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It was in 2019 when I decided to confront my fear of driving a car. Throughout my college years, I had my license but was unable to drive due to my anxiety about getting into an accident or damaging my parents' car. During those years, I relied on walking or public transportation to get to places. Although my mom would occasionally give me the car keys, I was no longer interested in driving. In my final year of college, however, I found myself needing to move from one place to another much more frequently. Juggling my thesis project left me with very little time, so I decided to change my mindset and take the car out again to practice my driving. First, though, I needed to renew my driver’s license. I remember that day vividly; it was a strange time, as I was about to finish my studies and would graduate just a few weeks later. My sisters were busy with their classes, and my mom was at work. For a brief moment, everything felt right. As I received my license, I reminisced about the...

 This year, I decided to incorporate gym supplements into my plan to recover strength and endurance. Over the past four years, I have exercised regularly, but I didn’t take any supplements, partly because I believed that a good diet was sufficient. What prompted me to change my mind about supplements? It wasn’t just one thing. I started to feel stagnant in my gym progress, and it affected me not only physically but mentally as well. My ability to focus diminished over time. Perhaps this was a result of aging or the fact that my body was transitioning from youth to adulthood.  Additionally, last year, I experienced a severe allergy, the cause of which I still don’t understand. Regardless, I felt that the food I was consuming wasn’t enough, so I decided to start taking vitamins and minerals to help my body recover more quickly from long days. Initially, I experienced some benefits, especially for my skin. However, I still felt as though I wasn't making any progress in the gym o...

Since I graduated, my time perception has changed, it seems like yesterday when I finished my career and was eager to dive deep into adult life.  Since my 25s, I lived many things that made life go incredibly fast.  From the pandemic to witnessing my family grow, jumping to different jobs and saying goodbye to people and pets I thought to be in my life. All these experiences have shaped my life, now I'm a different person when I was 25. Yesterday, it was the 2 birthday of my nephew, I'm still thinking about the day he was born, I was working in a different company, and the pandemic was over, although our economic situation was not so good. Now, things look different, now I'm 30 I have other responsibilities, my family changed, I currently have other work, and I am thinking about exploring different things in life. Although my nephew has grown up with us, it is still amazing seeing him going through his different changes too. We saw him take his first steps, say his first wo...

Another year comes to its end, and the final month of this calendar raises many questions, ambitions, dreams, goals, delusions, and broken hearts. This last year has been one of the most tough and challenging years I have ever lived. From economic and health problems, ups and downs in my professional career, family issues, fake loves, unreliable people, facing the loose of my pets, my nephew's first words. The list is long and the lessons learned through this time have been tremendous. Having to lose my two last dogs has been the hardest thing I have faced in my adult life. I still see them in my home, taking care of us. This year has been a challenging year in my professional career. I could finally land a good job with a healthy environment and a good salary. My family has been through a series of changes. With some members reaching adulthood, the family started to crack and disperse. Now, I am starting to notice the time on some of their faces. It was a year in which I could mai...

After a decade of finishing high school and with the December holidays, my old high school friends and I decided to meet again. It has been a long time since the last time we saw each other; now, all of them are adults with lives and responsibilities. It's curious how time can change us, shape us according to our values and environment, and at the same time how we are practically the same young group that once shared the same place. With most of them, I maintained close friendships, but with some others, time and distance have done their work. It is important to maintain healthy relationships through the years because it gives us a sense of belonging, and it is a reflection of how we were a time ago. Time goes on and being remembered as a good friend is a task I need to reinforce. Meanwhile, I felt old seeing my friends become older. S