Personal Story
taking this attitude we often make the mistake of doubting
decisions others make and believe them inappropriate. As a
result, we may hurt those we love the most. In my
particular experience, pride and arrogance managed to come
between my lifetime buddy, my brother, and me. As I got
older, I began to doubt all the actions he took because I
believed it was not the best thing for his life, to the point of
my disliking his every step.
At one point, I felt that my dogmatic posture took me to
the edge of a cliff from which I began to distance people
from me without even being conscious of it. After a while,
I realized that I was alienating myself from my loved ones.
That was when I decided that I needed to make some
changes in my life. As time passed, I began to understand
and admire the hidden beauty in the diverse thinking of
society. We are unique as people because of our differences,
but we complement each other; it allows us to coexist
effectively and makes us beautiful as essentially social
beings. Otherwise, we could not even conceive ourselves as
a society, but as a group of monotonous people without
goals or horizons to reach.
Once we have been down that road, we begin to love
different personalities and temperaments that come our way.
We applaud the agility of some and gently laugh at the
awkwardness of others. We understand that the decisions of
people are just that, their decisions, and we are external
observers willing to support them unconditionally.
Naturally, this is a journey that is under constant
construction and renovation to enrich us as human beings.
Laura Romero Salcedo is a Mass Communications professional
originally from Venezuela. She is currently an ESOL student with Ms.
Niedbalec at Brewster Technical Center in Tampa, Fl.
My Life Story
I was born on September 13, 1976 to Jolinda Harmon
and Willie M. Peterson. I grew up in the projects with three
siblings. My mother worked a lot so we often were taken
care of by our great grandmother who lived with us.