My happiness = Your sadness
A young man of 20 years full of dreams, he saw how all his childhood friends left the village where they shared their childhood, to begin a new stage in their lives and to realize their goals, he did not want to be left behind, so he decided to prepare and start to look for a lease in the great city of Madrid, also from his village he was able to specify a job that would allow him to study a career at night and thus become a successful psychologist. When the time came and with everything established, he went to his mother's house, an elderly woman of almost 60 years, to tell him about his new plans, but he could not do it, he decided not to tell her anything because his mother did not have a husband to do it company and remembered how sad it had become after his daughter, the older sister of the young man left the house to seek a new life.
Echo everything back and promised himself never tell anything to his mother on the subject, did not want to make her feel guilty for being the reason to keep him tied to that town, so he had to take other roads, moved to a particular room , a few streets from his mother's house and started working as a mechanic in a car workshop.
At age 30, after a day of work, with a friend decided to go to the bar in town, to his surprise that day at the bar was sitting the most beautiful woman they had seen in his life, the left arrowed by she told herself that she had to be the woman of her life, but she did not notice something, her companion also thought the same thing, both began to argue about which of the two should invite her to leave, the So young, 30 years old, he let his friend win, because he knew him quite well and he knew that he was going through a bad time because his old girlfriend had left him for another and that made him depressed, the friend thanked him and went to talk with the woman, I manage to go out with her several times, and after 2 years she married her, together they moved to the city, meanwhile our protagonist was left alone, but something happy for the friend.
On the eve of his 40 years, his mother becomes seriously ill and dies at age 79, as the woman's last will leaves a will so that her house can be transferred to him and his sister, although she was very sad and with a heart broken by the departure of the most important person in his life, the man could have a reason to smile a little, could stop living rented and go to live in his mother's house or sell it, to have a good money with which He could invest it in a smaller house or maybe create a business in the village, but none of this happened, his sister was going through a very bad financial time, so they both decided to sell the house, but the man wanted to give him his share of the sale, telling her that she could pay him when she could, knowing that she missed a nice opportunity to be better, convinced himself that she could be comfortable with much less.
One day after completing the sale of the home, he had to go to his mother's house to get some personal belongings from her that were still there, and he had to clean it for the new owner, he went up to his mother's room, while he was reviewing a table At night in his room, he realized that there was a letter addressed to him, I miss him very much, he thought his mother was going to give it to him before but he could not do it, he took it and opened it to read it, a feeling of sadness full his body and his tears fell on her.
The mother's letter did not say much, just a few words.
"Dear David, you are a great son and a better person, but never let the sadness of others contain you to live your own happiness"