"Live is meant to be lived" by Rodrigo Hernandez

Exactly one year ago it was my grandmother´s birthday. I was arriving to my grannys house when I saw that some doctors were climbing my grandfather into an ambulance. It was a shock moment. Then, we went a little ahead and my sister and I went out of the car an enter home. All of this was in time of minutes. My parents went following the ambulance with 5 more uncles. I stayed with my sister at my granny´s house with 3 uncles and 2 cousins and with my other grandfather. At home I saw that in the kitchen , the food was in the grill and a kinfe in the table. I could see that my grandmother was cutting the vegetables. This happen at 12:30 , I didn´t believe it. I spent all that day at home , waiting for a call.

 

I remember that that day I ate pizza and rice with bananas. That day was like a year for me , the minutes were hours and the hours were like years.

At 4:00 o´clock the phone rang , it was

 my dad, he told me that everything was ok, that my grandpa was hospitalized and that I need to sleep cause they were irriving too late. They arrive at 1 am. I didn,t sleep.

My grandfather was hospitalized for 2 weeks and a half, he was very strong. Unfortunately he died. He died of stroke.

 

It was a hard moment. Because I shared my life with him in a very big way. I remember that when I arrived at my grandmother´s house, I ate and went with my grandfather from 3 to 7 or 8 pm , I spoke with him hours. We use to talk about soccer, watched the Ingles Family and watch classic movies. I played soccer with him too. I remember that we use to go to tha store and buy to packages of “chocolate abuelita” and ate it watching soccer matches or classic movies, it was a magic moment.

 

At his funeral, me and my family remembered too many things, we laugh, we cried, but always together as a family. In his funeral I give to my grandpa a soccer ball autographed by Pelé, it was his idol. I cried a lot. There were grice days with tears. But we need to learn how to live with the past and face the future, cause life depends of that. I know that my grandfather is not in the world, and he can not protect me as my grandfather, but he can protect me as an angel, because I know, he is in the sky watching me, and he will live in our hearts forever.