Story to tell....Veronique

Thirty years ago, on December 6 1989, in Montreal, 14 women in l’Ecole Polytechnique were killed because they were women. I was only a young kid back then and I don’t recall those events. Years later I remember, on the day of the anniversary, listening to the news and seing the sorrow the souvenir brought into the lives of people across the country but not fully understanding why it had happened. It’s only years later, while attending university in the engineering program, that I really became fully aware of the gravity and the meaning of that day in the evolution of women’s rights. They were 14 women just like me, just like many women I’ve grown with and shared challenges of studying in a field where men dominated in numbers. We were all aspiring to do great things, to push the limits established in the society, and complete our education with a goal in mind of helping our communities, our country and the world. We had dreams, and we were going after them. Never in our minds w...

You wait. You do the work. You are hoping for an outcome. You work at it so hard, you think it will never come. You take one step back, sometimes two. You are waaaaayyy to hard on yourself because you should know better, you'be gone through the learnings and you can't really understand why the path is going as you thought if would. The picture is still blurry and you wonder if it will ever happen. You've dreamed of it, you've wished for it, and yet still nothing. Until..... Well, the day has arrived. Totally unexpected. You took a chance. You didn't know for sure if this was the right move, but yet, you took a chance. Your gut was telling you it was what you were meant to do. Your gut was stronger than any anxiety & insecurity you might feel, and for once, you listened to it. It felt like a big plunge into the abyss but at last you did it. It took a few weeks. You were scared, telling yourself you've made a big mistake, you probably should have played i...