Changing the World
I have encountered noble individuals in my life whose mission is to change the world. A daunting task, changing the world is not so easy, at least I do not think so, as otherwise everyone would change the world. I no longer put stock on people who claim they will change the world. There is [...]
Lunatic Pandora and the Black Heart
How foolish I am. It makes me so sad, so inevitably mad, at what the anonymous poet scribed:
“The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else.”
He is talking to me, describing me, informing me of how it is. Has he no heart? Though he is right, he has no right [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo
Future parents take notice: If you have a son and name him “Ronaldo”, you will have automatically increased his chances of him becoming a talented football (soccer, for people in the USA) player. A common Portuguese name, the world has seen “Ronaldos” creep up from Brazil and Portugal.
First, the Brazilian striker, Ronaldo, now 32 [...]
Field Marshal Rommel
When you look at it, World War II was a war that needed to be fought. Benito Mussolini’s Fascism and Adolf Hitler’s Nazism threatened democracy worldwide, with their one-party state and totalitarianism. Said governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government, disseminate brain-washing propaganda through state-controlled media and control nearly every aspect of [...]
Henry David Thoreau
When you immerse yourself in literature, you begin a journey that will lead you to the greatest writers that have walked the earth. Their degree of greatness will vary according to how much their work impacts you and, as such, I was awestruck by the works of Henry David Thoreau, one of my heroes. Born [...]