This is a topic that tells me a lot. Sometimes in our lives we go through so many difficulties that it is often difficult to overcome and stay positive.
But the strength has to come from within, it has to come from our soul, from our will to our ambition. Overcoming obstacles is part of life, whether obstacles appear sooner or later.
Often these obstacles that life puts us make us grow as people and as human beings.
We learn to value things that we thought were unimportant, it makes us see other perspectives and, above all, it makes us believe in ourselves.
We usually say that time is a good adviser and that it heals all this is true time often helps to overcome obstacles but for that there has to be patience, strength and a spirit of sacrifice and everything and everyone can get where we want.
I could in my life tell so many true stories of difficulties that I am proud to overcome, but I chose one in particular.
This story has to do with my transition from school to the world of work and especially enlisting in my country's army.
I was a good student I never failed in school I managed to get through the twelfth grade with good grades and I was proud that in my class I was the only one passing the national school exams for the first time.
But it wasn't easy I had to fight hard to get it but I had one good thing I had a good memory and I memorized it and that meant I didn't need a lot of study to get it.
But school was over, I didn't want to go to university, my parents worked hard to give me my studies and the money wasn't much.
I had to make a decision.
I still remember like it was yesterday that I went with my father to a job center where there are several job offers for many areas and I remember not seeing anything that seduced me.
I started looking and looking and saw a sign that said to enlist in the army and pursue a military career.
I looked at my father and said I already knew what I was going to do and he asked me what it was and I said I was going to the army.
He didn't want to believe it, he never thought I would choose this because it was difficult and involved a lot of effort and being deprived of many things for a long time, but I said that's what I wanted and he was convinced. I still remember a letter I received to introduce myself to the recruit, I remember having my hair shaved and I remember my father taking me to the army barracks with tears in his eyes and our farewell at the door of the army barracks.
I thought of so many things at that moment, but I never hesitated and went ahead when they called us.
When I entered the army barracks I started to see a different world than I was used to, rules everywhere, little time to do things and above all we were on the physical and mental limit.
It was difficult I confess that I saw many after a few hours of having entered the army barracks leaving and saying that they were leaving because in my country the troop is not mandatory.
I've had this desire so many times, so many times rolling in the mud raining in the middle of crawling through so many things that our body tells us to give up, but our mind has to be focused on what we want.
Many times we saw those who gave up already dressed in plain clothes and we thought we were with them and leaving, but my parents also helped and supported me.
In the army I learned to overcome difficulties, I learned to live with little, I learned to go without food and drink only water for a long time.
Above all, we learn a spirit of camaraderie and helping others. To help our companion on the side when he is in difficulties and to value the little things in life like eating, drinking, among many things.
At the end of the recruitment I remember seeing my parents crying with joy I had succeeded many had given up, it had come to an end.
At this moment, the feeling of duty, pride for having achieved it and nostalgia also invade us, at this moment we feel that we have achieved it and above all we have achieved it because our mind dictates, our willpower and our sacrifice.