DIEGO VALLE

As events have lately followed their course, I wouldn’t have expected myself to be where I am sitting now every day from 10 to 8. It’s been a long journey, but things have more and more seemed to fall in the right place as time goes by.

I wasn’t expecting this much out of life, I wasn’t expecting any of this only a few months ago. Through a conversation today I realized that even though several months have passed from the last time I had taken a walk through Tetracenter, showed a badge or even had to wear some “business-casual” pants; it doesn’t really seem that long ago when I was still answering the phones at the latest hour of the night. Lucky, I might call myself. If you are familiar with the circumstances you might understand why. But here I am again in what seems to be the last step to get everything back on track after thinking every single little thing that made sense was gone.

Things change, they change fast. But they are expected to somehow make you grow, even after facing the worst-case scenario …over and over again. Now this chair I sit at is where I thought I was going back then, and I took off this road (even though with what some have called “valid reasons”) but I have come to vindicate myself from all the ghosts that haunted every wrong decision made before. Leave the past behind, enjoy today.

In a few days the “Fight off your demons” tattoo on my thigh will be complete. As if planned, my actual first Technical Writer check will pay for it. Now this is not even close to be the end. Now this is not even close to be the last time I don’t give up. The last time I rearrange a mess made (what some of you might know, has been a familiar circumstance lately). Now this is only one adding piece of proof to the already large roster of evidence I had to come up with to realize that you can do anything you set yourself for. No matter how badly you have failed before; if you honestly believe in yourself, you can make amends and make things right again.