Post #4 Away

The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.  ~Erma Bombeck; Being away from your family is not the easiest thing that someone can manage. I had lived in Puerto Rico my entire life, since I was born, but my parents are not from here. My mother is from Colombia and my dad from Peru but he thinks he is more American than Peruvian, Well… my parents came here to look for jobs, so they could help their family (I didn’t exist in that moment) my mom came to Puerto Rico when she was eighteen years old, all alone with no friends and no family, she became studying in culinary school and there is where she met my father he was 17 in that moment. At first they didn’t like each other but, I don’t know love… is complicated. So they got married and they had me (The love of their lives).  I had lived away from my cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.  Sometimes I feel really sad when I see how my friends talk about their family and how they know each other. But in reality I had never knew too much my family, sure… I had been with them on vacations and in other opportunities but is not the same thing been with them all the time and if you need something they would be there.  But even though they are not with me, I know that they love the way I love them. J