How dinosaurs marked my development with their history

A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Frankfurt Am Main to visit one of the largest museums in Germany dedicated to natural sciences and the museum with the largest amount of large fossils in Europe. The Senckenberg Museum was a special experience, full of emotions and a lot of self -discovery. It may sound a bit extravagant to say that observing other people's fossil discoveries, will lead me to question me, discover certain patterns and inspire myself to develop new points for my purpose and the future.

While my friends entered the central room with the main exhibition of the museum, I stopped on the stairs to observe the place. I looked from right to left and felt how the body was filled with emotion, my face did not stop smiling and my eyes shone. I felt very small in front of these great predators, but the feeling of being in a safe place was much greater. Since childhood I always felt attracted to know and learn from many topics: the universe, animals and, of course, dinosaurs. Many feel connected to that hobby, but few remember it as something special in our lives. Until I, personally, entered that room. I stood under the fossils and I remembered how dinosaurs influenced me. An extinct species that marked my development only with its history.

Currently I love talking about conservation and I seek to make decisions and act in the most responsible way possible to avoid social, environmental and economic losses. Maybe dinosaurs were my first approach to extinction. In his book "Sapiens, a brief history of humanity", Yuval Noah Harari talks about the importance of knowing and understanding the two great waves of extinction in the world to avoid a third. "If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive." The truth is that dinosaurs not only aroused my interest in conservation, but developed my creativity and imagination and nurtured my thirst for knowledge to take actions in favor of it.

As a girl, dinosaurs were responsible for motivating my interest in learning through games and today I find that I develop my creativity through dynamics and games to learn. It is not surprising that I merge the idea of playing combinations with my closet to preserve nature. That is practically what I did when I created the campaign A wardrobe for climate.

Although the extinction of dinosaurs was due to natural causes, today we are at a point where species extinction is being influenced by man. Noah Harai also mentions that if things continue how they are going, it is likely that whales, sharks and dolphins follow the path of dinosaurs. That is why the importance of creating policies like the the latest one about ocean protection treaty or sharing information in a responsible way in social networks to raise awareness among people.

There are many things that we can learn from dinosaurs. Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara says that the past can be our guide for the future. For example, if we are interested in learning about upcycling or repurposing technology, we have to look to the dinosaurs. "Feathers are a marvelous example of exaptation, or the process of acquiring functions for which they were not originally adapted." We even see it today in those species that are still alive and have their origins in the Jurassic era. After all, nature is wise.

Definitely, the visit to the Senckenberg Museum was more an exploration to my interior as a human being and a person, than a walk through a great exhibition. I appreciate being with positive people during this experience. Dinosaurs today are a representation of growth, motivation and support, and represent my safe place. "Life always finds a way" as the character of Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm says. In me, what seemed like a child attraction, ended up becoming a life purpose. After many years, I understood that life found a way to take me to pursue those dreams that as a child sow inside me thanks to the motivation and persistence to know a species that dominated the world for many years and that today has a lot to teach us.