A VERY SPECIAL GIFT BY DANIEL MAURICIO MEJIA CALLE

When I was about eighteen, I was in first semester of international business program. I remember that my father had to do a very big effort to pay that semester and my mother had been thinking about how we are going to overcome that problem. Those days, my grandfather had been hospitalized because a cancer started to attack his pancreas. Days later, he had a procedure to analyze how big was the cancer and if the medical group could move away some part of it. While he was in the procedure, I was taking lunch with my girlfriend in Molinos Mall near the University; in that moment I received a call from my father and he told me that my grandfather was dying because something worked badly in the procedure. I left my lunch and my girlfriend was worried; in that moment, I explained the entire problem to her and we took a taxi on the way to the Leon XIII hospital; I had been in that hospital many times and those situations didn´t bring me good memories. When I was arriving to the hospital my father called me again and he told me that my grandfather had died. I was petrified. Minutes later, we arrived to the hospital and we ran to the surgery room. I saw my father crying and all his brothers and sisters; I can´t believe that. My father and my grandfather were the best friends; they always went out to play pool and sharing good comments about the soccer matches every single weekend. When I hugged my father, he told me that –minutes later of the death of my grandpa´, my father received a call from somebody of the enterprise that he have been working for; a that guy told him that I won a complete scholarship for my career and the tools that I would need in the future-. We was very grateful with that notice but at the same time very sad with the death of my grandpa´; in that moment, my father told me that took that situation like a gift that my grandpa´ sent me from the heavens. My father got calm me with that words and days later I had a dream where I got inside in a beautiful apartment and my grandpa´ started to tell me some advises that could be useful for me.