Mass Shootings (Orlando).

They tell us that USA it's more evolved than the rest of the countries geographically below. Is it being evolved that guns are selled at Walmart? That you can get a fucking rifle at the supermarket? Is that normal? Is that rational?
We have a shit ton of problems here in Mexico, people get killed and disappear almost everyday. And these problems are not more nor less than having mass shootings one after the other, just because it's really easy to get a gun and do whatever you want, because you're "free" to do it.
LGBTQ+ people shouldn't be living afraid for their lives, muslims shouldn't be afraid of leaving their houses because they think they're gonna get attacked on the streets, black people shouldn't fear for their safety. Nobody should. Because you, people in the US may be "free", but are you ALL really free?
Freedom is doing whatever you want without interfiering with other people's rights, that involves not going into a goddamn gay bar and massacre them. Freedom is also going outside and enjoy yourself with your friends without fear.
The United States is not a free country. Because not everyone is free of being themselves, not everyone is free of having fun and being happy with who they are. But apparently everyone is free to go buy a rifle at Walmart. And in my opinion, that needs to change.

I watched the YouTube videos made by Hannah Hart and Tyler Oakley talking about this, and what they have to say is truth. Watch them if you want to.

• Hannah Hart, "I'm Afraid of You" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIqBhtTxrQ
• Tyler Oakley, "Rainbow Road: Being Gay After an Anti-LGBTQ+ Massacre and What Can We Do Now" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SRi8BeNWzY

This event has changed points of view and has made more people raise awareness about all of this. Because we know that not only gay people are affected by this, but everyone. Mostly, minorities.

What do you think about this? Let me know.
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French.

I'm Mexican. As a Mexican, I need to learn a second or even a third language if I want to succeed (lol). No, but seriously we need to learn a second language besides of Spanish.
As you can see, my second language is English, and even though I don't have perfect spelling and grammar, I'm not as bad as I am in French. Because believe me when I say that French is harder for me than anything.
I started my French lessons two years ago, and I still have shitty pronunciation and can't read a short text. Since I'm a pretty desperate person, I have no patience whatsoever when it comes to learning, so you can understand my struggle.
I remember when I had my first lesson with an amazing teacher. She taught me the alphabet, the numbers and basic stuff, and I thought I was going to be amazing at it, but reality had other plans. One day I stopped going to my French lessons because I had to deal with something that was happening in my personal life, but my teacher gave me a website so I could practice and learn a little bit more. Since at that moment I was feeling pretty shitty, I procrastinated everyday and I kind of dropped the French language.
But now I'm in my last year of high school, future is coming towards me and I need another language. Even though I know English, I need another one, so I started again with French. Aparently my theory that this would work right now was terribly wrong, because I'm even worse at trying to learn something else right now. Stress and other things keep my mind busy, and sometimes I don't even know what I'm doing.
But I think I still have a hope on this, because I met this amazing French singer called ZAZ. Her music has helped me to learn a little bit more of the language, have more vocabulary and stuff like that. The funny thing is that is exactly music which helped me not to forget the English I already knew, because these three years of public high school have done nothing for me when it comes to languages.
Even though I consider I have facility for languages, if there's a lot on my mind or if I'm stressed and stuff like that, I'm not going to understand a thing. I guess that is one of the main reasons why us teenagers have it harder to learn another language. Or maybe is because sometimes public school is not as good as we wish it was when it comes to languages, etc. There might be lots of reasons, but to me is still a mystery.
Anyways, I hope to find out someday what's going on with me and hopefully I'll improve my French skills.
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Atheism today.

