When I was six years old, my mother, tired of my father's infidelity, filed for divorce and child support. He became angry...and she was left with a disfiguring scar on half of her face from a knife wound for the rest of her life. He was sent to prison. I never had a father figure. She worked two jobs so that my brother and I (we were born a year apart) would never want for anything. She did it perfectly well but she was absent from my life. Now, after 49 years of work, she receives a pension of 115 euros…
Every mother wants her child's life to be better than her own. That is when all the difficulties gain meaning and importance: "I did it for a reason". Part of my life was difficult, but, overall, it turned out better because of what my mother had given me. My daughter's life has been wonderful from the first day of her birth, and I want it to be even better in the future.
I am writing a book on financial education and teaching children:
- So that my mother's difficult life experience will gain greater meaning and significance.
- To monetize the 17 years of my life that I spent with the wrong person and ended up on the street in a foreign country with nothing. I not only survived, but now I only do what I enjoy and lead a happy life. And I want to achieve more. For myself, for my daughter, and for my mother.
- To give my life a greater purpose. Because the only regret I would have at the end of my life is not having written this book.
- It is dangerous to write about this here. I will write about it in a secret chapter for my first readers as a thank-you for their trust and support.