Chapter 1 : The Journey of Transformation: From a Monotonous Life to the Turning Point.

I'm alive, yet I don't know why or for what reason I exist. Living the same repetitive scenario every day, stuck in a circle, hoping to find an end. Then, one day, your life takes a 180-degree turn. Unexpected surprises and challenges arise, unaccounted for. Everything happens unexpectedly, and eventually, you will reach a stage where you're gonna sit with yourself, thinking about your future.

You start planning how you'll live your life, get married, and build a family. You envision scenarios, dreams, and aspirations, holding onto hope for their realization. Even if you face setbacks, you don't give up, continuing to progress and contemplate the unknown future ahead. You think about ensuring financial comfort and ponder what you'll do to secure it. While everyone contemplates these things, I, despite my thoughts, didn't carry the heavy burden regarding my future. I was indifferent, leaving everything to fate to decide.

I took a bit of time. Anyway, I am that person who isn't interested in something called love. I'm the one who sleeps until 5 am. and wakes up at 1 or 2 or whenever I want to get up, just occupying space at home without any reason. I'm not interested in studying; I've seen people before me study and make an effort to achieve what they want, but in the end, someone comes to me and asks, "Hey Mickey, do you have an extra cigarette?" When you see scenarios like these, do you still think about studying or caring about it? In the first place, education has gone with the old times when school was a school and teaching was teaching. Now, I find a teacher hornier than me, just observing the girls and not caring about teaching. They only want to have sex or you find a female teacher entering the classroom with her buttocks exposed, and her chest could breastfeed the entire institution. From the moment she enters the classroom while talking on the phone with her lover or fiancé, when she finishes the call, she starts looking for some young meat. What a ridiculous situation.

Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Mike, but everyone calls me Mickey—quite a funny name, isn't it? But I'm not offended by this name. I'm 20 years old, and this year I passed and get my baccalaureate degree. I barely passed this semester by just cheating and the teachers' assistance. Their help wasn't out of love but merely to get rid of me. I was a headache for everyone. I live on a Island. When you heard "island," you imagined something like the Maldives or Hawaii. It's just a island Wich have only one road in it and nothing to do ; I wish it could be erased from the earth or split from this country and head towards Brazil. I started dreaming a lot, haha. I am the only son to my parents , and I've filled their heads with numerous troubles and problems that I brought upon them—may God forgive me. Our financial situation was harsh ; my dad didn't have a stable job. He worked wherever the wind took him, breaking his back to pay the rent and support me and my mom. He believed I was a smart boy excelling in studies, the ray of hope to rescue him from frustration, torment, and poverty. That's what made him leave the house to go to work.

And Instead of helping him, I added fuel to the fire. My dad used to leave some money for my mom on the table to prepare food for us and take care of household needs. I would wake up before her, take that money to buy cigarettes and weed. You know the impact of addiction on a person and how it affects them. My mom knew this, and she used to buy necessities on credit. My life was a dull scenario. I would wake up, take the money, light a cigarette, go to school, and sometimes hang out with friends. People make friends who are better than them to benefit and improve their lives, but I only associated with those worse off than me . My life was passing quickly before me, and all I did was smoke and waste time. But my life will change in a single moment, and that's where my story begins.