A tree house ... ♪♪♪

I’d like to say I had never even thought of an ideal home, and so it was somewhat entertaining to think on how would I like to have one. The house of my dreams is going to be located in southern Chile, in a rural area with plenty of trees and vegetables, and a native, huge forest, also accompanied by a lake or something like it.

 Its size should be exactly like my family needs, and for our home not to be cold, it needs light, it has to be simple and very, very lovely. It would be my permanent home for the last years of my life, and for vacations too. I would like to be immersed into a neighborhood, with neighbors (obviously), sharing activities and love with them.

As for the architectural details of our home: I would like it to be wooden, with great windows so that natural lights gets in, or during a rainy day we can see it from our warm commodities. Its decoration should be as rustic as possible, with the least technology, an antiquity-like touch should be primary there, with a huge fireplace, an earth oven outside. In short, nature should be its main protagonist. The ‘luxury’ I’d like to have, are two wood-made jacuzzis, barrel-shaped, one outside and one inside home.

This house would be special for me, because it would be an ideal resting place, a place for inspiration, contact with nature, as it would be a perfect place to share moments with my family.

Wandering… to learn

In the near future, I’d like to visit the historical, architectonic, cultural and human heritage of places like Cuba, Vietnam, Venezuela, Switzerland, Greece, Nordic countries like Finland. I would like to know the South American and African reality, by visiting as many countries as I can.

All of these trips will have more than a touristic goal, I will make them for learning. These are countries with internal processes that are worthy to be praised, and to be imitated.

I would like to visit Cuba, Vietnam and Venezuela because these are some of the few Socialist countries that have survived the extermination, felonies and intervention of the Capitalist empire, and the world corporativism, so I can know their people’s realities, their manner to make politics, and the hard battle and resistance they’ve made to insist on their ideologies after so many years. In the case of Switzerland and the Nordic countries (Finland, specifically) I’d like to visit it because of its participative and direct democracy, and their effective social policies in the area of education, respectively. Greece, because it was the birth place of the Western civilization, and of the politics as a concept. Finally, South American and African countries to meet common problems of the third world, potentially rich countries, living as poor ones.

I’d preferably do these trips on plane, and once getting into such countries, I’d like to move inside on the public transport, the one used by most people, I’d like to pass unobserved and get “wet” from their culture, I can’t just not take a bike, too, to run across their towns and settlements.

I would do these trips with friends, with similar thoughts, and others with my family. I would like to be in each country for a month. The possibility of residing permanently in one of these places is, at the moment, ruled out, as I feel I have the compromise of contributing to my country and its reality. It’s a must, almost biological.

“My words have no bitterness, but disappointment”

Among some of the things I hate, and somewhat hurt me is the Chilean political class, because, even though there are some other social problems Chile suffers, I relieve this is the “greater problem”, as it derives into the other issues.

Since the military dictatorship, passing through the transition to democracy, and until now, I believe that Chilean politicians are way different to those we had back, befote the 1970s. Their convictions, principles and ideologies, proper of those years mutated in their economical convenience, their eager to be famous, looking for power. There are few exceptions, to the point of being invisible.

It’s not surprising how, as time passes, some conflicts of interests of our deputies and senators have arisen, they succumb to the poweful, but hateful lobby. Where’s representation? It’s only the interest of a few over the collective interest. It’s a congress that responds to similar thoughts of those which conspirated and ended with the project of president José Manuel Balmaceda.

It’s sad that, the only affected by this, is the whole Chilean society, victim of unattention and the forgetfulness of our representatives, who spread ignorance and the low civic participation. The society is immersed into an useless inertia, as they secure a system and paradigms that have only benefited them. They have condemned the country to an eternal inequality, privatization and economic dependence.

Solution? I believe the solution is us, the young people, we have got to take on the work of revitalizing the Chilean politics, unpriced because of the disasterful administration of the current political class. I share, and firmly believe we have got to socialize politics, and politicize social issues, for us to advance progressively for the supressing of our representation system, to struggle for a participative democracy and a constituent assembly.