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The importance of being idle
"The Importance of Being Idle" is the title of a song by Oasis,
but it is also a good piece of advice in this world of ours now-a-days these days. (<em>now-a-days sounds weird here</em>)
We live in a fast-paced, world-shrinking, environment. Bridges are now replaced
by networks of cables that retreat into the earth but link people from every corner of the world (<em>corner of the world is an English idiom</em>).
Flashing lights, endless sounds, people always attached to the world wide web through their phones,
headphones permanently grafted to the insides of a persons ears. We seem to have the
constant need to be stimulated. Which leaves a bigger problem that grows where we don't notice. (<em>this word makes a bit more sense here)</em>
The ability to sit still.
To be able to observe.
The importance of being idle.
It is important sometimes to do nothing at all. As babies, we learn everything we need in life
by watching our parents. They keep us close by and show us what we need to do, and after enough watching,
we do it. But only by doing very little, or even nothing, can we do everything.<em>Very very good! Just a few word choices that seemed off, but overall good.</em>
0 votedJune 11, 20140THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY TO DO DRIFT: THE MEDICINES THAT DIDN'T HEALS.What do you thing about it?
A medicine that doesn't heal could seem strange, but is the rationalest from the point of view the of marketing instead (<em>instead not needed here because of the "but" earlier)</em>. There is something not right that if it is possible to read a news story like that on "Correire della Sera" on the 26th of May with the title: "A medicine was found for a serious illness, but nobody will produce it."
After years of study, the researchers at IFOM of Milano have identified and described the cause of an extremely serious genetic illness, the main cause to cerebral hemorrhage in children less than ten years old .
However, the medication is not being produced, and no pharmaceutical industry company wants to produce it because they consider it unprofitable.
<em>Very difficult words here, so not too bad. Some simple mistakes, and a lot of spelling mistakes.</em>0 votedJune 11, 20141Re-writting my first note.
Hello! I'm now writting my first note here in Italki. In fact, this is my second entry, but I must have done something wrong because I can't find the first one anywhere. What I wrote in my authentic real first note was how I'm planning to write these notes.
This exercise consists in of writting without thinking about grammar or vocabulary, just writing as if I were speaking and making the same mistakes I would commit make in my speech. Then, I hope some gentle kind native speaker helps me to see and understand those mistakes I made.
I'm planning to do it this way because when we write (espeacially when we are writing in a second language) we can think long about how to write what we want to express. That creates the impression that our level of langugage is higher than the actual one. Consequently, we can give the wrong impression about ourselves and, finally, get decieved but by the hard reality.
Well, that's enough for today.
Thank you for reading.
Javier<em>Very impressive! I changed some verbs so that they make more sense. Otherwise, very small errors.</em>
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