Euthansia

On modern society, we witness every kind of new ideas and ways of living, and both try to be legitimate and be recognize by the world. Euthanasia is one of this new ideas, and as I said, is trying to be legal on anywhere.
It have been many cases of pro-euthanasia fighting, but one of the most courage one, was the led by Jack Kervorkian, in the 90s. He was a retired pathologist from Michigan, and he introduced the concept of assisted suicide, wich means help to someone with a terminal disease and suffering, to die. Kevorkian said many times that he was a a great doctor, and that he was giving a service to those whose asked him for it. In the 90s, he ended the lives of approximately one hundred thirty people. He was prosecuted and convicted on Thomas Youk`s case, by second-degree murder. What really happened was that He shows by TV the assisted suicide of Thomas Youk, and that angered to the goverrment. Many times we have seen goverment supporting conservatives groups: Goverment should be supporting the majority, and I`m sure majority approve assisted suicide.
In my case, I`m agnostic, so, I don`t have real problems about euthanasia or any kind of this matters. Instead, I defend freewill, I think people should be able to choose their destiny in any case and context. In fact, terminal disease or physical pain should not be what determines if a doctor can helps or not to someone to die painlessly.

Travelling

Travel themes have been talk in different times and cultures, because it is something with a deep psichological meaning. You just have to think that all your childhood, the first experiences, has been thought in a stable and continuos place, and the travel means get lost your safety.

Anyway, travel can be an amused and enjoyable experiences too, and that's what I'm going to talk now.

Have you ever thoght about your favorite place to go? Or your favorite lanscape? Well, I have. Just think about it, all your life you've seen every kind of things, places, animals, buildings, people, whose aren't in your country, it's so obvious that you will want to see all this things. Me, for example, I would like to meet Japan, I don't know, their culture amuse me in so many ways. Manga, anime, films, tradition, food, everything is so different there, I've always been excited to go.

I born in Venezuela, but when I was 2 years old, I traveled to Chile, and I've never returned, so, I don't remember anything, then when people ask me, if I'm afraid of planes, or wich is the farthest country I've ever been, I say, I don't know and I don't remember.

So, if I dismiss my Venezuela episode, I've not been in other country, and the farthest place I know from Chile, is Caldera, wich is in the north. It's beautiful there, on tv shows one of its beachs, “playa blanca”, the name it's because of the color of the sand.

Another city that I would like to visited, is San Francisco. I've heard so many from there, like it is a progressive on politics and ways of living. It is an excellent option too.
Well friends, I would like to know about places you would like to visited, see you soon!

Cinema

When people think about mass medias, maybe the most illustrative of them it's cinema. I think the reason it is related to diversity on film industry. Imagine you are six years old, would you like to read news? Or enough comfortable surfing on internet? Of course not, because that mass medias are made to adults, and children are excluded of it. So, what's left is cinema, because there is films for children. In fact, who wasn't influenced by the lion king or “la bella y la bestia”?

Nowadays, people watch films all the time, because the industry it's more big than ever. Cinema it's until today an attractive way to watch films because of the cuality of the screen, and popcorns and I guess that many other reasons like the eventuality related to family or weekend. Personal, I'm not a fun of cinema, because it's so spensive and commercial films don't amused me so much. Instead, I Like watch films on internet, because I can really choose what I'm gonna see. Another advantage, it's free.

I've seen chilean films, and some are good, but none of them hit me on real. I also said that I'm nor a fun of commercial movies, but there always exceptions, and Happiness is one of it. It's not exactly commercial, but there's famous actors on it, like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who and extraordinary american actor. It's directed by Todd Solondz, who made only independent films, that's why this films it' not so fancy or commercial. I really recommend this film, It's the best introduction to under and dissident cinema.

What I really hate about films, it' s how stupid could be sometimes. The reason it's how commercial has become this industry. There's films about the most superficial topics, like boys and girls who wants drink by first time, that's so typical of american films.

Everyone have thought their lifes like a story, and that's the cell of a film, and if I would choose when kind of film to show my life, it would be like an independent film, because of the caracter that use to express, wich always criticize the modern society.

