adepts

Adept comes from adeptus, a Latin term. It's about a adjective that can refer to the one who defend a certain cause or what supports a leader or an institution. For example: "The German writer, adept at romanticism, died on a day like today two hundred years ago", "The truth is that I am not adept at European cinema, I prefer American films", "My grandson is adept at new technologies".

Whoever is adept at something, therefore, supports it in different ways or participates in its proposal. A man that he is a follower of a religious movement, in this way, he will respect its precepts and comply with what the authorities ask of him. The woman adept at pastry will try to perfect the gastronomic preparations of this type that she usually makes, studying new techniques and trying recipes.

In a broad sense, you can be adept at a endless things. That person who enjoys listening to and dancing tango is adept at this musical genre. The filmmaker who works with millionaire budgets can be said to be adept at large productions. The communicator who enjoys conducting electoral process analysis and interviewing officials from government and to opposition leaders he is adept at political journalism.

Who is there attached to clandestine organizations or sects they are also called adepts. The adherents to David koresh, the leader of the sect of the davidians, participated in a confrontation with US security forces in 1993 which resulted in a collective suicide. These followers of Koresh can qualify as adepts since the group lived outside the law, committing different crimes in a gated community.

It is important to point out that we are not always supporters of the collectives or movements that we believe we respect. The first step in reaching this state of full empathy and support is affinity, that coincidence of tastes and opinions that occurs spontaneously and that leads us to establish closer relationships with others. Once we notice this similarity of characters, we get closer to the other and try to know more and more about him. However, in this first instance we cannot yet qualify ourselves as adepts, since for this the degree of commitment must become much higher.

It happens many times that a group draws our attention for some of its ideas and that we begin to follow the trail, but with time we realize that we do not have so many things in common; It may even happen that we find a very disappointing and regrettable difference, such as the contrast between animalism and bullfighting, for example. At that time, we made the inevitable decision not to follow these people anymore, as the affinity was only partial.

The opposite can also be the case: that the subjects of whom we call ourselves adherents are not happy with our way of interpreting their beginning, and therefore consider us an obstacle to carry out their activities. In short, for the qualification with this adjective to be fully valid, it is necessary that both parties agree.

To better understand the concept of adept it is very useful to take a look at two of its antonyms: enemy Y adversary. These are two terms with very similar meanings, especially in terms of the position that denote with respect to the ideas of a third person: the enemies of a person are on the opposite side, they confront him, they wish him evil and in many cases they hurt him or even try to get rid of him. Her opponents are also against her, they are very different from her and may have the same attitudes as the previous ones.