Hello,
I hope you are having a good day. Now I'm writing in English to make my post more accessible to the internet people that they understand more English than Spanish.
I have been always worried about my personal preparation, development and worried about my own limitations and how I can use all my strength and intelligence to be a better person to achieve my own development, being able to make the right decisions being happy, being able to make the people around me aware of this also and if I have family or a couple make them happy too, give them the elements to achieve the same things that I am looking too, because at the end and from my perspective that is the real thing that matters in life. But first I have to start with myself
During this past months I've living in Germany and I can assure is one of the most relevant experiences of my life. I traveled to Egypt during their revolution time and now I'm in Colombia on a holiday trip visiting my girlfriend. I am the Information Manager Director of a non profit organization in Germany called AIESEC. In resume I am the IT guy. I have been working in technology since I have nine teen years old. I studied Telematics Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM, and all my life I have been thinking that the solutions to all human problems are the knowledge, technology and the right distribution of this to every human being so that is why I decided to become an Engineer of Technology and I understood the world in this way. I also was worried in having a complete formation and that is why I decided to become a Scientific SCUBA diver and I got my degree in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM. I practiced martial arts and oriental philosophy during ten years to have another perspective of how the things work. I also was worried in knowing my roots and country so I decided to travel from north to south and read about their most relevant cultures like the Mayans in the south east, the Aztecs in the center and the Yaquis in the north west and I understood that my country is unique and I do not know all about it. In my university I read about occidental philosophy and was part of the United Nations Model of my University ITAMMUN and the subject I took par was Sustainable Growth. Finally, all my life I've fully connected to the internet and is one of my passions I enjoy it's power and how fast the knowledge can travel through this powerful tool and also know the damage that is can cause to the others because I used to be a "friendly" hacker during my early ages. After all this I thought that I had a complete understanding of how world worked. This experiences transformed the way I see the world and now I know that I was wrong.
During this months I've thinking about the structure of the society, I've been reading the news, I witnessed the German Elections and I was asking my friend about their point of view and why they where voting for some specific candidate. Also the way of living of people from Europe is always challenging me because some of the things that they have I just never had them in my country and never though about them.
Now I feel that my perspective is more complete and I just can say that I still need a lot to learn about a lot of things in my life.
Why is all this personal history?
Well, today I was working, reading the news and I saw a post of a friend with a particular video. This video and post cached my attention because it was about sustainable growth, a subject that I've been interested since I think that I know what I want.
The post was a critic for our modern society and all the speeches of the modern leaders through the times about this subject and after reading it I couldn't avoid to think. Man this is what I was always thinking off too so I was happy to see more people worried about the same thing I was worried about so I decided to write this and also to make a promise with myself that I will not be part of this modern society making small changes at the time. I don't know If I will be successful but I know that I can't live without trying it. Just the time will be able to tell me if i took the right decision.
"What would happen to the planet if the Indian people could have the same amount of cars per family that the Germans have? how much Oxygen we would have to breath?..."
"Does the world has the elements, materials to make possible that 7,000, 8,000 million people can achieve the same rates of consumption and waste than the most opulent occidental societies have? is it possible? or we will need to have another type of discussion another day? Why we had to create this civilization? product of the market, product of competition that has the definition of progress based on a portentous and explosive material..."
"The development can't be against the human happiness, it has to be in favor of happiness, love, human relationships, to take care of children, to have friends, to have the elemental things. That's why is the most important treasure that you can have. When we fight for the environment, the first element of the environment it's called human happiness..."
Fragment of José 'Pepe' Mujica's speech, President of Uruguay, during the Sustainable Growth Summit of United Nations in Brazil (Rio+20)
I hope that my post can move something inside of you to make you start the change because the change of this starts with each on of us
Have a nice day
Luis O
