Monday, 23 March 2009

• "Don't Lie to Your Parents!" A story that may change the way you think as a teenager.

  I was at a friends house last night and she handed me a 2 page story and told me to read it. It was titled, "No Mientan a Sus Padres!" spanish for "Do Not Lie to Your Parents!" and although it was in spanish, I was curious to read it. (I'm Mexican so I do know spanish, not saying every Mexican raised in the U.S knows spanish, but I can read it fairly well.) and this is what it read (excuse me if I'm not the BEST at translating):

  "Jenny thought her parents wouldn't give her permission to go to a party with her friends, so she decided to lie, and told them that she would be going to the movies with a girl friend. Even though she felt a bit bad because she didn't tell the truth, she also didn't think about it too much and started to have fun. The pizza was really good and the party was fun; at the end her friend Pedro, who was already a bit drunk, invited her to take a little stroll, but first he wanted to have a little "smoke"...Jenny couldn't believe that he would be smoking that, but even then, she got into the car with him. All of a sudden de began to accelerate the speed. More than anything, that's not what Jenny wanted, "Maybe my parents were right. Perhaps I am too young to go out like this. How could I have been so stupid?!" She thought to herself.
  "Please Pedro." She said, "take me home, I don't want to stay!"
  Irritated, Pedro began to accelerate the car at top speed. Jenny, terrified, begged him to go slower, but the more she pleaded, the more he accelerated. "Oh my God help us! We're going to crash!" She received all the force of the impact, everything suddenly became dark. Semi conscious, she felt somebody take her out of the twisted-bent car, and heard voices: "Call the ambulance! These teenagers are in a lot of problems!" She heard somebody say that two cars were involved in the accident.

  She woke up in the hospital seeing sad faces, "They were in a terrible accident," Somebody said.
  In the middle of the confusion she found out Pedro was dead.
  To her they said, "Jenny, we'll do everything we can, but it seems like we may lose you too."
  "And the people from the other car?" Jenny asked crying,
  "They also died." They answered her.
  Jenny began to pray: "God forgive me for what I have done, I just wanted a night of fun." and giving her attention to one of the nurses, she asked, "Please, tell the family of those that were in the other car to forgive me, that I would like to return their loved ones. Tell my mother and father that I'm sorry, because I lied, and that I feel guilty because many have died. Please nurse, will you tell them this on my behalf?"

  The nurse stood quite, like a statue, moments later, Jenny passed away. A man questioned strongly to the nurse: "Why did you not do the possible to fulfill the last wish of that girl?" The nurse looked at the man with eyes filled of sadness, and told him: "Because the people that were in the other car were her father and mother who went out to look for her."

  When I read this, I swear, it sent shivers down my spine at the end. All I could think was: this CAN be true!
  I'm not 100% sure if it is. According to my friend, her aunt was listening to a radio station in spanish when this story came on. She E-mailed the station and sent her a typed copy. She then gave one to my friend and my friend gave me one. I plan on spreading this story.

  At the end of the story there was a paragraph that says,

  "THIS REFLECTION IS REALLY SAD BUT A BIG TRUTH TO OUR CHILDREN THAT GO OUT AND WE DON'T KNOW IF THEY REALLY ARE GOING TO THE PLACE THEY SAID THE'LL BE AND ALSO A LESSON FOR US, THE PARENTS, TO BE MORE CAREFUL WITH THEM AND KNOW IF THEY REALLY ARE IN THE PLACE WHERE THEY WANT OR SHOULD BE."

  Although I'm not the kind of person to do this kind of stuff, I wouldn't be able to handle if my mother died for my faults that could have been avoided. I hope you learned as much as I have and I hope you refer this to someone else you think will learn as well, or just to everyone you know who would care about something like this.
  

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