Jerry Maguire #movie

Jerry Maguire is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama sports film written, produced, and directed by Cameron Crowe, and stars Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger, and Regina King. The film received acclaim from critics, who praised its performances and screenplay. It was also a financial success and was the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1996. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, nominations for three Golden Globes and others. As the movie opens, a super sports agent, Jerry Maguire, is facing a crisis of conscience (that he still possesses one after working in such a cynical, materialistic business is something of a miracle). He wonders what he has become — “Just… Read More

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Game Addiction

“China has barred online gamers under the age of 18 from playing on weekdays and limited their play to just three hours most weekends, marking a significant escalation of restrictions on the country’s massive gaming industry.” (CNN, sep-2021) That is one of the recent news which appears again and again along years. What’s wrong about video games? Even there is a statement caming after a newspaper owned by Xinhua published a lengthy analysis that used terms such as “spiritual opium” and “electronic drug” to describe the harmful effects of gaming on children. Even though gaming has been around for almost 50 years, studies about its harms are still in the… Read More

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Intermitten Fasting

Nowadays specially in pandemic, TV, the internet and other entertainment are available 24/7. We stay awake for longer hours to catch our favorite shows, play games and chat online. We’re sitting and snacking all day and most of the night. These extra calories and less activities can mean a higher risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other illnesses. Scientific studies are showing that Intermittent Fasting may help reverse these trends. Intermittent Fasting is an eating plan that switches between fasting and eating on a regular schedule. Research shows that intermittent fasting is a way to manage your weight and prevent or even reverse some forms of disease.… Read More

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Kintsugi Philosophy

Kintsugi (金継ぎ) Philosophy Literally, Kin = golden and tsugi = joinery or it means ‘to join with gold’. In Zen aesthetics, the broken pieces of an accidentally-smashed pot should be carefully picked up, reassembled and then glued together with lacquer inflected with a very luxuriant gold powder. There should be no attempt to disguise the damage, the point is to render the fault-lines beautiful and strong. The precious veins of gold are there to emphasise that breaks have a philosophically-rich merit all of their own. The origins of Kintsugi are said to date to the Muromachi period, when the Shogon of Japan, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) broke his favourite tea bowl… Read More

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