ashley me
Well, my name is Álvaro Álvarez and
I would like you to look and be this
transparency that your origin does not mark your
destination
When I saw her, I said to myself, this could be me
those pants those boots but for
another thing
I was born in a family of six brothers
a Catholic family raised me
Jesuits
I owe them a lot I think that for me it was a
important training lasts but that opened
my mind in many aspects
he was a good student I think I went
also a good son and good my career
degree was as bright as
many prizes many license plates
honor
it seemed that my life had a destiny
of course my mother whose father had died
young because of an intervention
Surgical because it was called Alvaro
also my grandfather because he had decided
that leads to being a lawyer
As my grandfather was and well, everything was
the normal
a normal family everything worked
normal I have to say that I’m going to if I
tell my life as it is half of
you would not believe him then
I will omit many things that also
when I told some people have
said this can not be true
therefore what you tell me can not
be true not only will I count but yes
I want to tell you without carrying too much
time because they give us little time to
talk
what has been the evolution of my life that
enforce that your origin
I marked your destination I would say that your origin
not always going to mark your destiny or what
what do you imagine
when you’re a child or adolescent is
to be what eventually grab life as
he said they study very well when I had
He is carrying two advanced courses in in
the studies finished what was the
first goal that was made in Spain with 16
years has been two years in advance
represents a scholarship from an institution
which is called american film thebes was
to study the last year of what is
the american bachelor in the united states
in an exchange program and that’s how it was
good with 16 and 17 years I went to states
united to study
I did a good resume there and there I
I found two things that marked
to start and they started to mark a
change of style I’m talking about the year
72 I look much younger than if I
First encounter with elections
presidential
younger nixon I find the
street politics people doing
campaign giving stickers badges and so on
of all that I was still frank
alive
It seems an incredible thing to me
hallucinatory
was a wonderful experience that I
opened my mind to politics and I
I found a second part that I
I had dreamed I had seen through the
desires for expansion that we needed
in this country like music reading
I was so restricted but above all
with the music there were not so big
idols great masters of pop theft
it is hoped that he had always wanted to see
and good luck was the great luck if
we can call it that
to see the dark side of the moon
pink floyd live on the sic arena
pitchfork and this was a before and a
later because in that concert by
the first time in my life I smoked a
joint
I used drugs and started that idea of
that good
the drugs were in the 70s
there was absolute ignorance of what
they were drugs but there was a kind
of globalized propaganda that the
wonderful wonderful drugs ago
love not war hippies all
great happy happy to krishna and me
I entered fully into this matter always
He was a pretty restless person
quite needs experiences and I
I do it full
not only smoke that the joint but that
I started to try other types of drugs
meet other people and well
all that was part of the baggage that
suit to spain when I finish my course
apart from the long hair by the way and for
the genre had banned always came
a mane seems to me almost gives it a
heart attack but well that did change my
lifetime
I got my father expected from me that I
He entered college and I did
I enrolled in English philology in the
University of Oviedo and had been a
great student had an average grade
great great knowledge of Latin
Greek order had already been the
good and therefore the first course
I practically did not have to go to class
more what I discovered in college
is that there was a cafeteria and in the
coffee shop will meet cool people who
that word certainly did not exist
then and I got involved in all that
student movement that had to
restlessness of
of changing things and so on and
true that less irak I made many
things but the truth that also approves
the first course without problem not in the
second year I enrolled and decided that
that was very boring and it raises
my parents and put years old
I was going to study piano to Madrid
that does not like me and I went to Madrid
to study piano good I did everything
less studying piano
obviously in madrid I moved the world
of the music people
I met many people but above all
I knew the doors of hell because
Madrid
I tried the heroin and soon after
test the ruin then hitch
I have to say that I always had
good looking and in madrid
I had taken out when I arrived
presents an official school exam
of languages that are four courses plus one
reality
I did not get everything in a single call
since my title I was dedicated to give
classes to the top executives in madrid
I earned very good money and I had a
great appearance but the pocket of
my jacket
I was carrying a syringe
that’s how things were playing life and
