Who was I?

Disclosure: I wrote this when I was 21 years old. I now look at this with a little embarassment. I will keep it because it gives good memories.

I'm the kid who some people used to dislike because I had good grades, was good at sports, drawing and playing the piano and wasn't physically ungracefull.

I would say that I'm what some people call a "perfect kid".

Well, I'm not that kid anymore cause everything changed when I got to university, but in the essence, that's who I am. BTW, I'm 21 now, and to me the term kid applies from 8 to 17 years old.

I remember the old days in school, not that far ago, when I would get bored in class because the teacher had to repeat everything three times and still some woudn't get it. I remember listening to others conversations and thinking that I was wasting my time. I could have been more socially active, but I didn't need to.

I remember that I wanted to be an astronaut.

I remember that I had a love/hate relation with religion lessons. I went to a catholic school and I didn't believe in god. I always admired those who do, and I was the first person to like the ones that really felt that way in my class, but I didn't.

I would often argue with the teacher about a lot of things. I didn't want to psycologically attack them when I argueued, but most teachers felt that way. As a consequence, I never had very good grades in "attitude" (in my school there was 2 grades for each subject, the grades you actually got from exams and what they called attitude, wich was also part of the total grade and solely based on a subjective thing: "what your teacher thought about the way you behaved in class".

I remember that every year there was a day when all the students from school had the opportunity to play an instrument or sing in front of the others. I always played the piano and once even played "Piano Man" by Billy Joel, with the piano and harmonica at the same time. It's less complicated than what it sounds like, trust me on this one.

Oh, and I also loved skateboarding. I would spend hours everyday skating until I once broke my right knee. I then stopped skateboarding and switched to surfing. I felt it was way less risky but still gave me the freedom to move fast and do some sport.

After school, because I had good grades, I got accepted for studying Aerospace Engineering. In Spain, this is like the hardest degree you can do, and the entry barrier is very high.

This apparently small thing changed absolutely everything.