this is something that came upon my mind months and months, and mooooonths ago when watching daily vee, an online documentary by Gary vaynerchuck.

the fact that we have it so much easier than our grandparents. they couldn’t even phantom the fact of having little computers (phones), and being able to navigate a free space of information (the web) on a sunday night. tonight this finally clicked in my reality.

I am an ungrateful son. I haven’ thank my parents enough and life for the comfortable life that I’ve been able to live by. If I look back at my childhood and I compare it to most of humanity’s they would think that I’ve lived as a king. However, it wasn’t until now when I was able to truly remembered it as a happy childhood.

truth is, money doesn’t make you happy. Now, I don’t have much life experience, but even I know that. the question is: why do we keep chasing things that don’t make us happy when we know they won’t

Why do we keep chasing fame “clout” as know this days by millenials. Why do we seek to look more “alpha” in front of our friends. Why do we shit talk other people to their backs. Why don’t we accept the clearest path to success. why do we like to struggle so much.

Instead we should appreciate what we have, live in the present moment because that’s all we have and be truly grateful. Be truly grateful that we are alive on this 2018, the greatest year to be alive. the year where everyone has a smartphone and wifi, the year when air conditioner is common, and the year when we are the most comfortable we ever been.

I am not fully there yet, but I choose to be grateful right now.

Lección 1: Se congruente en tus acciones y pensamientos

Llegue y estaba nervioso, lo cual pensando atras no habia razon de esta nervioso. De todos modos,lo primero que hize al ver a la persona que queria conocer fue lo que siempre yo digo que no se debe hacer, hacer un show de fan. Actuar como un fan loco, simplemente ponerte actuar en alta energia. Aunque seas extrovertido debes saber medir lo que sientes ya que si actuas de una manera opuesta te veras falso, y seras falso. Eso fue lo que hize.

Leccion 2: Algo que re aprendi, respira siempre, la vida es un maraton.

Algo que siempre digo yo es que hay que respirar y estar calmado, tener paciencia. Igual no segui mi propio consejo y todo lo que hacia era apurado. Le hablaba a gente de una manera apurada, no de una manera que aportaba valor. Eso es algo que simplemente no se puede hacer, hay que aportar valor siempre, siempre. Hablar con gente que no conoces como si fueran tus amigos, a tus amigos no les pruebas nada. Porque haz de probarlo algo a un extrano. Hize lo opuesto, hablar por hablar.

Leccion 3: Empatia por mil

Algo que tambien estoy opuesto es la idea de intentar caerle bien a la gente quiero siempre ser yo mismo. Esto es lo menos que hize esta noche, y a causa de eso no era empatetico con la reaccion de otras personas. Cuando tratas de caerle bien a la gente forzas reacciones enves de estar pendiente de lo que la otra persona esta sintiendo. Perdoneme, Sr. Dale Carnegie, que en paz descanse.

Leccion 4: Si alguien te dice vete y esta cabreado, dale la razon.

Como dice el autor Dale Carnegie, si estas equivocado, dilo de una vez y enfaticamente. Alguien me recrimino mis comentarios y enves de responder me quede callado. Es importante no ser una victima, lo que paso hoy fue mi culpa. Por eso hay que admitir los errores de una vez.

Despues de esto la persona cabreada le hablo a alguien del bar y me pidieron que me fuera. No puse resistencia porque yo no estoy para esas, la verdad en ese momento me senti como un estupido.

No creo que admitir que eres un estupido esta mal, eso significa que tienes la habilidad de reconocer tus errores y la humildad para aprender. Mi intuicion a esta temprana edad me dice que de eso se trata la vida, aprender de los errores y seguir con una sonrisa adelante. No soy ningun guru de auto ayuda, pero voy a mantener una actitud positiva pase lo que pase de ahora en adelante sabes. Porque igual de todos modos, cual es la alternativa?

