Down to Earth: Summary of all FOUR

Millionares of Knowledge- Los Dias del Amor, Fruit Salad - a day in the life of little Fuentes', The WELL - Amisd an Architectural dilemma, and Cafe Con Pan - our Very Own Don Napoleon.

These four stories have something in common: you have discovered how we handled our loneliness, how we strived to work and pull our own weight, and how fascinating our imaginations of games were as kids in a third world country.

It’s intriguing to see that although much poverty sorrounded us, we knew no such definition of such word. Our hearts were merely filled with our own daily struggles, our enthusiasm to discover new and trecherous adventures... to fulfill our heart’s hunger and passion for the love to each other and far more passionate way of our mischevious deeds called adventures.

We sought to discover the world of learning by absorbing our thoughts placing our acts into action and researching ways to be successful. Most importantly, as I have failed to mention, we had a heart filled with our Heavenly Father, who daily kept us out of harm’s way despite our overflow of imaginative discoveries. We hardly knew HIM at the time, but when we stop for a second, to reflect on those moments in our lives, He was present. Our Papa Chico counted as an Angel temporarily barrowed from above. Our mama Cati was another angel with much more presence in our lives (I have not yet introduced you to her...stories to follow).

I will definately admit that I am not embarrassed nor ashamed to share such experiences, those are the bits of treasure we hold locked insde our hearts because we learned to be fully dependant on just one being – God. No one else supplemented our need and desire to be complete. I am however, proud to have had that part of my life of obstacles, learnings, and tests of faith, without them, we would not be the type of people we are today. Who would’ve thought that some day we would be grown; looking back into our memories and attributing out success to those tests of faith we had then?

It is perfectly understandable that although many would not consider our triumphs successes, to us are far greater than what the materialistics of this world can offer. There’s nothing that could ever replace our history, our achievements from those days. It’s common knowledge to say that if you advance in this time and age, you will have the money, the car, the house, and the marriage of your dreams...to me, I have all that and much more that cannot carry a price tag, not anything in this world that could ever take such place.

Far as it goes, the downs we experienced by no means we refer to as sufferings. Yes, we experienced solitude, we craved to be kids, but beyong that the big picture holds true to who I am, who my siblings are... Everyone goes through trials and tribulations, what matters most is how you put into perspective what you have experienced and what you make it out off. God has definately blessed us with such knowledge and experiences to say that we are definately “Millionares of Knowledge” because He was there to support our every move and to cater to our daily needs. In our hearts and minds we engraved the fact that life itself is not just a gift, it is a piece of treasure for which we must take full grasp of and never allow it to slip out of our hands. After all we are given the blessing to have a choice in life of what we do with our lives, and that’s the greatest options we have.

If you have noted so far, we lived far out in the country in Zacatecoluca in La Paz a department of El Salvador, where there existed no running water, electricity, nor a telephone system (at that time we lived there). Those were the days of innocence and passion to live on a day to day basis and not worry about the “calendar events.” We had no idea what a computer was much less a play station. Our minds were as absent from this world as if we were a group of indigenous beings exploring the land of the unknown. We were in a time machine where time stood still and there was no rush to get to the next day’s adventures. Our minds were too busy triumphing on the at hand tasks. Nothing further existed. Nonetheless, it existed. We knew that the world we lived is far greater and bigger than our little minds could wrap around in thought. We understood that concept, we just didn’t care at that moment, we were ocupied with our daily doings, satisfying the thirst to venture out into the rivers and climb the highest of the trees.

Those were indeed the days of simplicity, love and purity. All we cared for was keeping each other close enough and venturing to make our dreams come true and examine the ideas of the mind and growth of our wisdom.

Written July 23, 2010