the very essence of you and everyone else. So we are talking about spiritual awareness, and guess what, there is no magic in it. You don’t need to go to the mountains and learn karate to become aware of the essence of your true self. We all have access to it every time we want. So be the water within you and let yourself flow with the Universe.

Living Abroad

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Inspiration.
The United Nations International Migration Report 2013 revealed that around 232 million people live abroad in 2013. This article is for you, if you somehow landed in a foreign country and stayed there for a longer period. This article is for you too, even if you are not living abroad, because it deals with life’s challenges, lessons and key discoveries.

I have wanted to write about my life abroad for a long time, but I didn’t feel the right burst of creativity until I read this nice article by Russell V. J. Ward called: 4 Ways Living Abroad Changes You… Forever. His words triggered the sort of inspiration I needed to finally sit down and do it. Not to mention how much a rainy winter night helps.

Sometimes we wonder if our decisions are right and examine our lives looking for some meaning. When I go back to my country of origin to visit my family and friends, people would ask me two main questions: when I am coming back and whether or not I miss what I somehow left behind. These sort of questions, plus seeing how people move on with their lives, get married, start having children and buy apartments, made me wonder for several years if the path I had chosen was the right one. I permanently asked myself if I had found meaning and purpose every time I moved or changed directions.

People at home continue with their lives and one feels very often as a black sheep, as an outsider. I would even start telling myself that I was just being rebellious, that I just took the decision to escape from the ineluctable reality. So in a deep way, moving abroad was an effort to discover my calling and my true purpose in this world. It has been an endless search for my true passions and an exploration of the possibilities that life and the planet has to offer me in professional, personal and spiritual terms. I wanted development and expansion, so I went far away for it.

Changes and Challenges.
In a way, what Russell says is totally true. Living abroad brings you tons of new lessons and the impact in your life is giant. I could write thousands of stories with all the adventures, endings, beginnings, romances, accidents and funny moments that I have lived. It is a tale of survival as well. The environment is sometimes harsh and the only way to go through all of it is by upgrading yourself.

The new experiences are a huge boost to your tolerance, resilience and your value system. You often realize how people create problems in their minds out of nothing, how relationships are broken because of details, how to accept different points of view, or how to better listen, because you stop taking things for granted. You also learn how to appreciate the important things in life, like friends, family, the environment, your health and love.

In a very literal way, moving abroad is like starting college again, specially if you move to a country without having a clue of the language. You need to learn so many things to be able to achieve something. It is not only the language, but also the social codes and behaviors. Getting a feeling of belonging is a slow paced process. You basically need to start again in so many ways.

The previous level.
So, have I found my calling and true purpose? Have I found meaning? It is hard to answer those questions. Not because I don’t know the answer, but because the questions are wrong. That is my intention with this article. We often look for things outside ourselves to feel better. We long for the special person, job, promotion, house, holiday and so many other things in the outer world, that we forget to see things how they really are. We are waiting for that special thing to happen that will change our lives. When that thing finally comes, we experience a long period of satisfaction and we feel great. Indeed. We meet that special one and we are happy, but after a while, things change back to that state of agitation and restlessness and we split up.

Living abroad has been one of the most important decisions of my life. It has helped me to be self-aware and to realize life’s deeper purpose.

Many times during my stay in a foreign place I have felt like living in a movie. As if I was some sort of entity observing the movie of my life or an entity “being the reality”, like a plant. This situation has had a profound and powerful impact inside me. I just didn’t realize it before. I guess this state of contemplation happened because my mind was so busy trying to understand my environment and was also so busy processing a huge amount of information, that I was just unable to do anything else than to live the present moment. As I said, like a plant.

To give our fullest attention to what we are doing now is the deeper purpose, because we can only live in the present moment. The rest, the future and past, is all our imagination or our emotional and mental luggage. By doing that, by living in the present, we live the path and we connect with our inner self. That is why all questions related to a final destination are wrong, because there is no path to find. We build our path every single moment of our lives and thereby we recognize our calling. Of course, that doesn’t mean we cannot plan the future. But if we start living in that future, if we start worrying, we come back to that state of dissatisfaction and we start waiting again for that special thing to come.

The next question would be something like: am I doing right now what I really want to do? I guess that is a question of passions and deserves another article. At least we can realize that the answer is not out there, but somewhere in that inner world.

By the way, regarding that question or any other without an answer, I heard once a master piece of advice:

“There is one important rule, you can not tell about yourself ‘I don’t know’, your thoughts and what you do come from you and you always know something important about them. Even if you don’t know, guess it, because even guessing comes from you and it is a way of knowledge about yourself.”

