I endured yesterday...I will endure today and I will not allow myself to think about what will happen to me tomorrow...

       I endured yesterday, I will endure today, and I will not allow myself to think about tomorrow.                                                                                                                                                        I have known poverty, suffering to the end. When asked what has helped me overcome the troubles that sooner or later befall each of us, I always answer..I endured yesterday, I will endure today and I will not allow myself to think about what may happen tomorrow. I have known poverty, the struggle for life, worries and despair. I have always had to work beyond my strength. Looking back, my life seems like a battlefield on which lie dead dreams, shattered hopes and illusions. A battle in which the odds were never on my side and from which I am all scarred, disfigured and aged.

 No, I don't feel sorry for myself. I don't shed tears for past misfortunes, I don't envy the women who were spared everything I've been through Because I lived They existed. I drank the cup of life to the bottom. They only sipped the bubbles around the rim. I know things they will never learn. I see things they are blind to. Only women whose eyes are washed by tears see the world and become sisters to the whole world.

 In the great university of life I have learned a philosophy that no woman who has lived an easy life can touch. I have learned to live each day as it comes, without giving up fearing tomorrow. The shadow of the threat makes us fearful. I have banished this fear from myself because experience has taught me that when the moment I fear so much comes, I will be given both the strength and the wisdom to deal with it. Small troubles no longer concern me. After you have seen all your happiness collapse around you in ruins, it no longer matters that the servant forgot to put the napkins under the bowls or that the cook spilled the soup.

I have learned not to expect too much from people and that is why I can be happy with a friend who is not completely faithful to me or with an acquaintance who gossips and above all I have acquired a sense of humor, because there were so many things that I had to either cry or laugh about.

 And when a woman can joke about troubles instead of falling into hysterics, nothing can hurt her much anymore.

I don't regret the hardships I've experienced, because with them my life was full and the price I had to pay was worth it.