What comes first in your life before everything else? For me, family comes before anything and everything. We are a huge family stretched out all over Mexico and California but owning a ranch, sometimes a question of who owns what piece of land rise at the most unexpected moments in which the greed and ugliness of people comes out. One of these moments started with everything being normal in the ranch in Zapote, Mexico.The sun was hot and everything that needed to be done on the farm was done. Later that day, my grandmother passed away while taking a nap. She was a kind woman but stubborn as she never let us take her to hospital to get her help with her sickness. The news of my grandma leaving us and going to better place as well
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I could feel the tension between everyone and I also had a front row seat to the anger that oozed from everybody after keeping it all bottled up for years. You could hear their pain with the words they said and see it with the gestures they made, but no one would give up. My uncle Martin claimed, “I should own a piece of the land because I worked hard enough for it and I believe I deserve it.“ Then my aunt Blanca snaps back, “ Just because you think you deserve it doesn’t mean everyone else thinks the same. By the way, everyone has helped out more than you, so you shouldn’t be talking in the first place. You didn’t even bother to help us when we needed your help and now you want a piece of land claiming you helped a lo. Ha! You are so ridiculous.” Everyone wanted to fight physically, but luckily it didn’t get to violence. If it would have turned physical then we would’ve really been in trouble, but the argument kept going …show more content…
It was then and there that my uncle Marco decided to call quits because he was tired of fighting and making matters worse. To get everyone’s attention he yelled at the top of his lungs, “ We aren’t getting any where, we are just instead hurting each other. This is the one thing our dad and mother wouldn’t have wanted us to be doing. Instead of all of this arguing, we should come together as a family and overcome the obstacles in our path together because united we are stronger than
I could feel the tension between everyone and I also had a front row seat to the anger that oozed from everybody after keeping it all bottled up for years. You could hear their pain with the words they said and see it with the gestures they made, but no one would give up. My uncle Martin claimed, “I should own a piece of the land because I worked hard enough for it and I believe I deserve it.“ Then my aunt Blanca snaps back, “ Just because you think you deserve it doesn’t mean everyone else thinks the same. By the way, everyone has helped out more than you, so you shouldn’t be talking in the first place. You didn’t even bother to help us when we needed your help and now you want a piece of land claiming you helped a lo. Ha! You are so ridiculous.” Everyone wanted to fight physically, but luckily it didn’t get to violence. If it would have turned physical then we would’ve really been in trouble, but the argument kept going …show more content…
It was then and there that my uncle Marco decided to call quits because he was tired of fighting and making matters worse. To get everyone’s attention he yelled at the top of his lungs, “ We aren’t getting any where, we are just instead hurting each other. This is the one thing our dad and mother wouldn’t have wanted us to be doing. Instead of all of this arguing, we should come together as a family and overcome the obstacles in our path together because united we are stronger than