-Lydia was born in a hut placed in a rural landscape next to a little village of farmers in the Duchy of Adria. She lived there with her mom and her dad. Her mother Annabella Schuber was then 31 and her father Wolfgang Winter 32 years old.
-Her parents met, so she was told, in the village next to the one where they now live. They grew up together, fell in love and decided to marry. The money was scarce from the very beginning of their life together. They became farmers, built the hut and got the baby: Lydia. While her mother always told Lydia stories about her childhood and her teenage years her father was never really open about anything. He was a very silent person and Lydia didn‘t have much of a connection to him.
-Lydia didn‘t go to school. Instead, when she turned 10 years old, she was told by her father to work with him on the field to earn more money. Just like that, Lydia spent her teenage years working, not making friends or getting good education, like the other kids in her village did. Sometimes when she would go to the market in the city nearby she would see the other kids in the village coming home from school in their nice clothes and feel ashamed because of the clothes she was wearing. The other kids would look at her in curiously or some in disgust. She then would look away and finish the shopping fast.
After her work was done, she would go on the flower fields not far from her home. Laying in it she would watch the sky and wonder about the world and her future. What would it be like to live in a city? What kind of people would she meet?
-The last two years at home were really boring for Lydia. Her home was calm and peaceful but very lonely and every day felt like the other. She realized that she would have to get out of her home as soon as she could. The morning after her eighteenth birthday she packed her stuff which was not much and the little money she had saved up over the years and left without saying goodbye to anyone. She had left a letter to her mother in which she explained that her future is out there and not on the field.
She left with thoughts of a better life in the city Helena.
“Hello Sir!“, she said nervously. „I aspire to find good work here.. and...“
“And?“, the gentleman asked with an even bigger smile.
Lydia exhaled. „And to start a new life and leave everything behind“.
The man laughed: „Well, that‘s great young lady! Now go and do exactly that“.
He clapped on her shoulder, as if he was proud of her, as a sign to go.
Empowered by his words Lydia walked happily into the city, ready for what ever may await her.
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