The begining of a new life!

AS The time approached, I became a little melancholic. The last meal cooked by my mom, the last time I would see my friends in a very long time. The last time I would drive my truck,  my last night sleeping on my bed, the last day of my life as I used to know it, as it used to be.

The  alarm rang. I couldn’t believe I was waking to what would be a change for me, a change of place, a change of life, a change  where I would leave  physically the people I love, to take them in my heart to a new life. Farewells are always sad. Saying goodbye is something I do not like when it comes to somebody I really appreciate.  I said goodbye to my mom and sister with a heart that was tearing up in pieces. A Part of me was really sad, the other was happy and a little tiny part was starting to feel a little nervous for the uncertainty of the situation.

At the beginning I felt I was in some kind of vacation with my dad and brother, as they came with me to help me settle down in L.A. The day I left them in the airport reality hit me. I was own my own…

This was something I had been waiting since I graduated from High School. I know, even if You don’t say it, that you think “Why did He go for filmmaking?...He had it so easy with his father’s business”…I know…I’ve thought that myself before…I even hesitated it a little when I was about to apply for the Film School.  “Why changing everything for nothing?” Was the Idea  that crossed my mind. The answer is really simple… That everything was not going to make me happy. I rather do what I like even if I’m poorly paid for it, than earn the big bucks doing something I would do as a routine. As far as I know and as I believe, We only have one life and I’m planning to make the best out of it and enjoy it to its maximum and a routinely  life will not help to accomplish that.

Here I am, starting to fulfill a dream in Los Angeles, California with lots of dreams and hopes…

2008 ends, 2009 begins...

2008 started, I was very depressed, I remember. I had  just come back from one year studying abroad and I was missing everything and everyone.  I felt really weird, like if I didn’t’ belong here. I remember my eyes would produce that liquid  call “tears” almost every night.  Time heals  everything and as time went by I started adapting to my old life again.  That’s what we, humans, do. “Adapt” We can adapt to anything.   An So I adapted to  my friends, to College,  to my old life.  I say my old life to refer to what I used to do before going to the States , because my life wasn’t even  close to how it used to  be before leaving to the US, it was somehow different.

This year flew as If it was in a rush to be over and leave place to the year  2009.   At the end of any year, when you think about it, you feel like it happened really fast. Always. It is like a law. In this case, I felt this year passed even faster than normal. It was my last year of college, the last year before  starting what I have always wanted to do; to study Film Making.  I didn’t’ want it to fly that fast.

I can say this year was prophetic, apocalyptic, the year I had been waiting for.  I changed a lot during this year, I can say I changed even more than when I was in the US.  I took lots of important decisions that will transcend for the rest of my life. 

This year I didn’t finish a book either, but I did write a few chapters for my fourth novel. Even better, I got the inspiration I needed by traveling to Europe. Finally! The trip I had been waiting for years finally came. I spent 22 wonderful days with my Family traveling around those beautiful and ancient places of Europe. That trip was like a vivid dream, the best family trip of my life so far. Also, that trip came in the perfect moment, a time in my life where I needed to spend time just with my family and to think of many things.  It is true that things do not happen when you want them to happen but when they HAVE to happen, when the time is right and they do happen for a reason.

Not only did the year end, but also my college and one cycle of my life. I’m sure my life starting this new year won’t ever be the same. It will give a 180º spin.  As people commonly say,  this new year means  a new life for me and a new stage , a stage I had been waiting for many years…

I really hope this years that is starting is better than the previous ones and that this year that just  passed was better than the others. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!