MY "YAYO"

   I just received one of the worst news that I could have. My grandfather died yesterday and I couldn´t say goodbye to him. That´s something that you know when you leave your home. You know that something can happen to the people you love, and now I feel that bad news are worse when you are far away.

   My grandfather had been at bed for one year. He stayed his last year of life without going out not even once, so I know that he was suffering and that this is the best for him. Anyway, I´ll miss him so much, and I´ll never forget him.  In his last year he couldn´t walk, go out or even talk, but he could love and make feel people important. Every day that I went to visit him, he just wanted me to lead him by the hand, and I could be like that for hours, just talking to him, although he couldn´t respond, because I knew he loved that, and he was happy when I talked to him. Sometimes he kissed my hand, and smiled to me.

   My grandfather had an interesting and amazing life. I think he was a lucky man, and although he has suffered so much, I hope he was happy with the life that yesterday ended. He lived a lot of experiences as a child and as a teenager. He had the opportunity to live in different countries and he learnt so much about other cultures and people.  As an adult, he was a respectable dentist, and an awesome father and husband.

   He lost his wife twenty years ago, when a cancer ended his life, and since that moment, I think he wasn´t the same person anymore. I don´t know where people are when they die, but I hope he´s finally with my grandmother.

   He was a good man, an awesome father and husband, and a lovely grandfather. My grandfather. And I´ll love and remember him forever, and I´ll be always proud of the last name he gave me. TE QUIERO, YAYO.