Is future that big of a deal?…I dare to say so

**I'll start by posting an old writing.  The following is the first of eight parts of an essay that Chiquitita wrote when she was 19 years old.**

          “Our path is the one that looks like the most to our dreams, to our reality, to our truth”…this anonymous quote gives us the way for finding our path in life: by discovering who we truly are, by searching within ourselves to find what we want and can do.  I was recently forced to “think ahead”, to foresee how do I see myself four years from now.  That’s something constantly asked to business students; to think ahead of time, to be in the present but live the future, to plan for the years to come, to be careful when it comes to making decisions that will or might affect the rest of their lives.  A friend of mine once told me that Life hands us a set of cards; they might be full of queens, kings, Aces or just plain numbers.  In other words, you can be handed plenty or little gifts, weaknesses and strengths… And I can’t help but wonder what kind of cards it handed me, but in order to find that out I have to be honest and look inside myself. Only then will I be capable to say out loud, without regretting it, all my dreams, my fears, my aspirations, my faith…so world be prepared for here I come!  And although I’m still “under construction”, my mind is already made up, God’s plan with me is been carried out.  I’ll “grow” to be what society wants me to be and needs: a woman who’s responsible, and willing to work and fight for what she believes in. 

          I plan to evolve in the business world as a programmer or some kind of mathematician and later on become a professor, either way I’ll give it my best shot.  I know it will not be easy, but I know that my skills, faith and aspirations will help me overcome any obstacles that I might face.  My communication skills will help me face proposals, memorandums, letters etc.   For other situations, my mathematical skills will help me carry out effective analysis.  I also master both English and Spanish, but I can only identify with one culture.  Hence I might face intercultural communication problems.  Interest and hobbies will also help.  But, what will I will tell a Red Sox fan when he or she starts insulting my Yanks? Or how a Jew will feel by working with a catholic? And what if I face a Harvard PhD in philosophy, what will happen when he starts talking about Seneca and I start talking about theorems? …Who knows?

         A kid from the past, the young woman from the present, a Mrs. of the future…The kid is gone, the young woman is in process, but what should we expect from the Mrs. of the future?  Probably a great mom, or at least one that tries to be one, who’ll try to cooperate with society by providing the world terrific citizens, citizens with the desire to do what “the kid” and “the young woman” once tried: be helpful, be happy, and most of all be worth it.