In one year, so many things happen. Good things like finding love, graduate from school, etc. and also bad things like getting fired or a death of a known person. In the long way, these things make your life important and meaningful. They give you a year with different kind of colors.

BUT, sometimes nothing really happens. I mean that, of course you have had good and bad times, but sometimes nothing really important happens, something that could change you . Sometimes you have a year very gray, very plane.

I think that 2013 has been for me a very gray year because for more that I think about good things and bad things that have happened, I can’t find anything. Of course, I have had good and bad times in this year, but nothing that really matter. I haven’t achieved anything, I haven’t done anything and I haven’t important news.

2013 has been an extremely bored year. And for all of these reasons, I want it to be over. I want and i need that 2014 begins. Sometimes we need that a year or a month, even a day begins for starting to live. I need a year xd.

I don’t know. Maybe you think that I am a pessimistic, and yes, maybe I am, but I’m being very honest and sincere. In the other hand, I have a lot of hopes in 2014. I hope to find the change that turn over the way of destiny. I hope to find love. I hope to help people. I EXPECT A COLORFUL 2014. 

EAT is one of the most delightful activities that you can do. I can say that I am a fan of food. I love to eat, but unfortunately my favorite meals are the one that have a lot of calories, like fast food, candies, cakes, etc. If I ate these things too much, I would probably get very fat, so I try to consume this kind of meals to the minimum, but it is so sad to stop eating something because it has too many calories, sugar or fat.

Eventhow I love this kind of food it is not the only food I like. I can say that my regular diet involves all kind of food; I eat meat, vegetables, pasta, fruit, etc. I try to eat the most equilibrated way possible, and of course, sometimes I give myself the freedom to eat fast food like pizza, french fries, ice creams, etc.

I always say that the next month or week I’m going to do a diet but at the end I never do it. But last year I do a diet for real for the first time because I was really fat and it works because I lost a lot of pounds. It wasn’t a very strict diet and it helped me to value the importance of a healthy and equilibrated diet because eating affect the way you feel. In that time, I felt fantastic, pretty and light. So if you eat healthy and equilibrated, you also have a healthy and equilibrated mind. 

In my career some teachers have told us that dreams are expressions from our unconscious and that they are physical states that help to regulate the organism. I think this too, that dreams are expressions from our unconscious that fight for our attention. I don’t think that you have to worry too much about a strange dream, because what you dream it is not exactly what it really means, many times even is the opposite of it, the interpretation of your dreams has to be accord to your life. I don’t believe in the dictionaries of dreams that some people sell because dreams aren’t standardized.

I sometimes remember my dreams, especially in weekends because I can sleep more and they are very strange! They don’t have sense at all. Sometimes in my dreams I am in some place and to the instant I am in other place with no correlation to the first. Sometimes I dream with people I don’t know. But I have to say that I love my dreams, they are so funny because of their weirdness. Even if they are nightmares, I like them too, because I like how dreams can affect you, I think that is so interesting.

I remember that last night I dream about my dog was pregnant, and that she can talk to me so she told me that she was sad because she can’t find her lover dog. So I help her to find him. Can you see that it has no sense?

I can say that I daydream ALL THE TIME. Sometimes I daydream possible thing and sometimes impossible things. I like fantasize because it allows my imagination to run. And like it says in a song that I really like and often listen “Reality is sometimes stranger than fiction, whatever happens in my dreams, and I know it can’t be worse than this, so I prefer to sleep”.

We have to be green!

I think that environmentally friendly practices are learned from the family. If you have parents that do not respect the environment and pollute all the time without conscience, probably you’re going to be the same. In my case, I could say that my family taught me to be respectfull with the environment, especially with animals, that have feelings and if you hurt them, they are going to feel a lot of pain.

I love to use the bike, but to go to the university I prefer using public transportation because I don’t have a helmet so it scares me a little bit to go there without it. Of course it is a lot more comfortable traveling in a car but I hate it when I see like 20 cars with only one person in each. they occupy so many space and contaminate very much!

