CNF - The Past is Everything

  Sitting amongst other little four year olds as warm droplets of joy jogged down my smooth, hairless cheek, I realized the true meaning of "Ohana", or family. Lilo and Stitch taught me the true meaning of family. No one gets left behind or forgotten. I remember the ache in the pit of my heart as the national anthem filled the crowded Arco Arena. But it wasn't the Kings that was on my mind. It was my best bud, my dog Body, who was being put down that day. The sight of a professional football field had forever cemented into my brain. For this day, I witnessed the Bears get their asses handed to them by the 49ers. But it wasn't that my team had lost, it was the insatiable vomit and bratwurst taste that fills my mouth every time I watch a game. The shock and pain I saw in my mother's eyes as she informed me that she had been diagnosed with cancer. The hope and determination in my father's eyes to make it his duty to keep my mother with us. The realization of how precious and fragile life is had hit me in the face, knocked me down, and bloodied me. I now write to you as an honest, strong, and ambitious young man with hopes and dreams of his own.