"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh. But I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."
When was the last time you were really wishing for something not to end? Or the last time you simply sat down and looked back to a collection of memories full of nostalgia, wanting so badly to go back to them?
It feels like it was a week ago when I was packing all of my summer gear to move to Playa Blanca, a beach in Asia, 100km away from Lima.
Since the first day of summer, I was already begging for it not to end. Summer is definitely my happy place, my favorite time of the year, and definitely the best place to share with my friends and family.
Although I have very exciting plans, trips, and events coming up, I can’t stop looking back to these past 2 months, and my nostalgic heart accelerates due to such remarkable memories.
Every year, I feel time passing by faster, and summer days drifting away in a blink of an eye, and a sensation of frighten is found within me. I desperately wish I had a magic control remote -- as in the movie “Click” -- that could allow me to pause some moments to make them last longer, and rewind to go back to the best times of my life. Wouldn’t that be amazing?
Where do I start?
When looking back to my summer days, millions of memories pass by through my mind, and I can't even decide to which memory I'd go back to first if I had my magic control remote.
My days in Playa Blanca basically started by being waked up by my little brother, León, sharing some Milo and milk with him for breakfast, and then putting on my bikini to be ready for the rest of my day. Usually, I didn’t have any concrete plan for my day; I just allowed myself to be carried away by any summer adventure and let everything flow.
What could be more wonderful than having the time and the perfect place to watch the sunrise and the sunset? This summer, one of my favorite amusements was to watch the sky change to marvelous colors whlie the day transitioned from day to night and from night to day.
This summer I was also able to receive new years with a lot of celebration, swim with a surfboard until Asia's island, spend lots of time in the beach and in the pool, read, prepare key lime pies, go out to el boulevard, meet new people, do paddle, make bonfires, go to pool parties, relive my childhood by makind sandcastles and getting buried in the sand by my friends, perform a dance I had practiced for weeks in front of hundreds of persons, drive, navigate in the ocean, swim with a bufeo by my side, and much more; I definitely fulfilled my Summer '15 bucket list and went beyond it! All these activities allowed me to spend time with my friends and family; I now value them more than ever and feel very thankful for having them by my side in this incredible journey.
This Sunday was the day I had been hoping not to arrive: it was the day we had to return the house we rented to it's owners. All the way from Asia to Lima, memories didn’t stop drifting through my head. We arrived to our house in Lima; While I stepped out of my car, I felt as if I was stepping out of a time flying machine that was returning me from my ɹǝɯɯns.
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