A dream come true - The Ink Well Prompt #97

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A dream come true.

As a child I remember that whenever I took out the garbage, I used to watch the birds fly and dreamed of being able to travel by plane, I could spend hours lying in the backyard watching the birds fly in the sky.

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Always as a child, I wondered why birds can fly and the rest of the living beings can not, I could not understand why only birds, I always asked the same question to my mother and she always tried to answer me with love and at other times left her speechless; Now that I am an adult I can see how innocent I was as a child.

I come from a poor family, I remember going to school with broken shoes, since the little income my parents had was just enough to buy food, my mother worked cleaning the house and washing the clothes of the neighbors, my father worked as a watchman in the hacienda of a wealthy man.

Once my father took me to see where he worked and I also met his boss, a very kind and nice man, well that's how he behaved with me, I remember that when he saw my broken shoes he sent me to buy new ones to give me as a gift, my father told him:

- Sir, I feel very sorry for you.
Mr. Carlos says - Don't feel sorry for that, you are one of my best workers and whenever you need something for your only son don't hesitate to tell me and I will gladly help you, besides your son is very intelligent and with the right support he will achieve his dreams.

After many years I was studying the last semester of aviation and all thanks to Mr. Carlos that since that day I met him he gave me his support to me and my parents, the following year I graduated with honors, being one of the best graduates in the country. My parents and Mr. Carlos were happy for my graduation, Mr. Carlos told me that he would give me a vacation to relax and that he would talk to a friend who is a supervisor that he had working in an airline to see if they could give me a job as a pilot.

The truth is that since I was a child and I used to lay in the backyard of my house watching the birds fly, I knew I wanted to be an airline pilot, that was always my dream and thanks to the support of my loved ones I was able to achieve it.

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After I came back from those vacations, I went to present myself in front of Mr. Carlos' friend with the papers in my hands, he gave me the opportunity without hesitation, I started working the following week, that was when I could understand that human beings learned to fly but different from birds.

My name is Moises. I am currently 65 years old and retired, with a beautiful family, the values that I was taught as a child, I passed them on to my children and they passed them on to their children.