Original title: "NO era quien me dijeron SER" (I was NOT who they told me to BE) by Alejandra Inclán.
The gestation of a human life lasts nine months, but the gestation of who you really are can be a lifelong path. We grow up and are dictated by how we should be. They mold us and lead to a valid personification for others. And we believe it. Many embrace that and accept it because it fits their feelings. For Valeria, it wasn't like that.
In her adult life, she finished understanding that she was not who she was told to be. That she had to find a way to manifest herself to family, friends, and work. Obtaining that concordance that nature denied her. On that path, she believed in the possibility of love, of a couple. But I wasn't ready. They weren't ready. A barrier appeared when her secret was revealed and she felt that she lived a frustrated sexuality, for not knowing how to face that disparity that sooner or later she had to confess.