It's always worth following our dreams! We all know that complaints don’t change anything. If we want to see an actual change in our lives, we have to get up from the couch and start working hard. It can get very tough. We’ll find thousands of obstacles along the way. Lots of people may not support us and not believe in what we are fighting for. Some of them can even stab us in the back. We might feel exhausted at the end of the day and think that nothing’s worth it. It might get really hard sometimes but we should keep in mind that we have just one life, just one and only chance. I’m sure none of us want to use it pleasing others. So we should carry on even when we have just a few supporters that we can count them on the fingers of our hand. We all want to see fast results but sometimes we should keep fighting for what we believe even when we know our awards is not behind the corner. We should keep focusing on the goals we have set. We should keep our motivation on a high level nurturing our heart with what we love. We shouldn’t let anyone say that we can’t do it. That’s the way to succeed in career or in personal issues such as losing weight and giving up bad habits. We should do our best. At least at the end of the day we can say we have tried.

Goldfish beats human attention span by one second! They say that a goldfish has a longer attention span than us. The attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds while nowadays our attention span has dropped to 8 seconds. When we surf the Web, our attention span is even shorter. A website has just three seconds to catch our attention and if it can’t, we just move on and forget about it. Why did we become so impatient? And... is it actually a matter of patience or maybe a matter of lifestyle? We live in a world that constantly sends us hundreds of stimuli per second. Our brain has become far more selective and far quicker when it comes to pick important issues regarding our interests. If we spent time listening to everything they are talking about, we wouldn’t have enough time to deal with what actually matters in our lives. That’s the way we do. The only way not to be buried under unnecessary information. We pick just what we need and we want it to be effective and quick. So... if a website page takes too long to upload, we just close that and pick a quicker one. If someone can’t make his point effectively in a short time, we end up thinking about what’s for dinner while he’s still speaking. It’s worth saying that we may lose opportunities along the way because of that attitude. We may not be aware of a current important issue that affects the society just because we didn’t follow the news till the end of the program. We may lose the opportunity to know an interesting person just because we were in a rush and we didn’t let him finish speaking.

Just practising...what are the advantages and disadvantages of owning thousands of toys for a child? Nowadays the majority of children who live in Western countries receive lots of toys. Their parents and relatives give them toys for birthdays and for any special occasions. Sometimes they may buy presents to their offspring even to say sorry for having been too busy and not having had time to play. Consequently children find their playroom plenty of any kind of toys. On one hand children who have lots of toys to play with may be less creative. They already have a cowboy costume, a plastic sword to play as knights and a hat to become wizards. They are used to finding everything they need to play already made and ready to be used. As a result, they may not be able to use their imagination and create an armour for a new adventure with just a piece of paper and a box. Moreover they’ll probably not understand the value of things. They’ll not care about their toys as they know that a new and better one is certainly coming soon. They may not use them properly and they may break them. Furthermore they we’ll always want more new toys and as soon as they see a new toy advertised on television, they’ll want they parents to buy it. They’ll become quickly bored to play a game and they may never feel satisfied. On the other hand a well-behaved child who receives lots of toys can experience the world through them. He can learn about colours. He can learn about vegetables and any kind of food playing in a little kitchen made for children. Also, if his parents buy him board games made for his age and memory games, he can learn how to match similar cards. He can develop hand-eye coordination making necklaces with strings and cubes provided with holes. He can discover how doctors’ tools work playing with a toy briefcase full of them. Also, if he has plastic hammers and hand saw, he can pretend to be a carpenter. To conclude we all know that toys help children know about the world and have fun. Sometimes children may have even too many toys nowadays but the quantity is not a problem if parents manage to make their children understand the importance to be always grateful and to care about their own things. As a result, their children won’t be spoiled even if they own hundreds of toys but they’ll grow happily learning through and playing with them.

Why don't we have such a close relationship with our neighbours as people had in the past? Nowadays we are very busy. We leave home at about seven in the morning and we come back at seven in the evening. As soon as we are back home, we are not meant to relax yet. Our day is not over yet as we have to make a healthy dinner and sort out a little bit our home. Also, we must control our children’s homework. In the weekend we are tired and a little bit stressed, however we do our best to spend as much quality time as we can with our family. As a result, we rarely have time to stop and make conversation with our neighbours and it can happen that we don’t even know them at all. Even though we are interested in the problems that affected our neighbourhood, we don’t have time to catch up with them and to discuss them with our neighbours. In the past the situation was very different. The way our grandparents lived weren’t so fast as ours and they didn’t fill their agenda with thousands of appointments. Consequently they were not always in rush and they could easily find some time to talk to their neighbours. Also, only some people could afford a radio or a television so talking with their own neighbours was the best way to keep up with the local, regional and national news. Moreover, they know that they could count on their neighbours whenever they need some help. The majority of relationships between neighbours were very strong and trustworthy. In our time to improve contact with our neighbours we should start joining the local events organized in our borough. Also, we should find some minutes to slow down and talk with our neighbours when we meet them on our way to go to work and on our way back home.