🗽Hope

"Write about what gives you hope."

Hope. That invisible thing everyone tries to find everywhere they go. That sweet feeling of energy and passion we obtain doing what we love and that bitter taste we experience when something we devoted for goes wrong. Even though it has several synonyms—ambition, expectation, and desire—the sentiment is the same, keep looking forward with faith. 

    Now, the main question is, What gives me hope nowadays? I would say there are two main things to address and understand. However, before starting, it is worth mentioning that I will take you through several environments and atmospheres in as few words as possible—as a future astronaut and passionate reader.

Are you ready? Without further ado, let us begin.

    First, throughout the last couple of years, I have read several stories that have taken me through the weirdest and most dangerous places on earth. For instance, I have traveled the entire world in less than 79 days, gone to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to support Checo Perez, and fought against Francisco Pizarro to save our land in Peru. Besides, some peasants have shown me how to differentiate Robusta beans from Arabica during harvest in Ethiopia. Throughout the first Mongol invasion in Japan, my brother and I ran away from Tsushima Island back in 1274, walked alongside Nelson and Winnie Mandela when he left jail after 27 years of political imprisonment and cried when my namesake —Caesar—burned The Great Library of Alexandria. 

    Second, I adopted the central message of one of my favorite motivational books: "A veces se gana, a veces se aprende." Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn. But how did a 200-page book shape the whole way I feel and treat the world surrounding me? The answer is simple. The examples the author gives, combined with the events I lived in other stories, gave me more sensibility about time and made me realize I am not eternal nor perfect. 

    From my 20-year-old perspective, Hope is that parachute you carry when jumping from a plane. Hope is the person you find in the corner; in your work; in the match; looking and waiting for you to act. Or that small book you had in your hand a moment ago made you smile and discover something unusual.

    I fully understood it is okay to make mistakes. It is okay to acknowledge you do not know everything, and it is okay to fight for what you believe is correct. 

    I am very thankful—thanks to my parents—that the words Humankind and society evoke on me several reactions. And patience, humility, and kindness are the words that get to me first. As a limited-time-on-earth guy, I have been and will devote my life to teaching and helping others along the way. This adopted attitude has allowed me—even in the middle of a pandemic—to answer, "YES." when the circumstances have asked me whether I had what it takes to accomplish a test.

    Well, with nothing more to say, I will finish my coffee and start acting all over again, because the world, as J. R. R. Tolkien once said: "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."