Finding Meaning In Enrique's Journey

During reading “Enrique’s Journey”, the touching story moved me to tears sometimes, especially at the moment when Enrique united his mom, I feel all of pain and suffering, that Enrique has underwent, were deserve it. I am lucky that I have a happy family during my childhood until now, but it does not mean I cannot understand Enrique’s feeling. He desired his mother’s love over everything, even a death. That strong desire motivated him to do anything to meet his mother again. Enrique makes me miss my mom so bad. I am an international student, and I have lived away from home for two years, so I know very clearly what homesick is. A long with having sympathy for Enrique because of his incompletely childhood, I think Enrique is kind of stubborn …show more content…
If I was him, instead of complaining, I would change my attitude. I remember a quotation of Lou Holtz which is “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond it”. Everybody can choose either love or hatred, happiness or sadness, hope or giving up. This does not only happen to Enrique, it also happened to a lot of people nowadays, included me. I sometimes do not live in the present, I follow what I do not have. Nevertheless, life is very equal. At the time I have some things, I also lost some things else. I obviously cannot everything at the same time. For example, I have a dream of studying abroad, I must accept that I have to live far away from my parents. I want to travel around the world, or buy a house, I have to work hard. I believe in the causal between giving and taking. I like this book because it sends me a message that life is a journey, I may get risks, pains, challenges, and frequently difficulties, but at the last chapters, love always paid off. All we have to do is being brave to take the journey and believe in yourself. We just live only one time. In addition, “Enrique’s Journey” also reflect a reality of immigrant in the United