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Alejo García

Emily Litle

ENG 121001

13 February 2022

Journal #4

Life is a period of time in which you go from being a child with no

responsibilities to being a parent, grandparent... with many responsibilities. Life goes by

very fast and we are hardly aware of how wonderful it is, because we focus too much on

our problems and do not think about the afterlife. In the end, everything has its end and

sooner or later, for one thing or another, life will end and we will take to the grave those

moments that have marked us, both for good and for bad.

A moment that I will surely take with me is a recent one, because it is a

game I played. This match was in June 2020 and to play it we had to travel 600

kilometers, about 6 hours by bus. I remember getting up the day before the game and

going to train, once we finished training, we took a shower and started the journey. My

parents told me that they could not go to this game (the most important of the season)

because they could not leave my brothers alone with my older brother. Of course, I

understood my parents perfectly. After 6 hours of driving, we arrived at the hotel, once

we had checked in, we went to see the city and then to dinner and to sleep, because the

next day we would play.

The next day, I remember getting up early and doing the things I usually

do before a game, stretching, having breakfast, showering, meditating.... After all this

we got on the bus and headed to the field. During the trip my father sends me a message

encouraging me and sorry for not being able to be there. As always I answer him and

tell him that nothing is wrong and that we would see each other at home with the goal
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accomplished. Once on the field, we go into the locker room, they give us the lineup, we

change and go out to warm up. When we go out to warm up, I look at the stands and see

my parents and one of my brothers there, at that moment I thought: what are these three

crazy people doing here, if they were not supposed to come. It was an indescribable

moment, at that moment I was completely happy and proud of them. Once the game

was over and not in the best way, they were the first ones to be there and support me

like nobody else. On the way back home, I was thinking about that moment for 6 hours

because it was something that as I said, filled me with happiness and pride, to see how

my family was supporting me after 600 kilometers.

That moment marked me so much that it made me see that wherever I am,

my parents and my family will be supporting me like no one else and that they will

always trust me. That's when I realized that life is based on moments and that in the end

it is those moments that we will always remember in a special way because they have

marked us in one way or another. It is those moments that fill us with happiness or

sadness when we remember them, and I repeat, they are the ones we will take with us to

the grave.