I had already pumped my self up to the maximum by rewatching Captain America Civil war, winter soldier, and a bunch of the best Marvel movies’ Youtube clips. Hell, I even watched a compilation review of all the Marvel movies until this point by Screen Junkies called, “Every Marvel Movie Up To Infinity War — CRAM IT! (Avengers edition)”

As I got to the theatre I see a plenty of people as expected, but I didn’t see many geeks dressed as the superheroes which was kind of disappointing. Anyways, that wasn’t going to stop me from geeking around. That is why as I got to the popcorn counter and the lady asked me, “Sir, what can I offer you,” I replied with Black Panther’s war chant from one of the trailers, “JIBAMBE, JIBAMBE, JIBAMBE, JIBAMBE, JIBAMBE… umm, so sweet medium sized popcorn please.” To my surprise, still, no one was excited, no geeks on site yet. That didn’t stop my joy, after all, I was about to watch a movie that had Spider-man, Iron-man and Star-lord together!

Without spoiling anything, it felt like every scene in the movie has a brilliant purpose chosen by the Russo Brothers’ outstanding directing. They had me at excited, they had me worried, they had me at the edge of my seat. Damn, there was a time when my jaw was shaking. I was just thinking, “F*ck Infinity War, they really did it.” They did, they had me at the age of my seat again and more amazed than ever.

First, the fight scenes were the best I’ve ever seen. God, I love you spider-man, I love you Iron-man, and I love you Star-lord.Whoever thought this was going to be possible. 40 years ago, no one. I think no one would believe the level of quality we have now in visual effects and cinematography which made the fights look like a dream. If I thought any previous Captain America or Avengers movie had good fights, this exceeds my expectation.

Second, the characters. I felt for them, but it’s important to know that this is a comic book movie, so I am biased in that regard. I was already immersed in the MCU and when evaluating and watching this movie this is a very important context to have. Bill Gibson from Film Racket says it better than me, “This is a movie that needs the other 18 to exist before it. Otherwise, we’d know very little about these characters, their concerns, and why we should care for them.” Because I watched the other movies, I understood each character’s motivation, personality, and history so it was easy for me to laugh at Quill’s jokes or fanboy over the witty conversations they had with one another.

Third, Give Josh Brolin’s Thanos a goddamn Oscar, a nomination at the least. I am sick and tired of the Oscar being a celebration for movies about cancer, black people, and so on and so on. I don’t have anything against this, in fact, I am happy they make these movies and hope they continue to do so, but fuck they haven’t acknowledged a superhero since Heath Ledger and he had to die for it. Literally. Josh Brolin can’t die, as he has to appear in next year’s movie, but his performance is truly heartfelt. He mourns, he gets angry, he gets philosophical all while being a purple giant alien. Loki in comparison is a crappy villain, making Thanos hands down the best enemy in the MCU. Worth the Wait.

After watching the post-credit scene, which I recommend you do too, I interviewed people to see their initial thoughts on the movie.

For instance, Panamanian Video game influencer @Dianamonsters said this was the best Avengers movie she had seen.” Others, like me, said they couldn’t wait until next year for part II to come out. Which says a lot about this one.

So F*ck Infinity War, we were only able to get into the 2nd base and is going to let us wait until next year to seal the deal. To its defense, that is one of the many reason the end was so good.

Now its shaven and I weight 175.

I’m still not where I want to be, and I keep hitting barriers of success. What I’ve come to realize in my short 20 years of age is that the beginning of anything looks like the hardest thing at the time you start, but is actually the easiest and most fun when looking back.

For any entrepreneurs that are reading this, or sport athletes. Whatever, people very advance in some field. Do you remember the first months of practicing any skill?

The time you started learning guitar songs and you learned some cheesy easy love songs that consisted of ultra facil chords. What about you engineers when you were learning some basic formulas. What about when you started losing the first few 20 pounds for people that used to be overweight?

What about when you talked to a 1000 girls to destroy your social anxiety. Perhaps not many people reading this did it, and that’s okay.

Well, my biggest challenge right now its work ethic. The only two things I did take seriously in my life, ironically, was talking to random strangers and making people laugh.

I guess I need some quick backstory to this but more on that another day. What I gotta say its that for some reason I’m still scared to show the world what I’m thinking and I mean people in the past and people that I know. So what I’m going to do is send them this article.

I fucking love medium.

-Mateo Prado. aka heisenbert.