Transitional Experience
On a hot summer day on May 25 2012. I was walking out of a JFK’s airport for a job interview that I had with Delta Airlines. It was a hot day. The warm breeze that hit my face was not enough to cool me down and make me stop dripping with sweat. Out of nowhere from a distance I heard an aircraft’s engine. I looked up and saw an Airbus 320 aircraft taking off. This event brought me back to when I was a five year old.
My journey had started on a hot summer month on august 7, 1995. The stranger or my dad’s friend had picked me up from my grandmother’s house on a chilly morning. I was hesitant to leave with this man because of his appearance. He was around his late thirties with …show more content…
I didn’t know how to deal with a situation when your family leaves you. Is there a children’s videos for that? During that time I was left alone. I had a lost guidance and gained fear. Fear because all my thoughts where about what would happen if my parents never came back for me.
I always thought that this world was perfect I was completely naive about the world that revolved around me. I didn’t know what a bad person was or people being kidnapped. But little by little as time passed by without my family. A lot of things started to get clearer in my mind. Was this necessarily a good thing? Outside my grandmothers house while heading down the old stairs in the porch I would see adults fighting and cursing. I would smile at people that passed by and they would look at me with annoyance. During this time I started noticing that I was not in an innocent world that I thought I was.
Throughout my years I didn’t know how to approach my family about what had happened to me when I was five years old. After what had happened I was afraid to ask my parents about why they had left me alone. Another reason that I had decided not to speak about the subject was because I was determined to leave that nightmare behind me and so, I never talked about it. And I always knew that they would want to avoid the …show more content…
My family was talking about the best and worst memories we had as a family. And so I took advantage of this occasion to speak to my mother about my experience as a five year old and why I was left alone. The question that I asked my mother was why they have decided to leave in a completely different country with my grandmother? She responded by saying that she was awaiting this question for a long time.
She said to me that the reason that she left me all alone was because they had a very tough financial situation. Even thought they had money saved. It was not going to be enough to live in Colombia more than six months. My father could not find a job that would sustain all us economically. So that was an important reason as, if they couldn’t financially sustain us. Then they wouldn’t be able to raise us in an appropriate environment.
My mother was also five months pregnant and had decided to leave to New York because wanted him to be born in The United States. She also advised me that they didn’t really want to leave me. But the situation was getting harder. This made me realized a lot. Somehow I understand my parent’s decision
On a hot summer day on May 25 2012. I was walking out of a JFK’s airport for a job interview that I had with Delta Airlines. It was a hot day. The warm breeze that hit my face was not enough to cool me down and make me stop dripping with sweat. Out of nowhere from a distance I heard an aircraft’s engine. I looked up and saw an Airbus 320 aircraft taking off. This event brought me back to when I was a five year old.
My journey had started on a hot summer month on august 7, 1995. The stranger or my dad’s friend had picked me up from my grandmother’s house on a chilly morning. I was hesitant to leave with this man because of his appearance. He was around his late thirties with …show more content…
I didn’t know how to deal with a situation when your family leaves you. Is there a children’s videos for that? During that time I was left alone. I had a lost guidance and gained fear. Fear because all my thoughts where about what would happen if my parents never came back for me.
I always thought that this world was perfect I was completely naive about the world that revolved around me. I didn’t know what a bad person was or people being kidnapped. But little by little as time passed by without my family. A lot of things started to get clearer in my mind. Was this necessarily a good thing? Outside my grandmothers house while heading down the old stairs in the porch I would see adults fighting and cursing. I would smile at people that passed by and they would look at me with annoyance. During this time I started noticing that I was not in an innocent world that I thought I was.
Throughout my years I didn’t know how to approach my family about what had happened to me when I was five years old. After what had happened I was afraid to ask my parents about why they had left me alone. Another reason that I had decided not to speak about the subject was because I was determined to leave that nightmare behind me and so, I never talked about it. And I always knew that they would want to avoid the …show more content…
My family was talking about the best and worst memories we had as a family. And so I took advantage of this occasion to speak to my mother about my experience as a five year old and why I was left alone. The question that I asked my mother was why they have decided to leave in a completely different country with my grandmother? She responded by saying that she was awaiting this question for a long time.
She said to me that the reason that she left me all alone was because they had a very tough financial situation. Even thought they had money saved. It was not going to be enough to live in Colombia more than six months. My father could not find a job that would sustain all us economically. So that was an important reason as, if they couldn’t financially sustain us. Then they wouldn’t be able to raise us in an appropriate environment.
My mother was also five months pregnant and had decided to leave to New York because wanted him to be born in The United States. She also advised me that they didn’t really want to leave me. But the situation was getting harder. This made me realized a lot. Somehow I understand my parent’s decision