Andrés Felipe Cáceres Maldonado

Some years ago, utterly blinded by ignorance in various fields of knowledge (even self-knowledge), I believed my life would find its meaning in high politics wherein I imagined effort and merit were rewarded with power.

After some time studying my career I acknowledged several facts. First, I had absolutely no idea what a position in the Government entails in the XXI century. Second, my preferences are completely dissimilar with the labour profile this career offers. Third, I was slow to the point of taking more than a year to realise such a simple thing. Fourth, it took me no real effort to approve the subjects involved albeit if I did not enjoy them.

As such, I have decided to complete the career in order to make something out of the time I have already invested in it, but to look for an alternate option once I am done. Unlike what I first thought, I do not have a specific plan, and simply hope to keep my mind open for what it might come. We don’t fully control our lives anyway.
Now, I had never really looked at music as something to do devotedly until a couple of years ago, when I began learning how to play a musical instrument, started hearing a wider scope of genres, and appreciating it as one of the pinnacles of human action. I suppose that if the opportunity appears and I feel like it could be interesting and, above all, fun to try it out, I would plunge into it.

However, I realise that it is not something one can do over the night, and to that purpose I believe it would be proper to start dedicating some more time (training with an instrument, singing, mixing new sounds etc); after that, I would have something more to add to the notion of music if I opt to perform in it for a while, or if things don’t wrap up to that end, at least I add a new hobby and some more knowledge to my being.

As a final point I have learnt after a while, that choosing to try it is or not should not a question of acquiring wealth or objects to fill your life with, but rather a decision that encompasses preferences, ideas and ,overall, satisfaction.