Pushing the limits to the extreme: A life-changing breakthrough (WEEK 146).

Good evening to everyone in this beautiful community of @WEEKEND EXPERIENCES , I hope you all have a great weekend.

Reading the topics that @galenkp has brought us, all of them absolutely great, I decided for an event that marked my life and made me definitely leave my comfort zone.

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Leaving Argentina and coming to live in Spain. This was the most important event in my life, that decision changed my life forever.

When, after five years of waiting, I finally got my Spanish nationality, because my maternal grandfather was Spanish, I asked the universe for a sign and it was given to me.
It seems like magic, but it is not.

A week after I got my nationality, my brother, who said he would never fly on a plane, said to me "what if we go to Spain", and without thinking I said yes.

There are very few of us in the family, just my mother, my brother and me. The decision was made quickly but the process was very difficult.

For two years, we saved a lot, we worked too many hours a day, with no weekends.

At the same time, we were fixing up my grandmother's old house, which is more than seventy years old, to make it fit for renting, as it could not be sold.

Saving and saving, researching every detail of the new land was my mission for two years.

I had never travelled by plane, not even within Argentina had I had the possibility to travel anywhere, economic circumstances prevented it.

I was a person who worked at home teaching computer classes, that was my world, some friends and my family, that was all. I had never travelled. It was turning my life upside down. But I said yes to the challenge.

I found out about flights, how was the whole process of luggage, transfer. Rentals in Spain, ways of life, every detail was too little to learn.

And not only that, I was not going to leave my kittens, who are like my children in Argentina. So I found out how to take them with me. I travelled with one of my cats, Catalina, who was my anchor and my companion.

Getting on that plane meant leaving everything behind, leaving everything. My best friend told me a phrase that marked me: "you put your life in two suitcases and you left with your cat".

The biggest limit I have ever had and crossed in my life.
Arriving in a country where I knew no one, absolutely no one, only the language was the same. I wondered, could it be Mars?

I was amazed, admired, everything was from another universe. I had to do the paperwork for the different papers I needed, I didn't go with a definite rent, because it couldn't be done from a distance.

But the universe was on my side and helped me to take that leap into the void, to risk everything.

It was the biggest change of my life and I was happy to have done it. I came first and then opened the way for my family, who arrived six months later.

The experiences during those months were very strong, hard work that demanded a great physical effort from me, circumstances to overcome.

I was faced with a big limit and I was able to do it, with only two suitcases and a cat.

I always say, the day I left Argentina I died, and when I crossed the ocean and arrived in Spain, I was born again.

The woman writing this post today is a woman strengthened to the maximum.
A resounding change of life.

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And so much for my experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone.

Thank you so much for reading this far and giving me this opportunity.
Happy to read you in the comments.

Best regards.
Amonet.