Super Mario Anti-Stress

Well, in the 1st phone video, I told you about my “hobbie”, the music and my rock band. But, if I think it better, that is not only a hobbie for me; it is a real work and it is as important as the university and all the “standard” ways. 

Today, I will tell you about another hobbie, one that corresponds better to the meaning of hobbie; some activity I like and that helps me to fight stress. 

I love to play Super Mario. I don’t consider myself as a gamer or a geek, because I hardly ever play video games, except Mario. I usually play it at evening or weekends, when I need some break in different tasks or if I’m boring. I have emulators of some Nintendo consoles and there I load the games. I don`t spend much time on it, but I enjoy all that minutes. 

I didn’t play Mario when I was a child, because we didn’t have a Nintendo in home and computers were a little difficult to get in the middle of 90’s. But I saw friends playing it and I knew it. When I was older, maybe 15 or 16, one friend told me about emulators. I downloaded one with some games, including Super Mario World. That day my madness started.  

Mario has generated on me some strange ideas about life. In fact, I’m planning to write some document or article, or maybe a book, about the “Mario Bros Philosophy”.  Its psychedelic world, presence of strange substances –mushrooms or flowers, for example- that turn Mario bigger or stronger, the design and architecture of the scenarios, etc. It is very strange, but I like it and I consider it very attractive.

I'm a little ecologic, but I must to be better

Well, I will answer the questionnaire required for this post:

1. People learn to be friendly to environment in all their formation spaces, from family to school or different social groups. Also, the workplace can be a good place for learn how to produce in a more sustainable way. But, overall, family is the first and main space for it. We have not to understand the “ecology” like a separated topic from “education”. Education creates conscience, and conscience includes the environmental conscience.

2. I must recognize I have only one recycle bin in the little flat where a live here in Santiago. There, we throw all: Food, tin cans, paper, little trash from floor, etc. I really must think a way of recycling my trash. Also, I usually throw all the things that I will not use anymore. Sometimes I save some things for “future recycling”, but always I forget it.

3. I usually take a bus to the University and the work. But, some days, I decided to walk from home (in town center) to JGM. It takes one hour approximately. I like to walk and, when I have energy and time, I prefer to do that. It is better for me and the environment.

3. I had never joint to an eco-organization or something like that. I like them, but I have known only a few of them and something in them makes me feel not very attracted. I knew some people from Rengalentún and JGM Recicla, but I never joint that groups. But I support them anyway. Oh, now I remember my school time, when I was 11 and I joint a group called “Brigada Verde” and we were guardians against the papers in the floor and the dirt classrooms. Jajaja.

4. I would like to have a sustainable and simple construction where I would can to work with a environmental study and action group, when I will be a psychologist. But I don’t want to constitute the typical “multi- disciplinarian professional team”; I want to work with housewifes or with old people, with young people, working men and women, etc. I want to democratize and popularize the environmental discourse, action and spirit.

5. I have economic led at home and I always wash my clothes and wears with cold water. All that behaviors help to reduce the carbon footstep. Well, and when I walk to the University, I’m helping to that to.

6. in Santiago, there are not much bicycle ways and much of the existing ones were designed too badly. Also, Santiago is full of plastic bags in all their markets. If we want to reduce the carbon footstep in Santiago, we must potentiate Metro, Bicycles and re-usable bags, for example.

My old indecision

While I’ve been studying psychology the last 5 years, there were many episodes when I had many doubts about my future and about if this career is the most adequate for me. Maybe I decided what to study when I was too young and, clearly, I was not sure about my real vocation. 

I always have liked the teaching. Still I love it. But, maybe two years ago, I was seriously thinking about leaving this career and starting Pedagogy in History. I really like to learn and know about geography, maps, countries, and also I like History topics. For many months, I was sure that was my real vocation. But then, when I had opportunities to talk with people who were studying that, I understand what so difficult is teaching in schools. The children aren’t the problem for me; I don’t like the working climate of schools, because my parents are school inspectors and they always suffer some exclusion from the teacher’s team or the directives. 

Also, a important factor that had influence on that was my poor academic state. In 2009, I was having many problems with some subjects and I was very near to be kicked from the University. So, when I thought to emigrate to Pedagogy, I was thinking on return to the south and study in Temuco, in Universidad de la Frontera. Well, that didn’t happen and today I’m finalizing my carrer here. 

Sometimes I think if I would have changed to Pedagogy in History, maybe today I would be a good student but without some too important things I learnt in Psychology and, overall, I like my career because I turn on a more emphatic person and I’ve understood important things about human relationships in all contexts. 

Sexual problem, communication problem

It seems to be a questions section of The Guardian. It is an article where Pamela Stephenson Connely, a psychotherapist specialised in sexual disorders,  answers to a upset woman who tells her his boyfriend have an extremely avoidant sexual behavior; he has many problems with erection, he cannot have coitus and his sexual motivation is too low. As if that was not enough, that woman admit she is a “sexual” person; she enjoys sex and it is too important for her.

Psychotherapìst reccomend to her to seek psychosexual therapy. Pamela thinks they have a communication problem and therapeutic setting can be very useful to starting asking some important questions about that. For example: Why a “highly-sexual-motivated” girl has a relation with a  “lowly-sexual-motivated” boy? Then, while answers will be appearing during the therapy, therapist can reccomend to them  some exercises that would can help to find new ways of touching and contacting with each other and, also, each one would can learn how to understand better the signals from the other and, actually, how to communicate better how the other can satisfact the own desire. Finally, Pamela made a debatable gesture to the consultant: She tells her it’s OK to question themselves about the root of problem, but “a good therapist should you that”. People cannot be their own therapist?

You can check this article in http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/12/boyfriend-feels-sex-is-improper 

Without music, life would be a mistake (F.N)

Music for me is the most beautiful human act. I really enjoy it and I like to create music too. I sing and play guitar in a rock band called Trueno Austral, and we have important ambitions about music. When we compose, some of us bring little ideas and, then, every one puts his own element, for finally mix our ideas and get a new, fresh and nice song. When it happens, i feel realized and happy. It’s like you say something that you have wanted to say since a lot of time, but by a magic way.

I love classic rock and metal and psychedelic rock. I started in the rock highway listening to Guns N’ Roses. When I was 13, a friend from school sold me (yes, sold me!) in $100 a cassette tape with many songs of that band. Some songs were cut (typical in cassettes) but that doesn’t really matters. I like. Then I knew and started to enjoy Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Pantera. But when I arrived to University, I wanted to explore the bands that have inspired to the metal bands I loved (and still I love them). I knew Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. And that was the starting point for know The Beatles, The Doors and a very big cloud of great rock. Actually, I very often listen to Radio Futuro.

I don’t know what is my favourite band. I’m not a narcissistic guy, but I have to say that I really like my own band, Trueno Austral. Maybe, because I’m doing rock from me, fit to me. Well, for the photo I will choose Deep Purple, because, in their golden years, they was the most genuine example of an armonious group of musicians.