Tatiana Sedano Cardona

For a long time I thought life could be built by following a plan.

I had my family, plans, dreams and a path that seemed clear.

Until life changed the rules.

In 2015 I emigrated to Montreal with my husband and our children, looking for new opportunities. Almost two years later, my husband’s unexpected cancer diagnosis changed our plans completely. What had been a plan for our life became an experience of love, care, loss and rebuilding.

We went back to Colombia to live through it with our family and friends beside us. I had to learn to live a reality I had never chosen.

I learned to live with questions I had no answers to, to rebuild plans and to discover abilities I did not know I had either.

Writing, close conversations and the search for meaning became new ways of understanding what I had lived.

That experience also changed the way I relate to other people’s stories, and helped me find in them a shared path built on love, self-knowledge and the will to keep going, giving the best of yourself at every step.