#LoveWins

Hey, guys!

So, USA just legalized gay-marriage. My question is: "What took'em so long?"

It is a pretty fervorous movement going on the internet from the supporting side and the opposing side. Me? Well, I'm on the supporting side and I'll tell you why (even if what I have to say has already been said in a lot of other opinions before).

I simply think is right for everyone to have the chance to be happy, no matter the age, genre, race, social class, religion, etc. Homosexual people are still people! Sexual orientation is something that no one can force into each other. The person is gay because he just IS, period. 

I know that the religious question is one of the main arguments of the opposing side. But if you think about the essence of the thing, you will see that there is no sense at all to be mad at the situation of two people getting married, (maybe) adopting a child and loving each other. Love is one of God's main traces, right? He created us all as His image, therefore, we are all His children. And what father wouldn't be happy to see their children happy, by the love that He implanted in our hearts.

I'm not religious nor I disbelief religion, I just think that it isn't right for people to forbid other to be happy. 

And, for the homophobic part of the story, it's simple. Just because a man, for example, is gay, it doesn't mean that he will hit on another guy just because he is a man. It works the same way if you have a girl friend. She is not gonna hit on you just because you're a man and she is heterosexual.

Long story short: I just think that love is all that matters.

I'm Innocent!

Hey, guys! 

So, maybe you guys have deducted in a previous post that I live in Japan, right? A lot of things are different here: the food, the mannerisms, the traffic, the way of life, blah, blah blah.

In the middle of that last item, there's the safety subject, wich is very respected over here. And why? Because the police works clean and VERY severe.

I realized that today...

So, I went out for a ride on my bike. I was pretty bored at the house, since my parents went to a boring bingo kinda-thing and I had no money to go out with friends, so, I decided to finally put the working out idea on execution. So, I get my glasses, my keys, my phone and my earphones and just go.

Half an hour later, my playlist is getting pretty boring, so I start to scroll my list to find a more convenient song to listen on my bike. At the same time, a police officer passes by my side and asks me to get out of the bike.

I didn't even know what I've done! I was a little confused, but I knew that I could get out of that by playing the "I don't know japanese" guy (well...I really don't). But what started to freak me out was that he came really close to me and started to ask for my passport and my ID, where is my house, my parents, etc (Yeah, magically, I understood 30% of what he said). After about 7 minutes of "conversation", he took notes from my bike and told me to not do it again in the future, and to always carry my ID with me.

I was like "ooook...". At first, I thought this was nonsense, but it is the police's job. Maybe that's because the country is safer than others. And that was also a remind that: 1-I need to learn japanese, and 2-I need to get informed. I say that because, apparently, here we have some "cycling-laws" that just got into action, and people have already been ARRESTED for disobeying it.

Well, better safe than sorry, right?

Role-Playing Game

Hey, guys! Today I'd like to talk about something that I really love and I'm glad that I am at an age that I still was capable of experiencing such a thing.

You see, nowadays, teens and kids have at the base of their entertainment the videogames, right? Platforms, sports, puzzles, etc. A lot of those titles were provenient of real life games (ping-pong, tennis, soccer, boxing, scrambled words). So does role-playing game. 

Today, the original concept of the RPG is about to get forgotten by the next generations of gamers (at least, in my vision). Players are familiarized with those third-person games, where they are the heroe and must accomplish quests to become stronger and fulfill the plot. I, personally, LOVE videogames. I'm not going to say that they are inferior to the classic RPG, 'cause they don't. Each one has their unique qualities. I love RPG too.

But ok, for those who don't know what the heck is the classic RPG, let's get to the point.

Basically it is a mix of a board game, acting, luck, imagination and lots of snacks (yeah, they are included in the rule book). The amount of players doesn't matter, depending of which system you are using, but the general amount is four people. There are three players and the master, who also is a player. The master's job is to create a plot in any scenario (medieval, cyber-punk, vampire, western, modern age, etc) where the other players are protagonists. Each player has a file. This file is where they create their character, with name, background story, race, age, sex, abilities, special abilities, weaknesses, experience, etc. The goal of the game is...well...depends on the amount of time the players want to play, because the group can complete the main mission and then continue the story. The master has absolute power, since he can modify the plot to wherever he wants (or not). The players actions interfere with the situation and the master has to keep going with the story, and the story interferes in the player's life too.

Most of the actions are decided by dice-rolling. But they are not ordinary dices, they are multi-faced dices, with lots of different kinds. Four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty, a hundred faces, whatever. Each one has an especific use (or not). Depending of the result, the following scene is good or bad. For example: "The orc just threw a giant rock at you, roll for evasion - Dice: 2 - The rock smashes your leg..." 

Or...Dice:20 - "You evade sucessfully and counter with a fireball"

Same thing as negotiations, speech, decisions, etc.

But the actual fun of the game is on the role-playing. In real life, you can be a student, a teacher, a geologist, etc. But in the RPG, you must incarnate your character, thinking like it, speaking like it, living like it. This way, everything becomes more interesting and funny. At the table, you may hear what your friends are planning to do, but your character doesn't know! And it is hilarious and great to see each other acting in their character's skin, the creativity does not have an end.

Anyway, actually I don't like to explain RPG because I can't express entirely the meaning of this thing. You gotta play to feel that vibe, you know what I'm saying?

Do some research, get pen and paper, call your friends and have an amazing evening!

Teenager's Problems

Hey, guys.

Today I'd like to talk a little bit about teenager's thougts, especifically what they think is wrong or disgraceful in their lifes.

At the final phase of high school, many teens start to think about what they are going to do next and to plan their adulthood. Consequently, they start to think they already got what it takes to live an adult life. That line of thought brings a lot of new things they start to do in their routine, and when the routine is broken, parrents get in the way.

And that, my friend, creates a tense situation between the parent's authority and their kid's mind.

You see, everyone thinks that whatever they think is right, just because. Especially teenagers, who think they know what they are doing, who think that everything is possible and simple, when, actually, they don't have the slight idea of what the real deal looks like. Parents always have the upper hand on the arguments. "I already had your age, I know what I'm saying." "You still have a lot to learn." "You kids think you know it all, pff." 

Let's admit it...97% of the time, they're right. Deep down, they want our own good, they want to evade the bad situations that they probably experienced. They just want to keep us on the right path.

But teenagers don't see things that way. Their minds don't let them realize that caring. At the end of the day, mom and dad are only the persons that tell them to wash the dishes, take out the trash, walk the dog, study, etc; ignoring that they are their progenitors, the ones that gave you life and the ones that they should be most close with. This only feeds negative thoughts, like thinking the parents are too overprotective (wich in some cases is true), consequently also feeding the desire of leaving the house and taking care of themselves, because as already said, they think this is simple. 

I think that there must exist some mutual respect, a product of daily chit-chatting. This way, parents and kids get to know, in a friendly way, what each other think about life, responsibilities, dreams, problems, etc., so that way, together they can work to make everything go well for everyone.

Well, what am I saying? I'm just a teenager. Perhaps I'm just writing this to convince myself about the things that my parents should tell me in a good way...or nah.