One Sunday‚ as I was driving back home from visiting my family‚ it began to rain. It was just me and the boys and they had finally settled down from fighting sleep and I entered into a place of worship and dialogue with God. He began to take me back to the moment when I wanted to mend the broken pieces of my life and fill the voids with a relationship with my father so bad‚ that I came so close to meeting him but God blocked it. I began to reminisce back on the moment I visited Texas for the first
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It was negative two degrees fahrenheit outside as I walked down the sidewalk. My house was just a block up ahead and I was slowly getting closer. Now the house was visible‚ but there was a movement on the front porch. I made it to the house to see a family of four homeless people trying to hide from the cold. I asked‚ “ Do you guys have any shelter?” The male‚ presumably the dad‚ of the family said‚ “No.” “Well come inside‚” I said as I opened the front door. They all hurried in as quickly as possible
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It seemed that all my years of hard work had all come down to this moment. All those days that I would spend hours at the gym‚ making sure I had made all my shots and perfected every dribble move‚ not even bothering to take Sunday off because if I wanted to go somewhere with basketball‚ I would have to eat‚ sleep and breathe basketball. I refreshed the inbox of my email‚ and there it was‚ the decision that would make or break my basketball career. I had tried out for one of the most elite club basketball
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I did not become addicted to alcohol or drugs‚ instead‚ I became addicted to escaping from reality. Born in Michoacan‚ Mexico I experienced the reality of feeling unsafe and unprotected‚ sleeping with an eye open just to see if I was the only one in my room. In a country where kidnapping and killing were the solutions to keeping a mouth shut from speaking the truth. Murder victims’ tortured bodies frequently appeared on roadsides without an explanation. I lived in a country where a good education
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Friday night‚ as our entire family sat together in the living room watching an episode of Jeopardy‚ listening to one of the contestants give their story about how they taught their African grey parrot to not only have an eighteen hundred word vocabulary‚ but also be bilingual‚ you could feel everyone’s boredom spread throughout the room. My brother‚ who was sick and tired of hearing Alex Trebek said‚ “Guys‚ why don’t we ever go do something fun! We should go to Magic Mountain this weekend.” I shrugged
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Middle school was really weird time for me. It seemed like it was the most dramatic / drama filled. Our school at St. Peters was messed up‚ anything that could happen did. I’ve had teacher come up to me and ask for answers to what happened. Students doing bad things and etc. Also middle school to me was so fun‚ because people who I like got in trouble because of me. If you weren’t my friend at St. Peters you better hope that you weren’t mean to me‚ because if you were the teachers would find out
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Many people I know have learned many life lessons while playing the sport of football. Vince Lombardi‚ the Green Bay Packers former coach‚ has a quote that no sports editorial can disagree with. I survive by this quote every single day of my life. The quote says “Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work‚ sacrifice‚ perseverance‚ competitive drive‚ selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile
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I have owned a number of vehicles in my lifetime. A couple of new ones‚ with the new car smell‚ and all the gizmos and gadgets that make new cars so desirable. I’ve owned mostly used cars though‚ and some of them were real beauties‚ that I hated to get rid of when the time came to part ways. The worst of the lot‚ the car I felt‚ that most nearly put me in an early grave‚ was without a doubt‚ a 1971 Chevy Vega. The Vega was introduced by Chevrolet in 1970‚ and was manufactured until 1979. I guess
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The summer of 2009‚ I arrived to the United States with my mother and two siblings for the first time. While I was looking forward to new opportunities in a country known for its liberties and opportunities‚ leaving my home and family was devastating. I cried every night because I was 1‚509 miles away from my birthplace. I was now in a foreign land and I could not identify with many people. That was the start of a brand new era. It was difficult adapting to a new country‚ language and culture. I
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The waves crash against the shore as he sits beside me on the sand‚ our feet touching ever so slightly. I hug my knees to my chest and force myself to keep looking at the sea‚ a blur of endless blue to my watering eyes. My heart is a rock‚ sinking into the ocean of my chest and he knows this. “It’ll be okay.” The words fall from his lips‚ soft and wary. An unsaid question hangs in the air between us and I start to trace patterns on the sand with my finger. I can hear him sigh. Will it really be
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