When I was a kid, my dream was to
design sport cars, then I grow up and wanted to be a professional basketballer
but I got tired of it and the same year I drop basket, I crush with social
sciences and humanities. I was confused between anthropology and sociology.
I think is really interesting to
study at Universidad de Chile, because all of my companions are very good at
thinking, I believe. So the dialogues that we can have are really fun and
mutually rewarding.
I like sociology because it’s a
complete discipline, with a lot of relation with the other social sciences.
Also I’m very interested in human condition (if there is any), so my range of
interests to study reach philosophical and abstracts questions but practical
worries too. So, I would like to make a sociological theory or something in the
abstract, but I wouldn’t like to stay just there, I want to make a little
improvement of the social forms in Chile, may be in Renca (where I live) or in
the legislative scenario. I’m not so much an idealist in the sense of having
big hopes of what human kind really is – at his core, or something. Also I
don’t feel like a pessimist because I think that human condition includes
altruism and egoism altogether. So I prefer to see me as a pragmatist or a
realist when it comes to social change.
In the words of Portuguese novelist
and Nobel of literature José Saramago, in his novel, The Gospel According to
Jesus Christ <<We are all, this little and this lot, this peace and this
war, this goodness and this meanness, docile and unsettled>>
