My name is José, I am 45 years old, I remember how complicated my life was when I was young, I come from a poor family, many times my brother Pablo and I could see how our parents sacrificed themselves to give us food. So Pablo and I promised ourselves that when we were old enough to work, but without giving up our studies, we would help our parents to have everything they needed.
Several years later, when Pablo reached the age of 18, he started to work, I was only one year away from being able to work, Pablo worked part time and was studying administration and I was studying computer science, we were studying at the same university, I started to see how Pablo gave my parents the whole salary and they did not want to accept it, so Pablo and I started to convince them to take it because we did not want them to go hungry to feed us, my father and my mother burst into tears and told us.
Parents says: Children, the duty of a parent is to see that their children do not lack a roof over their heads where they can sleep safely, that they are adequately fed, receive a very good education and have very good health.
Pablo and I, when our parents told us those words, we cried and we could understand all the sacrifices they made for us to be well, for Pablo and me they are our light, without the guidance of our parents who knows what would have happened to us.
Several years later, Pablo graduates with a degree in administration, that day we are all happy for my dear and beloved brother Pablo, we are very proud of him, the following week he gets a job as an administrator and the following year I graduated as a computer engineer, but I could not get a job as fast as my brother, but while I was in that situation I started to program a sales system, it took me about 10 months to finish, but it took me a lot to do it, after a week I managed to rent the sales system to a national supermarket.
Pablo, our parents and I, we lived in darkness because of poverty and after so many efforts we managed to come out into the light and we began to see the fruit of the sacrifices that we all went through and after that our parents and we came out of that poverty, we set up a small grocery store and my father was the one who ran it, my brother Pablo and I raised some money and we decided to give them a house as a gift.
The day Pablo and I gave him the keys to the new house, we all cried, but with happiness, we felt how God touched us with his light and how our life improved.
Currently, my parents are still alive and still running the grocery store, many times Pablo and I have told him to put a trusted employee to run the store, but they don't want to do it, Pablo is married to a brunette named Vanessa and they have 2 children who are college graduates and also married young, I am also married to a beautiful woman named Ruth and we have 4 children, 3 of them are college graduates and the last one is only 1 year away from graduating.
You know whenever my sons and daughters are at the lunch table I tell them the same story over and over again, they just smile and tell me that they know the story by heart, my 4 children always show Ruth and me how much they love us and how important we are in their lives and we show them that too. I always remember those words they said to Pablo and me.
"Children, a parent's duty is to see to it that their children do not lack a roof over their heads where they can sleep safely, that they are properly fed, that they receive a very good education and that they have very good health."
Thanks to them I am a good man and a good father, all because of the sacrifice they had to make, you can't imagine how much I love them both and I love my brother Pablo too and I know he feels the same way I do.
Well dear friend Luis, that is the story of my life and what made me the man and the father that I am. Thank you for reading this letter, I appreciate your doing so. Goodbye and God bless you and your family too.
All the drawings presented in this post, are of my own authorship, they are elaborated with the paint program.
