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Gilberto Iván Reséndez Garza

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 Persistance

I was there, experiencing all that was happening on that frozen forest. My friend was barely alive while I went to find some food. We had 2 days with anything in our stomachs. The storm was so dense that you couldn´t see 5 meters away from you. After walking for two miles, I started hallucinating some things. I still remember that euphoric feeling that I had when I thought there was a helicopter above me that was going to rescue me and my friend. Then, I passed out and when I recovered conscience I was resting below a giant and savage bear. I was so scared that I tried to not move until the bear went away.  For one moment I thought that I could kill the bear to eat it but my conscience told me to not to do that, it was very dangerous. I was starting to lose hope on finding any rescue or at least something to eat. I didn´t gave up and I kept walking to the direction I though the car accident happened to see if someone could come out and save our lives.

     Easily I walked 10 miles that day withstanding the hallucinations because of the hunger that I had and I didn´t found anything but frozen trees. After more than 5 hours in look for rescue I managed to get to the road were the crash happened. Suddenly I heard a car in the distance. I was so happy that I started to cry. After stepping in the middle of the road I saw that the car started to disappear in front of my eyes. When I realized that there was no car (another hallucination) I rested in the roadway.

    The night came and when I was in the border of death another sound of a car in the distance was clearly present. Now it was about a real car and I standed up and started to jump in the middle of the road. The car stopped and finally I was rescued; I entered to the car and told the guy everything that happened. I told him that my friend was in a cave and I leaded him to it. When we arrived the only thing that we could see was snow. My friend disappeared and it was never found.

     Today I´m telling you this because you seem to be a person who doesn´t try hard enough nor appreciate people in your daily life. This lesson of life made me think about how we need to be persistent and also how we need to appreciate people while you have them on a side, because you never know when they will no longer be with you.