Each year I made the same commitment, write more.  Well, another year has passed and I did not made good my promise.  It is not because of lack of events; time always can be found and disposition? maybe that is the problem.  Sometimes life can be overwhelming.  I have to deal with so many things on a daily basis that I find myself so tired... This has been a particularly difficult year.  So many decisions to make, obstacles and challenges that it gets to a point where you really ponder on the option of quitting.  But quitting is not in my nature.  There is no other way than to look forward, get myself together, and keep on fighting. Against what? life itself, because I am not a quitter but an achiever.  This is what I would like to transmit to my students. The fact that life is not a road of roses and that if you don't fight with all your being to get to where you need and want to be, you have lost.  The big question is: How do I teach them this?  How can I help them not to make the same mistakes we adults make? I guess that the answer is right in front of me. I can't. They have to make their own in order to learn. This is the difficult part, watching them fall, but I will be there to catch them and that is what makes my life worth it.