What I miss most about my life before the pandemic

Hello, dear readers. Today I will tell you what I miss most about my life before the damn pandemic.

As it must be the case for everyone (or at least for most of us), what I miss the most is being with the people I love, such as family and friends. However, there is something I miss just as much (very much) as being with my loved ones: going to the stadium.

The biggest passion in my life is soccer, and more specifically the team I love, Colo-Colo. When the coronavirus had not yet interrupted our lives, I went to the stadium every weekend to cheer for Colo. Sometimes I went with my cousins and other times with my friends, and that was the best thing, sharing the passion and those good moments with people I love very much and that vibrate with the same things I do. Besides, for me going to the stadium is much more than just going to watch a game, because in that place I can forget for ninety minutes about all my problems, about all the stress I carry with me during the week and do what I am most passionate about.

In March of this year it was a year since the last game I was able to go to, a day that without knowing it was the last of who knows how long :(. I just hope things get better so I can go back to the stadium with my friends and cousins soon, although obviously the first thing must always be the care and health.

Thank you very much for reading this last blog, see you soon! :)

The great gap between public and private education

 

Howdy, dear readers, today I will share with you a little reflection on education in Chile.

You may have read my previous blog about the Chilean health system. Well, what I come to write today is something quite similar.

Unfortunately, as in health, in this country there is a very marked gap in the education system according to the economic level of each subject. All this can be seen in the enormous difference between public and private schools.

This disparity is reflected in all areas: the system and quality of education received, the infrastructure, the services and materials available, etc. However, sadly it is not only that, since all this sum of differences also marks a big gap in the future of the students. This is how later the same young people who graduated from private schools reach the highest positions in any job (although many times they do not even deserve it) and, therefore, ensure a comfortable life, a situation that, unfortunately, rarely happens with young people who leave public schools, even when they have all the capabilities. This makes me think that, unfortunately, the school you come out of and the respective education you receive in it (which as I said is very different) marks your future, clearly in a situation where people with more money have greater comforts and privileges.

For all this I believe that in the Chilean educational system there must be a structural change that guarantees a quality and equal education for all children and young people in the country, without differentiating by social and economic class, and I hope that this really happens.

Well, this has been my little reflection on the Chilean education system and its big gap, thank you very much for reading, we are seeing each other (or reading actually) in a future blog :)

Reflection about religion

 

Greetings everyone, I will share with you my personal position on religion.

I grew up in a family that, without being extremely attached to religion, believes in the Catholic religion and have faith in God. For this very reason, I was instilled with "Christian values" from birth. In addition, the figure of God or the belief in this religion was always present in my childhood, since the two schools I attended were openly Catholic, where, for example, prayers were said every day, and I made my "First Communion" at the age of 12. However, today I see the whole issue from a very different point of view than when I was a child. Today I do not consider myself a religious person, and although I keep some of what my parents instilled in me in terms of Catholic belief (probably the minimum), my vision of religion has changed a lot. And while I don't 100% deny the existence of God, for example, I don't firmly believe it either. It can be said that I am going through a moment of reflection and searching for answers to many questions that I myself have raised around this subject, although I have probably harvested more doubts than certainties. What I have been clear for some time now, is the abhorrence I have against the Church as such, for reasons that we all know, although this has not meant my completely negative position against religion or rather against faith. I have simply been in a process of reflection.

Chilean health system

Hello everyone! in this new blog I will give my opinion about the health system in Chile and the existing gap.

My opinion about the health system in Chile is, unfortunately, dire, like most things in this country.

Why do I think this? Well, basically because I cannot conceive the idea that in this country there are two types of health care: one for the rich and one for the poor.

Although this sad reality is known by most Chileans, I have heard it said that this is not so... but, how can it not be so, if you try to see the different realities that are experienced on the one hand in public hospitals and on the other hand in private clinics.

As in most services in Chile, in the health system there is a big gap in terms of economic class, one public and one private, that is, one for those who have money and one for those who do not, and as is to be expected, these two systems work very differently and unequally.

In the private one, that is, for people who have the resources to pay the very much that it takes to receive this kind of medical care, they offer you first class services and care, so to speak. You get fast and good care, in a proper infrastructure, and they offer you all the services you need for your case.

However, in public healthcare, none of this is the case. Here you have to wait for years for care, which often is not even of high quality, if you are not seen in the same hallway, and what to say about the infrastructure, which is not worthy of anyone.

This situation is frustrating, but unfortunately this is the way things work in a country where everything becomes a business and that distinguishes for everything according to the social and economic class in which a person is, and where everything is seen as a product, even health, which is supposed to be a right of every person.

A good opportunity to change this reality is in the next constituent process, where those in charge of drafting the new constitution can stipulate a universal health system for all Chileans that is dignified and of quality. Because health should be considered as a right and not as a business.

Thanks for reading!

The right and duty to vote 

Although it is always said that Chile is a democratic country, it is necessary to point out that the current "democracies" are far from the original meaning and practice of the concept, which makes it practically impossible to achieve full democracy today. Rather, what governs Chile and other countries is a representative government which is characterized by the power of the citizens to elect, as its name indicates, their representatives. And how is this carried out? Well, through the popular vote, a fundamental pillar in these types of governments. The action of voting, also known as suffrage, is a mechanism and political right that citizens have and that allows them to actively participate in political decision making within a State. This right is extremely important for a society that calls itself democratic, so it is everyone's duty to take care of it and enforce it, since, besides being a right, this act represents your voice, your opinion in the society in which you live. Unfortunately, there was a very dark period in our country in which this right was annulled, and everyone's opinions were silenced, something very terrible that I hope will not happen again. But this itself should teach us to value the right that we literally have in our hands, we fought so hard to have it back that now it is the duty of each one to assert it in every instance that we can so that something like Pinochet's dictatorship, in which democracy was sadly demolished, never happens again. Thus, we must take this as a fundamental duty in our lives, and we must do it well. That is why it is so important to be informed about what is happening in your country, city, commune, town, etc, places where you can assert this right. This should also serve as an example for future generations, to whom we must instill the immense value of the democratic vote.