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Know Where You Come From to Go Forward

Mathias Barra
2 min readJan 11, 2019

A few months ago, I wrote my goals for life following the advice from “the 7 Habits of Effective People”. This changed drastically my outlook on life.

Among others, one of the aspects on which I decided to dive deeper in was my impact and implication in my family. Having finally taken the habit of writing regularly, I decided to copy what my mother had been doing for the past one or two years: write a simple biography. My grandmother being the only grandparent left in my family, my mother’s work is mostly focused around her.

On my side, I decided to write an account of both my parents from what I have learned directly from them and from around, as well as using my brother and my own view.

In doing this, I not only hope to keep an undying memory of my parents and family while making my parents happy to have a memento, I believe this will also allow myself to learn from what has been experienced by the family as a whole.

You cannot go forward without knowing where you come from.

Life is a long experience that you should be able to transfer to someone so that what you have learned can be used again and allow another to live a better life.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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