The Day I Became a Super Hero

From my brother’s marriage I got a nephew called Fernando. He’s just four, but he seems more intelligent than many adults I know. As my brother is divorced, we don’t have a constant companionship, but we can easily notice how much he develops in couple days. He gets bigger, smarter and more and more loving.

Once, I passed almost a month without seeing him, and when it happens, I miss him a lot. When he’s at my home everything changes: he colors the entire environment with his laugh and toys scattered for the living room. That day we met, my mom promised taking him to the Shopping Mall. My parents and my brothers were ready to go out when suddenly, I figured out I’ve forgot my wallet. I went upstairs heading to my room when I hear – ”Ant Drika… Wait for me!”. As I look behind, Fernando is just following me, trying to go upstairs faster, but his legs were so small that he couldn’t run.

- Hi, dear! Why are you here? Just wait me downstairs, I’ll be there in a few minutes!

- No, I’ll be here waiting for you! Won’t you go to the Shopping Mall with me?

- Of course I will! Look, I’m here just to take the wallet I for…

And before I could finish what I was saying, he embraced me and said ”I love you, ant Drika… and I missed you so much!”. I was paralyzed because that and questioned myself if I did deserve so many love and respect. Fernando has grown up more than I could imagine, he was able to demonstrate love in a simply and voluntary way. More than this, the moment he hugged me I could feel all the responsibility I had because him, not just being a relative, but as a role model, to be someone that he’s proud of and try to imitate all steps in order to be the same.

This happening made me reflect about how many super heroes we had and how many times we get disappointed discovering that super heroes don’t exist… but when YOU are a super hero to someone, the fear of failing disappear. You incredibly get stronger. From that day untill now I can accept any kind of responsibility just to make Fernando smiles.

Old new lesson

           Excitement, fear and satisfaction are some feelings that match with a lot of situations of our lives. Most of these moments has something to do with new experiences. Entering the university is surely a chapter linked to these sensations, it’s all about getting into a whole

Something completely normal for every middle-high class young adult who has barely even reached maturity. Once in a while, the healthy and painful process of growing might be a little more difficult then it seemed before.(before when? maybe if you explore better this “before” you can explain better what you mean) Almost every person with their twenty years should already have (have already) passed for (trough) frustration in relationships, however, something curious is the ability (maybe an other word to describle it better because I think it’s not an ability)) that humans have of “deleting” these lessons and repeat(ing) the same mistake(s).

Such ability rendered bad regressions to(on) my mind. We all know that it’s impossible to maintain deep friendships with a lot of persons for a long time, yet, the happiness and joy (happiness and joy are adjectives very close, maybe you can keep one of them and change the other to make your description “richer”.) of joining a course in the university that you wanted, could be blindful. In fact, by (I would take this BY off) being in the same area that we choosed it’s acceptable to consider very close the kind of interests of our new colleagues with ours, which, by the way, doesn’t mean that necessarily these persons (maybe these persons can be changed by THEY, then your phrase will avoid using PERSONS and PEOPLE to close to each other) will be good people. Well (I think that WELL is to informal to an essay), guess what,(the same comment to guess what) there was our incredible desire to believe in fairy tales covering the reason again. Soon I would discover that all these new best friends would turn to three or four, the majority of the others into something almost like enemies, due to the mutual fake respect that we had for each other and the rest simple colleagues. (maybe you could explain better your feelings. how did they turned almost enemies?)

I’m not meaning all people met in the university in the course, but the first big group formed there (maybe you can take this THERE out) as friends after the firsts weeks of integration. Maybe it could have been a lack of maturity from my part, though I am (was) neither the only nor the youngest who felt this way. Besides, after some reflection of this fact a new way of seeing this (it) was available (maybe you can choose a different word instead of AVAILABLE. this word sounds weird when you want to express a feeling or a new point of view). This situation is quite different from the old high school conflicts (how were the conflicts at high school. maybe you can compare them), now we can see people whose character is in the last period of development, and consequently, might really be bad persons or, at least, really don’t fit with us.

It might not be something that caused many harms or traumas to anyone around our faculty world, but surely it’s a lesson, liking or not, soon most of us is going to work for the first time, better already knowing how to choose who to trust than broking the face. (this paragraph is too long. I think it could be better explained if you divided it in two phrases or more)