As If

Diaper Man
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

Men and women grow, leaving their early age, and moving with each single passing day to or through adulthood... but, oh Lord...there are actually people who should be in adulthood, and somehow manage to get there, but they leave all their luggage on the way, arriving completely blank, with no sense of direction, or self or maturity...

The worst part is when they found people like them, or not necesarilly like them, but those that are young, and try to shape their maleable minds into something they're not, but that their "master" is, you can call this people dumb, or even plain old stupid, but if they're young, you have to understand them, then again, if they're young but go through life saying "I'm mature for my age" and clearly they're not, then yes, they're dumb.

It surprises me when I see, people who tell someone else: "Don't talk to him, if you do, I'll stop being your friend"... Oh my god, are you fifteen? not even fifteen, like ten or twelve maybe... No one can tell me, if you're friends with "X" you can't be friends with me, I'm sorry but if you have a problem with "X" doesn't mean that I have a problem with him, we're two different opposite persons, and if someones does you wrong that's your thing, not mine...

Boys will be boys, girls will be girls, but would they all grow up and learn how to behave?

Sides

light and darkness
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

How many times have we heard, "the dark side of the force", at least I must have heard it a thousand times, and no, i'm not a Star Wars fan, i hardly even like those movies... so anyway....we all consider ourselves to be good, unless of course you are really bad (or evil) but then again, you'll be proud of that....and just because we're good, does it mean, we are always good? Don't we ever switch sides?

I consider myself to be a little angel on earth...but hey lets be honest...i'm an angel with hornes and a pointy tail coming out from my butt...why? Well...as good as I am, that doesn't stop me from having "bad thoughts", you have no idea how many motorcycle riders I've wished to hit while I'm driving or how many "conchos" (if you're outside the DR a concho is a public car, in which even if it's made for 4 or 5 persons, somehow they manage to get 8 or 9 and will cause a billion accidents, just to make sure they can get number 10 on their car, all this just for around .75 cents of a dollar))...i've wished had crash on a pole light, and destroy their car, but I always hope the driver doesn't get hurt or anyone else for that matter...

We in our minds, in our hearts, in ourselfs have both sides, in the end its about how we balance it out, do we chose the dark side or the "bright side" :p (yes i had to say it like that)..is one better than the other? well...bah....both have their perks...yes...even the dark side has its perks...so chose wisely, see which one feels better, which one is more you...i've tryed a thousand times to be a little bit more evil...never works out...i just can't do it, i'm a goody-goody, but hey maybe one of this days i'll be able to block one of those fucking conchos and not let them move forward, just because i'm "that evil"

Addicted

addiction
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

A few days ago, I was discusing cigarrettes with a friend, he told me, well Alejandro, you don't know how hard is to be addicted to something, you don't smoke, you don't do drugs, and you don't have a drinking problem....I pretty much in shocked, told him, "have you ever noticed that you haven't seen me without drinking coke or coffee at least in a two hour period every day"...he stayed quiet, remembered the days we had spent together and he then said: "its true, you're always drinking one of those things or both"... ding ding ding...yes I'm addicted to caffeine...

There have been days, were I don't drink coke or coffee, If i don't drink either of them one day, everything will be okay, at the second day, a little headache will begin, on the third day, its worse than migraine...and it won't stop until I drink some caffeine...

All this, lead me to think...

Are we all addicted?

There are your obvious everyday legal drugs, such as tobacco and alcohol, and probably at least a 60% of the world population smokes (this is just guessing its not a real number), and we call them addicts, and of course, when we think of addicts we'd rather think of "drugaddicts" those who use sustances as pot, extasis, cocaine, crystal meth, crack among others...

This may or may not be dangerous drugs (i'm not getting into that debate), but we only considered the people who use these substances as the ones who have a problem...what about the people who like to shop a lot, or have tons of sex, or are workaholics, even me that can't spend a day without the caffeine, don't we have a problem?

What about those who drink a lot of water, more than what a normal person would, or who eat tons of sweets, or even lettuce?!

Bree Van de Kamp on Desperate Housewives, once realized the best way to lose an addiction is to get another one...is this true?

As pesimistic this may sound...I believe it is...we all end up being addicted to something, family, tv, advice columns, there's not a cure, there probably won't be, but still there's a problem and we won't admit it...

