Short Story. Most parents wish their children to grow up to be a doctor, a lawyer, or a successful business person, but not Esthers parents because all they want their little baby girl to be healthy always.

feel better, but guess what? She was still sick and she really had to go to her family doctor and examine her thoroughly. After one visit, they were relieved to hear that all the babies go through the same routine. During that night, Esther was so sick, and fainted. Her parents, her sister, and her brother, too, were shocked and surprised. All of her relatives and friends were prayed that she would be all right and just be cold and nothing more serious. At a university hospital, a doctor told them to get ready for the worst, and that night might be the last night to see her alive. Esther’s parents, of course, fell down to the ground, and cried uncontrollably. ‘All I wanted her to be a healthy baby girl, and grow up. Are those such crimes?’ Esther’s mom cried, cried, and cried to the Mother Maria’s statue. Next morning, the doctor came with tragic news. The news was that Esther’s not going to live, so they’d better get ready for a funeral. Esther’s mom insisted that she would come alive, and she couldn’t go to funeral, she couldn’t, wouldn’t let her go because her mom somehow believed she would wake up. A few tragic weeks had passed and as if God heard the news, Esther was alive again, but she was like a newborn baby because she couldn’t talk, let alone walk. After the survival, her struggling to survive, and the difficult paths have just begun because no one said that was easy for her to stay alive, and she had to fight all her mighty to maintain. As she saw the obstacles, it was like these: the obstacles are like very high mountains, so all she has to do was climb, climb, and climb and if you fall, get up and climb back again.And because of the sickness, the side-effect had left her crossed-eyes, and her teeth were like rabbit. ‘But that’s ok,’ her mom thought. ‘Because she could and would learn everything, it just takes time to learn them. That is all,’ and she did. One by one, step by step, she learned to walk, and talk. Esther still remembers how she and her mom went to a “special school” to learn to speak forcefully. Especially one day, when she was about to learn to speak a sound “Zzzzzzzzzzzzz,” the teacher made her to speak by putting a chocolate chip on her tongue, and made her say the sound “Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.”That was the most difficult thing to do and a nightmare to her. If someone asks her if she would go back and learn, she would run away from them. One day, Esther and her mom got on the subway and on their way to “special school” and she was quite as a mouse as always, but suddenly she burst into tears. The reason was that one kid who sat across to Esther was teasing about her crossed-eyes. Hearing this, Esther’s mom was so upset and started to look for a eye doctor who could perform a miracle on her eyes. And luckily she did after the two painful eye surgeries, she was able to see the same way as the normal children do. After many years later, she has some crossed eyes left on her eyes if you see her closely, and carefully. Finally, Esther got into her first kindergarten. Unfortunately after one year, the kindergarten that she went to had to close, nowhere to go. Plus, her best friend’s son’s mom said to Esther’s mom that her son couldn’t play with Esther anymore because the path is going to be so different and that was that. Esther’s mom couldn’t believe what she was hearing. ‘Wasn’t that her who forced my daughter to be his best friend, and wasn’t that her who pretends to be friendly and nice to my daughter?’ After what she had heard, Esther's mom was goddamn mad at her, she started to look for a second better kindergarten, and she did.She went to two kindergartens. When she arrived at a second kindergarten, she was so happy, and couldn’t believe her eyes because they were all wearing a uniform, and the place was so huge. One week later, she was excited because she made some new friends, and she was fitting in there perfectly. One day, her teacher called the whole class, telling them they’re going to have annual recital, and she and her classmates were going to have Spanish dance, so please let their parents to sign a form saying, ‘My daughter,---- is going to participate this dance, and must pay the dance uniform.’ Esther’s parents did, and the annual recital went perfectly. After few years later, she went to an elementary school and graduated. During her last two years of elementary school was a nightmare. She was always picked on, and teased because at times when she speaks, she couldn’t say the word or sentence correctly, and that made everyone laugh, and that got her into tears many times. And so, she survived and had to go to another obstacle. Esther was a brave little girl in front her parents because immediately after Esther graduated from the elementary school, she immigrated to Canada. Soon after she landed in Canada, she went to Canadian high school, and started to adapt a new world prepared for her. During her high school years, she was obedient to finish her high school. But the grades weren’t that good, so she had to go to Communications, and graduated with Comm. 12 with a C. After Esther graduated, she went to Capilno College, hoping that she could somehow get English 12 degree, but she couldn’t. After few years later, she got a certificate with ASL (American Sign Language).Still studying, hoping to get English 12 degree, and still struggling to stay alive