Danger in the city

I was coming back home after a party night. But it was so late that I didn´t feel sleepy, so I decided to give a walk around the neighbourhood.

The street was empty of cars. The streetlamps sparkled, mixing light and shades. It was a peaceful time.

While I was moving along the road, the wing carried a sweet melody to me. I tried to guess where it came from. After listening carefully for a while, I realised that the sound could be a distant concert.

I wanted to know what was exactly that music. It distiled mistery and flavor, it attracted me as a siren song. Then, I decided to find out the source. Finally, I directed myself towards an uphill street.

Five minutes later, I noticed that the sound became clearer. I arrived to a cobbled square. At the center, there was a high mast, with a blue and yellow flag on it. Out of the blue, I felt the wind hitting on my face, and a whistling noise produced by the flag.

I smiled sligtly and I stayed there, looking to the flag. My imagination is terrible! - I thought. Or maybe it was already time to go to bed.

Suddenly, I felt something breathing at my back. I quickly turned on my feet. And there was him! A terrifying tiger was looking at me. I didn´t know how to act, but if I had, I wouldn´t have been able to do anything. I was totally paralised by terror.

"My new friend" was big, enormous. His look was defiant. I avoided getting in touch with his eyes. He moved around me slowly. After that, he stopped in front of me. Then, he roared loudly. I was expecting the worst end.

But nothing happened. In fact, one thing happened: The sun arose between two buildings, reaching us. Hopefully, gargoyles turn to stone when the sun touches them! I recovered my sleepyness during the way back home, and I pondered a master plan.

The next day, I went to buy a red marker. Then, I came back to that place. And I wrote down, on the plaque next to the big cat and with capital letters:

"Beware of the tiger"

The path

The path, some days is hard. In certain situations it is misty, cloudy. And others it is full of brown leaves, as now.

Outside, it is cold. There is no wind. The sun appears shyly between clouds. I put on warm clothes. And go for a walk into the forest.

Have you ever heard the sound of your feet walking on the Autumm leaves? It is a relaxing exercise. I recommend everyone to try it. Close your eyes, smell the forest and concentrate in the sounds: At first, in the distant ones. Then, closer, until you hear your own body.

When trees involve me and light goes throw the branches, I can get transported to other places, to old memories and future events. They all have in common a path, where the leaves have just started to fall, covering with a colorful carpet.

One sport, one child

Sometimes, children ask me "What football team do you support?" (Some adults ask it too, but it tends to be less frequent)

I always claim to be a Real Madrid supporter. I suppose that I chose it when I was a child because it seemed to me one of the winners (and when you are a child it is important for you to go with the winners)

Later, I learnt that when you have made a decision, others don´t trust you if you change it afterwards.

When I played football, at first, I wanted to be in the same team as my friends. But we were very bad players. One day, during the act of choosing the players, I was one of the two who was supposed to decide the players in each team. That day, I preferred to try making a solid, winner team. - and I didn´t choose my friends - After that, they got angry with me for a few days.

And I had to assume that, generally speaking, it´s better to keep the same jacket.

So I have maintained the option untill now. I don´t want to waste time about thinking in a new one, so I´m going to continue supporting Real Madrid for the moment.

But I don´t really mind if they win or lose. I mean, I prefer them to win, but neither feel sad if they lose nor planificate my agenda according to the matches . I´m not an "active fan", if you want to define it in some way.

My feelings aren´t managed by what eleven men do in 90 minutes. There are more important things to worry seriously about. The important ones are few, and it seems to me they are not linked with unknown people.

And speaking about the agenda theme: At weekends, I try to stay at home the less time possible. In my opinion, if there is a whole world waiting for you out there, why not to go and have a look? Besides, I always prefer to play football myself than watching it (and I am still a bad player, but I enjoy it.) OK, you´ll tell me: When you need to rest, the best is simply to stay at home laying at the sofa, maybe reading, watching TV or simply doing nothing. But I tend to feel it as a waste of time: I would pick a book and enjoy at night, not during the day. (The sun is calling you outside!)

So, what is my final conclusion? That I could look for another jacket, and be at home watching the TV, but I wouldn´t stand it for long, so I´m going to avoid it as much as possible! :)

Save Tonight... through the window

Which one do you prefer?

