Some Big Drugs in a Little World

In this modern society, a lot of people talk about drugs and other addictive substances. I’ve not lived in the ancient times, when the opium, coca leaves and ceremonial drugs…To make contact with the spirits and the famous pink elephants, but I don’t need to live there to understand the need of some fantasy and relax with drugs, centuries ago, before the arrival of Colon, Cortez, Pizarro, the natives (and slaves) of south America were used to consume coca leaves to keep them wake and always working hard, the Chinese people consumed opium as an hallucinogen, many years later, in the world crisis of the ’29, the dry law made a huge increase of violence and illegal issues, just to sell some alcohol to the people, and people just wanted to buy it, and currently, we have a lot of different kinds of chemical or natural drugs available in the streets to consume, and the society don’t reject it. Because at worse is the reality, we want more the fantasy.

Al Capone, he was in the ''most wanted'' list of the FBI and the 

number one ''Public Enemy'', for alcohol smuggling .

In a personal way, alcohol and cigarettes are my way to get near to the fantasy, but inside my neighborhood, there are some people who abuse a lot of different kind of drugs, not only alcohol, also cocaine and cannabis, that kind of things bring to the neighborhood a couple of troubles, but the last years all have been quiet, my neighbors have never touched again any kind of drugs, except for some occasional beer or wine. But inside my family or friends I’ve never had a problem with drugs of abuse, not even for excessive coffee (I don’t like coffee, so don’t hate me please).

Paracelsus thought that the human body is chemistry, and he was right, we are all chemistry and we can change our chemistry.

Post Graduate Studies

Currently I am a student of chemistry in an undergraduate school, this is my first year, but I would like very much to finish a Professional degree, and after that go further and try to get a Master Degree, and on that way my next step is to have the enough knowledge to get a job adequate to my personal interest, and feeling good with my own achievements and comfortable with my life.

More specifically, if I start to study a Master Degree, I would like to do it right here, in my currently university, and focus my path on the metallurgy subject, because I think is very interesting the productive activities of Chile, besides, this is a miner country, so the job is right here, and the minerals too, the cooper, iron, lithium, they’re crying for us . What are we waiting for? The economy would increase a lot if we all focus our resources in the mineral process and the manufacture of products made of these minerals, then, the exports would increase the profit of many industries nationals and internationals.

But there is a challenge to make true this ‘’wonderful’’ economical stage, because we need people very prepared to the jobs, and that’s why I want to improve myself with a graduate school to create a better future for me and all around, my reason is to contribute with my grain of sand in this economy and get paid for that, that sounds good to me.

Some kind of job.

The entire world is filled with opportunities to have a good job, even if you don’t have the resources or the enough educational level to get a dreamed job, you can start from the bottom and try to keep going further, get promoted, and finally acquire the experience to improve your opportunities, and the better part is that you never are going to waste your time, because you are trying to get paid, satisfy your needs and if you know save the enough money, you can even enjoy some good days of drinks, beach, rest and wasting money.

Once I finish my career, I’m going to be a chemist, and in this country are a lot of vacancies on many kinds of jobs, all of them related with chemistry, it could be a pharmaceutical, environmental, industrial, etc. But my interest are currently focused in an industrial chemist, that’s because I like very much the productive area of Chile, also, this country is in my opinion very focused on the primary economy, but it have not the enough work in the secondary economy, manufacture industries, and many of them are closely related to the chemistry, so I would really like to be inside a factory, and it would be great if that factory is related to metallurgical activities.       

Old and New Hobbies...

Hobbies for me are my own way to escape the reality not for vanity or being selfish, but the most part of the day I don’t feel comfortable with myself and I try to become something else every time, that’s why videogames are my main hobby, to have the opportunity to travel among other wonderful new worlds and experiment a new kind of emotions and sensations, while you are sit in your world controlling other different characters all of them with their own stories to tell.

But even with videogames as a hobby they’re all sometimes frustrating and a little bit stressful (Dark Souls), so when that happens, my new escape is the music. As a child my dream were to become a great pianist, it was an amazing hobby, every single day going to piano classes and practicing even without warming up, but now for medical issues I can’t play piano anymore, but trying to keep on with the music and practicing other instruments, without problems to play, like cello and some keyboard, as I written some months ago in some older posts the last semester; music and videogames are my main hobbies, I’m not really good at sports, and I don’t like too much reading, but except all of that, I try to make any other activity available to improve myself, for example, I would like to learn other kind of instruments to play and maybe become good at it, the theater is also a very interesting idea for me, but I have not enough time to dedicate myself to that. But someday I will.

