Childhood event

Our life is shaped from birth to death. So how our life begin to take form, well with childhood events, even if we don’t remember most of them, each one show us something, we learn from them, and built ourselves based on all that experiences. We start being happy since childhood, we start to see life with beautiful eyes since childhood, we start dreaming since childhood, and we start loving since childhood. If we have to set a stage of life as the best, we would never say early childhood or even childhood because we don’t remember with clarity but if we think that it is our base, our roots, and the beginning of who we are now then we could say that is the best stage of life.  I really can’t remember much of my childhood but some of the memories that come to my mind are all the times I went to Ontario with my mom.

In my first 4 years of life I remember I went to Belie, Ontario, Livingston and I really cant remember more. I went with my dad and mom but I can’t remember another thing from them.

My parents divorced when I was 4 years old and after that I start going all weekends with her to Ontario. I love the beach and maybe tat is why, because it is a great place to relax, have fun, and have a really good time. For me Ontario was a routine. I always went to the Hotel Johnny’s place or TO the hotel Piz de Oro. It is a really nice place. I can remember clearly the hotel like for example: I can remember the bathrooms, I can remember the social area that has ping-pong tables, I can remember the rooms with its amaca and a little pool in front of every bungalow. I also have remembers like for example the Hot cakes of breakfast, the Banana shakes, and all the food in there was great. I have always loved to run in the beach as fast as I can and feel the wind and at the same time that I am going nowhere just running for fun. I also remember waking up in the morning with my Ma to walk like 5 km until we reached a tower in the beach. My Ma is a beach lover, so he is a sand lover, sea lover, mosquito’s lover, and everything each involves. I remember she encourage me to jump the sea waves until we pass through to the back area were it is calm as water in a pool. I also have memory of a time my mother met a guy from Ontario and he was a bay watcher so I get in his back while he swim like 20 min until we get really deep in the sea. Those are some just of few memories I have from my weekends in Ontario.

I think it has a lot of importance making activities with your parents and I am glad to say both of my parents did with me during m childhood. After my parents divorced they get to an agreement that I would be with one of them one weekend and the next one I would be with the other one and was the way we did it and we keep doing. The weekends with my dad I remember we used to get together on Friday, go to his house and wake up early Saturday and Sunday to play tennis with him and his friends. I keep doing it even though his friends are already a bit old. On the other side with my mom we always went to Ontario as I was mentioning before.

Most of the kids have 1 childhood. I can say I have both, one with my father and one with my mother because both were completely different and I learned different things because of the different types of events. I am happy of how my childhood but I would not want to go back, I am also happy of how it is now and every stage of life is beautiful we just have to open our eyes, look around, and realize. 

An important person, TO ME

An important person is important because means something to someone, it could be to you, to me, or to a nation or country. Barack Obama is important not because he is different from us but because he means a lot to a country and to the world, because a large amount of people depend on him. For me that person is not a famous politician, is not a famous football payer, is not a singer. I think someone important to me needs to be someone I know well and give me bases to say she is important to me because of her characteristics as a person, as a friend, as a daughter, etc. Andrea Barrera is an important person to me and not only because she is a friend but because she is a role model to anyone who have the opportunity to know her. Andrea is not perfect but is such a good person that people jokes about how perfect she is. 

When you reach home with a bad grade of any class and you have to tell your parents, you make up an excuse, anything like: everyone went bad in the exam, it was a pop quiz, the teacher sucks etc., but it doesn’t matter how good your excuse is your parents would answer to you "which was Andrea´s grade?" there they got you because you would have to get down your head and say 98 or 95 or 100. 

Although she is a great student I cant tell that is why she is an important person to me because there a lot of student as good as her or even better. The difference is she does her best in all aspects. She is dedicated in school, she gives everything in karate, she is a sincere and all-giving friend, and she is just...herself and that is what I like most about her. I know her since I am 4 years old but we are best friends since we are in 2nd or 3rd grade. Our relationship as good friends began in 2006 when we coincided in trips, she will be going to the States because of karate and I think it is important to mention as one of all her abilities that this was only one of lots of trips she makes by being a karate champion, but the thing is this trip was at the end of the year and I would be going to Europe with my family at the same date, because we were going before school ends we needed to give all our class work in and make finals exams earlier. That last month we spend all our days outside the class making our class work together and she help me study to the exams, I can say that was the bimester I´ve had better grades. That year my notes were low and I had 3 classes lost until this last bimester. My grades not only recovered but went great! I would always thank to Andrea but not because she help me make my classwork or study, not because she is smarter, but because she makes me be a better person and motivate me to give more of me and be more like her. The reason why I got high was not because I copy from her, was not because she help me do it, it was just because with her I feel a compromise to do what I have to do, seeing that she makes effort for herself motivates me to make efforts for myself. 

