How green I am

The truth is that I'm not as green as I would like to be. I'm not exactly a recycling girl, and I also don't try to skip the use of vehicles. But that doesn't mean that I don´t care about the issue of protecting our planet.

In fact, I do recycle: maybe I haven't got recycling bins, but everytime I can I try to save plastic bottles to recycle them after. I also helped sometime making “eco-bricks” and I always try to put the garbage into the recycling bins that are around the university.

About the use of cars, I don’t have my own car or bicycle, so everytime I want to get somewhere I don’t have many choices but to walk or take the bus or metro.

And I have to recognize that I’m a little bit lazy, so I always prefer to use wheels instead of my legs.

Another thing that I try to do is recycling newspapers and batteries with my family, but I don’t do it often cause I usually forgot to. And to reduce my carbon footprint, I stopped using spray deodorants.

But anyway, one of the things that I try to do all the time is to save water. I turn off the water when I’m not using it, for example while I’m taking a shower or washing the dishes.

I learned about these environmentally friendly practices through my parents, and on the net in a time when I was interested on environmental issues and when I was also thinking to join greenpeace. At the end I left the idea because I didn’t have enough time to compromise myself a hundred percent.

Anyway, I know that not all the people know how to be green or do something to protect the planet, maybe cause those people don’t have the possibility to get more information. I think in Chile the government should create more programs about environmentally practices.

The sense of life

What a profound thought!

There are some times of my life that I start to think about it. Of corse, I don’t have the answer for what is the sense of life.. at least not for most all the people. What I do have is my own vision about it.

I’ll say that for me, sense of life is actually living life. I live my life in a positive way, trying to enjoy every single moment and to learn about all the experiencies  I have, whether they are good or bad. I also believe that everything happens for a reason, that may not be clear sometimes but that you  can get to understand someday. But I don’t think that is a sort of “destiny”.. I mean, I think we live and every step we take lead us to something like “destiny” but that isn’t written already.  We change our “destiny” every time we decide to take one path than another .

At least I’ve been seeing things that way the last few years and somehow questions like “why am I here? Why do I live for? Why did this happen?” seem to be a little less tortuous.

Should we stay together for the children?

It is quite common that web searches for ‘divorce’ increase after Christmas.  And one of the subjects that is more asked is whether the couple should or shouldn’t stay together for the sake of their children.

Two specialists in the area, used to deal with divorcing couples all the time, gives an idea about the theme. They are Chris Mills, an integrative psychotherapist and collaborative family consultant, and Professor Peter Stratton, president of UKCP Research faculty and a systemic psychotherapist.

Stratton affirms that ‘sometimes divorce isn’t the end of the quarrelling for couples, it’s just the beginning of a whole new kind of war’ in order to refer to the influence that the conflict might provoke on children.  The main conflict of some couples may continue after divorce and the children will remain in the middle of it, making the option to stay together a better choice.

Otherwise, Mills says that to avoid damage for children parents should teach them about the conflict and how to handle it properly.  Having that in mind, to stay together just for the sake of children will be an act of dishonesty that would be taught to the children.

At the time, it becomes very important how parents manage the divorcing process, focusing on the knowledge that they want to transmit to their children about the divorcing situation and how to handle it.

The specialists suggest a list of practical things that can be put in practice with children, in order to help them to have a healthily process. All of them include the importance of honesty and confidence while telling the children about the divorcing thing and the importance of being careful with the new structures that are going to be introduced in children’s life. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/11/divorce-should-parents-stay-

Parallel Universes

I woke up that morning feeling really strange. I didn't know exactly what it was..
While I was opening my eyes I suddenly had the weird feeling that I was a different person,  but I looked at myself, and noticed I was just the same as usual. I looked at every corner of my room too, and everything seemed to be normal. But the strange feeling didn't go away.
I went down stairs and talked to my mom like I do every morning, but she wasn't listening to me, and suddenly she screamed "get out of my view you idiot!".
"What is going on?", I asked to myself.
I decided to call my best friend and ask her if she knew something about what was going on. She asked the phone and immidiately said "Why the hell are you calling me?! We're not friends anymore!" and hung up.
I freaked out!
So I picked up my bag and went out of my house to look for answers. I suddenly realized too more weird things: that my home was in the opposite side of the street and the sky wasn't blue, but red.
I was so scared that I couln't think in anything else to do but run.
I didn't know how many blocks I had run through, when suddenly I stumbled with a big hole in the floor and felt into it. I scream as loud as I could while I was falling down. And Paf!

I woke up screaming. Everything was just dream! The night before I had watched a movie about parallel universes so I got to dream abou it. Then I told myself "Parallel universes doesn't exist", and came back to sleep.