My Inspiration

A couple of weeks ago, a good friend of mine recommended me a movie called "Voces Inocentes" an English translation to that title would be "Innocent Voices"…

I had never seen the first half of the movie so I didn't recognize it at first, but as I kept on watching it, my mom came into my room and started watching parts of the movie with me and started telling me that that movie is very similar to her childhood .

See this movie is about the Civil War my country of El Salvador had for 12 years and like many of my family members, they lived through those hard times.

There was a group of people that were trying to overthrow the government and those people were the "guerilla".

The nations military would come to the schools and recruit any boys at force that were older than 12 years old to be trained to combat the guerilla soldiers.

Not only were the males in danger but also females would sometimes be raped by soldiers from the military. For that reason, my mom ended her school career early due to the fact that she knew that she would end up dead if she stayed in school. 

I really don't ask my  dad but I know he had to do something with the military.

My parents would tell me about their childhood and how my mom's brother was killed by the guerilla. 

My mom tells me that those were sad times that she lived in, so my parents decided to come to the United States.

Here, they gave me a chance to have a better life and I'm proud of the day they both became U.S citizens.

Thanks to that movie, I have an idea of what my parents went through. Living in a war-zone  in a way takes away your childhood. 

I basically owe my life to my parents so for that I'm thankful…that's why I hate it when I see people complaining about their life over here because if that's the case, more than likely your parents had it way worse but as a parent, it is their duty to give you a better life than they had and it will be your duty to do the same thing when you have your children..

If you complain and complain about how hard life is..go ahead and do us a favor and send yourself to a third-world country and see how hard it is over there… it's so hard to even get to drink fresh water, something most of us take for granted over here.

I thank my parents for being my inspiration….

May 21st 2011 "Armageddon"???

So, I'm researching about this May 21st 2011 "Armageddon", its about a dude that has used mathematical clues to determine that this is going to be the day the world ends..it is a fact he had picked a day but he was incorrect  "because he didn't read into another book in the bible"…

that being said, NOT even JESUS CHRIST himself or the angels know God decides to come back, it can be today, tomorrow, or even next year, truth is a find it as a slap in the face of Jesus Christ for people to think they know when the second coming is… but just in case, ima spend my day reading the bible today,lol

Truth is, it is kind of scary about where you are going to spend the rest of your eternity. Think about the time frame that you have lived, does it feel like a long time? Compare that to 100 years, or 500 years, or 1,000 years…how about forever =( forever is a really long time and there's no going back. I hate people who say they know the day when the world is going to end but it does makes u put into perspective about if that were to happen, where would you spend eternity. 

Why I chose C.I.S as a major in college

As a kid, I would see my dad day in and day out spend almost his whole day opening up computers or just being in the computer. I would ask him the what's this and what's that questions and even though he would give me the answers, I wanted to learn and ask  more.

Fast forward many years into the future, I graduated from H.S and was ready to start college…then again, I didn't think I was going to graduate at all because I never pictured myself going that far. I started looking at my car and saw that it needed some fixing. I was leaning toward becoming a mechanic so I could fix my car and charge others to fix their cars, I thought it was a win-win kind of deal. I started doing my research and it came to be that I worked with a person that went to Lincoln Tech( a mechanic school ) and asked him why was he working in the same company for me when he went to Lincoln Tech. He told me that at the moment a job was hard to find so he would do side jobs. I met some other mechanics who told me that the pay is decent but in order to get more money, they would over-charge and fix something simple and make it sound complicated. This got me real mad, I'm not saying all mechanics are like that but I don't have the heart to do that to people.

After that, I was thinking about going to the armed forces but I saw that many of the people that were signing up were signing up for the wrong reasons. Some were just going for the women in other countries. My mom cried when the recruiter when to my house because she feared I would get killed over seas, but what really made me stay was my little brothers and sisters, I'm the oldest and I'm a big influence on them I felt that if I would've left, they would have gone in wrong paths. I don't regret staying.

It was a couple of weeks before I signed up for college, even though i took off a year and a half to actually register, i still didn't know what I wanted to major on. I googled different fields but I didn't picture myself doing some of those things for the rest of my life. I just wondered and wondered for days until I saw my dad opening and fixing a computer. I asked him what kind of processor did it have and how much ram was installed. I started to think,  if the processor can handle 64-bit and if I were to buy a 64-bit version of Windows then you can basically put as much ram as the motherboard supports and it would make the computer run very much smoother. These kind of things excited me, fixing computers and learning about them. Then i started setting up a home network at home. I was felt good connecting 4 computers in the house to be connected to the internet whether it was wired or wireless and having all of them being able to have a printer in the network that all the computers could print from different rooms in the house.

When it came to the day for me to register at school, I was happy to say that I wanted to major in Computer Information Systems (C.I.S)
In this field, I have learned code to make websites and I enjoy doing so. I have much to learn in this field and I'm more than glad I chose it.

Basically my point is that you don't know what you want to do for the rest of your life unless you try things out. How are you supposed to know if you want to be a mechanic if you never touched or messed with what's under the hood of a car.
If you want to become a nurse or doctor, talk to nurses and doctors and ask questions. Volunteer at a hospital if permitted.
You want to become a lawyer? Talk to lawyers and see why they enjoy being one?
You're not going to know unless you try, and don't beat yourself up just because you keep finding things you don't want to do, think about it as a process of elimination, that your cutting down your options and you are one step closer to finding out what you want to major and enjoy doing for the rest of your life.

Happy Mothers Day

Mother's Day is coming up and I just wanted to give thanks to my mom for never giving up on me. I may have not been the most perfect son but I could've grown up to be worse if it wasn't for her teaching me good moral and values.

When she tells me stories about her childhood, she makes me realize how much better I have it. She went through a lot of pain so I can have a better life and thanks to her I do.

I just hope to one day become a successful person so I can buy her a new home, even if I did that, it still wouldn't be enough for what she has done for me.

So if you are one of the lucky few to say that your mom is alive and well, please do let her know how much you love her..but not only for Mother's Day, but instead  do it everyday.

Here's a song to listen to that you can dedicate to your mom =)