La crise, quelle crise ?

Auteur/autrice : marc

  • Day 455 – The Beauty And The Beast

    Day 455The elections that have just happened in France were in all newspaper across the world because the ruling party (the socialist) has lost and the extreme right one (the front national) has tremendously grown although not really winning. And of course, everyone comments on the victory of the right wing against the left wing, and on the defeat of the left wing against the right wing. Politics are governed by cycles, like economy or civilization. And people comment and need to find reasons and predicts future outcomes… but people forget!

    They forget that they made the same mistakes, took the same decisions, because they were impatient, because they are not taking the hard path to question the politics, to make them accountable to their promises. They listen to the media who happens to be as shortsighted as voters and to forget. Because media’s power is to tell stories, incredible stories, scary stories, emotional stories. There is beauty in the victory and a beast in the opponent!

    The Beast for both wings was Marine Le Pen and the Front National. They won 62 seats out of 3,802… 1.63%, although they got 22.23% of total votes. As a reminder, in 1986, while another socialist was leading the country, François Mitterrand, the Front National got 35 MPs out of 577… just above 6%. But people forget and when they are recalled history, they shrug their shoulders and tell you this was different back then. The Beauty for the right wing is to have now 66 « départements », winning 25 (totaling 65%). In 1988, under the presidency of François Mitterrand, the right wings had 68 « départements » (totaling 72%, because of a total back then of 95).

    If politicians were elected on the results they achieved, very few would be elected! If politicians were elected on their proven competencies, very few would be elected! There will always be beauties and beasts in politics. What voters should do is pay a visit to their candidates, ask questions, seek answers, cast their votes, hold their champions accountable and keep moving. Never ever forget and be brave!

  • Day 454 – Why would or could, when you can and will?

    Day 454Although I am not a native English speaker, I feel a major difference between would and could, and will and can. Of course, you will say that would is the past tense of will or that would expresses a polite request. However, the Oxford dictionary also gives those definitions: indicating the consequence of an imagined event or situation; expressing a desire or inclination; expressing a conjecture, opinion, or hope; and expressing a wish or regret. All those definitions express an opinion or describes a situation that may not exist. By the way, when Barack Obama was elected he said, yes we can, not we could.

    To me, using would or could is a way to say that there is a risk of failure, and if it does not happen, well, it does not happen, fail, done! Using will or can is a way to say that you will do whatever it takes to make it succeed. It may still fail, but you believe it will succeed. Words are a simple and powerful to express what we believe. We have only one life, and this should be a life of will and can, not a life of would and could. Have a look at where you are and where you want to be, then believe you can, and you will!

  • Day 453 – Sunday is YOUR day!

    J 453Sunday is the day of the Sun. The day for you. In some countries Sunday is the first day of the week. Fine, then your Saturday is my Sunday and this is the same. The main point of Sunday is to take time for you! Sometimes we feel we have very, very little time in the week due to our professional rhythm. Well Sunday should be actually named Funday! The day of the fun. The one day of the week that you can devote to do things selfishly for you and for you only. Take an hour to paint, to run, to visit a museum, to see a movie, to relax in the couch with a good book. This time is crucial to your balance. Make it uninterruptible and have fun!

  • Day 452 – what’s up doc?

    I did 365 days of daily post last year in French. Will do them in English this year. For those who want my post in French, use the Microsoft Translator dropdown on the right. It may not be perfect French, but you know, robots will get better over time and their French will improve dramatically. Compris ?

    As said in the previous post (in French, for you who speaks English, use the Microsoft Translator dropdown to translate the previous post in French J), I am back on posting daily, my thoughts of the day. Since I jumped over 86 days already, I am late, like Alice’s rabbit, and therefore I am full of ideas that I need to put on the virtual paper of my blog. So wazzup ? In random order:

    • Change the design of that blog (too … and too… so need to go back to simple, smart, sweet design). Will work on this.
    • Comment on my latest learnings from my job and the news
    • Deliver rants on the crisis… Crisis? What crisis? Well our European friends are in deep sh… Chinese have not yet realized they are and Americans seem out, but could be again. However, there are simple ways to get out for you and your beloved ones.
    • Write on my latest readings (the last book that I have not finished is just a mind-blowing eye opener of why people are so irrational, more on this soon).
    • Tell you why you should leave France now if you have not done so yet.
    • Explain why the world is just wonderful and why you should stop listening to all people who tell you the opposite.

