Posted Date: Jun 7 - 11:54 AM
(Spanish)"When I come back Dad, I will PROMISE you that I will buy you a house next to the beach...
Right up there in Malibu. I know how you, Dad, and me like the beach (I am not sure why I liked the beach, I am just sort of drawn to it...
it will be nice Dad, it will be our home away from home (to get away from LA and the City enviroment)...
and it will be conventiontly next to Pepperdine..."
These where the words I said to my father when I was finishing high school and going on to college. You know when you are young, you have big dreams and are kinda happy and nervous at the same time. (At the time, I was feeling grateful and realized if it wasn't for my parents being involved in my academic career, where would I be now?) What does the future hold for us? We are becoming adults and want to take on the world. Well, me anyway, my father, I am not sure how, he heard how Pepperdine was a "Christian" university and was located not so far from LA. I have not even considered it. I was having my second thougts when he said it was Christian. But what I did like about it, it was in Malibu, and both of us where familiar and like the area. We use to pass by it. When I was in elementary, I kinda found the "white tower" peculiar, I thought it was a new type of lighthouse.... Or thought it was the Washington monument, or some sort of replica... So one of my relatives, to cheer me up, and continue with my academic carreer bought me a ... in a sorta way to remind to not to stay down.... keep on fighting this ....because I have to set an example. It did not help me that much. Instead, it kinda reminded me that I failed. That what my father said about humans and God was true. It is not up to man... I was afraid the I was going to begin to swear or be blafemus. Start drinking or smoking, swearing.Start disrecpecting women and become a "player". Slapping them in their butts. Be like those other... I looked at her, I said "No!, I have to be strong, because I am not the only one going through this test. It is not fair. She is only a baby. Why?! I wanted her to get to know her father. To know that he is a good man. A rare type of man. I do clearly remember, that in my prayers, the only thing I asked, was to give him more time, until my baby sister got her bachelors degree from a UC school. And he will be there, happy seeing his baby girl, receiving her diploma. A day filled with happiness and pride to our family. But it seems, that day was not meant to be.... Now I only ask him to me enough life to see my baby sister get Bachelors. I try my best to stay out of harms way, unless chivalry dictates to defend or junk. God give me strenght to continue this journey. Let me focus. Keep away from me all the evil that might let me go awry....(come back later).
