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Going vegan

Going vegan has been an ephemeral thought for me over the last years. I am in the way to become vegan simply because in order to produce it, meat takes so much more resources. Although it is hard, since I do like meat and most of dinners back home involved a considerable amount of meat since I was a kid; then it must have generated some kind of connection between family-feeling and eating meat.
My friends reaction was "it is not going to change anything" they remain skeptical, but from I have seen, eating meat involves a bigger impact to the environment, many crops are there just to feed the cattle and that involves a greater water consumption, among others (this is not a scientific paper, although I am still working on that). According to scientific based studies, it is possible that there will be a shortage of water in the coming years. Possible, which means that it may be better than we think (or worse, of course).
I can choose to be or not a vegan, but if a water shortage comes up in upcoming years future generations will narrow down their choices. I don't feel I have the right to do so hence I will become a vegan.

Apples and REC

There I was, during the coffee break, reading the article I should have read the day, almost everything is highlighted, and then D guy comes and starts talking to me, I cannot answer because I have half of an apple in my mouth (I should have taken smaller bites, I know), so I nood and point at the apple, he realises I cannot speak, and is so gentle not to mention it but continues talking. I manage to swallow that half of an apple, and actually start talking and just then coffee break is over, he goes to take a seat somewhere else, I am still holding the other half of that apple with this big smile in my lips.
Between the apple and D guy I forgot about the REC framework and land contamination. It looks like a good article, however it assumes that opinions from "scientific experts" is something we have to take as "correct", and doesn't point out the importance of time (lines) if we want to say something is correct.
So far, so good, I am loving it here.

Not so lucid dreams

This must be the third or fourth time I start my blog, I promise myself every time I won't erase it, but somehow at the end I always do. I do hope this one it's the last time I have to go through all that registration process, it's pretty boring.
Here I am, again, in another country, going back to university, learning to study again.
Before leaving my country for one year for the second time, I knew it was going to be hard.
I love being here, go "fietsen", see how people go crazy in coffees and coffeeshops, even though it rains as if someone wants to disappear Nederlanders, it's a nice place.
I think I am ok, I buy myself that.
But my dreams sometimes betray me; they wake up at 4.00 a.m. And it really sucks, it's wasted time, since I cannot do anything at all, I kept thinking and wondering if what I saw could become true or is already true and I don't know about it... yet.
Does a person well-being is in direct relationship with what happens to his/her "ex"? Or someone else’s? When did welfare began to be a comparison and become so relative? When did we start to do in a personal level what many worldwide organizations do?
And the most important... how to stop this hideous comparison?
I just hope my dream isn't true, and if it is, there's nothing I could do about it.