 

The Big Depression

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Not so long ago, broken things got repaired. We have somehow fallen in a predetermined lifestyle. In a world of premeditated and planned obsolescence; there is no time and no budget to fix your old things. So we go shopping to keep the lifestyle, to keep machines working and companies making profits. We go to work to earn the money that we’ll later spend in buying new and better things, new and better holidays and new and better food, because old ones are too old and we need to look good. It has to be perfect, so we don’t lose our status.

You know what I mean, I’m sure you know….a nice t-shirt, shoes, perfume. The last time you came you were a bit too laid-back, not well-groomed  –he said–

I love moments when things just get repaired. Isn’t it great to bring your jeans for the second time to the shop and pay one third of the price of a new one to repair it? I find it absolutely fantastic to reuse something that people would throw away.  Imagine, you save the shopping time and there is also an ethical and environmental souvenir involved. Let’s be honest, those jeans are made in China by people that earn 1 dollar per day. The direct environmental impact could appear subtle, but it has a tremendous effect in the long term. It’s like you alone, one in seven billions, can make a change. Imagine if we multiply it by 10, or by 100, or by 1000. What if we extend this behavior to other areas of our lives? For Instance, to food, and we start growing our own food, that sounds amazing, doesn’t it?

Before moving to the next part I wanted to go back to the sugar ‘thingy’. Isn’t it funny? We consume so much sugar that our brains experience highly addictive rush episodes; exactly like after taking some drugs. We go to work and sit 8 hours and eat 80 grams of sugar per day and get fat, sick and mentally sick. So we spend our money in fitness centers and doctors, waiting for the weekend to find some comfort. We also hate Mondays, of course, people just hate Mondays. So we live a life controlled by a permanent anxiety, by a willing to be on holidays, a willing to get to that eternal weekend (called retirement) to lose ourselves and be finally free.

I saw some time ago the movie Django Unchained. I don’t really see many differences between this movie and how we actually live our lives. We are slaves of our debts, our cars and our jobs. So banks, companies and their owners get wealthier and just enjoy their lives, not using a whip, but a colorful paper called money. We are also slaves of our possessions, the more we have, the less time we have for ourselves. Things haven’t changed that much in the last century, have they? The world is still a global plantation.  We have some very few privileged ones and a huge proportion of slaves. One may think that those Chinese people I was talking about are the real slaves. Indeed, they have it quite hard. They are the slaves of our times. But we are also slaves, because we don’t own our time, we have to work for someone else’s success; we barely own our health, our passions and our lives.

Industrial revolution promised a 180 degrees change in the world. We are still dreaming of the 15-hour working week predicted by (John Maynard) Keynes. What the hell? 15 hours? I work 40. People like to blame the multinationals and capitalism. The truth is: we are to be blamed. It’s us doing it. We need to wake up from this plantation dream. But I don’t want to be so melodramatic. I am not a hater nor an anarchist. There are plenty of examples of communities making changes, engaging with the environment, education or society; we have strikes everywhere, social movements, do-it-yourself, Green Peace, Malala, Leo DiCaprio and Emma Watson. Our heroes.

The problem of these movements is that they are still not main-stream. They wear diapers and at best, they are at the kindergarten.  That’s a difficult task actually. Imagine, even climate change isn’t yet main-stream. So what is the key? What is the key to a global change of consciousness?  Is it Ebola? Is it climate change? I don’t know for sure. But I do know that this change of consciousness is happening and that awareness will come after a big depression. We are unfortunately human and we don’t learn until we fall and break into pieces. So in the middle of our suffering,  we see the light.

So on which side are you? Are you main-stream, depressed or already a revolutionary? Whatever you do, don’t forget to repair your jeans and you will be already part of the change.

Notas de Viaje

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Los chilenos fuman “caleta” (en Klammern: bastante)

Que se te olviden sin querer palabras como Klammern (comillas en alemán) y que intentes recordar y la palabra que se te viene a la mente sigue siendo Klammern, memoria del terror.
Por qué hace tanto frio adentro? …ah es que las ventanas son más delgadas y ya apagamos la estufa.
Puta que rica la paleta de la Ligua hueón oh!, esa con manjar con lúcuma.

