A necessary introduction
I hope this work serves someone who is going through a similar situation and the proposal I am going to make them useful.  **One of the questions made by @galenkp is as follows**: What book are you reading this weekend and why? I tell you that I am reading the book "A real man" by author Boris Polevoi. I read this book, at my father's proposal and it has impacted me so much that I have read it again twice and this is the fourth time I read it. **What is it about?** The book is based on a real event that occurred during World War II, in which a Soviet pilot is demolished in enemy territory by German pilots and drags for several days by snow, crosses the border, loses the condomy and is rescued by its troops. As a result of the wounds suffered, the two legs have to amputate. When he recovers, he fights as a pilot again, because two prostheses were the new legs that accompanied him for the rest of his days. This pilot received the title of national hero and is called Alexei Merésiev. **Why am I reading it?**  A few days ago, my older sister's husband amputated a leg and, in one of the conversations with him, I suggested to read this book because my brother -in -law, despite all her strength, has been devastated. By telling me that I did not have it, I told him that he would send it to him with medications that the doctor prescribed and that where he lives they do not have a way to get it. But, the message I want to convey is addressed to many because the teachings that this book leaves us go beyond a disease, because it is an attitude towards life.  I told my brother -in -law to read the book and then we debated it. **My sister told me to tell her what could help him and, more or less, this was what I answered, from the teachings of the text**: · As long as there are hopes and it is the essential lesson that you must get out of this operation. · Man does not stop living when he stops breathing, but when he stops loving. And, your husband has his children, his brothers, he has you and is alive. Therefore, he has several reasons to continue loving. · In life there are no impossible and, "I can't do it" is something that one says without even trying. · Life is a constant personal growth and, at this time of his life, my brother -in -law will have to learn to new ways to do and will do so what will allow him to grow. · Each fall must be preceded to get up and undertake the search for the horizon.  **A final comment** I suggest you look for the book and read it. In their pages you can find many more teachings than these that I left in the publication. But, most importantly, in my humble opinion, they can compare how, sometimes, we let ourselves be overwhelmed by problems so simple that, compared to many more complex, they teach us that life we must face it with the greatest possible optimism. What do you think? *Note: I used the Depl Translate translator*. *The photos are my property, lying with my Samsung J2 phone*.