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A skill that I admire

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Some people has awesome flexibility to the point that they can contort themselves. I think that this is one of the most beautiful and extraordinary things that a human being can do. It envolves your own body, so you don’t need equipment or expensive things, but don’t sleep on it, it’s a mind test because your body is going to burn in pain. I admire this skill because I’m a brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practicioner. This form of martials arts rely on submissions, grabbing your oponnent and choke him or break his arm. So, flexibility is key when it comes to BJJ (Brazilian jiu-jitsu). A person who can contort himself not only can look cool in pictures, also can produce some extraordinary submissions like ‘Gogoplata’ or ‘Rubber guard’ (I’m going to left pictures below).                                         (Rubber Guard)                ...

My dream job

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In highschool I was part of a chamber orchestra, which is just a smaller orchestra. I played contrabass, a very big instrument very similar to a bass guitar. I felt in love with the instrument and the music that we played. Classic songs like ‘Sarabande’ or ‘Betthoven’s Fifth Symphony” and also chilean songs like Victor Jara’s “Te recuerdo amanda”. Since that day, my dream job has been play contrabass for a big and famous orchestra. It’s not for the money, or the glory, or non of that things. The things that you can feel playing with so many people are unreal. Also, if you are a fan of music, an orchestra is the perfection in terms of sound, emotions and talent.  Sadly, since I left highschool I don’t have the instrument anymore. I miss it a lot, but I also know that I’m too old to pursuing this dream, so I moved on.

Friends

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"Friend" is a very natural expression but in essence, is someone that you can trust, someone that can hangout with you without getting awkward, someone that you can call and speak for hours, etc. In my experience, I've been friend with only a few people. I had a lot of fun with a bunch of people during my childhood and highschool but my very best friend was (and still is) my cousin.  Javier is the first child of my favorite aunt (also my godmother). We borned in the same year so since we were little we hangout a lot, we had a lot of common because of this. Since the age of three we played soccer together, believe it or not we had a very special connection even in the soccer field.  All the thing that a children does, we did it together. We grew up together, going to parties, taking works together, we also lived together not so long ago. The soccer was left behind and we replace it with weed, music and discussions about politics. Our relationship is so especial t...