Back To the School of Life!
Posted: Monday, August 22, 2011
by Alessandro Monte
Back to school is a phrase I use to love to hear as a kid, school for me was a place where friendship grew every day, where I could go and learn more about life, sports, which for me was everything since the age of 13, when I went from being a no one in the new school, after moving three times since I was ten to three different cities and school, I was growing very upset as I really wanted to grow up and do something greater than me, to be a part of something greater than myself so I did strive hard to get there.
Life here in the great USA was not the same as in Brazil, the language barrier and the necessity to work got me working 2 days after landing here, doing something I never done or would do in my own country landscaping, there I was made to feel like a fool, I couldn't understand anyone, and was easy to be made fun of because my accent when I tried to speak, so I took into my hands to learn so I could maybe go back to school and do what I love to do, which at the time was computers, years went by and going back to school never came, today I am 44 years old, have a wonderful profession that I learned as a Master Painter, have skills as a carpenter, roofing, and landscaping, but I also picked up a new hobby, I wanted to help others, to encourage and mend others heart using my own failures, and storms faced in life, so I started to write.
Going back to school for me has been a wish, but so far not a reality, I would love to go back, learn new things, acquire new skills, but most of all, show my two amazing sons that even though life did not gave me the right cards, I learned to play with the ones I was given and worked extremely hard so they don't ever have to go through what I have, and to be able to build for their life a better future than my own, so unfortunately I never graduated high school, never had a home coming, or graduation party, but I did and still enlisted in the hardest school with the rise of the sun each day, a new page turns in the school of hard knocks, a school I hope my sons or no one out there have to go through.
Alessandro Carlo Monte, 08/22/2011. (C)
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Impressed I am to read about your life experiences always. You are a wonderful man . Strive on and rise in the eyes of others.
Hilda, I am someone who has a lot of stories, some sad, some really sad, but I also have overcome most, I still fail often in my ways, I try hard to be what I believe God wants me to be but it is too much of a task, so I simply do the little things and pray hard that He comes and fills in the greater things in my life, much happen in the last three years of my life, things I can't explain, others that amazed me, scared me, but in general things that gave my heart something to give back to others. Thank you so much for your kind comments and for taking from your valuable time to read this!
I am SO glad you decided to write!I am so thankful you decided to help me in my writing, and became such a great friend, I appreciate all you done for me, God bless you my dear friend!Hey, I am the one who still needs to take some writing courses and they are paid for with my Faith Writer's membership - I just don't seem to take time!
Lol, I would love to take a course too, it would help me structure my words better, all I do now is simply write from my heart. Today I will be writing something that has been bothering me a lot lately, it is about those that became so holy and such a super Christians that no one out there can relate, and they are too busy or uncomfortable to step out of their safe zone to actually to any good with all they know..
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