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During my life, I made a lot of decisions, for example, leaving football as an option to live my life or music. Those decisions marked my life, and now that I’m old, I'm well older than before because those decisions were made when I was fifteen or 20 years old.

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That’s what I’m saying life is choices, decisions to face, and leading with them. For example, when I was a kid, my father let me play football in a corner with the people he used to play with before. At the age of 10 or 11, my father explained to me... Son, go to the corner and pass the ball. If you have the possibility to shoot, do it. Be careful. As a good boy, I followed all the steps my father gave me. I really liked football, but with the passage of time and normal growth of human beings, I became a really good player, faster, and of course, young. Those two characteristics were the main reason I decided to train football, and my parents supported me with phrases like, Son, if you get good scores at school, I’ll pay for the football training. and my mother is telling me, go ahead, son, choose the academy that you want.

During this period of time, my life was only footballing every week, weekends hearing... Move, motherfucker. I need sacrifice from you. Run faster. No pain, no gain. a lot of old men’s telling me how to play and also yelling at me, a very funny part that in that moment I didn’t understand why they yell at me, but with the time I learned that they were frustrated players and the only reason to feel better was telling the kids how to accomplish their frustrated dreams.

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I hated a lot that someone yelled at me. I didn’t support that, so I tried to avoid listening to those orders, and I tried to do the things that I thought at that moment were the correct things, move like I wanted to do it, hearing in the meantime, hey fool, pass the ball. This kid is really bad. Kid, motherfucker, I’m going to take you off the field. Why did we let him pay with us?

The football environment is cruel a lot, and not only the coach or the other figures of power, but the cruelest people also there were the kids, my partners, hear like, hey, do you think you are Pirlo? Like the famous Italian midfielder only because I moved the ball in some ways or hear I’m going to hit you very badly, I’m going to injure if you don’t pass me the ball. Hahahaha, as a kid, we are very cruel, and I really won’t forget Cubillos and how he hit me only because I didn’t show respect to him. Well, that was in his own words, just avoiding passing him the ball. For that, he hit me a lot and said to me, learn your position, fucking kid. He was a really good player but so pretentious; he believed that he was a big star only because he had expensive football shoes but know I’m taking damn that kid. I really feel shame for him. With that talent, I really play my cards in a different way, but sometimes God gives talent to people that can’t take advantage of it. That’s a shame, but well, this is life.

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At some points, I can’t manage that pressure about my partners, coach, or even my family. I hear a lot of people saying, get out of the field; you are not good at this, or even my father telling me, you did it wrong; you are not good. I don’t know, I think it is very difficult to hear that as a kid when in that moment when you can’t understand the world. Well, I don’t know, I think you need support from your parents. It’s very frustrating today and in those old days. But well, in that moment, that affects me a lot, and I preferred to leave that difficult dream because, at a point in time, I believed that. I thought, Well, maybe I’m not good at all.

It's frustrating. I think that a kid said that, in this case, me as a kid, saying that is too much, and when I needed support, I didn’t find it. It was only frustration that came years later with a lot of retreats, with a developed way of thinking, and now telling me, why do you need to hear that? You can do everything you want, and if I want it, I’ll get it, but well, I can’t go back in time, I guess, and gave this advice to my old child.

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I love my self-remembering of this stage of my life in my young adolescence: how I started to get into music, how I started to hear riffs of Metallica and AC DC, how I started to get depressed with the lyrics of Pearl Jam or Alice by chance, and how I started to learn my first song in guitar, “Wonderwall” by Oasis. With these melodic voices and beautiful music, I started to hear, “Turn off the radio,” “it’s too loud,” “what is that music?” “it’s only screams and no more,” “why can’t you listen to normal music?” What really the people told me was that my family told me that you're free to listen to whatever you want. That made me angry a lot. I requested respect, but to the people, to be honest, it's never important that they say whatever they want to say without any care about whether they can hurt you.

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Full of energy

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Metallica - Creeping Death (Cunning Stunts)

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Alice In Chains - Rooster (From MTV Unplugged)

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But I really don’t care about that. I loved to listen to my music and play my favorite songs on my guitar or electric bass, play with my band, and have fun with music. That was a great experience in my life.

"Boys, you’re going to play English on the school day.”

“Your first presentation will be on Sunday.”

“You didn’t sell the tickets.”

A great time...

Sometimes life is tough and has no mercy on you; you need to make decisions and ask questions like, “Music will give you money to eat” or “Are you good enough to play music?” Do you have money to do that? It’s really expensive.” That question brings you to the real context of life. You need to make decisions. What would you like to do for the rest of your life? The passage of time shows you that sometimes the thing you want to do is not necessary, and sometimes the life shows you the way of the rest of your life and the dreams you had as a child or in adolescence can be left behind.

