He is the light of my life.

I am young, how do I know what profession to choose when the day comes? I don't know, maybe I will take the profession for which my father has been giving me the title since I was a little girl...

My father, who is already in the kingdom of God, was in the habit of saying that I was going to be a nurse, because I always woke up at 5 a.m, he also woke up at that time to go to work as a driver of his passenger car.

I think little by little that idea was forming in my mind. Then came my older brother, he is also in the kingdom of God, the coolest thing is that he gave me my first book. It was allusive to the first nurse there was, Florence Nightingale.

I don't know what it has to do with the fact that my father instilled that thought in me and my brother ended up rooting it in me and I ended up going down that path. Reading that woman and what she did for the sick motivated me to keep encouraging myself to take that profession.

But then I got to the age where I wanted to do these studies and I ran into my father's opposition, he used to tell me that I would be a nurse, but as a joke. He never liked that profession, every day and as long as he could speak ill of nurses, he did. But I had already made up my mind and I started to collect all my documents to start my studies as a professional nurse when I finished my third year in high school.

The power of suggestion. I don't have any family members in the health field but I felt strongly motivated to do what my heart wanted, to help people get better in their illnesses.

From there began my odyssey to always keep searching for more knowledge, you should know that I didn’t want to continue studying at the university. What I wanted was to earn money to become independent and get out of the bad economic situation we had at home.

But over the years I began to have another thought, I wanted to continue studying to get to know the basis of diseases. I wanted to know how doctors could give these indications to patients just by doing a physical examination and how they managed to be so orderly in the evolution of the hospitalized patient's disease.

And from there began my second odyssey in the pursuit of the title for my second profession.

But the point of telling you this story, besides telling you another point later on, is because I want to say that I did my studies with my own money. My country was in a different situation and everyone who worked could have money and I was very hardworking for that. I paid for both my professions.

I was born in a low-income family with 5 other siblings. All of my siblings struggled to get ahead and I can proudly say that we all made it, but in a country of possibilities.

Although I was not a wealthy woman I was able to obtain many assets.  I bought my car, my apartment, I had jewelry, I bought gold, handbags, shoes, clothes. Everything I wanted I could buy because I was dedicated to my profession and I worked continuously for days at a time.

Then I bought my second car, I gave the first one away, and as time went by, things began to change.

The government system changed and it seemed that everything was against those of us who struggled to have a better standard of living than we had in our early years.

I began to sell many of my clothes in order to pay for my family's expenses. It was my son and me, little by little I sold everything that was clothing and I was able to pay for my son's college expenses. I sold my car to buy my ultrasound equipment and as things changed a lot more, I could not buy another car, but the time and money to buy one will come soon enough.

What I do want to say is that things have changed and much more. I am still a professional who studies all the time, who tries to give her best to the patients who come to her office. I am no longer a woman with a lot, but with what is necessary, but I am not a poor woman. I have everything we need.

I have a roof over my head, my job and my son's job. I have my plants for sale, I have my life on the platforms, but what I consider most important of all is that now, even though I don't have the apartment, the car, the jewelry or many of my material goods that I had before this economic situation in my country, I consider myself a very lucky woman.

Because I have peace of mind, I have peace in my heart, I have my son with me. The pandemic did not affect my life because it is part of the disaster of life that we already had in my country, but I am still lucky. I fight every day of my life from my home and I am happy. I have gone through illnesses and I have given them to God who has given me back my health. I believe I will continue to work all my life until the day God calls me.

For my life is pleased with what a sister of my holy church, St. Teresa of Avila, says....

Let nothing disturb you,

Let nothing frighten you,

All things pass away,

God does not change,

Patience achieves all things,

He who has God lacks nothing,

God alone is enough.

Reading this from the first time I read it, I felt so identified and now my life goes without eagerness. Each day brings its own eagerness, says the word, so why live in agony.

Let's live the day to day with all its difficulties because every day there will be difficulties but it depends on us how we face it and from there it will be our peace or our agony.

Thank you to my dear readers and sponsors for reading my publications, hoping that they will be of some use in your lives, as they have served me until today.