Sur l’importance de soi même

L'autre jour a la radio, j'ai écouté un phrase intéressante: c'est agréable d'être important, mais c'est plus important d'être agréable...

Amoral vs Immoral

Les présidents du mexique et des états-unis sont un bon exemple de la subtile différence entre amoral et immoral. 

peña nieto était immorale, et le potus est amorale. Juste pour la grammaire; dans la vraie vie, ils devraient tous être enfermés à jamais, de toute façon, n'importe où, et de toute manières…

The really big picture

From sufficient distance, we all see exactly the same, from the same angle and the same perspective, so probably we should easily agree upon it; but do we?

An Aggression Forecast

Today I had a hard taste of reality to start the new year off, forecasting a perverse penetration of intolerance, violence, and aggressiveness from our present day world zeitgeist, for us Canucks…

I had just stepped out of my town home to walk my dog, when arriving to the neighbourhood park we crossed path with a guy and his leashed dog -as it should-, but mine was not -as I do-. Like always in these cases, I called Gastón to my side and commanded him to heel. We hadn’t met these guys before, so Gastón whose neighbourliness is well known decided to disobey a little and moved closer to say hi. In an instant, the dog launched violently towards him, with all teeth out, and growling wildly. The guy had to pull back on the leash hard, and although the dog was bigger than Gastón, the guy was bigger than me, so the dog was stopped in his tracks, Gastón had immediately moved out of the way, and we were all safe.

At that moment, it was heard, like an echo: “Sorry ‘bout that”, “sorry ’bout that”, since we both said it almost simultaneously, and without even looking at each other -the shame and annoyance were so deep-, we kept walking …

It was so bad, we didn’t even wish each other a happy new year… (I’m sorry ‘bout that).