"Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve much."
-Robert F. Kennedy
Many times you think you are sure of something in life, you start down that path, because you want to try, even if it is very difficult. And the important thing is to have tried.
When I was 17 years old, I was sure of my future. Of course I still had a lot to learn in life. But at that age you think you know everything.
Despite how difficult I was told it would be, despite my shy, withdrawn, serious and almost anti-social personality at the time, I decided to study law.
I was very good at studying, I never lacked perseverance, I think I've had it since I was born. But what I didn't know was that this was not enough.
My perseverance and patience were infinite, I dedicated all the hours of the day to study, but I had entered a world of which I did not know many things.
Within the career where there should be more justice, I saw endless injustices, preferences and favouritism. There was no evaluation of what was really important.
I saw too many ugly things and I felt I was fighting against the tide.
It was six years of study, plus internships. Law had arrived in my city that same year and was being structured little by little.
But being in the middle of it all, I suffered a lot, I cried so much about the injustices, the mistreatment and so on.
One day someone said to me: "You are very good for this career. And at that moment I said to myself... but what is he saying to me?
I kept fighting and trying, I had promised myself, but in the process I was destroying myself. Not because of how difficult it might be, but because that environment... I realised that I didn't belong there.
On a field trip as part of the Navigation course, a very good, sincere and lawful teacher told us: Until now the race was purgatory, now students, hell begins. These were his exact words. I was in my fourth year.
Literally the last time everything was torture.
I don't know if I gave up, I think what I did was to learn and change course.
One day in a class a teacher said: Whoever doesn't know computer science is illiterate.
That sentence alone hit me, I felt like a slap in the face, a hard blow that said: Wake up!
And I woke up!
I enrolled in some vocational training courses on computer science and there a teacher told me: I want to see you next year in the graphic design course. That changed my life forever and I'm glad it did.
I didn't lose, I gained a lot.
Maybe many people think that I lost the opportunity to earn a lot of money, and to have a life without needs, but I would not have been happy and in the long run my life would have been bitter.
I don't regret ever giving up because I don't think I did. I tried, and in the attempt life told me: The way is not this way.
Another door opened for me where I love what I do, even if I am not a millionaire, and where I have met wonderful people along the way from whom I have also learned.
Isn't that what life is all about?
I was stubborn, I didn't listen to the signs of life that often told me, that's not for you. But in the end I listened to them for good.
Life always gives these signs and if you are attentive you will know how to see them. What you do next is up to you.
If I hadn't tried I wouldn't be where I am, every step leads to progress.
Thank you very much @galenkp for these excellent topics proposed for this weekend.
I wish you all a wonderful time and I'll see you next time.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
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