Go on and close the curtains

'cause all we need is candlelight
you and me ... and the bottle of wine
and hold you tonight [ ohh ]

Ain´t got no curtains
Candles are dangerous, I really prefer a light
Alcohol is old-fashioned (let´s take a coke)
hold you (why not?) tight,

well we know I'm going away
and how I wish - I wish it weren't so
so take this wine and drink with me
let's delay our misery

Yes, I know that the train will leave (with me inside)
You really mean weren´t so?
Let´s get drunk
and tomorrow all the miserys
will fall into oblivion

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow I'll be gone
save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow I'll be gone

save all nights, in your memory
they will hurt as a recent wound
I love to fight
but this is a lost battle
why must I do the effort?

there's a log on the fire
and it burns like me for you
tomorrow comes with one desire
to take me away [ ohh it's true ]

I enjoy, big fires
lets put, more wood on it
the next day hasn´t desires
it´s only me, that´s one more excuse
[is it really true?]

It ain't easy to say good bye
darling please - don't start to cry
'cause girl you know I've got to go [ohh ]
and Lord I wish it wasn't so

It´s difficult to leave you in the past
baby cry, if you want
I´ve already decided it, and you can´t change my mind
If you wish me to stay, sleep and dream

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow I'll be gone
save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow I'll be gone

save all nights, in your memory
put a lock in that mental door
this illusion will finish,
this illusion is going to vanish in the dawn

tomorrow comes to take me away
I wish that I - that I could stay
but girl you know I've got to go [ohh ]
and Lord I wish wasn't so

Tomorrow is just another day
It´s a decision I cannot delay
I have to change myself
I must grow in other place

save tonight and fight the break of dawn
come tomorrow - tomorrow I'll be gone [ 4x ]

save all nights, but only if you want
cos tomorrow, the heart will run aground

tomorrow I'll be gone [ 4x ]

your sorrow won´t be gone
our sorrow won´t be gone
my sorrow won´t be gone
tomorrow I´ll be a new one

save tonight [ 4x ]

save all nights
is it right?
It doesn´t hurt my mind
just save all nights

oh that´s right
save tonight - save tonight

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Me, The true version ;)

Looking for answers

I´ve been wondering if it would be worthy to write something "green and ecological". After considering it for a while, I concluded that it is!, why not? So let´s start! Today, (October, the 15th) it is the "Blog Action Day", and this year it is about the Environment.

But, what does this mean? That many people around the world are doing and writing things related to the Environment. Then, I also want to support it in my own way.

So the objective is surely clear. And speaking about the execution, how can I approach it? Maybe, I could recommend a few tips to save energy at home. Or better, explain if I think or not that our oceans should be protected more, or the famous ozone layer... But I don´t want really to "speak". I want you to speak. So I am going to make the questions!

My aim is to promote the debate. Some people think that it isn´t necessary to care in an obssesive way about the environment. Others are predicting the world´s end in a few years, if we don´t change our way of living. Is ecology a fashion subject nowadays? Or, on the other hand, is it a serious one? The more is talked about, the better. I do believe that showing information and exchanging view points, is great to try to understand the world where we live.

So, here we go. A few questions. Read them, and try a bit of trivia: Ask them to others, try to answer some of them yourself, and let´s start talking!

• How much do you pay for light´s bill? Do you want to pay less? Do you know how to?
• Where is now or where do you think it could be the last bottle you threw into the garbage? It may be now in a dump, or reduced to small pieces being a new bottle, or maybe it is being used by someone else as a vase... What other ideas do you have?
  
• Supossing it´s raining, and you have to go nearby to buy some things (not very big neither heavy), would you take the car to the shop?
• If I throw a few things to a desert from a plane, where only one person lives (a piece of paper, a human´s body, and bottle made of glass) which one will be more useful to that hypothetic person? Which one could be found by archaeologists in the future?
• Will you vote to close down all nuclear instalations of your country if your electric bill would increase a 100%?
• How far are the paper, glass, yellow... containers from your home, if there are any?
• Are you aware of how a plant grows? How many trees are there around your home? Do you know what kind they are?
• Do you think that the climate is really changing? Have you realised something you think that could be related in your sourrondings? or not?
• How many people in your family don´t have a car?
• How many people in your family take less than 20 minutes to get to their job places?
  

Well, that´s all by now. The list of questions is long, and could be longer. I´ll save some for future reflexions :) As you see, all of them could be related, in one way or another, to the environment. So I just finish with the last question:

Can a single person do something to change
and improve "how things work"?