Why did I choose Pharmacy?

Hello bloggers!

Today I'm going to talk about my current studies. I decided to study pharmacy back in 3th grade, and I remember being so sure about it. I like chemistry, so I looked for careers related to, and althought I really like biotechnology and genetics, I found out that pharmacy was the best choise at the moment, because it has the widest field of work.

Main factors that influenced me to study pharmacy were salary and work schedule. In contrast to some of my classmates, I never thought studying medicine, because I don't like the life that doctors and nursers have. I want time for me and my future family, and what I like about pharmaceutics is that they can help people without sacrificing personal time.

What it really disgusts me about my career is that I think it is underpaid -even though the salary is high- because you must learn so many difficult things and sacrifice a lot of your time when you're studying, that maybe the final cost-benefit is not balanced. For that reason, I have questioned many times if I should keep going or not.

Now I'm just one step away from graduating and finally get my degree, so I'm feeling anxious about it. Once I'm ready I would like to find a job and save some money, so I could pay for an apartment and then buy a car.

Proud?

Call me sad, boring or a bitter person, but I think there's nothing I'm proud of. I'm not proud of myself or my family -although I love them. I'm not proud of my country or even the world, and definitely not proud of being human. So, here's the question, There's anything else to be proud of?

Maybe, is just that I'm not comfortable with that word. I wouldn't call it "being proud of something" but being satisfied instead. I have felt that I was satisfied with my work or performance many times. In fact, I like the way I am -mostly.

Anyway, I think that being proud of something or someone is more than just being satisfied. Because, when people said that are proud of something I think  that they're boasting about it, like they were better, but in a bad way and with a negative connotation. Maybe because they only say they're proud when something very special happens, like a huge achievement, but not with simple  little things of life.

I'm not denying the possibility of being proud in a good way, and I would like to feel that way sometime in the future. For now, I'm hoping it will happens when I finally finish my career.

Donnie Darko

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Today I'm going to talk about my impression of the movie Donnie Darko. The first time I saw it -a long time ago- I didn't understand it so well because I thought it was a psicological thriller about some disturbed guy who had bizarre visions and finally comitted suicide. However, now that I had the chance to see the movie again in class, I think that I understood it better. Maybe because we saw the director's cut version and with the original english audio we were capable of understand some things that were lost in the spanish version, and also to catch the main idea.

Anyway, like I said before, I think I misunderstood the movie the first time I saw it because I thought it was psychological, but now I realized that it is very feasible that Donnie wasn't really having hallucinations but actually experimenting some kind of time traveling. In fact, Donnie seems to be living in a reality he doesn't belong, in a parallel universe, in order to fulfil a mission. You can notice it with little hints and key parts of the movie, like when Donnie's dad mentions something about the serial number of the plane that crashed into Donnie's bedroom, which is identical to an existing one and suggests to the audience that it could be the same plane that came from the future.

This hints starts to make sense when Donnie begins interesting in time travel and read the book his teacher recomend him, wich describes all the things Donnie was suffering at the time and explains the theory behind them. Besides, this book was written by Roberta Sparrow (Grandma Death), who seems to be part of the experience as well as Frank and Donnie. Finally, you can realize that Donnie was chosen for saving the world when he decided to fix up things by dying, and then starts all over again. Finally, the main prove is in the end, when some of the characters appears to remember what happened before in the alternative reality.