Hi everyone,
And welcome to my ‘blog’. I have no idea of who exactly will read these pages, but being polite won’t hurt anyone.
A few days ago I turned 27 and though I’ve never really cared for birthdays and the significance some people tend to give to this so-called special day I realized that an important period of my life is coming to an end.
In September ‘96, I started University (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine) and now I am about to graduate, finally. It has been a long road and I don’t regret any of the moments I passed through. I even thought at giving up during year #2. This is a quite long story and maybe I will write about it in some other post. But eventually, I think I had been stubborn enough to keep trying to make things happen the way I hoped them to do. I learnt that most of the times unexpected obstacles are hints in disguise.
Three years ago, a friend of mines, Kevin, told me that I made him think of a poem by Robert Frost. I had never read anything from Frost before so I was curious. The poem is The Road Less Traveled, Robert Frost, and it has become my motto in a certain way. That summer, I made peace with all the worries that crowded my mind and heart, and became aware that nothing is perfect, of this we can be sure, but we shouldn’t let side-events distract us or take away our dreams and hopes. It takes time to get what we want and it is also true that we can’t always get what we want (thanks, Mick Jagger & co.) but, we’ll never know what’s behind the corner if we don’t make a few steps forward.
The stupid thing is that now that I’m about to get what I so hard worked for in these last years, I’m astonished and can’t believe it. People from the outside still see me as the same strong and calm person but the truth is that sometimes I wouldn’t want to be strong, calm, patient, hard worker, etc. etc. I would like to be a kid again, with no worries. Or a lot older, with my ‘routine’ all set up. Now I’m stuck in the middle, keeping all doors open, in case the big plan needed some adjustments. Main plans always need adjustments once in a while.
Someday I will have to thank a few people for what they have done or simply for being part of my life as a friend, a lover or a family member. We often feel like we are alone in this world, no matter what. But it might only be that we don’t see the good that is around until we lose it.
I think I wrote enough this time. If my words sound like a bunch of messy sentences posted at random, it might really be this way. I will try and be less cryptic in my next posts.