Changing Places

As time goes by you can remember about your past, and things that have change since that moment to the present. There is a really special and beautiful place for me that have change a lot and I really miss it. Every time I go out from my house the first thing I see is the big mall, but as you know before that there had to be something else, and there was. I have this great memory of my childhood, every morning on my way to school, I used to see in front of the entrance a big field where there used to be cows. You could see the cows eating their grass, green as an apple and fresh as a week after rain. There where some times when the cows will leave their place and come into my house. My grandparent will take care of the cow, because it will remember him of the time when he used to have cows all over our place. The owner of the cows will always be sitting on a red plastic box where the cokes were delivered in big amounts. He will be watching with full attention the way his cows eat. Most of the times this man wear a hat of straw with a red band on the middle, common accessories on Guatemalans men hat, he will usually be chewing something, it probably was wheat from the place. As in old times people used to drink fresh milk that has just been taken from the cow the same day, and that was a thing you could see the man did, on these days that same milk is to expensive and most of the people buy milk from the grocery store. The field was full of grass but also from dust, the road will get full of dust and every car who passed on it will take it farther. The road was brown and dirty everyday of the year. One day I stopped seeing cows and asked myself what had happened. No one knew what was going on until big trucks came in front of the house, loading the dust and starting to destroy all the nature on that place. For several weeks the trucks removed dust from the field and take everything down. Everyone knew there was someone who had bought the field, a change will be done.  After the trucks were done, workers came and where ready to start constructing. It didn’t take to much time to hear the news that a mall was going to be constructed over there named “Escala”. I have to say that I was kind of exited about having a mall just in front of my house, but there was a feeling that I will miss the view I had before. The mall was constructed over a year or a little more. My memories of that field have never vanished, I can still see it not concrete but in my memories. I think of my feeling about that field which I saw everyday, I felt really sad but there was nothing I could do. If I felt sad I think about that cows, their rituals were going there everyday to eat, take a little of sun and rest if they could. I can’t imagine changing my house where I have live all my life, those cows where take out to a new place. How can a man feel after all he has done in his life was taking out from him? Probably his hobby was doing nothing else but to take care of those cows.  I have to say that I fell really sad when I pass by what used to be a field full of nature and cows. Nothing last forever, in order to have a future; things, people and places have to change. This is my changing place, the one I will never forget.