¿Is Life complicated or do we strive to make it so.?

 I am in the eve of my day off, in my green dining room.  It’s almost five o´clock in the afternoon, birds are returning eagerly to their nest, I know it by the beautiful background singing they always make.  It is a ritual, they announce the beginning of a new day, and later in the afternoon, like now, when is time to get back from work and deserve gladly a good meal and rest.

Sporadic noise of the wood shop (where I stayed all morning and part of the afternoon) interrupts my concentration. It is a Hobby and a small business at home, besides from my real job in the oil industry.

Occasionally I also hear my 6 month old Labrador dog barking earnestly calling me to go out and play with her. We usually do not have the pets inside the houses here. We keep them on the Yard.

-It is time to do your homework now- I said to my 5 year old  son, while at the same time I am trying to follow the instructions  that "crafting an effective writer: tools of the trade" course require from me. Time is pressing strongly on my schedule.

Joel. That´s my boy´s name. Like his father´s name, like his grandfather´s name and so on through generations. He is a bright, impulsive boy like any other kid his age.

–¿Ugh?.... Not now- he said.

My writing assignment it’s hard to do, due to the lack of concentration I need.

My son keeps asking me to help him in his math homework. He always complains and keeps telling me:

- "Math stinks, it is an awful, demanding, complicated, and a hard thing to do"- he said to me.

At the same time, my wife beeps me  (on my radio) to let me know my daughter is waiting for me at the University (where she studies Robotics) to take her to the hospital for her checkup. She has not been feeling well lately. Her heart beeps faster from time to time.

-Leave everything and go pick her up  now- My wife said

- I promise to be there and take her to her doctor-I tell her

In spite of all the inconveniences life has to offer, I consider myself a very happy man. I have a beautiful country home, full of different color flowers: Orange, Red, pink, purple bougainvillea’s; white roses, yellow golden cup climbing flowers, blue bushes… all in contrast harmoniously with the big green grass yard we adore, we also have three to four different mango trees, two sort of avocado trees, Papaya, Orange, lemon, Grapefruit, Anona, Zapote, Pistachio trees and more. Hot Chili pepper from the region, we used to have habanero but not anymore. And a lot of coconut trees. Also animals, like squirrels, woodpeckers, sparrows, Chachalacas, Broken bones birds, hawks and more are always coming and going around. In other words…we live in paradise. You may think all we need is the beach, well, we have it too. At a twenty minute distance from here.

Like I said we live in the country, we belong to Papantla County town near here. It is like being on a permanent vacation in spite of the many things we have engaged to do and the time pressure that comes along.

¿Is life complicated or do we strive to make it so? That is why I used this title to write this assignment.

Nouns	Pronouns	adjectives	adverb
Birds	I	Beautiful	Hard
Nest	Their	good	now
Meal	It	Awful	When
Son	Her	demanding	Where
Woodshop	me	Complicated	Why
Dog		hard	eagerly
life		every	always, gladly

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