A Letter to You, and to My Little Ones :)
- Iliana Alvarez
- Sep 24, 2018
- 2 min read
Is not that serious.
Turned 27 this month and wow life is going by so fast, I can't.
If I live to be a 100, that means I've spent over a quarter of my life. Three quarters left on a good day, on an okay day (meaning if I make it to 75) I only have 2 quarters left. Shit, time slow down! but I do what I can to extend that, most of the time, ha!
Two of my siblings are 21 this year. This ish is bananas. I didn't see that slapping me on the face like that.Holy shit balls :D. One has given me a beautiful niece and the other one I hardly see because he is a Marine, he is giving me heartaches lol. I don't understand either of their lives, one is life as a young mother, and the other is life as a young soldier, raised mostly by a single mom and no male siblings to teach the ropes, just me, and I was out of the house already. At their age, I was finishing college and getting over the headache of buying my first home. I guess I teach them as much as they teach me.
Still, that bond is -in-explainable, the years go by, but that bond it's unlike anything else. A thing only a person with siblings can understand. If I don't live all my quarters I want them to know that I'm proud of who they are, that I look up to their resilience, and that I love them. That life is not that serious, that I want them to enjoy it as much as possible.
Jeez... I feel my sister gets that a little, maybe borderline too much lol. My brother, on the other hand, IDK... I don't think. Which is good. For a man in the Marines, I'm sure it's not easy to give the right fucks about the right things. And the "right things" can be hard to identify when you are still growing up and have so many different perspectives thrown at you at all times.
With all that said my little ones, enjoy life, experience it, go on adventures, be a chef not a cook, and give the right fucks about the "right things" (the right things to you), don't give up on your dreams, have hope, be good, do good, and don't take your life for granted.
I say this to them, and I say this to you, and to me. It's not that serious, I've done a lot, met a lot of people, seen a lot of things, and I'm still learning. But at the end of the day, we are a little grain of sand in this big universe.
To this party called life, we come alone and we leave alone. Be the life of this party, be party to your life. I love you!
- iliana Alvarez
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