It was a warm tropic summer enough to make you clench with thirst. When we arrived all my family was relived that we arrived. We quickly flagged down a taxi and departed. When all this was happening I was a kid still thinking life is a game and if you did something wrong you can simply press RESTART.
On the way to our destination, I enjoyed looking at all the bright colored Spanish styled houses along the coastlines. Soon after that we passed through thick patches of forest, you couldn't really hear nature because we probably drove them away with the sounds of our engine. I mostly spent the whole time fighting with my sisters.
Soon enough we arrived to my Dad's hometown. It was I was like a Mexican version of Kannapolis because it isn't a big city but a good number of people lived there. I was amazed by how much people there was at the heart of the town. Families enjoying time with each other, people having interesting conversions and so on. The look on may dad's face was priceless when he saw his family, it was like a soldier gone at war and finally coming back home.
The house where we will be staying at was beautifully done. It was stucco covered with a slight tan color with pumpkin colored tiles, enough to fool a kid to make him think that the house was an oversize pumpkin. Inside it had 4 Mid rooms, living room, kitchen, and all that stuff.I was surprised that there is no drywall but the walls were a hard out of clay/cement, just like your typical Mid Eastern Mexican house will be.
The fallowing afternoon we meet with other family members and that we didn't talk to in countless years. All from uncles to cousins I was told countless stories of my really early childhood. Some Uncles I have all like professors and teachers at Universities and they always are giving me tips like "never quit", "don't stop because of one mistake", etc. .That just kept on happening until the sun sunk in the horizon of the Earth.
There is one uncle that especially caught my interest, is my uncle Fransisco. He is that type of person that never gets an attitude and seems that nothing brings him down.
One Summer afternoon My uncle, dad, and left to go do some quick errands. My uncle and dad were having a conversion about some topic probably about politics or something of that nature. I was dozing off until he brought me into the conversion by asking "So how is school?". I simply responded "good". It went on like that for a good while. Then he said "Did you think life is not easy is it sounds like?" I said "Really, so if I want something I will have to work hard for it?" "Exactly" After that my dad took him back into another one of his long day conversions.
"Did think you life is not easy is it sounds like?" That one little phrase was jammed in my head for the rest of the day. As a kid I just decided to let it go and just went on with life.
As sometime went on..... I did learn life isn't easy, you can't just ask for a guide book to life.
