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It was April 2010, we celebrate my parents´ 25th anniversary. My mom was sad because my dad was in a business trip but fortunately he came at time for dinner. My mom cooked specially for that important day. She decided to cook one of my father´s favorite food: ravioli. My mother and I went to the airport for him. He acted like if nothing important were going on, like if it was just another day, not the day in which most of the couples remember their wedding and revived it as if it had been yesterday. He didn’t say anything to my mom until we arrived home and he realized about the dinner. He hugged her and said thanks for all these years. My mom served the delicious dinner and we enjoy the night as family talking about many things. When we finish our meal my dad stood up and took out something from his baggage. He surprises my mom with a gift. It was a small box covered with a brilliant silver envelope; we imagine it was a jewel because of the size of the box but it wasn’t. When my mom opened it she saw that it was a Rolex. My mother was impressed but happy because she thought that my dad was going to be absent in that special day so she doesn’t even imagine that she will receive a gift. Since that day my mother wears it all the time. Now I can see that it is an important possession for her. When I asked her what does it means for her that watch, she answered that it´s not the economic value of the watch that matters, she feels that it represents twenty five years of her life spent with my dad, twenty five years of happiness but at the same time sad moments, twenty five years of opportunities but at the same time of obstacles, twenty five years of caring more about somebody else more that caring about you, twenty five years in which they sometimes made mistakes but learned from it, twenty five years of love but the most important twenty five years that leave two girls that complete the family. After talking to her about that I started to reflect and I realize that I had a different idea about this kind of things, maybe because I don’t have a particular special possession, but what I like the most about this is that I realize that something could means so much to you that could make you happy.