"Carpe Diem"

Chapter 4 - Landing

___

While I was writing this chapter I was listening to the music on the side.. So if you are going to read it, please listen to the music along the reading, you won't regred it, I swear... Hope you enjoy the chapter...

___

A huge noise involves my ears. The ship is about to land. We are about to go home. Our home. Somewhere where we can dream, we can fly, somewhere where nothing can stop us, nothing can makes us feel down. The perfect place, for a brand new start, a good, perfect new start.

Everyone around us is excited. Smiles, tears, laughs, its all I can hear. No one is afraid of whats going to happen next. Becouse they know, worse than what we have lived, is practically impossivel. 

I feel a tear coming down my cheek, a tear I didn´t knew I was holding. And then a smile is formed on my face. The feelings of freedom, hapiness, kindness are contagious.

All of this, remainds me, of what my father used to tell us, me and my sisters when we were sad, Carpe Diem. Enjoy the moment, enjoy the day, live each day like it is the last, take every oportunity you got, and live it, don´t regret anything in life, just live it!

That was the only thing he knew how to say, in a diferent language.

We leave the deck, and my eyes got stuck in the view. I feel more tears falling, but I don´t care. I´m happy. 

I never saw anything more beautiful, anything more per-fect, more special than this.

That was the place I would, for now on call home. The place were I will follow my dreams, and live them, even if I have to try every single day for them, I will not give up. 

Second chances in life, are ussualy rare, so I am going to take mine, with all the straight that I got, and make it worth it.

A lot of people are in the bank of the river, smiling and waving at us. They are making us feel welcome. I couldn't expect this... People are happy for us.

Happy that we no longer live in fear, or in war, we are living the dream of so many. A dream that catches everyone in that place we left behind, during the night. While they pray their chance will come someday.

Those are the ones with courage. Courage to life, even thoght they lost everything that ever made sence to them, the love of their lifes, the peace, the fresh air  we used to breath, everything.

Those are things that will be never be replace, they could never be. That part of them, the pain, will continue to fill their hearts every single morning reallizing their reality.

During the travel I always thought, they would be a little bit mad, because , we are invading their lands, what belongs to them. But no.  They are here, to say hello, and help us, with everything we need.. 

Right know, if my smile could get any bigger it would...

"This is all for us!" I can hear my Marcus say.

"It is, little man... For our new life. For our new chance!" I say.

I look down at them and they're smiles, make my heart full.

We are being lead out of the ship, and the same lady from before put us all in line...

After a few moments, the capitan stars calling by the families names. And I feel my heart star betting faster.

Finally, after what felt like a million years, they call our family name "Porto Nunes?!" we wave our ands in the air, like the other ones did. 

Right know they  are comanding us to a train?! Is that a train? Well it must be, I guess. We got in and I hear the lady saying to the trucker "It´s full, and ready to leave!" . The doors are closed and the young lady wave a goodbye to me, and I do the same, smiling and muttering a 'thank you' in my lips...

It's NOW. We are going home. Finally our Home!