Slowly my eyes open, hoping what i just saw wasn’t reality. With sweat running down my face, i sit up. It’s dark, but i can still feel my covers soaked in sweat. Phew, i’m in my room. I sit up and realize that what I had just seen was all a dream. These night were very common to me as a young boy. A lot of my nightmares were made up of something horrible happening to family members or my friends. As these nightmares kept torturing my sleep i realized that my dreams were teaching me lessons. To cherish my time with the loved ones i have with me now and don’t dwell so much on what the possibility of things that could happen. But to focus on what was happening in the present day.

After I grew up and was able to see the picture that i was apart of, i was able to not lose time with my family and loved ones before something tears them from this earth. As most teenagers my age they haven’t been able to grasp the understanding of time, and how if we, as teenagers, don’t use our time wisely, we lose people and all of these earthly pleasures. I have never lost a person in my family who I was close with, but i have lost family members recently. In the past year in a half i have dealing with the loss of my dog, who we’ve had for 10 or 11 years. It’s kind of interesting to look back at those nightmares and see that they have actually affected my life today. As a child, I simply saw them as my fears, but they were much more than that. I learned that i should cherish the time i have with my family. Spending time with my family is crucial to an everyday life long commitment. As going to college i lose that intimacy with my family because i won’t understand what happens throughout the year.  It’s interesting to know that my nightmares as a kid, is showing what kind of person i am today. I want to be able to travel the world and help those less fortunate than me, and help those who weren’t able to grow up with a family.

These events have taught me that my passion for when i graduate college is to help others, that aren’t as fortunate as i am. There isn’t a lot of things i can do in this country where judgment is so prominent. Now this story shows how i was shaped as a human being. No one else has had MY experiences, now i can’t people haven’t gone through what i have, cause that wouldn’t be true. Many have dealt with more lose than when it comes to family, but once you learn how to take that hurt and use it for good, to sympathize with other families you create relationships as close as family.