       Old photo from old posts (And old times)

Your Brain And You

Once you woke up in the morning you are trying to remain without falling asleep and just keep living the day just like we all have to live, we see the same people and eat the same food that most probably we already have eaten before, so why don’t we just drive ourselves mad? Why aren’t we thinking like savages trying to escape from our reality and routine? That’s because we have an amazing and strong brain, up here inside your head…it’s only a little bigger than your fist and it's divided in four lobes, but it’s making stronger since we born, no matter how we are, we all have thoughts and desires guiding us to a future filled with adventures that only our own brains can see, or maybe this is not an adventure, it’s just a boring and predictable movie, or a chess match against the life itself, all of that is only possible because of our brains working all together at the same time, seeing different realities and perspectives; I’m not very good to understand all the different points of view in a situation, but some people can, their brains are amazing; also we are all able to think and imagine other kind of things maybe extremely different from my thoughts.

As I said, our brains are getting stronger and faster every day, probably just by reading this words your brain is improving itself right now, we are always seeing, listening, touching, smelling and tasting the world around us, and all that experiences improve our brains and after that, improve us,what we do, our decisions and desires, our dreams and hopes, even our deepest secrets, our brain

 keep all of that, and is always ready for some action unexpected for us.  

That’s why we are wonderful machines and capable to solve problems, create cities and even entire continents, and also it can destroy all of that, just because we have a brain working for us, with us, and if you want to, against us. We decide what we can eat, how to study, how we fall in love, but a healthy brain it’s very difficult to me to differentiate. Would you draw the line between an insane and a healthy mind?

The Best Concert Ever

I love music, a good song gives me a lot of fun and makes me feel in a beautiful environment no matter where or how I am in that moment, but a live concert is the same music with the feeling multiplied for one thousand, the adrenaline and dopamine fills all the present public, with an atmosphere of good music and a crowd of music lovers. I try to go to any possible concert, but it’s always difficult, I can’t go to all the concerts I want, until this date, I’ve only been in classical music concerts as a member of an orchestra or as a member of the public, same thing with rock and metal concerts, playing and listening covers and original hard music.

A little photograph I took

The best concert I remember took place this same year, at the O’Higgins Park, on April 1^st, the Lollapalooza; there I heard many kinds of music, but more specifically I heard Metallica’s concert. Metallica is a heavy and thrash metal band raised in Los Angeles, United States; in the concert I was able to saw the four members of the band, on flesh and bones, the place was filled with a huge crowd of people, even four of five hours before the event, with the concert of Rancid, another great band of punk rock, on both of them was an environment just a little suffocating, but with the time and with the moshes the space there grew up a little, but been there was one of the most exciting experiences of my life.

A country I would like to visit

With all the movies I’ve seen and the videogames I’ve played is really difficult to chose a specific place or country to visit to, especially because I’ve never been to another country or traveled on a plane, so that’s a little sad to me, and I want to travel around the world at any simple chance to do it, but if I only had one chance to chose only one place to visit, it would be Venice, Italy.

Venice is a really lovely place to travel in my opinion, and not only for the gondolas and channels, I felt in love with Venice just for the Carnival of Venice, it’s a huge festival with two weeks of many masks, costumes, make up, music, dance, theater and a lot of other public events, it would be an amazing experience for me if I could go there as a tourist only for a day or two…maybe three. Is not my plan to stay there, becuase my home is here, in Chile, I have no reason to live there, for the moment.

But Venice is only a city, and the title says a country, so the entire Italy would be my touristic target, from north to south, Venice, Milan, Florence, Rome, Napoli, Tuscany, and finally Sicilia. All this cities have an interesting history and an amazing architecture, it would be a dream to me just to spend a week in Italy, the language is not very difficult, the gastronomy is perfect even for the most demanding tastes, and the whole country is a boot!!! (Except for Sicilia and Sardegna of course). So even if I’ve never been there I really recommend a travel over there, you will never regret it.