Invest in your most important active: Your values

(you can find this article in spanish here)

More years ago than I can remember, I finished my computer engineering degree at my city’s university. It was a hard time, with subjects I had to compatibilize with some part-time job.

When I got to realize, time went by quickly and I started to experience all of those ambitions and needs of the middle class of my country: a house, kids, etc., which is not less and, in fact, I feel very lucky to have had a comfortable and solvent life and I expect to maintain in the future.

As I write, I hear an overwhelming silence in the apartment where I live, the rumor of a distant car barely reminds me I am in an inhabited place. I can see the shadows of a giant oak I like to stare at every time I go out, moving in front of the terrace. All of this was already here two years ago when I knew nothing about this apartment, or this terrace or this leafy oak. And what changed to make me come here or would took me to a similar place but it would have been different from that other life anyway? Now I know. I have only learned to meet, value and be loyal to my values set that I simply did not know nor respect before.