One about me

Professionally, I’ve been working with career counselling for almost two years now. Personally, I can say that career counselling has always been a part of my life. I’ve had several job experiences, have attended courses in different majors, have had a couple of turning points and have always dealt with my career shifts by myself. Learned how to search and how to explore, how to give a meaning to the time I have spent in one or another place, and found out what is important to me and what my goals were (and are!).

After dealing with all those issues and having counselled dozens of teenagers and young adults with career doubts, I can say that I’ve become both passionate and challenged by what I do. I can say that it makes all the sense in my life and makes me fit into this world. At this point, I’m always eager to improve my skills to be a better counsellor and satisfy my clients needs, ’cause they are also my major satisfaction. My personal satisfaction.

One about Susan Boyle

I can’t deny that when I watched Susan Boyle’s video for the first time I also thought it wasn’t real, that is, she was kind of playing a role. But, for me, that isn’t the point. That’s not what matters. The whole message is what matters. And it has told us something – by “us”, meaning the world. Why is everybody talking about that? Have we all already been in the other side, seeing someone and not giving a damn to him or her? How many opportunities have we lost because of that? Opportunities of having new good friends, of being surprised, of being happy.

And are they arguing about marketing, about Susan Boyle’s past or boyfriends? I don’t wanna know Susan Boyle. I don’t wanna watch that show. I wanna be, from now on, more aware of what I may be missing in my everyday life, and also more aware that I should and can be confident when it comes to something I believe in.

About privacy – a different approach

a study published in 2007 in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication suggested that hanging onto old friends via Facebook may alleviate feelings of isolation for students whose transition to campus life had proved rocky. Evidently they took comfort in knowing that “Dylan is drinking Peets.” That may well be, but something is drowned in that virtual coffee cup — an opportunity for insight, for growth through loneliness. Perhaps my nieces will find a new way to establish distance from their former selves, to clear space for introspection and transformation. Perhaps they will evolve through judicious deleting and updating of profile information, through the constant awareness of their public face.

Here.

So are you sure you wanna be connected all the time, or do you need a time for yourself – and only for yourself?

Happy 2009!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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About music

 

I love Alanis Morissette. Her new CD, Flavors of Entanglement, is not, in my opinion, as good as the last ones. The style has changed a bit and it’s too dancey. I hope it won’t change too much in the future – or, better yet, that she returns to what her typical style was, ’cause that’s what I expect when I decide to pick one of her songs on my mp3 player. When I listen to Alanis Morissette, I don’t expect to listen to dance music. I know artists have the right of changing, but it may be a mistake if they intend to maintain their audience. Sometimes a change is not well accepted and, when they realize it, it’s too late to go back. Yes, artists are goods, unfortunately.

But, fortunately, when it comes to the lyrics, Flavors of Entanglement is still very Alanis. I particularly loved Incomplete:

One day I’ll find relief
I’ll be arrived and I’ll be a friend to my friends who know how to be friends
One day I’ll be at peace
I’ll be enlightened and I’ll be married with children and maybe adopt
One day I will be healed
I will gather my wounds forge the end of tragic comedy
I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete
One day, my mind will retreat, and I’ll know god and I’ll be constantly one with her night dusk and day
One day I’ll be secure, like the women I see on their 30th anniversaries
I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete
Ever unfolding
Ever expanding
Ever adventurous and torturous
But never done
One day, I will speak freely
I’ll be less afraid
And measured outside of my poems and lyrics and art
One day I will be faith-filled
I’ll be trusting and spacious authentic and grounded and whole
I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete

As a consequence, I’ll keep being her faithful fan. When I listen to her singing, it’s like I knew her: I feel I can understand what she feels and what she means. I don’t know if this is because of an identification or because she can really express herself very well.

The two of them, maybe.