I returned home with my teacher's question still hovering in my head: "What do you want for your future?" And with the sheet of paper that older man had given me, kept in the pocket of my coat. After leaving my backpack in the chair of my desk, I let my body collapse on the sheets of my bed with all its weight, messing up the bed in an instant.

I looked at the ceiling thinking about what could be on the sheet of paper that, until now, I had not dared to unfold to read it. I wanted to read it, but I had not managed to calm my mind in the park as Mr. Andres had asked me. I knew it must be something important and profound like the words I had dedicated to me in the park.

I thought for a moment more about our conversation, and I remembered the question I was most curious about: Have you ever wondered why you are doing each day? That question confused me, but at the same time it gave me the impression that it was the key to what the older man was trying to tell me, even though I could not understand what he was trying to explain. I breathed deeply, counted to ten, and finally took the sheet of paper in my hands to read it. The unfolding as I noticed the somewhat crooked but legible handwriting, and began to read what was written:

The way in life:

If a person does something, he must remember his reason.

When a person is lost in the way of life,

He must remember what desires he wants to fulfill.

If a person has forgotten the reasons why they started something,

You must remember: "Why...?

Why do I do this...? Why do I want this...?

If one can not remember the desires that drive him to act,

He will be lost in the path of life and will never come

At the end of the road that he wanted to travel.

If a person tries to fill the void that someone else left,

He will leave a gap where he or she should have been.

If you try to fill your life with the earrings that someone else left,

Your present will be lost sight of, and you will not be able to see the earrings that you leave yourself.

Therefore, one should not set aside one's own desires.

The desires that drive us to achieve something,

The desires that give us value and a place to reach.

Those people we want to reach,

Those achievements we want to achieve,

You must remember them, or our way will be lost.

Keep them in mind, and in the end they will succeed.

I read the note several times. Some parts seemed to make sense, but others I could not understand completely. I could only know, that in it were reflected experiences like those that the man was trying to convey to me, but I felt that something I could not understand at all. But that had made me feel the desire to understand it. I tried to think at that moment about the questions of that same note, to try to comply with the same method that Mr. Andrés had tried to use in the park that day:

Why did I want to see Mr. Andrés again?

To ask him his experiences that inspired him to do that thought.

What did I want to know about those experiences?

This time, to satiate my curiosity, and better understand what he was trying to tell me.

With those answers, I thought I understood better a part of what the note was trying to convey, as part of what Mr. Andrés had tried to tell me that afternoon: Try to know the reason for what we do, to know what we really are trying to achieve.

I only had to rest a little that afternoon, before dinner and sleep. And the next day, I would see Mr. Andrés again in the park to try to better understand that thought that made me so curious.