> Señor colectivero, cuando salimos? 🙂
> Cuando se llene
> -_-

Puta que hay hoyos en la calle!
Algunos medios de comunicación son harto fachos, demasiado!
Saqué la cuenta y comí paltas todos los días, a veces dos veces por día.
Dame otra paleta manjar lúcuma porfi!
Que chistosos los perros callejeros sentados en medio de la calle, cero intención de moverse!
Hay caleta de gente de pelo negro!
Qué dulce la Sprite! qué dulce todo!
> Usted prefiere tinto o blanco?
> Un tintieli porfa

> Usted sabe poh, echando a perder se aprende
> No me vengai a vender la pomá!

Que gran cantidad de dichos y chilenismos, ni nos damos cuenta de tanta cosa propia que tenemos. Dejar de oírlos significa también identificarlos rápidamente. Como que uno se enamora de esa identidad entretenida.

Que mejor manera de hacerse unas monedas que guitarrear un par de canciones en la micro!

Lástima, no me quedan más monedas, se las di al último artista callejero que se subió.

Ese caos vial me asombra. Los peatones cruzan con rojo, los perros callejeros persiguen los autos, el micrero se tira encima sin señalizar y se detiene en diagonal para recoger un pasajero y por último hay que esquivar hoyos gigantescos para salvar los amortiguadores de una muerte prematura.

Llegué a las 20:09 a juntarme con una amiga, me sentía más atrasado que la chucha. Ella llegó a eso de las y media, plop! Ahora, sólo a reírse de uno mismo y de la cultura.
Después de la conversación previa, la pregunta típica:
> No extrañas? Cuando te vai a venir?

Que soledad, y bueno, mi vida no está acá, camino por las calles y tantas cosas me parecen desconocidas, la gente, los nuevos edificios, incluso las palomas. Hasta que de repente uno se da cuenta que mucho ha cambiado, pero que todo sigue igual…

El secreto alemán: Educación de calidad

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En los últimos días, he leído varios artículos en la prensa donde se esgrimen las claves del éxito alemán en la copa del mundo. Se presentan diversas explicaciones basadas en muchos factores como la idea futbolística del técnico Joachim Löw y su elección de jugadores jóvenes para darle frescura al plantel, la disciplina táctica y el talento de sus jugadores, la posibilidad de que los jugadores mantengan relaciones sexuales, o el uso del programa computacional SAP Match Insight, que provee de análisis en tiempo real del partido, entre otros. Si bien es muy probable que estos elementos incidan en los buenos resultados de la selección alemana de fútbol, hay un factor fundamental que sólo he visto en un par de periódicos de habla inglesa y no en los medios de habla hispana, y es la formación de talentos desde temprana edad.

Luego de la decepcionante presentación de la selección alemana en la Eurocopa 2000, la federación alemana de fútbol decidió introducir modificaciones a la manera en que los clubes desarrollaban a los jóvenes futbolistas, limitando el libre albedrio y estableciendo un marco estratégico para el futuro. Para esto, se ideo un programa nacional de promoción de talentos basado en los siguientes pilares: obligatoriedad de las academias, educación integral y énfasis en la calidad.

Los Pilares
La primera decisión de la mesa directiva fue la introducción, en 2001, de la obligatoriedad de las academias juveniles o canteras para todos los clubes de la primera división y un año más tarde para la segunda división. Todos los clubes debían poseer y administrar una academia para mantener su licencia profesional, de lo contrario, no podrían participar en ninguna competencia oficial. El objetivo de la regulación no era la estandarización e imposición de un estilo de juego, sino crear el contexto necesario para el desarrollo integral de niños y jóvenes.

Además de ser obligatorias, las academias siguen un sistema integral de enseñanza que incluye educación futbolística, educación convencional y desarrollo de la personalidad. Para esto, cuentan con un equipo permanente y multidisciplinario de entrenadores, médicos, fisioterapeutas y sicólogos. A partir de los 15 años, las academias funcionan como internados, por lo que los jóvenes deportistas deben seguir una vida de sacrificio, lejos de la familia, donde tienen que cumplir paralelamente con sus deberes escolares y deportivos. El apoyo del equipo profesional es fundamental, pero no suficiente para el éxito deportivo y se requiere una fuerte cooperación con los colegios y las familias.

El concepto de educación integral es tomado seriamente por las academias. Los directivos saben que pocos jóvenes lograrán ser futbolistas profesionales y ven como una responsabilidad social la entrega de los espacios y herramientas para la finalización de la enseñanza secundaria. El principio de educación integral también apunta al éxito de los jóvenes jugadores, ya que estudios han comprobado que un mayor desarrollo de la personalidad y de las capacidades cognitivas tiene un impacto positivo en el rendimiento dentro de la cancha.

