#neversafe

#Repost @mapsmontejo ・・・ in any given moment we have two options to step forward into #growth or to step back into #safety #dulcementa #dulcementastyle @dulcementa #dulcementaquotes #mystyle #neversafe #alwaysgrowing (en Dulce Menta)

My grandmother had always been there for my mother and I. She was waiting with a gift for me each time I saw her. Everyone came before her, everyone. I have heard somewhere that Linda translates into beautiful... that fits her body and soul so well. July 2001 she was taken from us so quickly through no fault of her own. I had never seen my mother fall apart until that day. October 2001, it was my turn to fall apart. Our next door neighbor was the sweetest woman you have ever met and just as strong. She couldn’t have children of her own, so she took me in as hers. I had my own bedroom and bathroom at her house, my own snack drawer and shelf in the fridge for my chocolate milk. Even her husband would get jealous because she would buy chocolate milk for me, but not for him. She became my best friend. Cancer was jealous that is had been cast aside by her three times previously, it returned to steal her friendship back. Her friendship from me. By now life had taught me a very important lesson at ten years old; everyone dies. September 11th, 2001... By now death has made me numb, it means nothing to me. The girl and I were never friends anyway, but she was my cousin, and she was only a year older than me.  I know things don’t work simply by wishing and begging, but I still think she got her way because she asked and she had always been selfish anyway. She had been battling leukemia for some time and she looked at her family and said “I don’t want to die alone.” The morning of September 11th she went in her sleep while the buildings fell. Life had taught me the next important lesson; Even though you are young, you are never safe.