had thought to entitle this blog entry with the word "gambarimasu" unfortunately very fashionable in recent days, but I opted for the "comparison" that is typically English and do not force anyone to come to the dictionary to know its meaning.
enjoyed several lines about the matter, the most common being that of "all comparisons are odious." However I prefer to see the positive side of it and very often have recourse to a game that gives me a lot, for me to throw it to others, and none other than the "compared to what or whom."
A final like it or not everything is relative, and its value and impact for us will always depend on the parameters we use in our evaluation. The examples may clarify this and I can think of plenty of them. If I compare my car, a mid-range utility with cool car parked at my neighbor side in the garage or just saw advertised on television, because my car is rather insignificant. But if you compare it to the "car" of 1963 that falls to pieces at a Cuban doctor who was a taxi driver for us to have cars, and it made parts to repair hand, our assessment may vary substantially.
A coworker has spent years in a catatonic state seeing things wrong at work everywhere you look. Many employees and each has a different perception of how things are going at work and how it could be better or worse, if the situation changed. Simplifying the matter, he has a good salary, maybe better than good and well for years and most likely is that it remains so. If you compare it to any one of the more than four million English people who swell these days the unemployment rolls, or were to extend the comparison to most people in sub-Saharan countries that run away in search of something we do not know why, the thing would of another color.
And is that things depend on the color of the glass to watch them. But perversely tend to put the focus of our comparisons with those who believe they are above us and we forget too often vary eighty degree course and in a fair to value what we have and be happy for it. In a beautiful and successful sentence conveys Caritat Condorcet that "enjoy life without buying it with that of others." Some others have more and better and might not deserve it, but better would strive to get it just confine ourselves to think about it, which surely will not improve our situation and probably make it worse with occasional bile in our interior.
"Gambarimasu" is a Japanese word. Unfortunately it has become fashionable in the past week after the terrible tsunami and earthquake that occurred in Japan, resulting tsunami that has devastated and entire towns in ruins on the coast north of the country. Incidentally, Mother Nature has given us a warning, not only the Japanese but to all citizens of the world of the dangers of using nuclear energy to generate the electricity we spend to pour most of the time without worrying about where it comes . I am among those who have fights with their children by ensuring that the lights of the rooms where people are not even in my persecution mania, not to waste electricity unnecessarily, I have installed power strips to switch next to televisions, videos or microwave ovens to cut all supply when not in use, however small. Whenever I can I go from garage to the floor in the dark to avoid the minute and twenty seconds light stays on six floors of stairs and the portal. It is not that I can pay a good price that is light and worst place to be but there is no need to squander what is not used to save the trouble of hitting a switch when we have seen television or warm milk for breakfast.
"Gambarimasu" means giving the best of himself at all times, something that human beings are extremely miserly even when it comes to applying it to oneself. The Japanese people are giving ample proof of mastery in the transport of this heavy burden with which nature has endowed them and keep their faith in the future and the belief that will come out of this as they did in the past. They have no other remedy, and meanwhile much "gambarimasu" at all hours of the day. Whether a person is in the tail of a gas station with two bottles and when you complete the turn over and put back in the queue to fill the second is a fact that much more impressive when compared to here sneak into the bus queue or remove entries of cinema.
When I attempt to put myself in the place of one of those who have lost everything material and even a family, of which there is nothing left except to preserve life is not enough, I realize how extremely insignificant we are each human beings that despite what we may believe we are nothing today and do not even have the certainty that tomorrow we have nothing we are today.
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