Procrastination from the Latin procrastinare: to leave until the next day, to postpone it is the habit of systematically putting off the tasks we are required to carry out. It is such a natural and widespread phenomenon that, according to experts, it has an evolutionary base, affecting on average 95% of the global population.
Author: The Prisma
The cheats and lies of fashion
Camouflaged as democratic, we are living in times of false liberty, where each person feels free to dress and be… different, but nowadays ‘different’ is just an adjective: everyone is the same, and if they didn’t conform they would be different… Isabel Soto Mayedo In an era […]
The changing meanings of the word ‘Police’
Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
Should we love ourselves?
Do people really love themselves? Some writers think that people do not love themselves, saying that true self-love, in the sense of self-acceptance, is learned, often very painfully so. I agree. Nigel Pocock Part of the difficulty is that people confuse self-esteem and self-love. I concur, with Scott […]
In the “moving continent”: each immigrant is a Ulysses
Emigration is not just a question of adapting to life in a new country but also of having to deal with feelings of guilt, loneliness, homesickness, frustration and expectation.
Billions of people have poured their hope for the future into a new life in another country and continent. They emigrate following their dreams, in the hope of finding their place within a society different to their own.