Things I do not fully understand

Today I will briefly list something I do not understand in our society, from a variety of aspects of it.

First, I cannot understand the "good image" some countries or communities have. For example, take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nobody has urged the Palestinians to stop launching rockets towards Israel these days and in the last years nobody has tried to persuade them to recognize Israel as a state and start learning to live together with them. No, in this conflict there must be "good" and "bad" guys, as in western movies. The same happens to me with Canada; for unknown reasons I cannot find any negative thought about Canada.

Secondly, Facebook. I am member of it, of course, but I do not spend much time there. After five minutes I am bored to death and I do not understand how people can get addicted to it. It seems I am losing something, as I prefer to do something with my friends face-to-face, instead of reporting it in a website. I have also installed some applications in my profile (kind of "Disney character you are" and so on), but it has not changed my life that much.

Last but not least, I do my best but I can find any significant profit in pressing the bottom for closing the doors of an elevator desperately. Hey, you are going to save two seconds (in the best scenario possible) in your life; so come on, take it easy... No, instead you must press this button as if your life depended on that.

This last paragraph relates to the tendency at work in offices to stay longer as a way to show the others how much you work. Well, from a certain point of view, it might mean that you are not very efficient because you need more time than expected for doing your job, je, je, je. But in many cases, if someone says that he must stay in office until 7pm, he is considered as somebody brilliant and successful. Even worse if this person has a Blackberry and has to report to the office while on holidays; then we are in front of a genius! In my case, I tend to do the contrary: I prefer to work early in the mornings and to spend my evenings as I prefer, and I assume that my employer can perfectly live without me at the office during my holidays.

Sorry if this post is not so well structured but it is Friday night, I am tired, it is cold in Frankfurt and I want to go to bed. Next time I will do it better, for sure!