Bags and Wings

Summer vacation is almost over, school is about to start in less than two days, and now is the time to start over, to take another step into the future.  Of course the end of vacation is sad for kids, but I always tell them if they want to finish College they have to walk all the way, there is no shortcuts, simple as that! And that though made me think about how our choices affects our future forever! Our life choices determine who we will be, where we will be and how we will be. We need to be alert, we need full fill our minds wisely, use our time in the best way and work hard to accomplish our goals, yes goals, not dreams. Dreams are for the dreamers, goals are for the ones who wake up everyday and go for it! We can't expect to get what we wish for, we only can expect what we work for it, another " simple as that"! In the planet Venezuela we see and heard so much about how people managed to survive the economical crises. The Country is suffering so much, there is a...

Suddenly something came to my mind so I had to write this post. I was thinking about how our perspective changes with time, with facts and with experiences.  Three and half years ago I arrived in planet Venezuela with low expectations, and with one thought : "I'll be here for just one year, that's it". That's was what I thought! But, why did I arrived here thinking like that? Why did I judge the place without knowledge and experiences? Why? Because we are human beings! We tend to not accept what we don't understand and criticize what we don't know! Anyways, time and experiences are factors to help us in our process of transformation,they help us realize how little we know, how closed we can be sometimes! This month the planet Venezuela is facing a wake up call, facing thousands of brave people asking for peace, true, progress, etc...and here I am watching and thinking about what this country offered me in almost 4 years, a foreigner, what I have learned...