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New Year, new challenges

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...

High school friendships

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