When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

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Travelling back in time, some sixty years ago, to try to describe in detail my dreams of what I wanted to be when I grew up, is a difficult task for a man of my age. I remember first the group games we played, one of them being doctor. One of those mischievous days, I changed the water in the dropper and added alcohol, so when I put a drop in my cousin's eye, you can imagine the commotion.

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I played teacher a lot. I immersed myself in science books and when I was in fourth grade, I perfectly visualised myself as a systems engineering student at the Central University of Venezuela. I achieved that dream, but I was only able to keep it up for two semesters, then I graduated in Pure Mathematics, with a specialisation in Numerical Analysis.

But as a child, I wanted to be the captain of an aircraft, to fly through the skies. In my imagination, I travelled countless times, but that dream could never have come true because of my visual impairment. I ended up becoming my passion... a teacher.

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When I was eleven, my classmates—perhaps out of affection or mockery—called me a walking library, others called me a bookworm... But the nickname that stuck for many years, even into adulthood, was Mister Magoo—you know why.

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The Silver Bloggers Chronicles #22

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Dedicated to all those writers who contribute, day by day, to making our planet a better world.

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