The concept of other It is understood from the position that occupies a person or an object within a certain expression. The other is what results different about what is spoken : the notion, therefore, can only be understood within a context .
For example: “My brother is not the blond boy; is the other boy that appears in the photo ”, "I don't like how I'm dressed: could you reach me for the other pants I left on the bed?", "Please come back at another time that I'm busy now".
In the case of the first example, the "other" He is a person who appears in a photograph and is not the brother of whom he speaks. Something similar can be said about the second example: "Other pants" It is a different one from the one who is using who expresses with the phrase. In the third example, a woman He maintains that the current moment is not adequate to answer the concern or attend to his interlocutor, so he asks him to return later.
When talking about "the other", there is not necessarily a precise or particular reference to a person; "the other" is our environment, the individuals around us, the rest of the society . As living beings that occupy a small space on the surface of a planet inhabited by billions of individuals, both animals and plants, it is very important to always keep this figure in mind so as not to make decisions that affect the freedom of others.
A concept related to our perception of others is the empathy . It can be defined as our cognitive ability to perceive what another individual may feel, or as the action of participating at the affective level of a reality that affects another. In popular language, empathy is understood as the ability to put oneself in the place of the other, to try to understand their problems through a deep effort to think and feel like him.
In an ideal world, empathy would be part of our day to day, but we are still very far from a reality in which the consideration For the problems of others, be one of our basic features. We are going through an era in which materialism and vanity reign: we work incessantly to buy everything that the market dictates to us and we expose ourselves in social networks so that our environment can see us at all times.
The adjective other can also be used, along with various nouns associated with a temporary notion, something that happened in the near past or that will happen as follows: "The other morning I also heard strange noises", “I forgot to tell you that the other day I went to lunch with López”, "Let's do the following: let's talk again the other week and see how the matter progressed, do you think it's okay?".
When a person changes a lot in his behavior or its appearance, it can be said that it seems "other" individual: “Since leaving professional sport, it's another Gabriela Sabatini: more talkative and friendly”, "You are so skinny! You have changed so much since the last time we saw each other that you look like another ”.
In Argentina, there is an alternative rock band called "The other me", which has explored several genres since its formation in the late 80s. He was born in Temperley, a Buenos Aires town of Lomas de Zamora, as a result of the passion that Humberto Cristian and María Fernanda Aldana felt for the music . From an early age they had explored their musicality with a guitar from their father, tango singer and boleros, and with a Gem organ. Thanks to the influence of his mother, who was a poet, they also dabbled in songwriting, which gave them independence and a well-defined personality.
