In life you win and you lose. It is a matter of luck or bad or good decisions. I had been thinking about writing about it for a long time but I thank Galenkp for suggesting this topic which was perfect to participate and to tell you how in a moment you have to decide to lose to gain more than what you lose.
I studied hard in a strange country for five years, I was hit by the cold, the language, and being away from my parents, my sisters, and the man I had fallen in love with, they were very hard years and my dream was to return to my country and be a successful person to be able to exercise my career in an important institution. I started working at the Foreign Trade Credit Bank in Havana, which served the country's export and import companies.
My performance gave me the possibility to be assigned to three of the best companies in the Cuban economy, which gave me the possibility to travel inside and outside our country. I felt that my life had changed, I felt fulfilled at work but not in my personal and family life. I was working in the capital Havana, I was living in another province and I was beginning to neglect my husband and my little daughter who was being looked after by my parents. I did not want to lose my husband because we had been separated for many years and we loved each other very much.
On several occasions he had suggested that I leave my job and stabilise our life, he had been promised a flat on the condition that we unite our family. This was another of our great dreams, to live together with our daughter and have our own home.
I gave up everything, everything I had dreamed of, even the possibility of not practising what I had studied, travel and prestige, but I won, a house, to unite the family and to top it all, to have another daughter. A new job in the same banking institution serving national companies.
If I had decided to continue working, I don't think I would be as happy as I am today.
Life is capricious, today I have the possibility of living in Havana and my decision is not to abandon what has taken me so many years of work and effort.
Curiously, my youngest daughter has always reproached me for having left the job that represented my career in Havana and my fulfilment. To which I always reply, daughter, you wouldn't have been born.
I lost, yes, but I gained more, it was a great life experience.
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