Ilse Anaid Ramirez Rico: A Brief Analysis

Ilse Anaid Ramirez Rico was born on October 3, 1988 in Mexico City, Mexico. She became the second daughter of Jesus and Rosaura Ramirez. Her sister Cristina immediately learned to love her and take that older sister figure she would later look up to. Both of her parents were very hard working people, her mother worked part time at a Jelly Company as a secretary and her father had a full-time job as a banker. Even though she was born in a middle-class family, her parents were never the type to spoil her or her sister, she was always given what was necessary for her to have. She never missed a meal or the opportunity to go on a trip and have fun; she was surrounded with so much love from everyone and that made her happier than anything else in
the world.
The weekends for most of the time were spend at the grandparent’s house, this was something that would happened every weekend. Every Saturday or Sunday the whole family would reunite at her grandparent’s house and they would all have this big family lunch, which included great Mexican food and desserts! This was a time where adults would talk about their long days at work during the week, but for all the “primos” (cousins) this was a fun day! Because they would all play in the backyard and suddenly all you would hear were little kids running and screaming around the backyard!
Anaid’s life growing up was full of many lessons that her parents never doubted to teach her. She has always admired and appreciated both her parents for teaching her that, everything in life has a prize! So, for her to have everything she has always desired she would have to work hard and learn to never give up! And that’s exactly what she did! Ever since she was a little girl, Anaid always give a thought about what she would want to be once she was grown up and she had a very open mind! She thought about being an Architecture or economist but it was always writing that grabbed all her attention.
Once she had graduated from high school, she went right into the college and decided to major in the Field of Communication in the faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Once she was there she saw that the field of Communication had a variety of options to choose and so she centered her career in the branch of Organizational Communication. Her first semester in College was fatal, she teachers were extremely strict and expected so much of her. It came to a point where she would cry every day after school thinking she would never make it through and never be as successful as she once thought she could be. After having things planned and wanting to take a year off, she sat down one afternoon and thought to herself, “What am I doing?” In that moment, she realized she couldn’t give up not yet! She had a whole life ahead of her and if she gave up now, then she would never accomplish everything she had planned for herself! “Practice makes perfect.” Those words would become her motto, as she decided to keep all those critiques of her work. that she knew would help her become better and eliminate the ones that wouldn’t.
After graduating in 2010 with her bachelor’s degree in Science of Communication, she started working at the International Airport of Mexico City, Mexico and did social service in communication which an area similar to public relations. Even though she enjoyed what she was doing, she left like something was missing. She then realized that it wasn’t what she had pictured herself doing and so she decided to chase after that dream she had when she was young, which was to become a writer!
Exactly a year after finishing up her social service at the airport, she started working at ‘Donde Ir’ Magazine in Mexico City, as a journalist.
She immediately fell in love with her job, as she finally had the opportunity to do what she was most passionate about which is to write! Everything seemed to be running perfect until something terrible happen that she never thought she would experience... In 2014, she went to the City of Morelia to cover her very first International film festival, she knew this would be an experience she would never forget and she was right but not in a way we would all want her to be. On her last day in the city of Morelia after having a few drinks with some of her colleagues, Anaid was sexually abused. She describes those days as, “A dark storm I thought would never end.” In that moment, she thought of a million things, including quitting her job. When she returned home, she didn’t even know how to talk to her parents and explain to them what had happen to her. A week later after returning from Morelia, she had a motorcycle accident and took a few days off work, “In that moment I thought to myself, things happen for a reason.” So, she took advantage of her incapacity to talk to her mom and tell her everything that happen to her during her
trip.
“During those days, when the sun rose, I didn’t want to wake up, I just wanted to stay there and wait for everything to end.” Her whole world was falling apart and she had thought that was the end of everything, but he family didn’t let her and she was determined to be as strong as she could stop she wouldn’t fall. It has been a strong process for her, every year being a new challenge to not let herself drown in those memories. She describes those moments in her life as the biggest challenge she could’ve ever overcome, but she would never regret not giving up. “Many good things have happened in my life ever since; I would’ve missed family reunions, watching my nieces and nephews grow up and I would’ve never met the love of my life, my fiancée Edgar, within many, many other things.”