Life is as beautiful as you allow yourself to see it

In reference to the last lesson, in which we refuted various myths based on research and scientific articles, I would like to return to the topic of bulls. Since the eighteenth century, people associate bulls with anger evoked by a red rag. Well, this premise cannot be true, because bulls don't recognize colors. It turns out that bulls are provoked by movement and not by color. Red, blue, white - all colors affect animals in the same way. A rumor that has been stuck in people's minds for many years turns out to be a abstraction. P robably not many people are interested in bulls and the fact that they're blind doesn't change anything in their life. For me, however, it's quite interesting because of my associations, memories and my own experiences that I've had in Spain.  I participated many times in local festivities in the villages of the Valencia region. In Valencia, there is no good fun without bulls. During several days of celebrations, every day a differe...

‘Unorthodox’ is a German-American drama miniseries based on Deborah Feldman's autobiography ‘Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots’. It appeared on Netflix in 2020. The 4-episode series presents the complex situation of a woman and her low position in a society dominated by men. 19-year-old Esthy, raised in the Ultra-Orthodox community, is looking for her own independence against Jewish law. Her character is a mixture of innocence, awkwardness, fear, but also rebellion and bravery. The girl realizes that she’s unhappy with people who tell her how to live and don’t allow her to make decisions on her own. Her environment is a world of dominant rules and personalities, gossip and harmful opinions, devoid of privacy and chance for development. She runs away from her arranged marriage in New York and moves to Berlin to start a new life there. In Europe, she learns self-acceptance as well as a liberal, secular, conscious life. Although her clumsy husband and his ...

On one hand, this year's Easter was completely different than usually due to social isolation, on the other, they didn't differ so much from annual holidays  ( even if my dad couldn't be with us because he was working on the ship at that time) . Days off from classes allowed me to take a breath and have a break from the computer, which I hardly used at the time. I felt the taste of freedom then, even if that meant washing windows and general cleaning at home. Physical work relaxed me after many difficult days spent in front of the screens. I had the opportunity to appreciate small joys such as good food, sweets, sunny weather, playing football in the garden with my siblings. These things are often unnoticed in the daily routine while we must study and work double online. Even if I live with my family in one house, we don't see each other much recently. I spend most of my time in front of the computer working. Holidays allowed me to spend time with them in person...

I spend almost a month in confinement. I think this state may last a long time and even gradually I'm getting used to it. Moments spent in the garden playing football with my brothers makes up for the hard hours of working on my computer. Although the current routine doesn't create opportunities for new challenges, turns and opportunities, sometimes it can positively surprise me. I think not only about the sun and the singing birds that announce summer. Sometimes also virtual space creates real meetings, conversations and emotions. Last week, such a good emotion and aesthetic impression for me was watching 'Carmen'. This is one of the most popular and important operas in the world, and honestly, I've never watched it in my live, maybe by accident, maybe by ignorance. However, the quarantine changed that. For me it was a three-hours play of beautiful voices, agile twists, dynamics, a variety of forms and songs. Every moment of the show was a pure pleasure f...