mi osito~damm

A better life

2 months ago

I sighed and stuffed the last of my clothes into the suitcase, struggling to zip it up. I had to take everything with me to my apartemnt in Pachuca including University respectable clothes and working clothes. While I was living in Mexico, I would be commuting 3 days a week to UNAM a school in Mexico City. I hated to leave behind my family but it had to be done. In fact, the only reason my Mami let me is my cousins living there.

"Mami, I'm ready to go," I walk down the stairs to my family sitting in the kitchen.

"Okay hija, say goodbye and your Tio Ricardo will drive you across the border."

I said my goodbyes knowing that due to the instability of life in the Mayan communities of my country, this could be the last time I see all or one of them. I kissed and hugged all of my 6 living siblings in turn and said goodbye to the farm that had been my home for 20 years. I climbed into the back of my Mami's brothers car and said good bye to Guatemala. A better life awaited me across the border in Mexico.

Jurgen woke up to another morning in a place he didn't feel at home at. He awoke to missing his family and friends. All he wished for was someone to keep him company and to love him for who he was, as each day passed he got lonelier and he knew one day he would snap.