I always wanted to be a superhero. For once in my life, I felt so significant, I felt like I was making a real contribution, I felt like a super hero saving the world. You never know how a place is really like until you have physically experienced that place and everything in it. I always thought people in coatepec, mexico did not live well because of poverty but I’ve realized that the definition of poverty is so broad, that “poverty” is not a word to describe life in mexico but a word to describe what we see in America. Even though the people in coatepec had a lot less, but I felt as if they had a lot more.
When I held a retinoscope, when I refracted, when I put a pair of lenses in front of a child and unblurred her world and saw her face light up and smile, its as if I was the sun that brought light into her dark world. And every thank you I received were the most sincere phrases I have ever heard in my life.
I have been through so many events in Mexico, and many times, I felt my heart skip a beat, I felt like I was going to die and every time I thought my life was ending, I asked myself, do I have any regrets? Did I live enough to be satisfied with my life to let go? Have I done everything I wanted to do? Did I get a chance to truly love and feel loved? Will people I care about miss me? And then I stopped, I stopped thinking and I stopped caring. I realized that in that moment, nothing really matters anymore, your whole life flashes in front of you and there is not a single moment you can stall on.
