I Am In Love
To look at you clearly, calmly, and say "I don't know if I'm in love with you" was one of the most difficult yet frivolous truths I have dared to utter in my life. I didn't know that I didn't know, and yes, I didn't know. I had not been in that position and had not known the advent of love so many times that I could vehemently acknowledge its presence. I did what the rest of the world does, with the same cluelessness that movies and TV shows cultivate, the one with big words and big promises, waiting for music from the heavens to play and for passion that engulfs the inner world. I didn't know that I didn't know and for that I am absolving me. It was…
The People of the Castles
In the very distant past people did not have the internet. They lived in their own place which was usually far away from other places and their information about other peoples and other places was fragmented and always through third parties. Few people visited other places systematically or even once in their lifetime, most did not interact with other peoples or cultures. As local populations grew, and settlements, villages, towns and cities sprang up here and there, and as the world became more geographically dispersed, communication began to strengthen. Oral, written, systematic. Communication made evident the diversity of peoples, cities, kingdoms, and then states. Other places, other customs; each place with its own nature, and therefore with a different life compass. From its natural resources to its people, and above…