We arrived in the middle of the night, almost in secret. When we were a couple miles away, we could see dimmed lights up ahead. The closer we got, the brighter they shined our way. They resembled the stars in the sky, but instead they had fallen onto the ground to illuminate the night. When we drew into town, everything seemed so strange to me. These building seemed foreign, I didn’t recognize anything. The stone buildings, seemed strange from my perspective. Strange in a way that this was all so new, I couldn’t possibly remember any of this since we left when I was but a baby. I felt like a stranger in the town that I was suppose to be a member of.
I had experienced this feeling before, when we first passed the border, but everything hit me harder now. I was in the town I was suppose to grow up in, the place I was to build a family in. Maybe if I would have left, gone to live in the city, but I’ll never know. These were new thoughts entering my mind. I had never actually thought them through before, the possibilities flying through my mind seemed never ending. That single fact scared me more than I ever could be. The reason it scared me so much, was the realisation that it all came down to a “what if”, the what if my parents had never made that decision. What if the person I was now, had …show more content…
When I was there I saw who I truly was. Where I came from, where my parents came from. The family I had waiting for me every time I went back. Those won’t be easily forgotten as I grow older. In the moments I was there, I felt like I belonged to something greater. I wouldn’t understand it all, in that time, but as I grew up every time I looked back I learned something about myself, and about my family. My parents had given up a lot, to give my sister and I better lives. They had given their families, their homes, and their people for Carla and
I had experienced this feeling before, when we first passed the border, but everything hit me harder now. I was in the town I was suppose to grow up in, the place I was to build a family in. Maybe if I would have left, gone to live in the city, but I’ll never know. These were new thoughts entering my mind. I had never actually thought them through before, the possibilities flying through my mind seemed never ending. That single fact scared me more than I ever could be. The reason it scared me so much, was the realisation that it all came down to a “what if”, the what if my parents had never made that decision. What if the person I was now, had …show more content…
When I was there I saw who I truly was. Where I came from, where my parents came from. The family I had waiting for me every time I went back. Those won’t be easily forgotten as I grow older. In the moments I was there, I felt like I belonged to something greater. I wouldn’t understand it all, in that time, but as I grew up every time I looked back I learned something about myself, and about my family. My parents had given up a lot, to give my sister and I better lives. They had given their families, their homes, and their people for Carla and