I'm a teenager, right? I study at high school and I can tell that with this whole situation we're living nowadays, some of us are gonna stand up for what we believe it's right. Sometimes it's for good, but some other times is just for wrong.
As teenagers we are romantic, passionate, sentimental. We defend what we believe in and we care a lot about the right that we have to share said beliefs, even though some people don't do it as how it should be done. This leads to many other things, such as racism, homphobia, sexism, etc., which are oddly not called like that when you are "sharing your opinion". This is really common nowadays, and sometimes we may think that there is no way of getting out of all of this.
Personally, I was raised as catholic, and I've been taught something all my life. I used to go to church, and do all of those things. But as I was growing up I kind of started noticing things at church and in the community that weren't right at all. I've seen many bad things happening with church people such as priests, and regardless that, some believers still believe that we all should follow their religion. (I'm not generalizing).
This led to something that I find very problematic, and this is the pseudo-intellectual-atheism. I'm pretty sure that everybody knows at least one person who fits in this group. You know, that guy who doesn't believe in God -or any other supreme force-, who constantly picks up fights with believers, and doesn't go into churches, can't touch any religious thing (are they vampires?) and thinks that he is right all the time.
I've met many people like this before, and even though sometimes is amusing to see them running away from holy water, this kind of behavior is the opposite of what they proclaim to be.  They say they're open-minded, when actually their minds are as closed as the ones they critique.
Even though I'm an atheist myself, I've never acted like this. Although, I know a person who acts exactly like this. There was this time when another friend got married, and I went to the church with this guy. When we arrived to the principal door of the building, he stopped. I was like "are you ok?", and he said "yeah, I'm fine. I'm just not going in there." I asked him why, and he said "because I'm a freethinker". I facelpalmed so hard I almost cracked my skull. Also, this other time when he had a fight with a priest because he said "prove me that God exists, right now". Like, seriously? I mean, I've done this before with people who are trying to make me change my mind in not-so-friendly ways, but never for real and never to a real believer who's not messing with me.
This is just a little piece of what I've lived next to him, and I cringe every time I remember this things. This is what a pseudo-intellectual-atheist does. And just like him, there are many people who act exactly this way. What can we do?
First and foremost, we have to really understand what atheism is really about, because it has become popular to misuse the term. Being an atheist consists in not believing in any kind of religious superior entity and not being a bitch about it. What is this? You can believe or not in whatever you want, but you still have to respect everyone else, even though they don't agree with your beliefs.
Pseudo-intellectual-atheists are a problem, because they think that they have to harass believers and tell them "prove to me that God is real, right now", and that can't happen. God is a matter of faith, and if you believe in it -God, Allah, Yahve or else- you don't have the obligation to prove it.
If you are religious and someone tells you to "prove God's existence", tell them to fuck off. They are the ignorants, and not you.
But also, let's say that there are many people who enjoys fighting with atheists in the name of God, which is hilarious, but contradictory. They also can be bitches about it and try to take away the credit of scientific discoveries, etc. But that's another story.
The main habit that we all have to change is that we have to learn about respect and tolerance, so we all can live in a better place.
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Audience Participation

I remember the very first time I went to a play. I was 12-13 years old and I went with some friends to watch Oedipus the King.
We had won free tickets for the very front road, if we stood up we could literally touch the stage. So I was just sitting there, waiting for the play to start when I suddenly realized that the probabilities of being part of the play were increasing, as the roads at the auditorium were almost empty.
I was panicking about it because of course I didn't want to be a part of it whatsoever and I was thinking about posible ways to get out of it when the lights turned off and the play started. When the lights turned off, I felt like my heart stopped, I was sweating and shaking.
It might sound like a joke, but that actually happened that day, and I didn't even enjoy the fucking play! (Ok, we won the tickets but sTILL).
Even though nobody was called to participate in the play, I couldn't get that thought out of my head, and it's been haunting me ever since. Anytime I go to watch an staged show I can't help to think I'm going to be called to go on stage at some point, even if it's a concert, a musical play or a crappy high school play just for students and parents.
I've been thinking about that quite a lot recently and I still can't find a racional answer to this condition. I'm not afraid of embarrass myself in front of a bunch of people (I've done that before), which is possibly the thing you were thinking of. But let me tell you this: I'm 100% sure that this is not the reason I'm stupidly afraid of being called to participate.
And I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who has this feeling. It could either be a magician, a clown at your little sibling's birthday party or whatever, but I know that I'm not the only one who is afraid of them. Not because clowns are sometimes scary, or magicians make you believe that they made some kind of arrangement with Satan or Dumbledore, it's because I know for sure that at some point they are going to ask someone to participate in the act.
This actually happens to me a lot, and it's kind of ironic that they always call me for that. They see me sweating, shaking uncontrolably and avoiding eye contact, and still they call me up! Don't they know anything about body language? I'm not shaking of excitement, fellas. And I don't know why they always call the most shaky/unconfident/anxious kid on stage. Do they need someone to fuck up the act? What is it? WHAT ARE THEIR REASONS?
However, I think I'm a little bit more able to deal with that now than when I was younger. It sometimes makes me feel bad, because they respect more my -17 years old girl- decision of not going on stage than a little kid's one. Specially their parents, do they feel like their kids are gonna win something? An Oscar? A Grammy? Get the EGOT while they're at it? No. That's not gonna happen, don't make your kid participate in something that he's not feeling comfortable with. (That is a lesson my mom learned when I was six years old and I punched a clown at my best friend's party).

These are basically my thoughts on Audience Participation. What do you guys think? Let me know.
Thank you for reading, see you next time! ☺

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