Nudo de Víboras

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Relationships. That is a important issue in this book. Personally, I am afraid of relationship. Seriously.
First, I will start with the relation that Luis, who is the main character, had with his mother. They both were quite closed, yet the mother kind of overprotected him, and create in him a feeling of paranoia. I have to say that this in particular happens all the time with us or among others. Our loved ones are always traying to protect us, not aware of the damage they are doing to our lifes. To illustrate, being overprotected could end with us being closed-minded, cold, individualist, or, even worse, unable to connect with others or developing an antisocial behavior. Personally, I was never overprotected. To be honest, It was quite the opposite. That is why I am so reserved and quiet, because I grew up alone.

Second, there is the strong relationship Luis and Isa had in the beginning, when they met. In brief, we all have exprerienced love once, and we all know that it is either great or awful. Certainly, it is so important that our whole future perspective could rely on how we manage to be happy or miserable in that point of our lifes. For example, Luis was strongly happy with Isa loving him at the begining, yet his mother was always telling him that it was not love at all, that is was an economical interest on his fortune and nothing else. However, Luis wanted to believe otherwise; he yearned for Isa actually loving him, for who he really was. Nevertheless, the ideas of paranoia his mother had filled his head with finally went visually real. In other words, as I said before, if things do not turn out well in this point for you, you will be miserable for the rest of your existence, just like Luis. He turned uot to be a lonely cold-hearted man.

To finish, I would like to say that what I liked the most about this book was the magnitude of hate that Luis had in his heart. How can someone be so hurt inside that would plan a revenge to show his enemies (his family) that he is in fact smarter than them? Actually, all he wanted was just a little bit of love from his wife who he secretly loved (and hated eventually) all his life, untill she was dead.

Scanning the brain, looking for some personality in there.

By doing the personality quiz, I realized of a lot of things about myself which I don't notice most of the time. One of them was how much of a tech-junkie I am! I know, everyone says the same, yet this time was a program who said it! That I find hilarious, because I really love seaching the web with my laptop, discover new things related to technology and things like that. Actually, I recently changed my OS (operative system) from Windows to Ubuntu, and I'm so happy with it! You can do so much things with out having to buy anything since it is an open source, that means free software. No licenses needed to use the Open Office, or programs which I was used to hack in order to use the trial version as the full version (that you often have to buy). And the most important thing: viruses free! But I'm gonna stop beating around the bush and go back to the topic! Another thing that caught my attention was related to music. The test said that it's the soundtrack to my world, which I must say it's pretty much accurated. Nowadays, music has become one of the most importat things in our lifes, in every aspect. Most of the time we find it hard not to be with our headphones, don't we? It seems like the test got myselft right, since I felt way too figured out and, most importantly, understood. It was fun to read a description of myself for a change. For example, I've never understood why I never let my things to be in another place of the house but my own room. In the personality quiz it said “As for the home, you have an expressive personality with a contemporary taste. You like to be surrounded by the precious possessions that define who you are.” So I was thinking in all the towers of books, my drawings, my objects, and all that garbage that I have in my room using all the space in there!
As for the stats, I HAVE to say that my results per area were like the 5% or 1% or 3% in comparison of what the mayority of people chose. It is not disappointing at all. Actually I feel quite especial not being part of the general descriptions!
Answering the questions of the teacher, I found one word that I did not know, which is was unwind. In my own words, that would be like doing something different in order to relax and escape from reality.
To finish, my opinion about the web page is optimistic. I think people should do this kind of things once in a while to find themselves and start doing what they really love to do, and not what they are expected to do. Also, once you have realized of what you're doing and why you are the way you are, you see yourself from another perspective, which I think it's a great opportunity to get the best out of your personality!