1Author’s Biography(Enrique Valle Navarrete)

Celebrating life’s beauty that teaches me to feel pleased with myself, because it’s not enough with the skin that doesn’t fill the inner emptiness, for it’s necessary that hope’s seed to be born from difficult times. Perhaps I might lose again and doors might be closed not to be opened anymore, but maybe I’ll find an open window to a breeze coming to refresh me, through which I’ll be able to seethe new path that’s showed which is exactly what I’m trying to avoid, And who knows! There’s my destiny. (E.V.N.)

Guayaquil, Tuesday, August 16th,2011 I am E.V.N., a young 53 year-old marine. I was born in 1958, in Guayaquil–Ecuador, I graduated as a Merchant Marine Official in 1980. And I believe THAT I KNOW something that you DON’T! That what really matters is TO KNOW that,…
“IT TAKES ALOT OF TIME TO BECOME YOUNG”

(Pablo Picasso)

While you understand that,… “Youth is independent from age”.
(E.V.N.)

Only your mind can achieve this, by your constant movement and demand , because,… “Movement is life”. (Chiropractor David Hopna) Since I was 22 years-old, I spent a great deal of my life at sea; I immersed my youth among ships and long voyages around the world, in eastern andoccidental countries as a Merchant Marine Officer.

1. Graduation (1980) GYE-Ecuador

Coming into account at that time, that knowledge is universal, that… “All religions have their own spiritual and philosophical truth, always searching to enhance and improve mankind to get closer to God”.

2. Training graduation (M/T MANABI-KYSET DRY DOCK) In the presence of CAPTAIN COLON MORAN(BUSAN-KOREA 1981)

In the adaptation process to an environment, to avoid becoming frustrated, your yearning should match with the circumstances that you’ll come across, which will have a direct impact in your behavior, in order to get a favorable environment and “at the end of the day”, your training being most successful instead of hostile surroundings, because of the daily mistakes that keep on adding,maybe without being able to solve them, because,…

“When your heart is somewhere else, very far from the physical that surround you, errors are unavoidable and, in order to avoid them, you have to find harmony”.

2. KOBE – JAPAN (1985)

Any way, life ends up adjusting your pending bills.
THIS IS A LEGACY TO THE FORMATION OF MEN AND WOMEN ,

ready to take the best that life has to offer.HERE IS THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING!

One day, on returning to the ship from vacation, the Chief in Commander saw me and cried to me:

“Stop there, Officer!
STOP!

Don’t take another step further, better turn back with your luggage. I don't want you on board”. (Cap. Gustavo Izquierdo)
THIS MEMORY MADE THE DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE.

We had to travel from Ecuador to certain countries, toboard the FLOPEC-Ecuador Tankers. When concluding my graduation at Guayaquil-Ecuador, I was hired by the most important shipping company of oil ships in my country at that time, with their main offices at Quito, in the middle of the world. I took my first trip abroad to Petro bras Oil Refinery-Rio de Janeiro/Brasil and KSet company, Busan–Korea to receive training in tanker ships operations, Herewas my destiny, travelling all over. Maybe it wasn’t my decision to enroll in the Marine, but rather that of my mothers, who believed that the most convenient thing would be to follow that career, giving me her reasons and advantages, which at the end, I now thank, because this way I was formed as a man.
BUT SOMEHOW SHE FORGOT TO EXPLAIN AN IMPORTANT DETAIL!

What should I do to overcomedifficult situations?
And since I didn’t know, I had no choice but to adjust myself on the road and go forward to loss or gain.
AS IT COMES OUT!!

I exclaimed, Captain Izquierdo! as I came closer to him on deck.. “Just allow me a few words and then I’ll turn back, if that it is the case”.
- YOU HAVE NOTHING TO EXPLAIN OFFICER, I DON’T WANT YOU ON BOARD TURN ARROUND AND LEAVE!

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