I’ve never joined any eco organization, I think this is because I’m not so into it. But maybe someday I will join some organization. And when I have my own house I’ll do the best I can for recycling, saving water and not polluting. When I have a family I will teach them how to recycle and that you have to be respectful with the environment because mother nature provides us with many important things so we have to thank her in some way and, of course, protect her.

I think Santiago and Chile in general hasn’t a eco culture. In the last few years, some towns have incorporated eco politics but the Chilean idiosyncrasy is not advanced in this aspect (not only in this aspect but everything). So I think Chilean people have to be more conscience about this problem especially because we are a country with so much nature that it has to be protected.  

Books and reading

I don’t know if I am a book worm but I like very much to read. Of course, it depends of the books. If at the beginning any book doesn’t like, I just can’t read it, except if it is from the university, in that case I have to read it for obligation.

When a I was a child I didn’t read a lot, I preferred play at the street or even watch tv. I started to read a lot when I was 13 years old with the books of Harry Potter. I can say that this is my favourite book because of the history and because with these books I realized that reading a book is like going to another world where you can feel, live and see a lot of new and extraordinary things <3. 

I like every kind of books, but I prefer the books with an existentialistic deal. In that way, I can say that my favourite writer is Gabriel Garcia Marquez. His books are a little bit tiring because is so descriptive but the stories are very unique and strange.

The last book that I read was “El código da vinci” by Dan Brown. It is difficult to me summarize it but the story is about Robert Langdon who has to solve the mysterious death of Jacques Sauniere and in the long way he found out a lot of secrets about him and other people. It is the worst summary in the world but I try jaja. I can say that it is a wonderful book and very easy to read, so it is suitable for everyone. I can say that it would be a perfect gift for someone who doesn’t even like to read because the story it is told in such a perfect way that nobody can resist it. Si I invite you to read it, you are not going to regret it jaja.

"We don't know if antidepressants work, so stop bashing them"

http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/15/antidepressants-depression. 

This article is about the question if antidepressants are actually as effective as they supposed to be. It is written by Pete Etchells (and posted on 15^th august of 2013) and he presents a lot of information that can be used to answer this complicated question.  

First of all, this article describes depression as a serious disorder  that makes people feel sad or/and hopeless for a long time. Then, it exposes the research of Irving Kirsch from 2008 that studied the efficacy of four different types of antidepressant. The results of this research explained that antidepressants are ONLY effective for people who have severe cases of depression instead of people with mild or slight depression. Also it exposes the research of Erick Turner from 2008 that studied the efficacy of 12 types of antidepressant (instead of four) and that concluded that antidepressants were mostly superior to placebo, independent of the severity of depression.

The author says that it’s difficult to say if antidepressants are effective or not because there are lots of studies that are pro- antidepressant that established that they are effective to solve depression and, on the other hand, there are lots of studies anti-antidepressants that established they aren’t effective to solve depression. So, he concluded that there isn’t a truthful answer to the mainly question and that we don’t know how effective antidepressants are until it appear more studies, which aren’t influence of monetary or emotional issues, that could test this. Finally, he established that the current studies only help to stigmatize depression even more.

Anime is a style of animation or cartoon from Japan. They are mostly based in mangas, little stories or comics that talk about science fiction, love, war or whatever topic you can imagine. I’m little bit familiar with Anime and I can say that I like it but I’m not a fan.

When I was younger I watch a lot of the classic Anime, like Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, etc. I don’t remember which anime was the first one that I’ve seen and also I don’t know if I had a favorite one but I remember that the anime that I liked the most it was “Slayers”. I like Anime because is fun and because the stories are original and uncommon.

I think that Anime has influenced my life but not in a big way. It depends on the anime, because some anime are very educative, some are very existentialistic but also there are some anime that worth nothing.

I have to say that the only thing that I hate from anime is/are the songs. Specially, the opening or ending songs of the anime. When they started, I changed the channel, waited for a couple of minutes and came back to see the story.