Family is one of the main elements of our lives: the original population of our world, a necessary nourishment for us to survive and the fundamental source of emotional richness and unconditional support. Family forms a small universe whic…

What am I going to do this weekend? Well, this is the only prompt that I feel qualified to explain, and not exactly because of my excitement before the amazing plan ahead in the next days. I’m struggling with something, something that drys…

Reading and writing has become a first order necessity in this age, illiteracy is an unacceptable circumstance for the majority of modern societies and everyone accepts that reading and writing is one of the fundamental skills to be able t…

My brother’s room is my favourite place at home. I know it should be mine, but nothing is more refreshing than opening someone else’s door and entering into a completely alien territory, different in size, different in colour, different in…

Music is the most intangible art that exists. It spreads as freely as light does, and it has accompanied humans from the very beginning. Even Greek philosophers used to put it at the top of their “sublime list”. No doubts music is a divine…

If I had to think about scientists and artists and tell whose contribution is more valued by the society I live in, I’d probably have a tough time trying to be objective while thinking about it. Both arts and sciences are fortunately highl…

My favorite place in town is called Albayzín. It is a medieval origin district which was built on the hills that crown the city. From there, you can see the horizon beyond it. Its narrow steep streets protect it from vehicles and crowds an…

I agree with the statement for which it is more important for students to study history and literature than it is for them to study science and mathematics because I consider a general knowledge of past events and their reflection on the c…

In the last weeks a friend and I have decided to take a dip in the filmography of one of those acclaimed and at the same time unknown directors from Persia. His name is Abbas Kiarostami and his work seems to be the ocean we were looking fo…

The expression “Never, never give up” is that kind of sentence you get to hear usually in the worst moments of your life. Or at least, that has been my case. That may be the reason that I have associated certain negative connotations with …

'Freedom'. What a big word. What a simple yet complicated term to define, and how fundamental it is for us all. I guess everyone has their own definition of freedom, or maybe not. Maybe we’ve not really thought much about it and we just fo…

If I could send a letter to my 18-year-old self, I’d probably start by trying to gain her curiosity. There are many advices, confessions, secrets and even revelations I could share with that young lady, but I’m scared she won’t listen to m…

“5 out of 5” he said about ‘Koyaanisqatsi’. In that moment, I knew that it was going to be the title of the movie that I’d watch that night. This friend of mine is usually not that generous when it comes to giving stars so I couldn’t miss …

If I could change one thing about my hometown it would be the road that divided it in two. I grew up in a small village on the northwestern Mediterranean coast. It was one of those holiday spots full of people in summer and empty for the r…

Childhood is a crucial part of our lives. The first thirteen years of our existente is the gap of time in which we’ll get to know the world and we’ll learn its structures and, most importantly, the strategies and different ways to survive …

A couple of weeks back, I had a meeting with Luna, one of my best friends from our college days. She was carrying a fruit box full of books. It was what she calls her “feminist library”. In the past, I saw her all the time reading that kin…

These days, in order to stay healthy, many people join gyms or sport clubs, run in the street, follow diets, practise yoga, get many kinds of body treatments, eat organic foods, seek information about the latest trends in training or dieti…

It didn’t take me long to realize that one thing was being an expert in some subject and another very different thing was to teach that subject to someone else. ‘The Atom’ was an eminent professor of Physics. I had the uncomfortable honor …

Whether it is good or bad, change is an undeniable element in this experience we all call life. You can show as much resistance as you want against it, but change has been, is and it will always be there to give you a quick slap, to pinch …

Learning a foreign language can be one of the biggest adventures of your lifetime. At least, that’s been my case. I remember when I was nine years old and I had my first English lesson in my homeland, everything seemed so colourful and eas…