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life story without me
Thinking about what and how to write a letter to her
parents, Paulina searched for the exact words that could express what she felt
at that moment, it was only her, her paper and pencil locked in her room that
many memories lived returned to her mind every time that she saw a picture or
simply any object that in her had a story to tell for herself since for others
you would not have any sense. It was a 30 of August, the minutes passed and
each time she weighed more to start writing her letter, the memories no longer
became just passengers but constant leaving every moment that was more insecure
to continue with her desire, not a single word weighed more that those happy
moments that together had passed with her parents although she always longed to
have a brother with whom to share those moments in which she needed someone to
talk about so many things she could not tell her parents either because of fear
or simply fact that she needed someone contemporary with her who could
understand her, advise her and make decisions together.
Those memories, images, thoughts and other things made
Paulina, without thinking, gradually releasing from her own fist the pencil
that never wrote a single letter, isolating herself from the present and from
what she did only to go deeper into that past that several times I did not let
him advance. Renouncing everything, she went to a place where she could be and
no one else, only with herself and her story, only then could decide the best
way to do in those moments of great tension that was crossing but in the
background they were going to help her become what she has always wanted, to be
a great doctor but especially a great person. Paulina went to a small field on
the outskirts of Quito where I look for a place to relax and relive all that
past that attracted her, when she found that place began to contemplate the
sky, the mountains and everything around her feeling like the noise of the wind
brushed against her skin and as the air entered her lungs slowly, it was when,
with great nostalgia, she remembered a joyful moment, a little complicated in
her life, this was when she was 12 years old and she was in her first year of
school Sta. Maria Mazzarello, had a very good childhood together with her parents
since to be an only daughter all the attention was directed towards her but
during her childhood she felt the lack of something she could not describe
until this very moment when she entered another stage of her life, a
complicated stage.
This stage of her life was marked by new things she
was discovering and she needed someone to share these moments but her only
problem was to be an only child, although she had a great relationship with her
friends, cousins, uncles and other relatives, she needed something even more
than a friend, someone he could trust without hesitating something like a
brother, so she asked her parents to have a brother, but they could explain
that they could not have it and that this is not going to change. Disappointed
with her wishes and something sad in those days was when she found Emilia, a
girl of her age who since she met her had a very strong connection and fit very
well with each other with things that unite them as the same fact that the two
were single daughters, since then Emilia would be her best friend thereafter.
Although her memory filled him with many emotions this
helped him to clarify her problems more but after this came to her mind other
memories a little more clear, these were about her life in the stage of
adolescence where it was one of the most complicated stages that she had to
live because she had constant problems with her family not so much with her
mother but if with her father it was the straight and hard image that he had to
follow but that on several occasions she was not involved in these ideas and
always argued about which is right or wrong in the destiny of your life. In the
middle of this memory she remembered a conversation that one day had with her
best friend Emilia who next to her mother were the people in which she most
relies; this conversation was about a confusing situation that happened in her
life specifically of dreams that Paulina had constantly but did not know how to
interpret them, in these dreams she was seen as part of another family where
she had a brother named Miguel, was especially what she wanted when she was
younger but in these dreams she was not comfortable with the life she was
carrying so they came to a conclusion with Emilia that maybe being single
daughters will not always be bad at all and having a sibling is important but
It is not like that no matter how much they could follow each one forward with
their projects and lifestyles.
All these memories are of the stage of 12 to 18 years
that Paulina had to cross, already by that time she was already 22 years old
and it is when she makes the most important decision of her life, which she was
able to decipher thanks to this day in which so many things happened.
Eventually when Paulina returned home her parents were
waiting for her desperate to know nothing of her in a few hours, Carlos her
father and Jenny her mother listened attentively to what she had to tell them
which was an immense and great joy for them since Paulina had decided to
continue with her medical career which she thought to leave in the middle of
this but her attitude helped her to continue with her life project to later
graduate from doctor and in a few years to become what she had most wanted.
Miguel Rodríguez 3 BGU "A"
