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A Journey to Mars… The story of our lifetime…

A team led by millionaire and former space tourist Dennis Tito plans to send a “tested couple” to Mars and back in a privately funded mission. [1]

The Inspiration Mars Foundation plans to start its one-and-a-half-year mission in January 2018. The mission planners wanted the crew to consist of an older couple whose relationship would be able to withstand the stress of living in a confined environment for two years.

What more romantic, than travelling your last – (possibly) fatal – journey along with your loved one. I really envy the ones selected.

But wait a minute…

Aren’e we all doing the same “journey” every day?

Pessimism for a Longer, Healthier Life

A new study shows that people who are pessimists are to live a longer and healthier life than the ones who see sunny days even when in the middle of the wildest storm. [1]

I always wondered why humans are allowed to be pessimistic in the first place.

Why would Nature allow us to think badly for the future? After all, why not fool yourself that everything will go OK? Either way, what will happen will happen. Or do we really think we can alter the flow of the Universe?

At the end, life seems to be pessimistic it self. Death is its final destination. How stupid must you to be optimistic?

Right?

Fate…

Fate will bend otherwise the lines on your palm, like a switchman; Sooner or later, Time will affirm this. [Odysseas Elytis – The Monogram]

Θα γυρίσει αλλού τις χαρακιές τής παλάμης, η Μοίρα, σαν κλειδούχος. Μια στιγμή θα συγκατατεθεί ο Καιρός. [Οδυσσέας Ελύτης, Μονόγραμμα]

Afraid of my self…

I am afraid of my self.
I am afraid of what I might do.
I am afraid of what I might not do.

But I live.

I trust my self.

Shops on Sunday, humans, soul…

The crisis in Greece has generated a heated debate on how the economy can restart so that growth can finally come to the country. One of the measures agreed was to keep shops open on Sundays. The measure seemed very good to me. After all, Saturday and Sunday are the only days I have left to do chores I have left all week pending, due to high pressure at work during the week.

But then came the Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church who said something which made me rethink my views.

He said that “we are more concerned with numbers than we are with our soul”. If we are to work every day in the week, when will we see our loved ones? [1] When will we see our selves? And he was right.

Our only concern is money and statistics.

But it is a warm Sunday with family that stays in your mind until you die…