Life has always had a funny way of showing me how certain are suppose to be; that no matter how badly we want certain things to occur they just won’t simply because it’s not their time. As C.S Lewis once said “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind”, why is it that we are afraid of moving forward or simply looking ahead, many say that by simple looking up we are already once step closer to moving on. But many don’t talk about the pain that moving on causes, everything we leave behind, we must have courage to believe that whatever is in front is far greater than whatever was behind.
Challenges are accepted, but how about moving? My idea of moving was always due to new starts new beginnings, but when I was 13 years old I moved, not to a different house, nor to a different school either but to a different country.
One day after coming home from school my mom called and said that it was time, it was time to start new and not just that but start new with her in the big apple. Back then NYC meant where dreams came true, it was where the big starts came to be who they were. Excitement filled my head and I was nothing but happy.
Soon months after the hard reality hit me, turns out that the schools here are not like what I had known and neither where the people, everything was so different, time was as if it slipped by everyday. After a while I stopped counting the hours, minutes, days, months and soon after new york city became home, I learned the language and was practically an American.
But being in focused of my new home made me forget about the once place I called home that I cared so much about, I didn’t care about anything I had left behind, nor my family or my friends.
Now as an adult I see the importance of finding a home, that as children the first pretty thing we see, we say its ours, that no matter how hard things might be you don’t see it because you are so focused on the outside rather than what’s hiding. NYC is still my home, it’s the home I chose to call home, I might still be learning but something that being naïve taught me was that we have to be open to the new possibilities and not just that but also to what lays ahead, because one cant move forward unless you finally moved on from what behind.