El tercer pilar del programa alemán está basado en el aseguramiento de la calidad. En un inicio, las academias sólo tenían que seguir estándares de calidad relacionados con la infraestructura y el equipo profesional de carácter permanente. En 2006, la federación decidió dar el siguiente paso e implementar un sistema de certificación. Para mantener la neutralidad, confiabilidad y objetividad de la evaluación, se le encargó a la compañía belga Double PASS la implementación y ejecución del proyecto. Así nació “Foot PASS Germany”, una adaptación del sistema de evaluación de calidad “Foot PASS” creado por la empresa. El sistema mide la calidad en 8 categorías: apoyo y capacitación, comunicación y cooperación, educación futbolística, efectividad y permeabilidad, estrategia y finanzas, infraestructura e instalaciones, organización y procedimientos, personal. Además de recibir retroalimentación detallada en cuanto a las deficiencias detectadas durante la evaluación, la federación ha dispuesto que los dineros recibidos de las competiciones europeas sean repartidos proporcionalmente a los clubes de acuerdo al desempeño de sus academias.

Resultados
Sin ninguna duda, el resultado más sobresaliente del programa alemán de desarrollo de talentos es la consecución de la copa del mundo. Hay, sin embargo, otros aspectos interesantes a mencionar. En los primeros 10 años del programa, la inversión en infraestructura de los clubes dedicada a las academias se duplicó alcanzando un total de 85 millones de euros al año. Los clubes han construido centros de entrenamiento e internado y modernizado las instalaciones. La edad promedio de los jugadores de la liga alemana se ha reducido de 27,09 a 25,77 años. La cantidad de jugadores locales (educados en las academias de los clubes) aumentó de un 15% en 2007 a 19.4% en 2011. También, se han excedido los requisitos establecidos por el programa para obtener la licencia profesional en términos de la capacitación de los entrenadores, quienes han aumentado el número de licencias pro y A considerablemente. Por último, el elemento que más entusiasma a los directores del programa, es que el esfuerzo y las inversiones realizados han logrado un aumento en la confianza de los clubes en los jugadores jóvenes, asegurando un futuro promisorio para los clubes, los jugadores locales y la selección alemana de fútbol.

Chile
Así como en el ámbito de la reforma educacional chilena muchos consideran a Finlandia como un modelo a seguir. En lo futbolístico, las academias alemanas se han transformado en uno de los ejemplos de excelencia a nivel mundial, donde los jugadores son desde temprana edad bien educados técnica y tácticamente, sobrepasando incluso a las escuelas de Holanda o Francia.
Qué más quisiera yo que ver a la escuadra chilena ganando el campeonato mundial, talento no nos falta, pero sí aprender como país de las formas y reformas que otros han implementado para generar un modelo de educación deportiva de alta calidad.

The 5 core traits of people full of everything

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I have read several articles describing the top traits of highly successful people, or the 5 core characteristics of really attractive people, or the 10 things that mentally strong people do, or the I-don’t-know-what behavior of the best people in category x-y-z. These articles are mainly blog posts and they are rarely the result of scientific research, so they don’t serve as scientific evidence of a real fact, but what they do have is a large number of comments and viewers. One of them had more than 60k viewers, which doesn’t mean anything at all, but it is still a large audience and in some unconscious level, it must have some sort of influence on people’s opinions and beliefs, or it may mean some sort of acceptance on people’s minds, which in the end, is the reality that we see.

Anyway, I don’t want to focus on that, but instead, on the message of those articles. I cannot deny that I could agree with some of those characteristics and it is pretty plausible to consider those traits as an interesting ideal. But that is exactly what I dislike about it: the “ideal” part, the Disney fairy tale, the 1.75 mts. Barbie. These ideals seem to be so strong in people’s minds that they indeed generate a permanent state of frustration. How can a regular person become such a hero? We are an entity with certain traits and characteristics and far from what we are, on advertising, the movies, internet, magazines and everywhere, there is another model which we are not. Doesn’t it generate problems? I think it does and a lot.

Psychologists have a term for the discomfort generated by contradictory beliefs, values or ideas which is called cognitive dissonance. On the one side, I believe I am totally fine, totally normal and on the other hand, I also believe there is a lot wrong about me. So what I am saying is nothing new. However, I have lately realized a few things that deserve space on this blog:

-No one actually trained me to better conquer frustration; it has been mainly life itself, my decisions and people around me that have walked through it with me. I wish I had that kind of education at school or university, instead of the hard-skills-focused education I received, where memorizing and repeating was, and still is, the paradigm. Some may say that we are not supposed to learn that at school, that those are life lessons; but, why not? Why can’t we learn about critical or divergent thinking at school or at university? Our education model was conceived to satisfy the needs of industrialization. Instead of educating kids for life, we are manufacturing them in batches.

