I´ll introduce myself. I´ve always liked meeting people. My mom
decided she wanted to spend with me my first years of life, and did not want to
take me to a kindergarten until I was about 4 years old. But around the age of
2, I felt it was time for me to meet other children, and as she told me, I
asked her very firmly to take me to a kindergarten. My demand seemed sweet and
funny to her, but she just left it like that, and stuck to her plan. But
apparently this 2 year old girl was very sure of what she wanted, and one day,
walking to the park, she ran off into a kindergarten. That day my mom
understood that I had a social need and that beyond her desire, being part of a
community of peers, was vital for me.
A school and a high school later, I faced the moment many
young people do: decide what to study. I had always been good at math, physics,
chemistry, but felt that a career in any of these areas would not fulfill
"something ", a something I still cannot explain yet.
I ended up studying communication. At that time it seemed
crazy to "waste" my scientific capabilities and study something that even
took me up at first. But at this point in my life it does not seem like such a casual
choice.
I graduated at the age of 24, I was in a stable relationship
and had a good job. My life was “on track”. I worked tirelessly for 5 years, I was
promoted to good job positions before I was 30, but was working an average of
11 hours per day, more than two years without taking a vacation, I got
gastritis, and the worse thing was that I spent years in which my day consisted
in being in front of a computer. Me, that same girl that ran toward others.
Something happened between that child that knew her needs so
well, who above all loved the interaction with others, and the alienated adult that
spent 12 hours a day at a computer.
Today I am traveling around the world, and walking a path of
self-knowledge, analysis of different life choices, comparing the life that I
once saw as obvious, understanding that it is one of many options, only that
did not know or did not consider these options as such.