How I feel about studying in summer

The only idea of write about this topic bothers me. For one side I always supported the movement, without participating, but I never doubt about its importance.

Maybe everybody say that is the prize for our fight and even logical, but it isn`t, it isn`t logical, it isn`t fair, and it wasn´t because of the movement, it`s because of state violence that we were six months without classes, because they didn´t want to change anything.

So, maybe it sounds like I`m talking about sometimes else, bout I think this is the most important argument about this all situation. Sucks be on classes in summer, but sucks more that everybody think that we`re the only guilty of our current situation.

Maybe I will have to read a book and drink champange at the same time, and its not so funny, but it`s less funny the people who looks me going university and believe that it`s just a shame.

What Am I going to do with my life?

When You´re a just a teen, I don´t know, just beginning university, you don´t have to think really hard about your decisions, or your plans, you are authorized to take your own future in a relax way. All the people say to you: "You can go to university this year, or the next if you want. Even better, you can wait to be sure about what you want to study". Well, What they don´t say to you, is that you can´t be relax forever, and some desicions are better when you take them soon.

I was that kind of guy, I thought that the time would never pass, and that I always would have another chance. Well, that´s bullshit, because like everybody, I took a stresful and quick decision when I decided what to study.

Until today, I really don´t know if this career is what a really want to do. I try to don´t think around so much, I don´t know, maybe it doesn´t exist the perfect career, or maybe not to everybody.

Already skilled the first problem, there is many others. When you study psychology, everybody told you how dificult it is to find a job. In that moments, I say to myself that I´m an ashole, that it was more easy study a lucrative career, like engineering. It´s more confusing now, when I lost the first passion with the psychology, and I have to live everything around it without magic, and more realist...

Yoga or having a healthy life

Since I was in school, I remember how much I care about my healt, my body, and anything about.

For one side, pretense was something that even today forces me to do things to look nice, and feel nice. It was like a really obsession, at least, on the first place.

Some examples about this obsession is that I didn´t eat sugar in one year, I mean, anything at all. My family was really worry about, they thought I was becoming crazy, and they decided to talk to me and stuffs. Anyway, I really go on about this, some extreme practices that I had, I started to control, and eventually I looked like a normal person again -I´m just joking around.

Actually, all this part of my life is with me today. I think it always be part of my behavior, and that is because I like it, and I think that in my present, it´s useful and great on my life. Here it is where Yoga enters. By today, Yoga is something really amazing in many senses; It really feel nices practices Yoga; You can see results really quickly -physically and mental-.

Maybe some people things that be so conceited or healthy, it´s something stupid or strange, but, I don´t know, I´m not gonna make a self-judgment about this how I did it in the past, I really love have control about myself, my body, and I love all this kind of activities.

Well guys, I really recommend practices yoga, or any kind of physics activity, is really nice in anyway!

About Me and Nice times

This picture was taken at my friend José Miguel's place, during my friend Paula's surprise birthday party, which me and some ex-classmates from the architecture program organized for her.

We couldn't have her say no to coming to José Miguel's apartment, so we lied and told her that he had taken a bunch of antidepressants and was really sick, and that she really nedded to come and help right away. Once we got there, she was really surprised.

We had a great time, and got kind of drunk. We decided to have surprise birthday parties for each of us from then on. We were 6 in total: Javi, José Miguel, Paula -the birthday girl-, Cony, Ale and myself.

We all met in the architecture program, but currently only two of them ar still there. Even though we don't see each other often anymore, we still love each other keep in touch and every time we meet, we have a great time.

Vampire Hunter D

D is a "Dampil", that`s the son of the Vampire King and human woman. He lives in a far-future, post-nuclear one, where lives vampires, magical creatures, ancient demons, and humans.

What explain this order, is what happened before, on the time of the nuclear disaster. Was a very technological time, Humans and vampires created creatures wich helped sometimes, and others they attacked humans or vampires, to get the power. On this fight to get the power, vampires were the culprits about nuclear disaster, because they wanted to distroy all the humans and creatures to get control of the planet. But that didn`t happen, humans survived, and some magical creatures too, and the scale helped the humans, because finally Vampires were more afeccted by the disaster.