Hi, my name is Alejandro, and I'm a Caffeine Addict...

The Other Song

Santana
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

The other song i'm going to post, is one that from the moment i heard the chorus, bought me, i can relate a lot with it, have done in the past, could do on the present, and probably will on the future.... its from Carlos Santana and Steven Tyler, "Just Feel Better"

Just Feel Better

She said I feel stranded
And I can't tell anymore
If we coming or I'm going
It's not how I planed it
I've got the key to the door
But it just won't open

And I know, I know, I know
Part of me says let it go
That life happens for a reason
I don't, I don't, I don't
It goes I never went before
But this time, this time

I'm gonna try anything that just feel better
Tell me what to do
You know I can't see through the haze around me
And I do anything that just feel better

And I can't find my way
Girl I need a change
And I do anything that just feel better
Any little thing that just feel better

She said I need you to hold me
I'm a little far from the shore
And I'm afraid of sinking
You're the only one knows me
And who doesn't ignore
That my soul is weeping

I know, I know, I know
Part of me says let it go
Everything must have it seasons
Round and round it goes
And every day's a one before
But this time, this time

I'm gonna try anything that just feels better
Tell me what to do
You know I can't see through the haze around me
And I do anything that just feel better

And I can't find my way
God I need a change
And I do anything that just feel better
Any little thing that just feel better

Long to hold you in my arms
To all things I ought to leave behind, yeah
It's really getting nowhere
I think I need a little help this time!

Yeah
[Guitar solo]

I'm gonna try anything that just feel better
Tell me what to do
You know I can't see through the haze around me
And I do anything that just feel better

And I can't find my way
Girl I need a change
And I do anything that just feel better
Any little thing that just feel better

A Song

Daniel Powter
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

Hey, in this one, i'm not going to try to analize, or give my opinion about a subject...I'm just going to share with you all, as I did with the Coldplay song, two songs that I can relate two, not right now...but in moments of my life (yes i know this songs are both almost new, but still i can relate). The first one is Bad Day from Daniel Powter.

Bad Day

Where is the moment we need at the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
They tell me your blue skies fade to grey
They tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carryin' on

You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You're faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life's been way off line
You're falling to pieces everytime
And I don't need no carryin' on

Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day

Well you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carryin' on

You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day

(Oh.. Holiday..)

Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong
You might not make it back and you know
That you could be well oh that strong
And I'm not wrong

(yeah...)

So where is the passion when you need it the most
Oh you and I
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost

Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
You've seen what you like
And how does it feel for one more time
You had a bad day

Happily Ever After

holding hands
Originally uploaded by ale_to_rro.

As I've probably stated here, in a lot of posts before, I love going to the movies, or better yet movies (be it going to a cine, renting them, etc..) Every now and then I like to see my romantic comedies, they're usually good and makes your heart melt whenever you see that love is flourishing....

Love Actually, wow, great movie, I'm not going to review it, don't worry, but this is a romantic comedy I must have seen around 6 or 7 times, and every time I see it, I smile, I cry I simply love...

After you see one of this romantic comedies, you always leave the movie theater saying, I want that or I wish i could have that again. We demand our partners (if we have any) to sweep off of our feets again, we want to fall in love one more time; but the sad honest truth is that the movie never shows the characters after they're involved, all the struggle they have to fight in order to love each other, stand each other, comprehend each other and to commit...

The all "boy meets girl, girl meets boy" its beautiful, but what does happen after a year? or two years? when we finally get the girl (or boy), when we go to see a movie and long for that again, are we going to what, break up? That would be just silly, because if you do it, you'll never find true and everlasting love...

As time goes by, and you get to know your sweetheart better, everything evolves, a look can say a million things, you'll know the exact place to touch, you won't be holding hands because you are falling inlove, you'll be holding hands because you're inlove, because you are mergin with that person, the two of you are being one...

Love is complicated, it is, but as it ages, its like wine, it gets better, every look, every touch, every smile, those things makes our heart get all warm and fuzzy, although most of the time we ignore it, but when we lose it, even if it is for a little while, our heart will scream for it, will fight for it, will die for it...

Love is beautiful, and I've learned that when the movies are done the characters don't live happily ever after, the simply cease to exist, but us in the real world is when our fairy tale begins.