This decision sometimes had a charge of cruelty because you must leave behind what you like. Sometimes the things that you can give you the life that society wants for you—I mean, a house with children, a wife to share in the family, a car, or a good position in a company—can help you support your family. My father always told me that if you don’t have something at the thirty’s, you'll fail in your life, and now I’m thirty and I’m finishing my degree.

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It’s funny how the people who love and care for you can help you realize how your life is and let you leave behind what you left behind just to fallow a society that sometimes you think you didn’t feel part of. That’s the reason for the title. life is about choices; you need to choose something in this society that lets you support yourself, but sometimes that won’t be something that makes you happy.

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Well, that’s a good answer. Taking into account when I left behind football and music, I started to see other options, like fixing engines just to get the approval of my dad, and to be honest, that sucks a lot. You need something that makes you happy. That’s the reason during this part of my life, learning something that I didn’t want. All days during that period, I played football during that training in my free time after classes or during classes. That shows my commitment to something that I like, not something that I hate.

This passion, well, that two passions, music, and football, were always present in my life, my friends calling me... Dude, the practice is in 30 minutes. Where are you? Hurry up… That word practice or rehearsal gave my life in that moment a lot of sense and happiness. Connecting my bass line, picking up my electric bass, and playing the Four Horsemen of Metallica with my friends was a unique sensation. The speeds, the screams, and the energy in the room were sensations that I remembered with a lot of happiness.

But with the passage of time, you need to make a make a choice, and I chose to leave the music behind and focus my life on drawing and publicity. The graphic design can be the option to do all I want, but it was another mistake in life, something that makes me feel empty and fills me with a lot of doubt about how I do something or if I’m good to do something, the words, or phrases like... I don’t know, this is not working, I’m not understanding, that needs a lot of force, or what is my favorite professor saying, really? That’s your presentation? ... I hated a lot that part of my life, day by day, frustration everywhere, frustration of the day, and so on and so on.

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I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why? Why? Why
Can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?

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Pearl Jam - Black - Acústico - Unplugged - HD

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This life sometimes surprise you a lot and when you feel lost, the life will show you the way to rise up and continue the journey call life, in my case was something that came up, something that I though long time ago during my adolescence, I want to be a teacher, something that left behind in that period of time just because I didn’t have the opportunity to study cause economical aspects, be an adolescence without money is hard, but since I was sixteen I really was so proud of my teachers and they gave me that intention to follow that steps and help the people and transfer knowledge, be able to express and make people have sense of not only academic context but also of life, be part of the change in the society, because for me, be a teachers is a human being in charge of the change of the humanity, a great responsibility, a responsibility that I have a lot of respect and a sense of importance I the society and I desire to be part of it.

Life gives the opportunity to meet again your old dreams and old desires and create a new passion in your life, and as a recommendation, take advantage of that signal in life. After that idea came to my life again after five years, I’m hearing in my ninth semester fighting with the mental and corporal exhaustion but being happy because life is giving me something that I wanted a long time ago.

But sometimes this feeling that you are not doing something with your life comes over and over again in your journey, because sometimes you are only focused on something, in this case, my studies. That is something that is not wrong, but as a recommendation in life, I’m going to give you steps to follow in order to be happier in your life and avoid these choices in life that can be exhausting at some point, some steps to make your life a little easier.

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The soundtrack of my adolescent dreams

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AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top [Official Music Video], Full HD (Remaster, Resync and Upscale)

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Never leave behind the things that make you feel happy and alive, for example: music, sports, family, your love, and so on and so on.

Never procrastinate your dreams or desires; if you want to do something you like, go for it.

Organize your likes and responsibilities. I mean, if you have time to study, also give yourself time to do something you like. With this, you will avoid getting nuts.

If you are good or bad at something, it doesn’t matter; if you like it, just do it.

Responsibilities are very important, but your mental health is important. To stay focused on yourself, it’s important to maintain happiness and motivation in order to face life.

Try to give a lot of importance to your personal time, like your responsibilities.

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During these difficult times, these steps help to improve my mood and how I face every day. Life is not always bad; sometimes it is good; it is a balance of good feelings and bad feelings, but that life faces it without hesitation and the most important thinking, be happy and do whatever you want without hurting someone and advise in life. Also, don’t forget that life is about choices, but try to make sure that the choices that you make are the best for you always.

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Well, this is a little bit of me.

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Follow something that detracts from your life

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Always try to come back to the place you were happy