My best friend

By: Marlene Martinez

Do you have a best friend? Sometimes best friends are people we’ve grown up with like, cousins, aunts, and others. In my case, my best friend is my mom.

When I was younger, I remember my mom always working to give me and my little brother a good life,but not having her around made a distance between us, causing us not to have that daughter and mother bond. For example, for school events my mom wouldn't come because she was always busy with work. 

Growing up we didn’t have that relationship as we do right now. After my teens years we started getting close little by little by communicating more and not feeling scared of talking about my feelings.

When she had days off she would always be rushing with stuff she needed to do like pay bills, and really wouldn't talk when she would have free time because she was always sleeping since she was really tired of working.

Although I'm so thankful she did everything she could for us, I still would have wished we had that bond growing up so I could have told her how I was in school or what would bother me. The only times I would feel like she was present in my life was on my birthday, holidays, and any other accomplishment I did. It wasn’t that she didn't want to be present in our childhood time, it was her job that kept her from us for sometime.

As I got older, I started understanding her on why she would work a lot and didn't have time for us because seeing her struggle with bills made me happy she worked hard to give us everything. We started having more conversations than usual and since then we started creating a good bond. We started sharing our personal life’s, and sharing how we feel, something that we would never do before.

My mom describes our relationship as a great bond because we communicate a lot and share our thoughts through talking about how we feel about anything.

Josefina Zaragoza:  “ Super, porque nos comunicamos, mucho, en muchas cosas”.

                                    (Super, because we communicate alot, in alot of stuff.)

A favorite member I have with her is cooking together, because that's one of the times we talk about stuff going on in our life. I really enjoy this because she teaches me how to cook and get along more.

One of my moms favorite moments is just talking. We could talk for hours about anything about funny stuff that happened in our lives, how life is treating us, What dream I have in the future after highschool, or just sitting and talking in general.

Josefina Zaragoza: “Conversar, porque nos la pasamos platicando en ese momento conversamos más y ahí es donde nos contamos nuestras cositas.” 

( To talk, because we spent all our time chatting at that moment, we talk more and that's when we tell each other stuff.)  

Something my mom admires of me is that I don’t give up fast and if I can’t do it that day the next day I try even harder even if I don’t know how to do stuff.

Josefina Zaragoza: “ Que das todo de ti, si hoy no lo pudiste hacer mañana dices lo voy hacer mejor, Osea que cada dia mejoras mas, aun que no lo sepas, tratas”.

(You give everything of you,If today you couldn’t tomorrow you say you're going to do it better, So everyday you get better, even if you don’t know how to do it.)

My mom didn't have a good childhood. She sometimes wouldn't have food to eat or shoes to wear. She wanted to give me a better childhood, she made sure I had shoes and what to eat everyday because she didn't want me to go through what she went through.

Josefina Zaragoza:” Mi niñez fue muy difícil,porque en el tiempo que yo estuve con mis papas, no teníamos ni ropa, no teníamos huaraches, avises no alcanzabamos para comer, cuando los iba bien con tortilla y frijoles. Y pues eso no me gustaria que pasen lo mismo que yo,No porque es muy triste.

( My childhood was really hard, because in that time that I was with my parents, we didn't even have clothes, we didn't have shoes, sometimes we didn't have what to eat, when things were good we would have tortillas and beans. I wouldn't want you guys to go through the same thing I went through.)

This shows that even after not starting at a good start, we could always change for the better and create a bond with our loved ones.

This affected me growing up because I didn’t have that relationship with my mom like other kids did, it also changed me in a way because I was always mad at my mom since she wasn’t there when I needed her.

For warriors time this is Marlene Martinez.