“Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.” - Mandy Hale
Let me start by asking a question, Has it happen that you question yourself why certain things happen to you? Why you and no one else? In the last 10 years, I never understood why I had experienced certain situations such as failed relationships, car accident, pregnancy but I know why. One of the reasons we are placed in these situations because GOD is trying to test our capacity how to handle them and also because these situations were meant as a path, to guide me to something better such as an amazing job, baby and a husband.
I want to give you all a glimpse of my life and how a single decision can affect your entire life. I want to share a story how I became a happily married mother of a baby girl and hope I could be some guidance.There might be a lot of things happening in your life right now but don't take it as a bad thing, see it as a path to something better. We don't always have to depend our happiness or change to a certain individual but in my case it's different because that person came in my life unexpectedly and made me a better person.
My name is Reyna Munoz Espinosa and this is my story.
I grew up in a house in the city of Long Beach, near the corner of Palo Verde and Stearn, a couple of blocks down from California State University, Long Beach. For the first nine years of my life my family lived in complete harmony apart from the daily screaming matches between my sister and my mother but other than it was okay. I lived with my father, Gustavo, my mom, Olivia, my older sister, Anna and my older brother Daniel. Before my 10th birthday, my mother had a break down when my father abandoned our family for another woman, according to my sister Ana. My mother tried to keep herself together but there were moments that I saw her crying in her room. This took a major affect in our family, especially for my older sister Ana, who had to struggled to get my mom together and helped taking care of me and my brother. I felt a little bad because Ana, only 15, had to sacrifice her social life for us.
When it was time for Anna to move out for college, my mother was doing much better, Anna wanted to stay close to her but my mother wouldn't let her. From that point on, my mother made sure that Daniel and I were okay. Daniel worked at my Uncle Luis's yard to make extra cash around the house and I concentrated on school. However, by the age of 15, instead of having a Quinceanera like most girls of my age were having, I had to settle for a old used car that my aunt Sandra gave me. I didn't complain because I knew that my mom could afford such luxury. That same year, I got a job at the local market Los Frutos that was down the street. I tried giving my weekly checks to my mother but she didn't accept any of it but instead she told me to save it for college because she knew that I was going to University of Southern California (USC), a private college.
Other than working a part-time job and school, I was also involved in several school activities, such as the photography club, the school newspaper, high achievers club (the nerds) and Science club. So, basically my life in high school had no time for drama. I had little or no time for a social life, however, that changed when I got my first crush who then became my boyfriend, Diego Becerra. Diego became a huge part of my life, he and I were in sync, he would stay after school with me to study and other times he would test me for my math tests. He was perfect and we were in love, well that's what I thought until he broke my heart in front of the entire school.
And in that point, I didn't want to deal with any more with boys or drama and just wanted to focus on school and my future. Well, that's what I thought...
To Be Continued...
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