I'm writing this weekly post, like usually on a monday, that in Australia happened today be a bank holiday (i.e. queen's birthday), I've been working the whole day in a restaurant, and as an unwritten rule on those day, the place is packed with young family coming for a meal on their day trip to the city or on their way back in town...

However I'm glad that days like this attract people from all walks of life bringing then consequently their children along, and the range of age is always wide spreading from few weeks of life to big grown~ups.

And I'm always keen to welcome their young children quickly starting to make funny face or pantomimic joke, usually very well appreciated from their parents.

Within the many I'd like to speak of this young family either not too rich nor of a low income. They stop at night to rest and feed after a long day rounding around the city on one monday part of a trip to Melbourne that brought the two little sister Annabel and Chelsea through Zoo, Aquarium, Stadium, Boat and now to the restaurant, I know this because the little 4yo Annabel told me and showed me the evidence on her handmade journal where from the Quantas airplane to the unfailing family depicted in a beautiful painting. (Each of the two had their own unique journal)

We had fun and I've listen with eager interest to all what the young talkative Annabel had to tell me and eventually the grown up managed to place the order : )

but as the picture I've presented at the beginning want's many more kids around, and truly many more were, if I'm however sure they are all good boys and girls, I cannot say it for sure, because if at the sister table watercolor and journals were towering, and did help the talkative little one to tell our stories each other, is true that on the table next to this one a much more common Nintendo DS was the central piece telling his own story to a taciturn little~player and already tired~thumb little boy who's name I ignore.

And the "DS lite" helped nevertheless as a double wall more then a dual screen... a double layer of thick wall that buried the little diner too far away to reach, for not just myself but his parents as well.

At a stage I get so confident with the young family that I shook the chair of my "short" new friend just for the sake of that and to surprise then her, move this one that burst straight away into a quite loud and authentic cry, to which I must admit we all reacted very well able to came quickly back to hour laugh.

But, then as soon as the good mood was re~establish, the little Chelsea summoned me back at her table, inquiring the reason of such behavior~! And suggesting if I was playing a certain sort of game...

..."Which yes I was" I promptly answered

At this stage she made me speechless informing me that if nobody told me yet, then I should keep in mind for the time being as a matter of fact that is Prohibited to play a game in a restaurant~!

Ahahahah she was bloody right, I'm still laughing and I should have make her speak with the young~man of the neighbor table : )

~The Man and the Lion~

A man and a lion were travelling along together
one day when they began to argue about which of them was the stronger. Just then they passed a stone state of a man strangling a lion.
'There you see,we are stronger than you,'
said the man, pointing it out to the lion.
But the lion smiled and replied:
'If lions could make statues,
you would see plenty of men under the paws of lions.'

Aesop's fable VI century BC.

I wouldn't like to sounds rhetorical but I think that in this old vignette we could reflect our back to the future life, where what has been pubblished or rather told us is what became regarded as real and trustworthy but it doesn't means that is.

So became crucial to search information properly on the first place, share them, and then say what we think about that. In doing so we must only have to learn how to communicate and do it quickly, I'm always amazed and frustrated in realizing how my time his running out.

I pretend to be a player and not just an, user. I chose to play a role and then accept the event of a possible lost, but I PERENTORIAMENTE refuse to be just an user.
I'm now yes speaking about the big picture of the news, where I try to read and filter what the mass media is try to sell me, but at the same time I've learned to better use my time with the people around me, pulling out what I think and doing my best in listening.

A handy example reading whatever today newspaper around the world is surely enough the so deadly swine flu that so many people are scare of, epidemic that probably does exist but has grown at least dozen of time bigger then it should be, because is of somebody interest in doing so. Is a very long list indeed of people that are becoming more and more rich on putting citizens on alert, and you will find always space on the first page for news that spread panic and fear, but not that often when is the moment to call those very same news back.

Now that I've remarked again my point of view on this issue so much important for me I rather close the laptop, and spend the rest of this day with my friends.

"Losing a game, means that you were on the pitch fighting to win it"