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Fight the future!

Lately, I am wondering what is the meaning of future, in its metaphorical sense. We have a rather fixed path for our life’s events, although we have some choices that we might change it or not; however, given our stupidity mostly, we ignore those chances that are offered to us to deviate from that fixed path. We do not correct our lives, that is something that we all should know, because there is nothing wrong in the way we live our own life, it is all a consequence of each single chance we take (or ignore).

As a matter of fact, our life starts with the context in which we are born. Some people will not ever see water coming out from a tap, at least on a continuous basis, some others will be able to basically spend huge amounts of money on whatever is on sale,… and so on.
What I want to say is that the situation that is created for our life influences many of our future, but it does not mean that we are condemned by it, either for good or for bad (in fact, now I am wondering about the meaning of good or bad).

This dilemma comes from the analysis of my life so far, sometimes I think I have refused many chances and so wasted opportunities that later on I see turning into something I desire, but some other times I believe to be the luckiest guy in the world (my little world of course). I am not talking about objects, I am talking about opportunities that could have allowed me to fully define myself in some way, and my selfish refusal left me incomplete.
Although sometimes we are forced to refuse these opportunities because it is not the right moment neither the right place, but  at the same time we are just delaying what should not be delayed and what should be part of our personality. Nobody knows when the next opportunity will show up…

There are so many secrets inside me, that not even my inner myself will ever find out a reasonable explanation for them (if it finds them…); but at least, all the experiences that I have had the opportunity to live help me understand a very few of these secrets, and little by little I get to know the real me… a process that I do not think will ever end, but at least, will help fight for my own future rather than fighting my own future.

No one but me can decide and choose who am I, how I am, and what I want to be and where. This is what I should be, me and myself.

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Me, myself and Wil.ee.am

A long time ago I created my first former blog at The Mount Olympus, and it’s been a great time since then. However, I haven’t updated it properly, due to personal reasons where my studies and my sometimes chaotic life were involved, and I felt it wasn’t my identity anymore.

Be advised that I’m not that kind of person who likes writing about his life in public (aka in a blog), but I think it is a good tool to communicate some things, both professional and personal, and that’s how I’ve been using the previous blog. But, as I said, I felt it wasn’t me anymore, and so I have decided to try out this new approach, starting with the domain :)
Many people buy a domain with their given and family names, and start their site either professionally or personally, but I don’t like that (nor I want to hide my given name which I’m very proud of, and very thankful to my parents for it, even though these days it’s not difficult to legally change your name), I think we should be rather original without losing our true essence.

The name that I chose for the domain, and my new “home”, is the writing of the phonetic transcription (using the English alphabet, not those strange characters you can see in many dictionaries) of my given name in English, William. That is, wil-ee-am.
I’m sure there are some mistakes, and linguistic experts would say that I have no idea of what I’m talking about, probably they’re (partially, I checked few sites and it seems it’s a correct manner to write it down) right. But I once looked up how my name was properly pronounced in English and came up with this.

I have been using this as a nickname in some places, and I’m slowly migrating things to it, as the old one that I’ve used almost my whole life (since I discovered what the Internet looked like) was a rather a weird combination, also based on my name and its meaning.

Why a .me domain? Because even though it’s the official LTD for Montenegro, it’s also a word (a pronoun) that means “I”, both in English… and Spanish :) I tried the .am domain, ee.am, but it’s taken :( though it’s not being used for any “real” purpose. It it ever becomes available (and it’s not too expensive), I might buy it, but for now I’m very happy with wileeam.me.

I have moved the old entries here because I don’t want to lose them. But I don’t know what I will do with the old domain :) as I still like it… time will tell, for now, I’m just redirecting to this domain :)
I’ll use both English and Spanish here, like I used to do at The Mount Olympus. but the blog itself (the interface that you’re seeing now) will be in Spanish (excluding the pages) as it’s a language I’m very proud of, and some of my “personal” entries might be in English (like this one for instance) though most of them will be in Spanish :) so English will be mostly used for my projects and those “international” things, and not eveything will be under the blog’s subdomain.

I hope you like this place. Same me, different approach to both suit myself and my inner wil.ee.am better :) Or maybe just some new make up for this renovation?

/Guillermo