Just a photo, many beautiful moments!

Today I'm going to talk about a photo that I like. This photo was taken by one of my best friends from school: Constanza Wilson. It was taken after a long day, where we climbed a mountain  on bike and cook lemon pie and coconut candies, to sell to neighbors.

The photo shows two black silhouettes in the air contrasting with a sky full sunset. Unfortunately, the photo doesn't capture the true colors that had the sky at the time. The figure on the right is other of my best friends from school called Margarita Echenique and left, I.

I don't remember exactly the day when this photo was taken, but I think it was in December 2009. I like this photo because it represents many weekends at the Margarita field House. Despite doing trivial things, I remember that afternoon as one of the happiest days of school.

I remember fondly those thousands of afternoons we spent together and how close we were. Even at school they told us "girls Super powerful" hahaha. Today we are maintaining contact despite being so different, Constance studied dentistry and Margarita studied design.

Technology is not my thing!

When I try to think about my favorite piece of technology I have trouble choosing, because I consider myself a low-tech. But if I am obliged to answer, I will say that my favorite piece of technology is the ipod. An ipod is a type of portable music player. It is known to be easy to use and understand. You navigate the iPod with a "touch wheel" designed to be used with one hand.

I don't remember exactly the date that I got my ipod. It was Christmas, for more or less three years, so I guess it was the December 25, 2010. I use my iPod to listen to music that I've downloaded, especially for long trips or day-to-day on the Transantiago. I use it less often than I would like, because I leave the ipod in Machalí when I go to see my family. But when I bring it to Santiago I use it a lot, even for fun while doing sport.

I like my iPod or any music player because it is an easy and handy way to carry with me the music that I like. I think life would be similar like today, I'm mean it is not as important as a computer, but probably would be boring and less special.

It costs nothing to dream!

For science dreams are mental manifestations of images, sounds, thoughts and feelings in an   individual sleeper, and usually related to reality. For me, dreams are like a parallel world, where we flow our thoughts and deepest desires: a reflection of our unconscious. 

Unfortunately I do not usually remember my dreams, but when I woke up I let the feeling of having experienced something, sometimes good, sometimes bad. This feeling often lasts me all day, so that dreams often influence my mood. I usually remember better nightmares than pleasant dreams, because nightmares are most intense. The colors are very strong and everything seems very real, so I never realize I'm dreaming :( 

On the other hand there are the dreams, but in the sense of goals or desires in real life. I consider myself quite dreamy and idealistic, I like to imagine things in a better way and contribute to change. I consider it essential to have dreams in life and fight for them. I think that's what much of happiness and a part of the meaning of life.

If I had political power to realize a dream, start by making a tax reform in Chile to fund free education and try to reduce inequality in our country that is really shameful.                           

I leave a beautiful song about just daydreaming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhopAK7eCcY

"How nice it is to dream, dream costs nothing. Dreaming and around, wide-eyed. How nice it is to dream, it costs you nothing but time" 

"Qué lindo que es soñar, soñar no cuesta nada. Soñar y nada más, con los ojos abiertos. Qué lindo que es soñar, que no te cuesta nada más que tiempo"                                                             

Abraham Maslow and self-realization

Abraham Maslow born on April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, United States and was the oldest of 7 children. His family was of Jewish origin, so he had an unhappy childhood in the wake of the discrimination suffered by their origin. Because of this, it was a lonely child who found refuge in books.

Later, he went to study psychology at the University of Wisconsin where he stood out as a brilliant student. After doing his doctorate created the theory, called today, "Maslow's hierarchy of needs," a theory of human motivation. This theory proposes that humans have needs that can be ordered hierarchically and that as we meet the most basic, they develop more complex.

That's how Maslow became the leader of the humanistic school of psychology that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, which he referred to as the "third force" in contrast to Freudian theory and behaviorism.

I admire the contributions of Maslow as they were innovative in their time and gave a new approach to psychology. This gives more power to the patient and focuses on the positive aspects, which I think is an improvement over other currents that put emphasis on negative aspects or just behavioral.