The man seeks his destiny from the very first moment of his morning. He opens his eyes, looks once more at the ceiling, peeling with so much nostalgia, and makes a move to get out of bed, which is also weary from so much wandering. 

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His days are long, as long as the hope of being able to emigrate once and for all from the country that has given him a nationality but nothing more than that. 

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The man suffers for himself and his family, and above all for the future of his children who, even in their early studies, cannot fully grasp the value of life and where their parents, tireless workers from one day to the next, stand on the ladder of success.

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By a twist of fate, the man lives in a humble prefabricated house a few blocks from the airport, with his wife and children. The deafening roar of the jet engines hardly bothers him anymore. In fact, that is precisely his greatest challenge of late: to board one of those planes with his family and finally emigrate in search of a place that can offer him the peace he has so desperately longed for after so many years of suffering.

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In a circle of friends, they always comment on the saying that "at the beginning of any exile everything is difficult, the strangeness of what has been left behind sprouts like weeds and mixes with eternal doubts about whether it was absolutely necessary to have made the decision."

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On the other hand, resilience, success through adaptation and entrepreneurship, level the playing field, with time being the ultimate judge to determine whether everything will be fruitful or has been in vain.

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There are countless anecdotes about people who have premature babies in their new home to establish a connection to their culture, or who wear rings or necklaces belonging to loved ones to feel permanently connected. There are also those who start food businesses and hire other migrants to work together and ensure that no one falls victim to the ever-present discrimination.

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Often, the experience of those who have already embarked on this adventure of emigration is a valuable asset in decision-making. Family members, friends, and acquaintances who have settled in generally generous countries (with the necessary paperwork) such as the United States, Spain, and Australia, which already have large communities of Latin Americans who have earned the place they sought and which has allowed them to definitively break free from their humble and mediocre origins.

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The man finally gets out of bed, caresses his wife's face, who is still resting from her present, looks at the boys who are sleeping in a bed next to theirs, and goes out into the street to breathe perhaps the last stale airs of sadness and mediocrity.

 

The deafening noise announces to him that a new flight is leaving with an uncertain destination (at least for him). He will raise his ragged head and look at the steel belly and surely, within his most ardent convictions, he will swear to himself, in the near future, to be on the inside, which is precisely where hopes travel.