LA RAZA VALIENTE

PROLOGUE

Disclaimer : Translation might not be 100% right This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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"The most important journey of our lives doesn't necessarily involve climbing the highest peak or trekking around the world. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams" –Oprah Winfrey

Do I really know what I want to do? Or am I just being threatened by the people surrounding me?

Burden, worthless and stupid. Those words are like music to my ears that I always hear from the people around me.

Do I really know my purpose in this world? What if they wouldn't accept me for who I am? Every night, every day, I keep on telling myself to do everything I could, because I think that is the only way for them to recognize me as a person.

Pressure, anxiety and fear are wrapping me like a gift, they keep running on my mind everywhere I go, but one thing is for sure. At the end of the day, I won't let myself lose the spotlight that makes me shine.

They say that if you want something, you need to work hard to achieve it. But what if that thing is also the reason of your downfall? What if you are not even cognitive about the effects on it to you?

Sometimes I just wonder what if I become the person that I have always wanted to be? But I am always hesitant because I care, I love and I'm afraid of being neglected and marginalized by the people that I love the most.

What about my own happiness? Am I still happy? Am I still at my comfort zone? Or am I just pretending to be an image of joy and passion?

My mind has been bombarded recently by a lot of things and until now, those questions are like suspects in my own crime scene. No one knows who the mastermind is.

If I was to compare my life to an object, I think that the best representation of it is a roller coaster. There are so many riffs and runs and the only thing you can do is to shout and scream until it stops.

It would be such relief if I came out from this cocoon that keeps me enclosed and quiet. I want to amplify my voice and say what I wanted to. But I can't.

I want them to see and witness the metamorphosis of a struggling caterpillar transform in a glowing beautiful butterfly. But I can't

What the hell am I going to do? I want to eradicate the mindset of being perfect and sophisticated person. I want to change the perception of gender-based society.

Acceptance starts from within, but how will you find it if you are being colonized by your own demons? How can you accept other people if you are not true to yourself?

If you have a dream or an ambition and it's so high up, you don't need to push yourself especially if you can't. Just do it wholeheartedly and the rest will follow. One day you're going to look at your feet and you'll be at your destination.

In our life we are nothing, but god calls us to have everything and that's the very reason why we should not let bad things attack our mind.

Through my existence here on earth, I realized that I am not the only one experiencing the same way of being silenced by fear.