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Hello world An addiction, defined as severe substance abuse disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth edition), is a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. It's a mental disorder, a state where the mind itself is compromised and disturbed. Therefore that affects the way the thoughts are made, the very core of our ideas. It can't be expected that a person in a state of addiction will act and understand things as she/he would normally do. The fact that many addicts deny their addiction and sometimes have illogical behaviours and actions is something to be expected. It's a brain disease. It's something physical, not just an idea. It's not an opinion, it is something you can actually see. As you can see a broken bone with x-rays, you can also see how addictions can affect brain cells and activity. The problem is that as most people can't af...

Howdy! Today's post is about Postgraduate studies. A topic that for me has been a bit ignored on purpose, convincing myself that, even if it's a really important thing to think about, it was something I wanted to delegate for "Future's Simón" knowledge. I would like to keep studying forever and become an expert between experts on whatever I wish to know (or be)... or at least that's what my naive mind used to think about ten years ago. Ten years after, my main goal became to finish my pre-graduate studies and jump as fast as possible into the wage labor world. It's not just about money (although it's very much about money), it's because I am convinced that in order to truly understand what has been learnt in school one must experience what is to put theory in practice at least for a few years. After that process, the aren't many options that I know about. Although I know that just next to me there is a part-time diploma course on Environmen...

What kind of job would you like to have? When I was 5 years old I answered many times this question... sometimes I answered that I wanted to be a veterinarian, sometimes my answer was "a  musician" but what I answered the most was "An inventor". An inventor? you may ask... yes, an inventor, someone that somehow invent things. What kind of things?  I wouldn't be able to answer that. I don't know. I dreamed about weird trees and meteor shaped spaceships but never about how to build anything. Years after my ideas about my future changed. The question was not the same anymore. It changed to "What would you like to study at the university?". Of course that question had no meaning for a 12 years old kid... and no answer for a 17 years old. Nonetheless the 12 years old version of myself thought the answer was clear: "Philosophy". I got the idea because that was what my uncle Javier studied but as soon as I told him he yelled at me "don...