GUUUUUUUUUUUYS something amazing happened to me and I need to share it with all you because this was so important to me.
When I was in senior year I decided to study all about hair, nails, etc.. So yes I'm a professional hair stylist. I have my "degree" and all. But that was always like a hobby to me, I just wanted to learn, that's all because I love learning, learning is the most amazing thing ever. Actually my hobby is learning, I took several courses of everything just for fun, because learning is fun. So i know how to do a lot of things. And actually I would like to study physics just for fun, because physics is fun and I want to learn how everything works, and get answers haha. But anyway, my real passion is politics, I study political sciences, its my passion. I could read/listen/speak/write about politics 24/7. My mom always told me: You must go to college, if you want to be somebody in you life you need a degree. And that was a lot of pressure to me, since I'm sick and I can't study, I'm almost 23 and haven't finished my degree, most of my friends are already graduated, and everybody in my life told me that i HAVE to go to school, even if i want it or no. And yes I want to study, but it gives me anxiety, and sometimes I feel like I won't make it.
What I really want to tell you is that this monday I'm officially opening my online store, this is a dream come true -well the real dream y to have a HUGE store, my own, with a salon- of beauty products, hair dye, hair care, etc.. And I'm SO EXCITED. I've been working so hard, doing calls, going here and there, running, working until 2:00 am etc.. Because this is something that i really want today talking with my mom about it she suddenly stop talking and told me: "Are you sure you want to study political sciences? Are you sure thats what makes you happy? Or all this beauty stuff is what actually you like?" and before i could say something she said: "I just realize that you don't need a degree in your life, you don't need to go to college for being successful, you just need to do what you love, i wont force you to do something you don't like, if you don't want to go to college is okay -she already paid about 3000 dollars for this semester- it's okay. I just want you to be happy and do what you want. After that I was in tears, because YES i want to go to college, is a huge privilege for me to be able to attempt to a private school in colombia, i'm so lucky to being able to study what I actually like, and having the support of my parents, but hearing my mom saying that was the best thing ever. Because most of the parents can't understand this, they force their child to study get debts just for a social construction, and all the impression that I felt is gone and I've met a lot of people who tell me: "I didn't wanted to study that, I actually wanted to be .... or my passion actually is....but i went to college just for my parents to make them happy" or "I study a entire career, but soon as i graduate, i opened a store, i quit to all and start to travel around the world, now i'm doing totally different, etc.." and I was so afraid of being one of those people, i was so worry to fail, to one day realize that i was sit there just because i was "obligated" to. But now i feel free and so thankful with my mom, because it means that i make a change in my family, seems something little, but i teach my parents that success is not money, a degree or a family, being success, is being happy with what you do, is feeling love for your life, your work. And it could me being idk an astronaut, a biologist or just a farmer or just cook empanadas and tamales. Now I know that from now, anybody in my family is going to be forced to go to college and get a degree just because that is what "successful" means in our society, even if it makes them miserable. I'm so happy and I wish you all someday can feel like me. I will open my store, I will work hard or that but I will also study political sciences and work with that too.
