Basketball boy

When I was a girl, like 7 or 8 years old, I was in love with a boy of my grade. He used to practice basketball in the break time and by the end of the class day too.

I wanted to get close to him, so my mom told me that I could join him to play basketball in the break time. I wasn´t that good in sports, less in something with a big, heavy and fast ball that could hit you anytime. But the next day I was there, with him, trying to understand the rules of the game, and making conversation to be friends.

When I was starting to lose his attention, I quickly asked him about how to throw the ball to the basket, which is the fun part of the basketball sport I think.

Of course I got his attention back and not only that, for teach me, he put behind me and took my hands against the ball.

That was so romantic.

If I got to be honest, I didn´t think about the pressure of being teached and fail in that moment, which was something almost sure to happen. When he told me to jump, we jumped together and I threw the ball through the air.

Halfway to throw the ball I realized that I was living a Disney moment that could get ruined so easily. It would be a shame if he doesn´t wan´t to teach me anymore if I´m very bad at sports.

I started to think what I could do to make him stay, thinking about the plan "B", I got anxious.

But It was not necessary.

The ball directly passed through the basket. It was totally unexpected, I was surprised and he was happy, he inmediatly told me that I had skills for basketball and if I wanted to train with him.

I´m not a risky person, I knew it was just luck in the right time, and I´m very grateful about that, it will stay in my memory for a long time.

After that day we got closer, but as friends.

10 Years in future

Sometimes I think about the future,

In ten years I can´t be sure if I´ll still be alive, and, I´ve got to be honest, for me is not a big deal.

Anyways, for be more realistic I´m almost sure I´ll have a job and already had finished my college career, because I need money to do what I like to do and I don´t like the idea of maintained by my parents if they´re alive too.

Most of my friends from other countries leave their parents at 18 years old, so why I wouldn´t?

I would like to work in 3D animation, perhaps in other country could be easier to find a job and if I can choose I would like to go to another place where they don´t speak spanish or english.

But by then surely I will have done some postgraduate in animation, may have studied about three more years in a master´s degree.

Maybe I´ll have a partner, I hope I won´t have kids, but mostly I hope he/she doesn´t have kids.

We will not live together, because my life goal in future is to travel the world everytime I can. Maybe with my family, my partner or alone.

I hope that in the future traveling is cheaper, it is also possible that most people would be vegan or at least vegetaian, and we care more about the enviroment. I doubt if there will be a great change in Chile...