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A Great Gift
When I was only about 8 years old, my father traveled to Canada and he brought me a fishing rod, a reel and a little fishing box that had several lures. I remember well that one of them was a Rapala Jumping Minow with a black back and silver sides. The rod was made of fiberglass (this was in the 60’s) and the reel was a Penn 109.
I didn’t have the slightest idea on how it worked, but I played with it every evening, until it broke. I would wind the crank (it didn’t have a line) and I imagined I was fishing and catching huge fish that pulled and pulled…nobody has ever given me something that had such a strong and permanent impact in my life like that little fishing gear that my father gave me and as surprisingly as it may sound, I never used it in the water. |
Some years later my father took me fishing to the Panuco River, along with my uncle Vladimiro López and his two sons, my cousins. As soon as we left the pier, they threw their hooks and started trolling. I remember that almost immediately after a huge bass bit.(about 4 kilograms) I thought it was huge because I had not seen such a big, live fish. My father called me and gave me the rod. I was about 11 then. When the fish pulled it made me go back in time and remember when I played in the backyard, when I imagined I was a fisherman catching all those fish that came out of my imagination. After a while they pulled the fish out of the water .The captain put it in my hands. I was so overwhelmed! I felt the excitement all over my blood; that was a turning point for me and I would never be the same. This is what has made me what I am today. Maybe that’s where the dream of the rod and the reel came to be, and that I treasured within my heart for more than 25 years. Until the day I lost my job, and I was in the worst economical situation in my entire life, my forgotten dream came back to me and made me a different person. I started my own firm “Promotora de Pesca Deportiva S.A de C.V”. My dream also made me realize that happiness lies in the simple things of life; human contact, and when you achieve your dreams and ideas. It doesn’t matter if you make it, what matter is how you make it…
So whenever you give something to a kid, be careful, you can be sowing the seed of a great dream.
Until the next tide! |