As human beings, we have the need to create goals to achieve in the future. From a very young age we began to dream of different desires that we want to experience at some point in our lives.
In my case, I remember myself at the age of 15, sitting in a classroom during physics class some time ago, while watching the mountains in front of the high school I used to go to. Without paying any attention to the class, I thought about all those things I wanted to achieve. Most of the day I was thinking of traveling the world and doing things that made some sense more than just graduating, getting married and having a big house. As a restless person, I always felt trapped between four walls that I wanted to climb until I saw what was on the other side.
When I started college, I continued with these dreams that kept me awake. Ironical, right?
I studied the subjects of my career with a lot of passion for writing, the main reason for attending classes.
The university environment taught me about how to lose my fear, to learn from mistakes and not to repeat them again. Wonderful time that made me grow more as a person and during which I had the opportunity to meet many people including my current partner. About five years ago during a monotonous daily university life I did not imagine what I am living now.
If anyone had asked me five years ago where I thought I was going to be right now, I would have said something totally far from the current reality. My partner, at that time gave me the opportunity to joy him on a trip that at first, I thought it would just help him.
During the months leading up to the trip to Ireland, my friends said goodbye in a definitive way because they felt it would be the last time we would see each other in a long time, when I was actually leaving the country for a year to enroll in an intensive English course. After leaving my studies and my family, I decided to embark on this trip at the age of 21, with three suitcases full of things and wanting to get ahead thinking that I would return to my country the following year. When I arrived at my destination I was not surprised or impressed, I just felt calm. I felt that I was in a completely new but very familiar place, where each person welcomed me as any other citizen, and specially my host family.
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I arrived to an Irish family house. People who rented out their rooms to students for a limited time with breakfast and dinner included. We decided to pay for the first month while we got somewhere more accessible. As two inexperienced boys we decided to stay longer as we felt very comfortable in that place, whose owners allowed us to stay for 6 months at a lower cost.
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At this point, we were already on our own and depending on our work to continue our day to day, which, in fact, only gave us more strength to move forward.
Jobs in kitchens, butcher shops and cleaning, helped me to continue with my purpose of finishing my studies to improve the language I had decided to study. Course that lasted for three years, during which I learned to manage the language quite fluently.
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During this time, I lived like every happy university student. Where I changed the metro for a bicycle and where I learned to face the day to day with maturity, with a pretty healthy but crazy nightlife, with many friendships that I will keep for a long time and with one or another trip out of Ireland that I will carry in my heart for the rest of my life. But above all with a lot of effort.
After finishing my studies, I decided to embark on my next trip. A plane to the other side of the world was the protagonist of all these memories of experiences and satisfactions, that I can now tell after a few years.
But now I wonder, where will I be in five years?
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