Think

Authors note: I am really lucky that I have a home to go to after school or after activities, but others aren’t as fortunate. Some kids don’t get to live in their house for more than two or three months. I wrote about this short story because this story told me exactly what it was trying to say.

We load everything in the dusty truck again to move to up north for the grape growing season. That means new friends, new school, and a new house, again. I really wish we would stop moving, but if we did I wouldn’t be able to go to school or have enough money to buy food. When Franciso Jimenezthe wrote The Circuit, he intended to open the eyes of the privileged to see the less fortunate families

Like a lot of people, myself included, we have the opportunity to live our lives in the same place, not moving from house to house. As kids our parents work for the same job all year so we never have to move; unlike other kids where their parent’s jobs go with the flow of the growing season. While you get the privilege to live in the same house for multiple years you get to develop a friend group that you spent a lot of your time with, and get good advice from. That all changes if you’re constantly moving.

Although a lot of kids get to live in the same house for many years, the others who don’t have many struggles. Their self esteem is low because they feel like they never have any friends. As families move, the children would always feel like the new kid; they wouldn’t know anyone. What if no one wanted to be their friend? At least at their old school they had plenty of friends.

People that are more fortunate need to open their eyes and see the families who are less blessed in the work field. Kids in school need to accept people of all shapes and sizes, because once you have a good friend you might lose them faster than you wish.