Nobody Knows

It’s amazing how your life change in a second, how the first impressions change, for good or for bad. In some situations, the first impression took by someone not only change for a better impression; sometimes you are impressed how people or the situations change by the time. I think a first impression not only refers to something related to a specific person, also refers to situations that were given to you and you couldn’t handle it at that moment. We all have moments in which we feel defeated, we are humans right? But we have to learn about those moments and learn to get stronger and powerful.

It was a beautiful sunny day in the beach, I was with my girl friends hanging out, I can barely remember that one of the girls was bugging me and we were laughing, suddenly my cell phone rang, it was my brother calling me, I was surprised, because even though my brother and I are very united and communicative with each other, every time I get a call of him it’s to saying me that something happened or important situations. Finally, I answered the phone and my brother’s voice was very funny like he was laughing about something and I remember like it was yesterday that he told me “I want to tell you something” and he followed that expression with another: “you will be an aunt, because you will have a nephew or a niece” and I didn’t thought about him, I thought about a cousin of mine, an aunt or someone of my family tree. When my brother kept talking to me I realized he was talking about his baby, his future baby. I was very surprised, I can say, never in my life I thought that my brother was going to be a young father. By the way, my brother’s age is 20 years old; in that time he was 19 years old.

The first thing I did after I hanged up the cell phone was cry like a baby when his mother doesn’t pay attention to him. I was very surprised; I couldn’t believe it in that moment because it was something shocking for me. At this moment, I don’t know if I was crying because the good and happy feeling it was passing through my veins or just because I didn’t want my brother to be a father yet, not at his young age. Obviously my friends hugged me in that moment and they told me not to cry because it will be a future baby I will love for the rest of my life, I knew that but I was shocked, sad, happy, all of these feelings in one moment.

That day I came back to my house and I saw my mother crying, and she told me that if I was already told, and she told me that she didn’t knew if she was crying because she was happy or because she was sad. I was passing through that feeling too, and is terrible, the worst feeling you can pass in your entire life. I remember that three days later we went to my brother’s girlfriend house because my parents had a date with her parents to talk about what they will going to do, if they will get married or whatever situation, they had to know.

My brother get married at the age of 19, and so his wife. They are married 1 year and a half now, and they are one of the happiest couples I have ever seen. My niece, Giuliana, was born in December 28^th of 2010, almost Christmas and almost New Year, we all were concerned about the date because Diana, my brother’s wife, was born in December 25, so nobody wanted Giuliana to born that “special” date too.

Now, we are happy with two new members in our family, because Diana and Giuliana are very welcomed in our home because they deserve it because they show to us that they love us. Even though my brother doesn’t live here in my home, they are very close to our house because we live in the same sector. We see Giuliana a lot, like four days in a week plus the weekend. Who would have thought that we could be happier with my brother married and with the new baby that is almost nine months now. That’s why we don’t have to judge something, a situation or a person because we don’t know how it’s going to be later.

A Memorable Event With My Family

We will always remember an event that maybe makes us laugh about it, cry or simply make us satisfied that we passed through it. We will always remember that moment that mattered to us so much or that affects us a lot.  I have seen in several cases that adult persons are affected by events in their life, mostly in childhood. I´m very thankful to life for not letting me to be one of those persons. I’m going to write about the first time I travelled and the first time i visited Orlando. Technically, it wasn’t the first time I was traveling, because the first time I was out of Guatemala it was like ten years ago. But I was trying to say: the first time I enjoyed traveling with my family. I was 14 years old, we went to Disneyland and then to Miami. My siblings always laughed about me because it was the first time I flight to Disneyland, and they flight the first time there when they were like 3 and 5 years old.

When we arrived to the hotel in Orlando, the receptionists gave us a paper with 5 tickets on it and we were very impressed because we can used the tickets in popular shops like Tommy Hilfiger, Nine West and all of that. Then, we noticed that beside the hotel were a lot of shops of the same brands of the tickets we had. We went to Tommy Hilfiger (the one I most remember) to figured out what was the tickets purpose, so the girl that was attending us said it was for 30 percent off in everything we wanted. We were very surprised so we went with our parents to all of the stores, but we gave to our mom the ones that were for grownups. That was our first date, the second one we went to Magic Kingdom, finally I could say I already know that wonderful place. We went to the games and I remember that my brother was bored because all the games are for young kids or for babies, I remember he said: these games are for children who believe they are The Beauty and the Beast, I always laughed about that. Even though my brother was saying that he wasn’t that bored, and I noticed because we all were having fun together and eating like pigs, because by the way the food of this place is so delicious. I remember that we saw so many persons with a smoked turkey leg, and we were like “where are the people that are selling that delicious turkey leg?” so we asked a American that was eating that and he told us where, so we went and we ate the delicious turkey leg, and I have a photo, so I will show it to you.

