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The Remembered Event

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In my life I have engaged in various activities and events that blew my mind. However, none of these events has stayed in my memories forever, but after a one-week vacation to Hawaii, my mind saved that memory and am sure it will remain in my mind forever and ever. The event has always been a reference to who I am now and what I am aspiring to be. The seven days stay at Hawaii will remain part of the beginning of who I am today.

It was afternoon when I arrived at Hawaii. The weather was calm and nobody seemed concerned of the other. The winds were blowing so gentle that I felt I am in heaven. My blue shirt that I had unbuttoned waved in that thin air of Oahu Island like my national flag during that summer. My soul felt a certain relaxation and for the first time I felt in love with the nature. After I had been given my room, I ensured all my belongings were safe and after lunch I took a walk at the sea shore. Waves were coming from deep-sea one on top of the other displaying their happiness for having seen a new face maybe. I smiled alone and I felt like communicating with those waves, each time I looked at them I felt saying hello but the surrounding could not allow me, I compromised that with a beautiful smile, not to any other person but to the waves. There were no clouds covering the sun but I could not feel it burning on my skin, what I felt was that sweet feeling that I had never felt in my life.

In the evening when I was in my room nearly getting sleep after a long day of wondering over the waves, some noise entered my room through the window that was half closed. The curtains part ways and let the noise reach me to convey the romantic message it had. I heard a beautiful voice singing a beautiful song that I have never heard in my life. The noise was of people applauding the singer. I peeped through the window, what I saw made me to move out of my room almost colliding at every step I was making because I was in a hurry reaching my destination. Outside there was a big fire, the waves were not there anymore, what was left behind was that beautiful carpet of white sand. Everyone was clapping at the singer who used all his magic to amaze the audience. People shared their feelings to one another through smiles and cheers of glasses of drinks. The face of everyone was shining and glowing of happiness. People danced together and continue cheering. It is not my habit to stay awake up to late at night, before midnight I went to bed feeling a new person in a new environment.

I continued visiting different places in Hawaii and every place I visited I could discover new things that never existed in my life before. While in Waikiki I went for a sea adventure, I had never been into a glass boat that was my first time. I saw different types of sea creatures but what amazed me were those green sea turtles. I could not imagine seeing a tortoise in the sea, I was shocked and I screamed to those who were around me, “oh my God! Look at that tortoise.” Everyone was surprised at me. Someone who was close told me it was not a tortoise but a sea turtle. I knew what a turtle was but everything was new to an extent even the familiar things that I knew seemed new. I felt new in my world, I felt there are a lot of things that I still do not know. A thirsty of knowing everything started in me. I felt I should explore my world and know everything that was created by God or human being. As long something is in this world, I had that curiosity of knowing it so that I don’t seem new in everything.

I did not know how to swim and looking at other people swimming made me feel awkward, I felt I should swim too. I prepared myself to enter the water that I was always been afraid of; I thought I would disappear in it. Everyone knew am trying that for the first in my life. My legs were trembling and my whole body was shaking. My nerves went to stop and for a few seconds I couldn’t feel anything touching my skin. After a few seconds I felt the water, it is the best feeling I have ever felt in my life. I did not want to move out of the water, I stayed in it for a couple of hours and surprised everyone. I wish I could swim like others and reach the waves that were far from me but wishes never come true. All I did was staying in the shallow water and gave myself big hopes that one time I will know everything. Started becoming optimistic to everything, I told myself that, with hard work everything is possible.

The next place that I found myself was in the surfing competition. I had not surfed before; I had never tested the feeling of being on a surfboard even a single minute. There I was with my surfboard on my hand with the others. I had confident that everything is possible, now that I had put the intention of knowing everything. I never believed myself, I did it though not perfectly but in my mind and heart I knew I had achieved something worth to congratulates myself. I felt I have grown up not in size but in terms of thinking of how things seem to be earlier and how they are. I could not imagine how the confidence was growing so first in me. That urge of learning more things in my surrounding came as joke when I saw the green sea turtles. It is what made me feel I should learn how to do things no matter how they are done and when.

The trip to Hawaii brought a big influence into my life through the event that made me feel I know nothing on this earth and that I should develop the habit of learning. The event of wondering at green sea turtles. From there I became someone who needs to know and learn everything on earth. My aim towards learning my world developed so first than expected. My friends and relatives noticed a big change in my life. It was that time where in tried to learn many things in my life so that I can have experience on how they are done. I started trying to do things that involves creativity. I found myself writing some poems to see if they could sound good and romantic. Indeed, everything that I gave it a try worked and through the writings of poems and other writings, I discovered my talent. Some talents are not easily realized and so was mine, I never thought I had that talent of writing in me. In short the vacation to Hawaii will remain the initiator of who I am today. I view the event as the source of who I am now and who I will be forever. I always have the urge of learning new things. I always have the moral of trying new things in my life. It was because of my curiosity to learn things that made me realize my talent, something that I can do best. I always feel if I could not have gone to Hawaii maybe I could not have realized myself and what I can do best. Learning new things and how they are done is now part of me, I like reading articles and relevant information that enables me to learn new ideas in my life and eventual develop them.

If I look at who I am today, the images of the waves always come into my mind. I usually see myself walking at the sea shores of Oahu island. I normally feel the sounds of the winds blowing as if am still in Hawaii. Then I see myself wondering at the turtles, I see myself shouting telling the others to look what I see. Then I smile alone and thank God that I had a vacation to Hawaii. The feeling of having the zeal to know things developed when I was there and it indeed influenced my life. It made me realize that I can be a good writer and that one has to expose him or herself to many things that are useful so as to expound his or her understanding of the world.