War

Wars have existed since the beginning of the world. Mankind is always solving their problems fighting or in the battlefield. But wars reach beyond of what we see on television, read in the newspaper or listen on the street. These are compose of soldiers who, sometimes, gives their lives to defend their country. They fight the battles of others and they belong to a group called heroes. I believe that heroes are made of people, not necessary emergency service people, who risk or gave their lives to save others regardless of the danger. In conclusion, wars always bring destruction, not only to nations, also for families who lose their love ones because of war.

My brother is a soldier in the Army Reserve and he was deploy 400 days in Iraq. His group was the first one in Puerto Rico of reserves that was deployed. Since he was gone, my family, his friends, his girlfriend and I were preoccupied every single day because we were afraid that the call that now one wants to receive, occurs. He miss birthdays, my high school graduation and my prom. When he finally arrive to Puerto Rico we were very excited because finally he was in no danger and he were at home with us. 

Death

"Death" is not a subject that people or me like to talk about, but is part of the human race and we have to accept it sooner or later. Almost every human in the world is afraid of dying and, of course, is not a surprise because when you die there is nothing else for you in the world, you're heart and brain stops and you're system dies as well. Some people says that when you die, that's it, you're nothing, you became dust or ashes, depending how you wanted. Other people think that when you die you will return to what you were, we (the Christians) believe in the other live, the live when we will finally be with our father (God) and we will be free and happy in the eternity. Obviously, not everything is roses color, we also think that exist hell and if you don't follow some things you're going straight to hell, but that is another subject.

Here are some experiences I had with this subject. 

• I lost my grandfather by mother when I was little, and my two grandmothers. Only my grandfather by father is alive and he is 95 years old. 
• One day I left school early because there was no water in the school and they send us early. I get to my house and usually, I opened all the windows because of the heat. I go to the kitchen to make something to eat but I opened the gas before starting to cook, I was going to cook some eggs but they were spoil and I trow them in the trash can but I forget turn off the stove. I was from 9:30am to 6:30pm smelling gas and I did not realize until my mother and brother arrived. If I do not opened the windows I could, not die, but possibly ended in the hospital 

Happiness

Happiness its a key for have a better life and view it with another perspective. Some people always complaining about everything or always have a bad feeling for everything that they forget how to smile sometimes. For me is important to have a big smile for those who don't find a way out of their problems. I have problems to, of course, and I will not always have a smile in my face, but I can try and be happy in this time that were living. With all the problems that our country have, the economic, murders and violence, we have to try and be part of something different, something that can change our way to live, like the song "Happy" of Pharrell Williams says: "Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth". 

Sometimes we have to find the bright side from the things that happens to us. Happiness is something that can be shared and maybe you can change the day of a person with just a smile and when we are having a "bad"day, someone can change our day with a smile too. Its like a exchange of happiness. Negative people would try to "kill"your mood by telling you that is impossible to be happy or excited all the time and call you are crazy like this another part of the song: "It might seem crazy what I'm about to say". What I tell those people is that nothing is impossible and that the least we can do is bring some happiness to the world because we need all the good things to come to us, not the bad things. 

Hi, my name is Mariela Rivera and welcome to my blog. I'm studying psychology at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. In this blog I will discuss some important topics that have to do with our society. Also, I will give my position about this topics. I hope to learn something from this and I hope to have fun doing it since is the first time I make a blog.