    Voilà. This is it for the moment and for my first post of season 2 of the one-post-a-day, à la Seth Godin (he’s a master, I’m just a young Padawan).

    All the best, have a great week-end and see you tomorrow!

    Oh, before I leave… do comment on my posts. Just say a few words, even if it’s hello or yuck! Just a word will start a conversation.

    © keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk, 2015

  • Y’en a marre…. et voilà ça redémarre…

    Je courais ce matin, comme quasiment tous les matins, non pas parce que j’étais en retard, mais parce que je cours tous les matins, je jog, je fais mon footing, vous appelez ça comme voulez. Je le fais, un, parce que j’aime courir (ça a commencé il y a plus de vingt ans quand on a décidé, une bande de copains, de courir le marathon de Paris, depuis je n’ai jamais arrêté), et deux, parce que ça génère endorphine, dopamine et sérotonine et que donc ça fait du bien ! Je courais donc et je réfléchissais. C’est clair que quand on court, on a le temps de réfléchir, particulièrement quand on a la chance, comme moi, de courir dans la forêt. je réfléchissais donc et mes pensées s’emmêlaient… agréablement.

    En réfléchissant, je me disais que j’avais de la chance de pouvoir courir là de bon matin dans cette forêt, et que surtout, qu’il était temps de mettre de l’ordre dans mes affaires et de simplifier les tonnes de trucs que je fait au quotidien. Il s’en est donc suivi un certain nombre de décisions, prises là comme ça, en courant.

    La première concerne ce blog. Ben oui, je l’ai un peu délaissé, car je m’étais un peu lassé de mon billet quotidien. C’est que ça en fait du travail d’écrire un billet tous les jours. Et puis en regardant le désolant film des départementales, les élucubrations des uns et des autres sur la crise en Europe et le bras de fer Merkel-Tsypras, la folie meurtrière du co-pilote de Germanwings (dont la culpabilité n’est pas encore prouvée, même si tous les indices semblent converger), l’optimisme de mes interlocuteurs après mes deux semaines au Zimbabwe, en Namibie et au Botswana, la manière avec laquelle les parents et les enfants sont parfois considérés dans l’école de la république (histoire personnelle), j’ai décidé de m’y remettre. Non seulement à mon billet quotidien,  mais aussi à mes chroniques sur la crise, car franchement, franchement, qu’est-ce qu’on peut entendre comme monceau de bêtises ! Non que j’ai la science infuse et en sais plus que les autres, c’est certainement tout le contraire. Mais c’est que le bon sens est toujours là et que peu de monde au final l’applique, alors je vais m’y coller. Certes, j’ai raté 86 jours depuis le début de l’année, et je ne vais pas chercher à les rattraper, je continuerai à compter en partant du 1er janvier de l’année dernière avec un trou de 86 billets…

    La seconde concerne donc ma présence sur les réseaux sociaux et mon autre blog. Et bien j’arrête, et je reviens à mes fondamentaux. Comme quoi, le bon sens est de toujours écouter sa petite voix (salope) qui vous glissent des bananes sous les pieds pour voir si vous trébucher. Comme je n’ai pas encore trouvé comment faire bien plein de choses, je m’en vais faire bien moins de choses. Logique non ?

    Et puis la troisième… la troisième…. doit-il y avoir une troisième ? On dit un, deux, trois, pas un, deux… Pour le moment, cela sera un et deux. Voilà. je reprends ce blog et laisse tomber l’autre (je n’étais pas trop motivé pour l’autre de toutes les façons).

    Allez, à demain !