Discovering the value of your past to trace your future
There are times in life when you feel compelled to reflect and this is one of such times for me. As any of you, I have been immersed is the big arena called LIFE, a daily present that we take for granted and often forget that we have in our hands and it’s only temporary.
“ For many years I collected lots of stories, memories, attainments and a whole bunch of new beginnings… life was always full of choices, expectations and developments that came along with the unswerving process of growing up.”
As a child I had the most fantasist mind that would create all sorts of stories where the characters were abandoned children seeking to survive in the jungle and finding joy in the company of animals.
Eventually the story had unexpected turns such as running into an adventure that normally would end with finding a treasure that allowed the children to live happily ever after in complete harmony with nature and bringing other neglected people to join this world where fantasy met reality and all dreams came true.
I wish that mom and dad had kept such memories of my early writings which were spelled in colorful letters that decorated the ordinary school notebook that I used as my pad to write.
Then I grew up and off to school and then teenage years which kept me busy with other things like trying to understand where all those fantasies went and why I had to change into a woman with all the anatomical processes involved which became quite a challenge for me, not to mention the fact that it made me feel that I did not fit in the world of the children nor I could enter the adult life just yet… there were so many missing parts!
By the end of my senior year, I came to the United States as an exchange student following the guidelines of my parents whom thought learning English was the best thing to do after graduation and to have an experience overseas in a different culture before heading out to college. I must say I’m forever grateful for my parents pushing the button to make it happen. It was truly a game changer for me.
Having the opportunity to live in different countries, learning other languages and being confronted with new cultures has been the clue to discover the adventurous explorer that was lying dormant inside myself, the same one I could feel pushing through the colorful stories that I wrote as a child.