there came a time that was pretty bad
I tried to solve it I could not and I
I planted in a hospital that then
I called franco franco
franco franco hospital in madrid
it was still called like that although already frank
he had died the year 75 and strangers 77
had a psychiatric treatment I left
I left asturias I’m going to hook
I returned to Madrid and in the year 79
I had to re -raise myself I was still
working
I never had to ask in the street nor
parking cars did not lack
teeth I always look good
I considered that I had to do something
whole that there was a program of a
clinical trial on methadone that was
the first time you are going to try on
Spain and I signed up was in the clinic
from madrid and I was from year 79 to year 80
doing this program with a friend
We decided that the problem was Madrid
we had to go somewhere else and
We decided to come to Andalusia to ride the
nurseries that was like a good healthy idea
and ecologically great
We spent all year selling things in
the trace of madrid and we moved
Andalusia
we live invited to a house
this friend of mine had an English friend
who has a wonderful house in the
Strait of Gibraltar and good we arrived
on August 10, 1980
we get to the room although that’s what it’s called
the organization between tariff and algeciras
it is good and there the splendid house
wonderful luxurious and divine and there
I met a wonderful woman and
super nice that came out
barefoot from the kitchen
Ajaja today an English serious but not
speaks very well Spanish and good we
received with a lot of love and there we
we stayed and there we settled and there
we thought percent said that I was going to
put a clock to know how it goes but
I do not see it but it’s not paid
but good
is that we have 18 minutes took 10
so then let’s go adding
Quick
this super woman
I know her on August 10 and I marry
she in december
It was that simple as a woman
wonderful she fell in love with me or me
falls in love with her and especially
we had many things in common we
they liked
the bullfight the flamenco bulls
everything we loved everything as I had
left the heroine no longer had problems
of any kind but life is not like that
little by little we decide what we are going to do
we are going to have children she had a son
of two and a half years that I adopted I gave him
my last name was enchanted a boy
wonderful and good well now we are going to
have children and have had I had with her
three daughters one of which is
here and that at the weekend a great
I kiss because they are encouraging me I am
Nervous already knows but good we had
children thinking that the children are going to
fix things also I do not know that no
I know how much total that does not
arranged that he ends up going back to
heroin in a way already much more
strong and there comes a time when it
raises that there is no choice but
remedy the matter
she decides that I have to go to
treatment and send me a center in
england a magnificent center where I
I know the 12 step program of
anonymous narcotics
my talk is titled just for today and
has a lot to do with the program
12 steps of anonymous narcotics
there I find that the problem was not the
heroin
the problem was what I had to do
a deep review of myself lake and
I assume it’s a path of abstinence
complete and that I have to start living
in a different way change all the
schemes of my life I go back to Spain
Start working
but to work with others one of the
things about this program is the service to
the others is to pass the message to others and
tell them you can stop the drug
I also evidently lacked something
that he would like to remember travel
I worked for four years in banking
before when he was married to me
woman still before going to treatment
and I was Don Alvaro Alvarez with a suit
a tie and a syringe in the
pocket of my suit was Don Alvaro
a long time when I went back to treatment
I was Alvaro and almost nobody greeted me
but good, I started working with the idea
to help others
I met a person who is here
sitting that encouraged me to start together with
he a treatment program with the
twelve steps in a center said he will look
We look for a space in a town that
It’s called San Martin del Tesorillo and
we set up a center
we started to work I have a
English academy with what earns very
well life in the morning beats me very
well life and I had to take a
decision or academy or center decided the
center and that’s how it all started a story is
the year 1991 that still continues
after 27 years and that has meant
a complete change of course in everything
which means no idea of life
my idea of the reason for my existence and
especially the idea that the drug does
it has a solution
every day there are more drugs every day there are more
people who take drugs but there is a path of
exit is a hard disciplined path
that you can work that we are
working and we hope to continue
working for me there is a before and a
later in my life before the twelve
steps and after the twelve steps
and just for today is the fundamental motto of
this program
that’s why when you consider living alone
for today one can do anything
change anything and carry out
anything
many thanks
[Applause]
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