Not so much to heaven, not so much the land

 “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

Courage to change the things I can,

And wisdom to know the difference”

Balance, this prayer portrayed the importance of we balance our lives   maybe that's the word that since long ago humanity has been searching for, however without actually finding. Balance is vital to human relationships. When we adopt extremist positions any cause ceases to be won, in social or personal aspects.

Extremist positions happen when rationality gives in to dogmatism, ceases arguments and an idea becomes absolute, becomes an end in itself. I believe that when arguments and justifications are done, it is where the errors will become evident and what could be good, becomes its opposite.

Our own history shows us these questions, for example, how capitalism was born of a class that aimed to be inserted in a society to survive and ends up becoming extreme in supply and demand of products destroying an entire planet. Adolf Hitler aimed to rebuild Germany, make this country grow after being destroyed during the First World War, but adopting extremist positions he exterminated in mass Jewish and Polish. Other movement is the Taliban, also born of a revolt to Russia, that had taken their land and tax terror, but this movement adopts extremist positions and they manipulate their own people and impose terror worldwide

Another example, there was a serious attack against Paris in November, 13th. The attacks consisted of mass shootings, suicide bombings, explosions and use of hostages. In all, there were three separate explosions and six mass shootings. At least 137 people died (including the seven terrorists who perpetrated the attacks. ISIS Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attacks. They were motivated by the Islamic state as a "retaliation" for France's role in the military intervention in Syria and Iraque. The attacks were compared in terror that occurred in France since the Second World War, for many years France had not seen a massacre like this.

Finally, I would like to wish you much peace and balance, because it’s necessary to accept others as they are. When we adopt extreme positions, we are disqualifying people with whom we interact. This happens in these examples that I named, where people acted extremist manner and was set back humanity. Inevitably, there will be a loss to both parties because in a relationship, there is no way for just one to win and the other lose, directly or indirectly, both parties win or both parties lose. That is what makes it unique, singular. It´s necessary more love in the world, it´s necessary more respect towards differences and for this you must have balance, as the title of my speech, not so much the heaven, not so much the land, but the balance among things.

Thank you

Do women really developed in society?

Nowadays, women won a large space in the economy, in politics, in sports and in all sectors of society. We broke with many social barriers and prejudices historically consolidated. All these achievements have been acquired with many struggles of gender. However, despite this great progress, we still see women in many companies exercising the same function as men and earning a lower salary.

This social stereotype formed in our minds that women should earn lower wages, is the fact that historically the man was seen as the breadwinner and that the woman would not work for remuneration, but only take care of the children and the house and when they ventured to work payment would be complementary character.

And according to false rooted conception in current society, we have differences of gender, as shown “Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)” about “women in the labor market” released in 2009, women continue to earn less than men, although we've increased our education, either the basic or higher education, equating to men. Other research, conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank – IDB, shows that despite the recent economic growth and policies to reduce inequalities, wage differences related to gender and ethnicity remain significant in Latin American countries.

I believe in these statements, there is a lot of prejudice that we must overcome, however I come back to the idea that women are thriving in almost every sector of our society, as the sports, politics, companies etc and in many cases these pay differences do not exist, for example in my job, which is in the public sector, eveyone earns the same salary, which varies is the level of education and position.

I would like to end this article emphasizing that we women had great victories and we are increasingly conquering our space, but for this to become a reality, and our rights are equivalent to the man, it´s necessary we continue fighting and discussing the issue.