Engage the brain please

These days I was not reading just articles (the quality of those to be discussed some other time and media in general), but also reader's comments.
UNBELIEVABLE! It seems those who know the least, find appropriate to write the most!!
Before talking or writing inform yourself please! Google search is just a starting point not a definitive answer! Read a book! Travel! Meet the actual people different than you and move away from that screen! After those steps, engage your brain in critical analysis and thought process!! Then and only then feel free to comment.

Arrogance or confidence?

I truly  believe in first quote - confident people are not arrogant. They know who they are, what they know and what still needs to be learned. They have a right dose of humility. Having said that,  I do apply Coelho's premise: fight arrogance with arrogance, not because that is who I am,  but because that is the only language they understand.

Social psychology and how we the humans didn't move from the pack mentality

Us v them - it is everywhere: my school - your school, my team - your team, my country - your country and so on.
Henri Tajfel explained this human behavior through social identity theory. In order for us humans to have sense of belonging and value we identify with particular group. Once we do that, we glorify the traits of our own group and demonize or at least look down upon other group.
Once we think we know which group we belong to we start profiling individuals to establish whether they belong to our in group or other out group. In cultural and religious differences that may (and does) escalate in violence. This is, at least to me, one of the better explanations why people do what they do, in this miserable world of ours.
One thing Tajfel didn't tackle is that there is a third, very small group aware of this weakness of ours who will exploit the premise to the maximum and for their own benefit. We the people are still sheep and we dance as somebody else plays. Now, that has to stop!!

Love sports, but sports "fans" not so much

And this is why: Sports fans, true ones, cheer their team whether they win or lose. True fans do not start fights at the games. Yes, you can be loud, yelling and cheering for the team - but profanities and humiliating comments? Please!
If your team looses of course you are not happy, but do not immediately "spit" on them pretending to be more of an "expert" than they are. You try running for an hour and tell me how it feels!
And please, please ... just because your team scored that doesn't mean you need to throw firecrackers and similar!!
I like watching a good game in any sports. And the good game for me is when both teams give their best till the very end.
As Vince Lombardi said: "It is not whether you've got knocked down. It is whether you've got up."

Today I am counting my blessings

In the light of awful events around the world that made me angry, sad, worried ... today I decided to take life minute at the time and be grateful for all the good things in my life: my son who makes me proud every day, my husband who supports me unconditionally,  my parents who love me no mater what, few good friends, health, roof over my head and you people who read my blogs even when my ranting.
It's a nice sunny day, here in Sarajevo and I will go for a walk with my family, enjoy the little things and smell the roses.

Global politics, incompetence unfolding ...with terrifying consequences

Bodrum, Turkey, Mediterranean coast and a body of a small child washed out on a shore. Three year-old and his five year old brother died as they tried to escape horrors of war back in their country.
Nobody wanted them, they were not human beings according to laws of political system, and in odyssey of going back and forth, they lost their young lives.
Horrific  images lately: refugees made to kneel for train ticket in Hungary, placing numbers on arms of poor people in Republic of  Czech, having them put on old trains and "shipped" to camps again in Hungary. ...
Where are we heading as human beings?  If I was religious, I would say straight to hell.
History keeps repeating over and over again and we never learn and forget so easy.
So I will say goodbye little ones and rest in peace. You are in a better place I am sure. Forgive us for being so indefferent, so prejudiced, so ignorant and not caring.