We stayed in Disneyland so many hours, and we passed through so many funny things, my mother lost her sweater, we almost died because of the cold weather and we went out of the place like at 12 pm, because we arrived there very soon, so my feet hurted so much. When we were trying to get to the hotel we got lost so many times because my father refused to use de GPS, because he said “I know Orlando like I know Guatemala” so then we all were like: “aha, yes you know it like you know Guatemala” so he get angry with us so it was very funny. One of the times we got lost was very funny because we all thought that we were finally in the right rode, when in the middle of nowhere, we found a “Welcome to Disneyland” and a photo of Mickey and Minnie, and it was very funny but we were very exhausted.

We were two weeks in Orlando because we went to Universal Studios and Island of Adventure too, it was very funny too and we had a good time all together because they were more games for adult people, but my mom had a problem getting into the Hulk game because she isn’t used to that type of games, she is more like “Magic Kingdom” thing, so she was very pale when she got out of the game.

I think this memorable events make us love our family and we learn that it doesn’t matter where you are, you need to have fun and mostly with your family because they are the most important persons in your entire life.  

my siblings and me :)

 my family but my father isn´t here, he is taking the photo.

That Significant Person We Need

At some point, you are going to met someone important in your life, a significant person that, in some way, changed an aspect of you. Maybe, that person changed your attitude, your first impression or one of the most important things in life, your thoughts. You never know what’s next, or if your life is going to change in an instant, for good or for bad. This year, that is the lesson I learned. You have to appreciate what you have, what is given to you and the things the life didn’t gave to you.

I met a person who helped me a lot with a very difficult situation in my family, my mom's disease. This person is called Ana Luisa; she is older than me, maybe the same age as my mother, she speaks very softly and she really understands what you are saying, I started to talk to her this year and we are very confident to each other in a more respectful way and I talk to her every day even if it isn’t about a problem. The first time I met Ana Luisa, was long ago, I was fourteen years old. We never really had a close relationship, until this year because she began to help me and to talk to me because she heard that I was going through this problem. What I think is that she was so interested in this situation, not only for being a psychologist, but also because she had been through this disease before. I’m very proud of her because she passed through tough problems in her life, not only because of the cancer but also because she once told me that her children didn’t helped her when she needed to. She told me that when she took her first chemotherapy, she was stuck in bed and her children went to party that day, and she is still resentful about that because she always thought they didn’t care about her or what she was getting into. I don’t want to be that kind of person that they  doesn’t matter about anyone and less their family, because I want to help, I want to love people and mostly I want to be loved. Ana Luisa put me that example because she doesn’t want me to be like them, and I don’t want to fail my mom and to my family because they are the most important priority in my life.

 I am very thankful to her for having asked me, because if it wasn’t for her, I would never have told anybody. Ana Luisa helped me so much talking about this problem, because I know I could relieve myself with her without feeling ashamed because she understands my position right now, I don’t feel like trusting in other people, telling my situation and my feelings.

Ana Luisa always tells me that I must have strength, and not to be defeated by anything that I think it is stronger than me, she always tells me about the faith and the trust I should have at my side. I think we all need someone to trust in and feel good about that person and that we can relieve ourselves to him or her easily. Ana Luisa always mention the theme: God, one day she asked me if I believe in Him, if I am close to Him and if I pray every night, I've always done that, I have always believe in Him and adore Him, there isn’t a day for me without praying. Sometimes she makes me understand that if I get closer to God, He will help me and help my family, and the most important part, God will cure my mother. Recently, I had a problem with a friend of mine, and she is helping me to solve it. What I want to say is that she is always there for me no matter what problem, situation is coming, and she always tries to make me feel better and she always gives me the strength I need.  

In conclusion, she is an important and significant person in my life, no matter what is happening she is always right there to help me and to help my family, that’s why I think we always need someone like Ana Luisa in our lives.