Andrea is also a really funny and outgoing girl, we can hang out at parties and dance together for hours and never get bored, I can be totally myself with her and that make me extremely happy, feel that release of pressure of just being you without the thing of impress someone or don’t saying something. Everyone who reads this would say I´m completely in love with her and it would be obvious to think it, but I am extremely happy being her friend and I cant imagine changing that relationship. So yes I believe everyone of us has truly important persons, for most of us we can count them with one hand, and even if this sounds sad it is not because that makes them special, IMPORTANT, and unique; and I’m glad to say Andrea is those three for me.

Defeat

Be defeated is very relative. Maybe most of us relate it at sports, fights, or everything that involves someone to defeat you, that competitive idea of loosing against someone in a situation. The thing is most times is not only someone but something or even yourself the cause of the defeat.

For me I have been defeated a lot of times, at first all I could think was sports. I play tennis since I am 4 years old and I began playing tennis tournaments when I was 10 and at first I did bad but with the support of my family I could learn of my mistakes and keep up. Now I don’t longer play tennis and it never was because of loosing sets and games, or even loosing championships, for me tennis was more than that until I defeat myself. It could be said I was at a good level at tennis but my type of playing was not the best because of the way I holed the racket which is not an impediment. I reached the 9th place in Guatemala playing my way and maybe I could have had future. I was playing well and in order to play better and improve I tried to change my way of playing which is a great idea. I tried to play 2 months with my new style, I wasn’t playing as I wish so I retired from training; so instead of using this opportunity to improve, I defeated myself by giving up something I loved just because the results were not the wished.

These examples divide who you could be, and who you limit yourself to be.

Rafael Nadal used to play tennis with the right, he made a radical change to become left hand just because he thought it would be more difficult for the opponents to play against him. He trained as hard as he could and now he is the second best played of the world for the last 7 years and has been the first one 2 years. At difference of me, he put effort in is project and used the opportunity to improve his skills.

I considered myself defeated in some areas but even that declaration I am happy because I am making something to get up and learn from this. 

My family has a lot of troubles and there are many things that need to be changed in order to work better. I always thought it never depended on me how my parents get along if I am only their son so I took of that responsibility of my back. Now I realize that the problems between them affect the whole family and I am part of it so I have as much responsibility as they have. I started by talking to them but it didn’t worked so this Saturday 10th I bought them a book. This book is a best seller and the author is recognized around the world as one of the best. The name of the book is "7 Habits for a Highly Effective        Family" and is wrote by the Dr. Stephen Covey. I bought these because for them to know the interest I have for the family to improve and make them think that we get all damaged because of their actions. 

The point is I wont permit my family to keep like these, I wont permit my family defeat me.

The biggest responsible of defeat is fear and is obviously created by us. We decide if let the fear, the suffer, the sadness, the anger, or any emotion defeat ourselves. 

Even though this could happen in sports, we defeat at each other every day by not believing in ourselves, by not trying new things, by repeating routines, by getting scared of failing, etc. The thing is human been is able of making anything he or she proposes. Every human has the ability of choosing their destiny. Some don’t have the education and they limit their selves to a standard, some don’t have funds, some don’t have the imagination, but the worst are the one like me: the ones who have all of the above and always dream big but never do what they could and wish just because of the fear of failing, of not getting what they wished, of realizing they couldn’t make it. The people who dream big and work hard would succeed! if you don’t have one of this 2 then you better start creating it. Every kid grow up dreaming big, dreaming being an astronaut, dreaming being a race-car-driver, etc., but we live in a community that conforms with the standard and lives in the thinking that everything is a risk. Everything you make has a risk, the biggest the risk, the biggest the reward and there is where we should think. 

I considered myself defeated in some areas but even that declaration I am happy because I am making something to get up and learn from this.