Meditation

I went outdoors to meditate and at the beginning I was feeling a little bored. I tried to find something interesting to observe but I was struggling.
The first 10 minutes were the worst because I wasn´t well adapted to my new and quit environment. I started to deal with my contemplation situation and I think that 30 minutes weren´t enough. My real and true contemplation started to come like at the 20 or 25 minute. I started to think lots of things about my life. The common things like any assignment missing for school, homeworks, what I was going to do when I got home, and simple errands that Thoreau would hate. He hated that humans had a busy agenda because to find ourselves we need to have time to think and breath in, our life.
In my meditation, I could see some birds flying around and resting above the electricity wires. According to my interpretation, they were playing with each other and fighting for a piece of food. When they got down to the ground, sometimes, they gave little hops, and that was really cute. I´ve never spent so much time observing simple birds´ life.
When the 30 mins were about to finish, I felt kind of in peace with myself, compared to how I was feeling before the 30 min meditation. I felt more calmed, not stressed, less accelerated. I felt like life gives us a lot of time to reflect upon our acts and our thoughts, that we shouldn´t be rushing all the time to complete was expected for us. For example in school, we have lots of assignments due the same day and we sometimes feel stressed. Feeling stressed won´t help at all. Either you can do it, or you can´t. We shouldn´t force ourselves too much.
In general I enjoyed doing this and I think  I should do it more often. I need time with myself. Not cheking my phone constantly or thinking on something entertaining (vain) to do.
I feel that the internet doesn´t let us concentrate with ourselves and have a quiet and peaceful time with our minds. We always need to check facebook or instagram. I know that at the beginning it´s hard to meditate and reassure ourselves but if we keep practicing it, then it will be much easier and even form part of our daily or weekly schedule.

Friends and Family

My family in general is very transcendentalist/romantic. We are 5, my parents, my brother, and my sister. 
We love God and believe in him a lot. We see him as the center of the universe. Our father, our creator, the one who´s behind all that surrounds us.
We love nature and we appreciate it. Everytime we see someone cutting a tree we feel bad. My mom always says that Torreon is extremely hot because of so much pavement in the streets. We need fresh trees to give us oxygen and shade.
She also says that whatever you do to nature, it will come back to you, in karma sense. For example, my grandparents sold their house 10 years ago and that house, my mom says, was built with lots of love. My grandma has chosen all the trees for the backyard. The house had mango trees, orange, plum, tangerine, an lemon trees. Well, the buyer didn´t want the backyard garden, so she destroyed all the trees. She promised she would take care of them, but she lied. Being a 40 something year old woman, she got to be like 2 years in a wheelchair because of a strange impediment on her walking. 3 years later her son died tragically in a car accident falling into a ravine.
We believe all that happened to her because she destroyed all of the house´s nature. The backyard and the front yard.
As you can see my family and I are true lovers of nature and we try to decipher all the messages that it tries to tell us. We love ranches and it is our dream to have one. I think it would be wonderful to live far away from the city, where there´s people that brag all the time and think that the universe rotates around them. I don´t like that.
My parents are romanticists because they always teach us to follow our feelings. Of course, the good ones. You don´t need to feel forced to do something. You need to enjoy it and feel free in it.
My mother´s exact words are: do what your heart dictates you to do. In other words, follow your heart.
To find true contemplation you need to be close to nature, in silence. Not with so many people in your life that don´t even let you concentrate on your own. It´s like if you were living someone else´s life. Live your life because it´s yours and will sooner or later stop to be. Life is very short and time flies.

Civil Disobedience

In order for me to join a protest, I would have to feel tremendously attached to a certain ideal that I´m fighting for. When I see the news in my country I get really upset about all the chaos that´s surrounding us. Sometimes we don´t want to see it, but it is clearly in there. People think that if they don´t watch the news they´ll live more happy. But this way of thinking is what makes the politicians never feel afraid of stealing or commiting into something constitutionally wrong. If you know what´s going on, then you´ll protest, then you´ll want the change and make the politicians work appropriately to please its people.
People who protest are on their complete right to do so. I don´t judge them but what I would tell them, would be to not destroy any of our legacy and heritage. For example, this past November where thousands of protestors in Mexico City burned the National Palace door. That door was very special because our first president Guadalupe Victoria constructed it with his own hands when he suffered from Parkinson´s disease.
I have strong and drastic thoughts about protests. I believe that if the government doesn´t listen to our demands, we need to show violence to show our incomformity. At least we have to so in Mexico because the government won´t understand the seriousness of the problem. I´m glad that yesterday protestors, that are actually now being called anarchists by the government, took a police truck forcing the police to get off, and started driving around while the rest of the crowd cheered for them.
I truly believe a revolution is about to start sooner or later because all the things that have been happening recently in the country has helped the mexicans to open their eyes and realize how bad our situation is.
In this case, I would join a protest, but I get a little frustrated because I know things won´t change. They are probably starting to, but I don´t have a lot of patience and I like seeing drastic changes. Besides I sometimes the protests turn wild and the police arrests civilians, I would be afraid of that. There´s also lots of molotov bombing all around the place.
I support those people. I would love to give them weapons, and feed them in my house (that kind of stuff) not actually fight and cover my identity under a hood.
What I´m completely sure is that I would never protest for someone else´s cause or another country. I would fight for what I feel nationalistic about. It doesn´tt matter if it´s not the country you were born in.
I will always admire those people that had the leadership like Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi because despite knowing they were less powerful, they fought and never remained quiet.