greetings dear and beloved community, in this opportunity I want to bring a little story which I call: "a story of reflection". I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it.

>Greetings, my name is David Ramirez and I am 62 years old. I am a retired boxer and I want to talk to you about how I got into boxing.

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Already, about 45 years ago, I was a rebellious young man immersed in drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, a person no one could talk to, because I instantly wanted to fight, I was very impulsive, but several years before, I had a bad habit of humiliating and mistreating other people, It all started when I was in elementary school and as a result of seeing how my father mistreated my mother and after a while he abandoned us, My mother indulged in vices, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and prostitution.

At the beginning it was very hard and painful for me to grow up in such an environment, we ate only once a day and sometimes we spent the day without eating anything and that's how we went to bed, You can imagine how a child grows up in such an environment and without a father figure to take as an example, seeing his mother submerged in a sea of problems and not knowing if he will eat the next day.

>You know from my own experience, I'm not saying that all children who grow up the same way I did, please don't abandon your children because of a failed relationship.

My childhood was not the best and it was not the most beautiful that a child could wish for, unfortunately I had to live it, I don't want to say that what I had to live through justifies everything I did, on the contrary, I don't want another child to live through it, but today, at 62 years old, I greatly regret all the harm I caused to all those people.

Many times I had to fight in the streets for money, to be able to cover my vices and food, Once, while I was fighting I saw a car pull up and a man get out, he started to watch the fight and after I finished fighting he approached me and told me that if I wanted to become a boxer and earn enough money to have everything I wanted, without hesitation I accepted. I was fighting in the streets for little money to cover my vices and food.

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The day I had my first fight professionally, I almost lost the fight, but I managed to bounce back and ended up winning the fight. It was the most exciting fight I've ever had, after that fight, I went on a 15 fight winning streak and then I lost 5 fights in a row, because I was immersed in drugs, alcohol, cigarettes and sex.

One day, the trainer told me that I can't continue with these vices if I want to be the best in the world, so I had to go to a rehabilitation center to stop all the vices.

After 2 years, I recovered and returned to boxing, I had the opportunity to go to the Olympics and I came back with the gold medal. 

Boxing became my life and my passion, without realizing it, until the day I retired and became a high performance boxing coach, and of course I married an old girlfriend. After I contracted, I had my 5 beautiful children, 3 men and 2 women. Pablo, Simon, Antonio, Monica, Ines and my beloved wife's name is Paola.

I am currently sick, all because of the time I had abusing my body, damaging it with all that garbage of substances and vices that I had, now I am paying the consequences of the abuse I committed against my body. 

And to finish telling my story, if I could change some aspects of my life, without thinking about it, I think I would change some things. Now I thank God for all that I have had to go through and I hope that no one else goes through this situation. 

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