But you know, on this technological times, Vampires could get blood to feed themselves in a technological way, but they still loved human blood, so the order, the peace that was reached, always break down because of the humans killed or kidnapped by vampires.

Here is when D appears, because He fight Vampires because he hate them, because his mother was kidnapped by a Vampire, and she finally falled in love, and he is son of this Human/Vampire mixture. He hate himself, because He feel that he can`t fixed in any place, in any group, he feel absoluty lonely, and it`s the reason to fight against attempts of vampires' kidnapping. You can find that the reason because he is a vampire hunter, it`s because of the guilt. He feel so part of the vampires, because he looks like them, he has their speed and physical strong, and he can`t tolerate solar beams in some particular days, and he has been discriminated because he looks like a vampire. He dooesn`t wanna be part of their agressive behavior, he accepts to be alone, but he doesn`t want to be part of any side.

Well, I always shoose fighters, or protestant, or lonely guys because I love them, and make me feel identified. And well, this Superheroe is that kind of guy, it`s no a superman or somenthins, It`s a strong guy who tries to live in a simply way, on hard times. This superheore is on Films, mangas. Theres 3 films, and 21 novels mangas, and it`s great, I hope you like it!

Foucault and Dissent

Maybe It can looks like a cliché, but I`m powerful attracted by protestant intellectual protestants. I don`t know, maybe because all my life I didn`t feel in my place, so in some moment I just stay apart. When I took that way, I finally feel on my place, and I find some guys like Michel Foucault. He was a French philosopher, a social theorist, who worked almost all the time with underprivileged persons.

His theory about Power and its effects, it was a revolution in any field from social science. I`ve been in particulary interested on his psychiatry critique, wich cans be moved to psycology in many ways.

Foucault`s biography cans explain why He worked the power topics, his nature and his camouflaged expressions. Like a sexual and political dissident, He felt the obligation to contribute, and He did it in theoretical and practices. Why practices? Because He was an activist, taking part in famous protests, like may 68´protests.

For Phychologists, there´s two important books to be readen. One of them is History of Madness, wich is amazing in a erudite form. And the other one is The Psychiatric Power, wich is about mechanisms of power on history of psychiatry.

Why this blog

I`m just a psicology student, who never forgot about his real passion. Everyone have felt the need to write sometimes. It`s difficult to explain why literary passion come to us, and it persuades us to write. For me it`s not big deal, I just love writing and trying to do some prose poetry.

So, for some people is about sadness, for others it`s about an intelectual shine. Me? I can`t reduce writing to anything in particular; for me, it`s always and explosive feeling. By the way, on my future career, I won`t have many chances to write.

Well, you can already see my objective for this blog: I just wanna unload some ideas and feelings.

Maybe, if you ask me, what else do you like to do? Well, I can say music too, but it depends of song`s lyrics too.

These are important things for me. Couples, family, and all that stuff can`t say so much about me. What I like to do, it`s really more important. Welcome!

You Don´t Know Jack

Every time I see a movie, one of the most inevitable factors to determine if is it good or not, is how identified I am with something on the movie. On "You Don´t Know Jack", everything makes seems familiar.

The subject matter, the enviroment, and specially, Jack and his cause.

Jack Kevorkian was an Armenian-American pathologist, best known as "Doctor Death", because in the nineties, he assisted at least 130 patients to die. Jack always defended the self-determination idea, weather the patient was suffering a terminal disease or not.

Well, this movie tries to re-live the period when Jack practised "assisted suicide", and defends legally what he called a "medical cause" or "medical service", to with he felt absolutely committed. So commited that he practised direct euthanasia, trying to involve the country on his consequent judgment, and with no legal representation.

All the movie is focuses on Kevorkian, who is -by the way- personified by Al Pacino, who is one of my favorite actors. Pacino allows you to follow the story and understand Kevorkian´s personality.

On the movie you can understand Jack´s private reasons to be an intense protestant. On his youth, Kevorkian´s mother suffered a terrible disease, wich made him feel useless. It was watching that agony, that suffering, made him think about euthanasia.

Maybe, if you are an action-movie guy, this reflexive movie will never captivate your attention in the first place, but if you calm down, you´ll find a nice topic to think.