someone who inspires you

I know it´s not very original to say that someone who inspired me profoundly was a teacher, but it is. In this case, in fact, was one of the biggest reasons why I do what I am doing now.

I am studying History of Art now; I had never studied it in my life till the last year at school (at school, as you all know, in History books the parts dedicated to art are at the end of the units and there´s never enough time to study them, at least in my case). I had it as an optional subject in my last year and I decided to study it along with economics, geography or maths, for instance. I´d always liked it in general, I´d gone to a lot of museums and travelled with my parents, it wasn´t something completely unknown for me, but I had never even read about it. 

I was lucky enough to have a teacher who also teached history and other subjects, but he always said art was his favourite, and you really noticed about it when you listened to him in class. For me, it was a new way to look at images or buildings I had seen all my life, but from a perspective of someone who really knows what he´s talking about and does it with real enthusiasm. He told you anecdotes, he knew how to make you feel curious, ask questions to yourself and to look at things with new eyes. 

When I had to choose a degree, I had absolutely no idea what to do. He knew I liked Art and encourage me to study it and I will never regret it. 

I knew very clear that, above anything, I was going to study something I liked; I didn´t wanted to spend my years at university hating what I was doing, and so as he thought. Maybe it´s not the easiest field in the world to find a job, but as my teacher told me (and as I am finding out by myself now), everything is about working hard and loving what you do, because you never know where life will take you. When someone asks me why I am studying art I always tell this story, because probably if  I´d had a terrible teacher I wouldn´t have gone back to a museum in my life.