Dear selection committee and other bureaucrats whom it may concern or not but that for some reason have to read this letter in order to file it, burn it or use it to even the desk's legs:I chose the Monographic Course on Aesthetics to fulf…

The use of mobile phones has become widespread among the youngest members of our society. This undeniable fact, partially triggered by the nature of the modern market, has aroused the worries of teachers and therapists and has initiated a …

The most important characteristics that a person can have to be successful in life are self-confidence, perseverance and humanity. Self-confidence will be the start button to have success. Beyond whatever success means for someone, one wil…

Sometimes I wonder about the nature of this peculiar phenomenon among people. At times I try to reconstruct the genesis of this sort of miracle. Every so often I want to untangle the geometry of this intangible tie, to extract the recipe o…

I guess making a change implies a major turnaround. I think until now I’ve not spun far enough to change other people’s lives, or even my own, really. But this period of my life is like the anteroom for that spin, and I couldn’t be more ex…

While some people swing their entire lives on the same branch, others stay in constant flight. If I had to put myself in one of these two groups, I guess it would already be too late to get a nest nearby. That doesn’t mean I hadn’t enjoyed…

To have a job is a natural thing, and it is said that we humans spend around 60% of our lifetime working. It’s not something to question. We are born, we go to school, we work, and we die. However, when the natural chain of events gets dis…

Summer breaks, those unending periods of time in my childhood days, three long months of sun and waves during which alarm clocks, teachers and rain boots were a vague memory, almost non-existent. That natural border between the fourth and …

If I had the opportunity to travel to a foreign country for two weeks, I would love to go to Cuba. I’ve always felt attracted to that little island, its landscape, its people, their nature, but especially, their music. The first time I saw…

When I think about the priceless teachings learned from the source of experience, when I think about those essential trial and error processes that I’ve gone through, when I watch proud and pleased the winding road I’ve dragged myself on… …

Good roommates are a rare species. They hide in the most unexpected flats, usually in inhospitable districts, dwelling in the smallest rooms, sharing their orange juice and living peaceful lives. For the last years I’ve had a bunch of room…

It is said that reading fiction is more enjoyable than watching movies, but actually I could share a few evidences that it is not always like that. David Cronenberg was one of those geniuses that I began to discover through his old works. …

Last night Rosa and I were throwing stones at the sea, this is one of my favorite times of the year, when it is past 10:20 pm and you can sit on the shore and still see brief glows of sunlight in the skyline. “We serve nobody,” Rosa said, …

Success is a relative concept. The term may broadly refer to satisfactory results due to the achievement of certain goals, but there is a huge range of possibilities if we talk about those. Mainly, everyone could agree that success is the …

If I had the opportunity to travel to the past, just one trip would not be enough to satisfy my ambitions. There are so many D dates to witness, so many lost cities and so many cool people to meet, that I don’t even know where to start. Bu…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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 …

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…