5 Favourites

 The song I am going to share is Sal a Caminar by Antidoping, it is a reggae song that I have known since I was very little, I talk about trying to reach happiness by yourself and that this is a road to travel, it also talks about being with the people that make you well and contribute in your life. My favorite phrases are “Don't stop the course of being happy” and “Give a little bit of your heart to those people, who believe a little more in you”, I listen to it or sing it in my head when I am very collapsed and remember that I do everything to try to have a better life. 

I have many favorite movies, one of them is Avatar, released in 2009, it is a science fiction movie with a lot of use of space effects, where they create large blue humanoids that live in harmony with nature, the Na'vi tribe. The main theme is, how the human race tries to exploit the tribe's natural resources, regardless of their lives and the love they have for their land. I fell in love visually with the special affections, and how they reflect the tribe's beliefs and rituals.

A piece of technology I use a lot is my hair clipper, it was my family's, because most of us have shaved hair at the back and sides of our heads. When I came to Santiago in 2021, it remained among my things because I was the person who used it the most, I was not going to come back for months, so my family bought another one and I have the old one. I need help to shave the back of your head, so many people have used it to help me. I'm very fond of it, it still works well and never gets lost. 

The first time I read a book without the obligation of school, it was because I was determined to read a book of my own free will and I found “Sexual Anarchy, Feminism and Homosexuality” by Johanna Elberkirchen. From the first page I was shocked, it is a very strong book, of a woman shouting out the injustice that her gender has suffered by men. She talks about many taboo topics without filter, prostitution, rape, parenting, work, and in general everything that women have kept quiet and endured for years.

I have a necklace that I wear every day, without fail, it is a thin chain, with a shiny circular jewel. My mom had a twin sister who passed away in her 35 year old in 2019, she was the one I always considered my mom. It was very hard when she got sick and passed away a few months later, some time later my cousin, her daughter, gave me a necklace that belonged to my aunt many years ago. Since I got it I wear it every day, it makes me feel protected, I squeeze the pendant every time I feel bad or anxious, it is as if she is always with me.