The media and the TV sometimes show famous people’s conquests as well as their quarrels and fights.

They might be music stars, maybe from the cinema or television, who had difficult childhoods, with or without parents, without bread, with no shelter.

Some of them are very successful nowadays, but they do not forget where they came from. Remembering the difficult times they had passed through they become blessed people, distributing favours and attending necessities.

Others, however, become selfish people, who believe that because they have suffered before, they have now the right to have only pleasure in this life. These think just about themselves.

When they think about the past, they do it in a bitter way, affirming that they deserve everything, that life owes them something, because they have suffered in the past.

However, not only famous people have interesting stories to tell.

There are anonymous people scattered over the world who achieved amazing things, who ate the most delicious fruits.

The difference is that they are not focused by the media.

These are people who have no exuberant external beauty. People like Rosa Celia da Costa, from Alagoas, Brazil. She is quite small, one and a half meter of moral and a huge desire to win in life.

When she was only seven, she was left in an orphanage in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. She cried for months.

Every woman she saw wearing a skirt, she believed to be her mother who came to get her. After a while, she gave up…

Rosa Celia managed to get into Medicine University while she lived, as a favour, in a small room and had to work hard to survive.

She finished University and decided to dedicate herself to neonatal and infant cardiology, when she was working at the Lagoon Hospital, in Alagoas.

She could not speak a word in English, but she decided she would study in London, with not less than the most famous specialist in the world, Jane Sommerville.

She studied English very hard and got a grant. In London, her colleagues laughed at her because her English was so bad.

However, when she made a very difficult diagnosis in a Scottish patient, whom she observed for eight hours, she won the general respect.

As she remembers the fact, Celia smiles when says that the accent of the patient was even worse than hers.

From London, Rosa Celia went straight to Houston, in the USA, invited as a special guest.

But she soon realized she was pregnant. She asked for 24 hours to decide what to do, and ended up opting for her son.  So she returned to Rio de Janeiro.

She travels to study every year. She spends at least a month a year at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, working twelve hours a day.

She has her own clinic in Rio, she got her place back at the Lagoon Hospital and she had the deserved distinction in an article which showed the best doctors in the state where she is from.

She is the boss of a sophisticated Cardiologic Centre, where only special cases, the saddest stories, are treated.

It is a very expensive private Hospital. But she has managed to operate children who could not afford to pay for the surgeries.

She created an NGO, a non governmental organization and manages to get money from friends and business people, and she has already managed to examine 500 children and a further 120 underwent operations.

Rosa Celia has no pictures on the papers, neither is she on the catwalk.

Maybe her life will never become a film where to tell the World what she has done.

But she knows she fulfilled her dream: “During my whole life I had a dream” she says, “and I did it. It did not matter that I was poor, orphan, a woman, short and from Alagoas. I did it.”

Rosa Celia, an example of somebody who followed a dream and it came to a happy end.

An example to be followed, to give us the courage to fight, to show to many of us that we should never give up our dreams.

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Conquests without love are ephemeral. When people cover themselves with love, they spread it out, while feeling happy about the reached goals, joys and blessings around them.

Therefore love and be happy, because wherever they are, human beings are Divinity’s great investment.

 Spiritist  Moment Team, based on an Arnaldo Jarbor chronicle titled Dra. Celia Barbosa X Galisteu.