-People have and project (consciously or unconsciously) expectations to others. When someone says: I will give you cake if you are kind or I wish you would fix that lamp while I am at work. They are showing expectations. What if you don’t behave as expected? That could be a reason for an argument. What if I was aware of these expectations? Perhaps, we also need some sort of training at school to better elucidate expectations and to better communicate them to others. Perhaps we also need to measure our egos sometimes.

-Last but not least, to all of you dear bloggers and writers: please give me some evidence, some scientific research that support those lists. You might write such a thing because you need to have some viewers to pay the bills or because you truly believe it is a key learning that you want to pass on to others, but that is your reality, your culture, your circle of friends, your country and your mind exposing this “knowledge”. It is totally valid to have such opinions, but then, write it as an opinion and not as the Ten Commandments.

My best german friend

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Where are you german friend?
I miss talking to you and listening to your crazy tales
I miss laughing hard and sharing my things
I miss telling you what I have done and how it went
I miss being texted and texting as well
I miss the other day when we met just to be friends

Where have you been all this time?
I’ve been waiting for such a long time
and I haven’t heard a word
Is it me? Is it you? Is it us?
You weren’t at my party
But don’t take me wrong, this is not resentment nor hate
This is just a story to be told that I haven’t seen nor heard nor lived
It’s just a story in my imagination
A story of distance and inconvenience
After all, we create our own reality, right?

Where are you german friend?
I will be there on time and dress fancy
I will like your music and eat your currywurst
I will enjoy the evening starting at 7:55
I will talk in german the whole night
I will respect your politeness, the rules and the limits
I will cross the street only with a green light
And above all I won’t be loud, I promise, I love silence

Where have we been all this time?
I guess in a place with no time and no distance
In a place full of joy and true friendship
I was wondering how to live without you
I was wondering how to move on without you
I was wondering if this was the end of what vaguely started

Where are you german friend?
Am I just too different?
Is it my mistake?
Was it my black hair or my accent?
I kept asking and asking myself questions of belonging
But I got no answer…

Turning point

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What a pity
there is sometimes a turning point
a break in the equation
it could change everything
but you are stuck in the same old same
even if you wish
even if anything is possible
and impossible is nothing

There are some dreams that remain hidden
ideas that continue online
somewhere in the cloud
and are never downloaded
and are never seen by anyone
but yourself
and your fear

Follow the train lines
because you must
because it is how it is
you are not brave enough
to get off and run through the forest

And fear conquers you
and you stay there on your bed
without moving a single finger
because of fear
fucking fear
you could just stop this night and for ever

You wish everything was like before
no excitement
no fear
no pain
no dreams
but it is not
all what you need, is the impossible
but for what price?

Find a girl who travels

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Find a girl who travels and she will connect you with the Universe.

Find one of them and let her show you her dreams and discoveries. Through them you can see her soul and the true meaning of those trips. Some people say they escape, because they are tired of their routine. Some others believe they just want to see the world, taste new ideas and experiences; and some others believe, they are just bored and keep doing holidays to spend their money.

I believe there are deeper waters to see, I believe they are seekers and masters.

They are seekers, because they need to find the connection our ancestors had with the stars and they need to reconnect with the beauty of our Planet. We kill, destroy and deceive our brothers, but mostly, our Planet, our home. They go around and rediscover the amazing gifts we have received and learn to be thankful. They see how vast and majestic our home is and where we see trees, they see life and magic. They see no superiority, but scientific proof that we just coexist and share this world with other life forms. Where we see cities, they see disconnection. They are seekers and indeed, every time they travel, they find treasures.

She will surely collect all those adventures. She might collect photo albums, write poems, songs, collect post cards, buy little magical stones, glasses and books or just write a journal. Whatever it is, it is how she and the ones like her relate to their adventures and it is how they prepare to become a master. Not to say that their path is easy. They have indeed many challenges to overcome and that is why most of them read a lot, because they are training themselves.

So they become geniuses of tomorrow by understanding the present, by living their trips. They simply know the path, because they have seen it before their eyes and walked it, because they are born to be the channel between this earthly life and the upper Universe. That is why they could become yoga instructors and will not be concerned about your new car. They will actually prefer to ride a bike and enjoy the breeze.

They are then a source of inspiration for many and might seem too idealistic. But it is because of ideals that they reach the stars, so they can later teach and show the way. It is through ideals that we can change the world and help those in trouble.

So please, find one of them, because they will open your eyes and your soul…