A Big Loss Next to A Big Change
Jose Donnadieu
The biggest change I have ever felt during my life was the loss of my grandfather. I was about eleven years old when this happened, and it did mark a new beginning to the way I was just to live my daily life. It occurred almost during these days but six years ago after that Thanksgiving Day, I was at my house watching a simple cartoon whenever my Dad called the home phone instead of my Mom’s cellphone so I answered and he asked me how was my day and how was school going something weird since we ate together not less than the night before, then he asked me to handle the phone to my Mom still sounding different than any other time we spoke before. Just when I handled it to her, they both started crying. That was the day my life changed.
I had never seen my dad broken like that before, that was also a very huge impact for me since I saw him as a strong no-cry man that could never break before anything and that day he did with a true justification. My Grandad was even stronger than him. He was a man almost with no feelings and he was just a dry person, he never expressed his feelings towards no one and just made that face while shaking it something that I will never remember about him. He was that strong that he knew when the perfect day was to leave us. He even prepared a letter to every single Grandchildren he had and spent that important day where tradition states that it should be shared with family with his only daughter. He left town two days before his death and almost in a farewell he said goodbye to his nearest grandsons, me and my sister, even hugging us something that was just not normal on him. My Grandfather ate that night even had a couple of drinks and late that night when he was sleeping, he just vanished from us. My Aunt, whenever she noticed, she called my dad, and my dad changed a four-hour drive into a two hour one. My Mom told us, my sister and me, the event that same day and our reaction was something that I will never forget. We cried and tried to realize what just happened. It was a sad day for everyone.
My life change in a very huge way. Every day before school, my dad would go breakfast with him since we were neighbors and I just waited for them to finish their coffee to leave for school, also every Sundays we were his invites to his great breakfasts including waffles and fruit. All those things were small details and his ways of expressing live towards his family as well as how he influenced us to always take care of the loved ones all in different matters. After that my life changed by looking how to find the best way and my way of expressing my feelings. He will always be missed.
I had never seen my dad broken like that before, that was also a very huge impact for me since I saw him as a strong no-cry man that could never break before anything and that day he did with a true justification. My Grandad was even stronger than him. He was a man almost with no feelings and he was just a dry person, he never expressed his feelings towards no one and just made that face while shaking it something that I will never remember about him. He was that strong that he knew when the perfect day was to leave us. He even prepared a letter to every single Grandchildren he had and spent that important day where tradition states that it should be shared with family with his only daughter. He left town two days before his death and almost in a farewell he said goodbye to his nearest grandsons, me and my sister, even hugging us something that was just not normal on him. My Grandfather ate that night even had a couple of drinks and late that night when he was sleeping, he just vanished from us. My Aunt, whenever she noticed, she called my dad, and my dad changed a four-hour drive into a two hour one. My Mom told us, my sister and me, the event that same day and our reaction was something that I will never forget. We cried and tried to realize what just happened. It was a sad day for everyone.
My life change in a very huge way. Every day before school, my dad would go breakfast with him since we were neighbors and I just waited for them to finish their coffee to leave for school, also every Sundays we were his invites to his great breakfasts including waffles and fruit. All those things were small details and his ways of expressing live towards his family as well as how he influenced us to always take care of the loved ones all in different matters. After that my life changed by looking how to find the best way and my way of expressing my feelings. He will always be missed.
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