Sunday, January 26, 2014

Memories with my Grandmother

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the movie that makes me cry every time I watch it. The movie revolves around Charlie and his grandfather's dream to enter Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. There comes the contest that Wonka created, he decided to put five golden tickets on one of his chocolate bar and the lucky person who will get one golden ticket would be having a chance to enter the chocolate factory. Charlie's father bought him a chocolate bar, unfortunately there is no ticket inside. His grandpa Joe gave him his last money to try again. (this scene made me cry) On the other day Charlie buy another chocolate bar, this time he got it right, many people want buy it for their children but he didn't sold it and he decided to chose his grandpa Joe to take the journey with him inside Wonka's factory. At the end of the story Charlie is about to choose between his family and in becoming Mr. Wonka's heir. He later chose his family and this scene made me cry once again. Like Charlie in the story I will choose my family over my dream, because they are the most important thing in the whole wide world, without them I would be nothing.

In connection to the story my grandmother is like grandpa Joe. She is very caring She took good care of me when my mother was not around. She always sleeps with me every 2 am and I will just woke up with her by my side. We always clean the house together, sit on her chair together, she's always telling me stories about her past, stories about her experiences during her childhood that easily captured my interests. Then when I was four years old I woke up without my grandmother by my side, then, I went to her room trying wake her up but she didn't rise up from her bed and she told me that she can't stand up and she can't move her legs. I was so worried that time because she is the only friend I have and I can't take to see her in a miserable situation. It was the same day that she became bedridden and she have to ride a wheelchair on her entire life.
                                        
From then on our lives changed, we haven't bond anymore because I became busy in doing school stuffs. She's still caring as ever one time when I will be having my field trip she gave me money and I am so touched because it is from her pension and she gave it to me that made me think that she always want what is the best for us, her grandchildren. When I was in grade one my grandmother gave me money for my good performance in class and every time I go to school she always give one peso that was used in the olden times. I was in grade six when my grandma passed away. It was September 9, 2006 when she accidentally fell from her bed and her head was badly hurt I was there and always checking on her. I always ask "Nanay how are you feeling?" "Nanay don't sleep huh?" It's not that I don't want her to take a nap, its just that I'm afraid that we might lose her. Then weeks have passed and she had an alzheimer she doesn't know us already and she's making me sing songs of goodbyes and every time she tells me that she's going out of the country I will immediately go to the bathroom and cry my heart out because it means that she will leave us already. One morning I woke up and everybody's in the living room then my uncle asked me to accompany him to fetch my grandmother's youngest sister, unfortunately she can't go with us. When we came back my grandmother was gone. I feel so sad because I wasn't able to say my goodbye to her. I know that the life journey I had with my grandmother was quite short, but it doesn't mean that I didn't learn something from her. I've learned so many things like I have to work hard for everything to be able to have a better life and learned to value the people who will help me on the process while achieving my goals in life. 

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