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Addictive personalities

Addictions have been a really common issue in our society for many years.  But now in the 21^TH Century, the misuse of technology, the lifestyle and the lost of society’s good values have created new addictions and strengthened others that have been in society for some time. In this column I will talk about addictive personalities from a personal point of view and how the lifestyle of current society has incremented the number of people that suffer from addictions.

Addiction is defined as “The habit of those who let themselves be dominated by the use of one or more toxic drugs or excessive fondness for certain games”, but for me, this definition taken from El Diccionario de la Real Academia Española does not involve a lot of addictions present in the world. But, how is the personality of an addicted person. I am going to take the example of a video game addict that I know. This person spends a minimum of 12 hours a day playing videogames, but he is wasting not only his time but also his money; he sacrifices his family, his friends, his life… This person was a great musician that renounced to music because of his addiction to videogames.   His friends have told him that he is wasting his life, his abilities and losing all what he loves, the people who love him; but he does not want to get rid of this addiction because he thinks that the situation is not so tragic: When he is out of his house, he feels anxious; he is not focused on anything but videogames; the only topic he talks about is the new game that he bought, the new level that he achieved or something about video games.

Like this guy, there are a lot of people with these afflictions, these symptoms, and these problems. But why does this happen? I personally think that currently people’s lifestyle, at least in the city, causes issues such as stress, trouble, an accelerated lifestyle, and all the bad practices that we have link these phenomena and the addictive behaviors. Here is when we have to start to reflect and think about the lifestyle that we have and if we are falling down into one addictive personality.    

Honesty is the best policy

The capacity to lie is unique to human beings, but personally it is not something that we should be proud of. Lying is an action that people do due to many reasons: maybe they are scared, want to escape from another lie, or avoid a problem … Although it is truly inevitable because of our nature, lying is not necessary.

In our daily life we live many different situations, and we interact with a lot of people; because of this, lying is also a really common action. I know that it is really difficult not to lie, but instead of that, we should avoid telling lies.

It is true that we can completely avoid telling lies, but for me there are some occasions when we must lie, not to hurt   but to be polite. For example, if someone asks you about his/her baby’s appearance, even if the baby is horrible, you should probably say the baby is beautiful.

  In school, high school, or university, honesty is really a must because.   Honesty is the best option no matter what the situation is; it is always better to say the truth because you can hurt someone if you lie. 

My autobiography

In this autobiography, I will write the most important events that have marked my life in a chronological order since the beginning of it until now.

Everything started on January 17^th of 1991 when at 4:00 a.m. a cold Thursday, the son of a telecommunication technician and an administrative assistant was born in a room of Adolfo Carit Eva Hospital. In this same year I was baptized in the Catholic Church of a little town in the suburbs of San Jose called Aserrí. Three years later, I was a really healthy child enjoying my childhood as all other kids. In that year my parents separated but surprisingly, my mother got pregnant of my sister and the next year I was the older brother in my family and my parents were together again. But then when I was five years old, my parents got divorced, also I entered the Sensinai pre-kinder in Aserri. Then next year after I graduated from pre-kinder, I started the Kindergarten in Manuel Hidalgo Mora Public School. In that same year, I finished the kindergarten and I moved to first grade in the same school. In first and second grade I always was a good student with high grades and good behavior. In the third grade I ran for class president and I won; this was my first government in the educational field. In September of 2000 I got sick of appendicitis so I had my first surgery. The next year, I was in fourth grade; I was the president of the class in that year too; also I entered the School Band playing the drum, beginning my background in music. In fifth grade I participated in a knowledge competition called “Antorcha” winning the first regional place, and again I was in the band. In 2003 (my sixth grade) I was the president of the Student Board of Elections in my school, I graduated from School and I passed the admission process of the Don Bosco Technical High School. In the 2004 I started my secondary education; in seventh grade I entered the high school band playing the trumpet; also I won the first place in the Technological Artistic and Scientific Fair EXPOTEC 2004 of the High School. Next year I went to Minnesota thanks to a cultural exchange between the Mahtomedi High School Band and the Don Bosco High School Band; in that same year I participated in the “Festival de la Luz” for the first time winning the second place in High School bands category. In the 2006 I participated in the first High School Choreography with live music in Costa Rica and won the best music choreography prize, I did the national exams and I passed them; also I could enter the specialty Computer Science that I wanted; finally in that year I participated for the second time in the “Festival de la Luz”. In 2007 I started my specialty and with that a new passion. Again I participated in the “Festival de la Luz” but in this time we won the first place. In the eleventh grade I participated in the election for the Student Council as a candidate winning the election and becoming the president of the High School, in that year I also won an Honorific Mention in the field of Computer Science and the Technological Innovation price because of my software APIH. In my last year of High School (2009), I went to Minnesota for the second time during a month; I also won the candidature for the Secretary position of an International Salesian Student Organization called “Movimiento Juventud”; I organized an activity called “Semana de la Juventud” more than 2000 people participate in. I did my professional practice in ITSInfocom and I got my first and current job there. Finally in that year I graduated from High School with a Medium Technician in Software Development. In 2010 I won a 100% scholarship at ULACIT and I started the major Bachelor in Computer Science.

Currently I’m working at ITSInfocom looking forward for becoming an Implementation Engineer and studying at ULACIT with a lot of enthusiasm, dreams to follow and battles to win.