Childhood Story #4
Hi everybody, Mary here.
So, here it comes !
Another Childhood Story ! As September comes to a beginning
tommorow, I wanted to send
some good luck to all of those going back to school even if they do
not want to go back
for some reason, or even for no reason at all,
and, since I actually
liked September, at times, here is the reason why September should
be the month for new starts, new opportunities, and new experiences
for your entire life.
Those
Times When I Actually Liked September
Actually,
this reason is not even related to work,
or to Pumpkin Spice Lattes that you can buy at your local Starbucks.
It's not because of Halloween because it's in October,
and not for winter because it's not
cold enough yet. So, what is the reason, you may ask ? Well,
it's because of...
MOTHERF*CKING.
ALMONDS. Nothing else, really.
Every
year, since I was a child, a couple of days before going back to
school, we used to go, my mom, my little brother and I, to my uncle's
house, to say hello before we would go back to school. My uncle lives
in the countryside with his now wife and kids, and he has a big
almond tree next to the porch of the house. So, as we would be hungry
all the time, my
brother and I would climb that tree, pick up some almonds, break the
shells with two rocks and eat the almonds. In the end, our mother
told us that we should always
ask our uncle before taking them as we would sometimes take them
every time we went to
the countryside, whether he was there or not.
Sometimes,
we would be invited in my uncle's house, and with his wife, we would
make some cakes with these almonds. We would put them in boxes, leave
some for my uncle and his wife, and take the rest with us back home
where we would eat them for a snack, and they were delicious.
Now, I don't even remember the recipe and I am vegan, so I have to
find another recipe (and an oven, since I live alone without
one now), but other than that, yes,
there were MARVELLOUS. AMAZING. YUM-YUM, me says.
And
there would be years when we wouldn't have the time to go there
before going back to
school, or we would go later than expected because we were busy with
life... so I would be a motherf*cking b*tch
and keep whining until my mom would tell me if we were going, and if
so, when we would go,
because these almonds are delicious.
Even now, I eat almonds that I buy at the grocery store, but believe
me, they are nothing
compared to my uncle's almonds. And when we wouldn't go and miss
the almond season, and my uncle would tell me that all
the almonds are either gone or eaten, I would cry a lot.
And now that the tree is sick, I am very
worried about it dying, because there would be no almonds.
Very sad, me thinks.
So,
yes. I ACTUALLY liked September. When all the kids would be stressed
to go back to school and have to work again, I would just be
patiently waiting for my delicious almonds. Of course
I was as stressed as all the other kids to go back to school, if not
more than them ;
but I would focus on the positive,
the almonds, and I was happy to know that there was
something good to wait for in September. Even such a little thing as
almonds.
In
the end, the moral of the story is that if you're stressed about
September, going back to school, thinking about it all the time will
not solve the problem.
What can help you, however, is thinking about something good, even a
little thing, that will
make September easier for all of you.
And
remember : I've read somewhere that the stress and anxiety level
of high-school students nowadays is equal to the one experienced by
mental asylum patient in the 1950's. So stay healthy, stay motivated,
little students out there, because it won't last. I promise.
Okay,
that's it for today ! I hope that you enjoyed this little story
and I will see you very soon with another one !
And
as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !
