The dirty money

As opposed to many people that use to say “Money doesn’t mean happiness” I think we must be careful asserting it. I mean, I think we must look around us and ask ourselves about the country and even the world what we are living in. In other words: If you enjoy doing, eating, playing, loving, reading, listening or whatever, probably you will need money to get it, and then more and more money if you want keep on getting it. Although it is a sad diagnosis I think it is realistic too, because money is an important “factial foundation” of freedom in our society.

So, if you ask me I must answer “yes, I would like to be wealthy”. Well, rather slightly wealthy, because although there’s a lot of projects and crazy ideas that I could realize with a lot of money I wouldn’t like to lose my constant search of “a meaning” (not a “celestial”, “absolute” or “neutral meaning, but “my own” way, always in change) in the life about I could living in it every day even when it will bring me to die

If I inherited a lot of money I probably would spend it in a few clear things: to paying mine and my parent’s bills, to buying a house in the Center, to buying myself an electric guitar and that’s all. However, I must say that all this come from my current lack of lunds and I cannot assert I would be the same if I had the dirty money in my hands. If I had be a millionaire probably will invest it in a restaurant or something like this, because I like this stuff, I don’t know: the movement, the loud, the music, the laughs, the party, the conversation.

Today money is as important as they are my projects. If I haven’t those I don’t care about having money. There are two or three in mind and for that reason I’m trying to earn something. I probably will working for it in this days.

About taking care of environment

Being a green person isn't so easy. It implies to be persevering and to be constantly concerned about what are you eating, using, throwing out,clothing, consuming, etc. Besides, It implies to have an special attitude, to be firm with the cause what means that you will need a strong willpower if you don't use to be a "green".

I think that environmentally friendly practices are quite a new subject of discussion (not more than a few decades) and for that reason is a recently concern for the government and then for educational system. In spite of this, I think is precisely on school where people learn about it, and with new generations It is going to be learnt in family too.

In my own case, I have incorporated what I consider the most basic recycling habits: I'm taling about to avoid to throwing out papers on th street, Avoid to destroying flowers, and all the stuff of pasive actions like "if you don't help to make a better world please don't destroy it!"

I don't use a bike because I don't have one and I don't walk either. I use the public buses but I think It would be a better city (and even with more quick movement)If cycle paths were seriously considerer by authority.

I think people have not the main responsability at taking care of environment and for that reason I don't feel guilty about don't be donating money or my time to the cause. All we can do as individual person is small compared to what big corporations and companies can do to having a better world. In my opinion that's the real problem and our resonsability is don't make worse the situation.

For resume, there's a lot of things in orden to improve our world, protect life in earth or whatever you want call it. However, I think that responsabilities must be assigned to appropiate instances and don't laid the blame on common people.

My high school education

I’m conscious about my high school education leting me reach the university and about I’m actually a privileged person compared to other people if I consider this. However, in my opinion this is more related to systemic characteristics of Chilean education than related to my specific high school. I mean: in this place you can learn a lot about how to pass PSU test, but you won’t learn much more about values.
Camilo Henriquez High School is in Temuco, what is where I’m from. This is a scientific-humanist high school, with a solid formation in biology, chemistry, physics and maths but (in my opinion) a deficient foundations at history and humanism in general.

I had good and bad teachers but I still think that they worked too much in agree to the formal education planning. Sincerely I had waited for more rebelliousness and more criticism in their attitudes.

About technologies I didn’t have complaints. I mean, we had computers in the high school connected to Internet and high school had projectors and another multimedia resources but I think that all this must be subordinated to the teaching skill. In that way, I think I learned a lot because I had good teachers in some areas but I still have this complaint about the lack of a sense of human being formation in all this.

So, I think that in my decision of studying sociology my history and language teachers were not a good example in spite of this let me did a good PSU test and came to this University. If I had to recommend something to the authorities of my old high school it would be being less a private school with all its implications, besides having new teachers and optional subjects about humanism and social sciences because they have a really bad formation about those stuffs.

I think that a person is responsible about to use well the “tools” received in the life and not only in the formal education. In that way, I would say that people so many times is too much unfair in their opinions about people with less luck in this society