In January of 1999, I met a men whose name is Arturo. He was then 40 years old and had been blind for the past 7 years, sleeping in the streets. During that time he’d been robbed, physically abused, insulted and made fun of. But the most extraordinary thing was that he would forgive all those evil people, desplaying even compassion and understading towards them. He had an inmense inner pace that reflected in his actions and his voice, for being in his presence I had the impression of being with God himself.
At the time I met Arturo I had everything, but would always want more. I would experience moments of great joy only to have those combined with moments of great anguish. I was by then friends with Arturo and the ironic thing was that I had everything and him nothing, yet I would envy his state of mind. Throught our frienship and important transformation ocurred in me in which I realized that life owed me nothing, but I, in turn owed a whole lot. On the same line of thought, I made, in January 2001, the big decision to dedicate to the rest of my life to helping people. That decision let me to create my own association which I named after my dear friend. Today I have less material possessions but I feel very rich nonetheless, I am at total peace with myself and physically I feel as though I were 15 again. I wish my friend Arturo would have stayed in Puerto Vallarta but he told me I didn’t need him anymore and that from then on , his mission has to go elsewhere and spread the message of God.

Robin Bouchard