★ This is a heartwarming true story. The author shares her emotional struggles and personal growth after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, showing the resilience and courage people can have when facing life’s toughest challenges.
★ Throughout her battle with the illness, she never stops searching for meaning in life. Her journey inspires readers to cherish the present and face difficulties with bravery.

Anyone's life can be transformed in a single second, or in a single diagnosis. This happened to the author on June 17, 1998, when he was struck by multiple sclerosis.

"The Life I Have not Lived" is an impressive reflection on the ability to overcome the most difficult circumstances. Gutiérrez Muñoz, together with Aurora, his wife, has not been able to develop the life plan he had foreseen. However, not only was he able to overcome the psychological blow of knowing he was the carrier of an incurable disease, but he has also promoted numerous solidarity projects in India, Nepal and Ecuador.

A life composed of several lives. Several lives driven by the desire to live.

"For many years now I have been trying to find meaning in my life by adapting to the limitations imposed on me, slowly but progressively, by a cruel neurological disease that has befallen me."

José Luis Gutiérrez Muñoz (Madrid, 1963)
He is a sculptor whom circumstances have turned into a writer. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid but, after getting a teaching position at the same center, a job he still holds, he was diagnosed with a neurological disease that progressively forced him to abandon his sculptural activity. From that moment on he channeled his creative energy into the literary field and into numerous artistic projects in orphanages in Ecuador, India and Nepal.