When Are You Gonna Change?
When I was a little girl, I wanted to have a world pure, full of nature and animals, but I saw that people like my father were contaminating the planet, they trashed the garbage on the grass or just captured animals, which was so sad for me, because I always said to them that what they were doing was bad, but they never paid attention to me.
One day I started to think about a project, so I got a big idea, but first I needed that my fathers to help me, to accomplish my goal, so I started the project in my house, but was so hard that many times I wanted to give up on the project, because my mom didn’t stop trashing the things of the nature, and my father loved hunting tigers, but I wanted so badly to progress with this project that I never stopped believing, so I started to investigate about hunting and I thought, if I were the protector of animals, was it dangerous? but in this way, I’m going to stop my father, it was a perfect idea.
My father always went hunting at 5 am, so I woke up early that day, and I was waiting for him in the woods, actually, I was going to fight with my father. I was so scared, I just wanted to run away and give up again, but something in my heart told me that I would accomplish this, so I waited like for 20 minutes. My father looked at me and asked what I was doing there? and told me to go to the house, because the tigers were dangerous they might kill me. I said I was sorry, but I was not living the woods, and he asked me why to which I replied because I wanted him to stop hunting the animals.
One day all the tigers will disappear and I don’t want that, he told me that was okay, "I will stop doing this, is not good, and also my life is in danger, one day maybe a tiger can hurt me, is for the best, let’s go home".
That day I was so happy, I couldn’t believe that I did it, I actually confronted my dad, and he didn’t get angry with me, but my goal is like 50%, my mother was the other 50%, she was very difficult with me, but never say never, I only needed hope.
The next day I went to the supermarket with my mom, she loves shopping, but that day I was in another world, she noticed that and asked me what happened to me, so I answered: "mom, I just want that you stop contaminating the environment, you are doing bad things, and I want a change" She looks at me like whatever, so I said to myself she is never going to stop doing that, maybe is better to give up, I really hate the difficulties, so I give up on her.
When I arrived home, she told me: "Sarah, come here, are
I was happy, very happy because I finished my project, my dad and mom were changing their attitude, so when are you gonna change yours?
By Valentina Martelo, Step 11.
