Norma Crenna
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Morning Routine Upside Down
Good Morning/ Good Night America, what a beautiful new day or in my case night. While everyone is saying good morning, I told good night, as you can see my life, it is upside down or backward? It is up to you how do you want to call it. I have two jobs, and I am two months away from finishing College. What this has to do with this story? Well, I work nighttime, so when everyone is waking up, I am going to sleep, simple as that. My morning will be in the afternoon. I would say around 2 pm. I wake up, check my phone for messages. In Social media, emails, WhatsApp messages, text messages, etc. After that I jump in the shower, take a nice hot shower, I am not too fond of cold showers. After bathing I brush my teeth, dry my hair (very important), you have to look your best. And your hair is like a picture frame. It has to be perfect. In my opinion!
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Motivation
From Cuba With Love
March 2018, what a year full of surprises. Habana, what a beautiful place. A magical gem is full of beauty, from the people to the food, nature, the coffee. I love this picture. I have never seen before sunset so beautiful and peaceful. The sun is resting on the arms of the ocean dress of beautiful bright colors. The ocean is a large bed, made of waves waiting for the sun to lay and rest until the next day. I was there sitting on the Malecon Cubano, enjoying the view with my good friends. What a peaceful moment a perfect combination of happiness and relaxation. I was watching the water dance one side to another. It was like they were celebrating and waiting for the sun to come and rest—such a beautiful moment no camera can catch the perfection of this natural scenery. We are blessed mother earth gives us this view that makes us dream.
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Wander
Love Can Heal any Wound
Everybody says that Love can heal any wound. Love can make your dream of impossible. It can make you believe in yourself again and the people around you. It gives you hope for a better life and a life with a lot of hope. I have always said that I have a couple of relationships. Some of them become a marriage, I have kids, but to be honest. I have never fallen in Love, sadly. Every time I said that last part, people used to look at me like feeling sorry for me. And I never understood why, and I find it very annoying, why people would act like that? Like everything we do not know about, you do not miss it or do not care. But, to me, it was normal. I never have an example of what it is to be in a loving relationship. My parents were terrible with us and between them, so to me, that was a healthy marriage. Life showed me how wrong I was and how unhappy I was always. Two fail weddings and no love, and now I know why people felt sorry for me and why it was so difficult to understand me. I felt in Love with my kids but not with the father. It is sad. But life goes on, and not being able to fall in Love kept me from thinking about it unless somebody brought it up. And when they did, well, we know what I would answer, and we know what they will say and, of course, follow by the facial expression of confusion and pity. But I was used to that reaction. I had it all my life, nothing new. Well, nothing lasts forever; they say, we all get our turn to felt in Love. And God, what a wonderful feeling, and how painful it is, why do people like to fall in Love? So many ups and downs, so many tears of happiness and sadness at the same time. Now I understand how complicated Love can be, or it is us that complicate things? I do not know. It is so beautiful when you have all those butterflies in your stomach going around. You feel like singing, dancing, and being full of joy, feeling beautiful, strong like nothing can ruin your life. You feel like everything in this world is perfect; the past does not bother you anymore. God has sent you an angel, and you are blessed. Love, oh boy, I can get enough of this beautiful feeling. It is overwhelming!
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Humans
In Love With You
Work, work, work, school, kids, more work, house, more work. At the beginning of the day and the end of each day. A good cup of coffee keeps you going. As you see, I am a coffee lover to me. It is essential to have it around. It is like having a love of your life with you 24/7, but with the difference, you do not get tired of your coffee company. I started drinking coffee, and I would say when I was twenty-two years old. I was starting working as a receptionist. I did not have kids; my relationship with my husband at the time was terrible. So, I got used to drinking coffee, and it was a company, a way to kill anxiety, forget my problems for a while. Now I only knew American coffee, but with time I started trying different types of coffee. The more I work, the more I got into American with cream and sugar, Cortaditos (small cup of coffee with froth milk), macchiato, and so many more. It was so good that I could not stop, and I was getting carried away. But of course, like anything in this life, your body gets to a point where it says stop. And I did, I was getting sick because of the coffee with heartburn, losing appetite, losing weight, I did not need eating. Since I was drinking coffee all the time and always busy at work, it was the perfect combination. In 2015, after divorce, marry again, having kids. I started college online, and I will do classes at night when everyone is at sleep, I thought. Since I know how weak I am when it comes to coffee, I switch it to green tea. I was lying to myself; I miss coffee too much; green tea did nothing to me. So, I went and bought my espresso machine, oh boy, I was happy! I can study all night now and go to work in the morning and come home. Who is going to stop me now? And again, there it was heartburn, no eating, losing weight. I did not realize that the stress of everything I was doing got to me even worse than before. I was using coffee to cover up the pressure, the loneliness, the fear of failing, the anxiety, insecurities. So, after a year of drinking excessive amounts of coffee, I slow down. I drink coffee because of the taste, share with a good company, during breakfast, or after dinner. But I limit myself to a maximum of three cups a day, if any. I am three months away to graduate, and my kids are old enough to take care of themselves, work it is getting exciting but enjoyable.
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Motivation
More Listening, Less Fighting.
We continue living in hard times. The pandemic has become a nightmare. We lost hope, and we lost humanity; we lost love for each other. It is a pandemic, indeed. In the news, we can see hate, abuses, murder, assaults. Mother against son, teenager killing each other with firearms. What is that we are thinking? We are fighting against each other for minimal or no reason. We are not listening to what others have to say. We are spreading hate, not love; we supposed to be a better generation with the capability to make the world a better place for our children. Instead, we are showing our young ones how to fight, how to spread hate. What is happening to us? Where are we trying to go with all this hate? History has shown us plenty of times. Nobody wins in war; we all lose. It is hard to see how people are fighting against each other. Instead of fighting the pandemic, I am starting to believe that the only epidemic around us is us. It is painful to see a child getting hurt because adults decided that the best way to learn is by getting injured in a protest. A child getting hurt because of skin color, sexual orientation, for their social status. What are we accomplishing with this reaction? Our kids are watching us fighting and getting hurt. They are learning from us. From our examples, we need to stop and take a good look at us and our actions. Last week, I watched the news as I do every day; I chose to do it once a day only because it is too much negativity. But in one of the videos, they show, and this breaks my heart. A kid was playing in the front of his home. And when he saw a police force car, he hides behind the family vehicle, a kid it is not feeling safe. Look at the point we are that a kid hides from police, it is something to think about and reflect. Kids watch television all the time, and now that they are home, even more. Can you imagine what cross that kid's mind for him to decide to hide and feel like he is going to get hurt? I see my kids watching the news, and I ask them to tell me what they think of the story. My son, twelve years old, answered. "It is sad to know that I can go out and maybe not coming back." If we cannot make our kids feel safe, nobody can help us. No matter what your line of work is, our kids need to feel safe from the outside world. When I was growing up, the police use to be a symbol of order, protection, a hero. What happens with that, where all that went? Who are we going to call when we are in trouble? And after all these trouble times. How are the new roles for police? How are they going to act now, after all the fighting and lawsuit? What is normal, and what is not? Who decides where it is the limits? So, many questions, and I cannot find the answer, should we follow the news? It seems like we have a new standard, wears a mask, practices social distancing, calls the police if you are in trouble, but be ready with a handbook to know what is right and what is wrong. People looking for justice for their loved ones that got killed by the police do not know how to act. Should they use force? Yes and No. Protect citizens but not too much to the point of going over the line. Citizens call police but are ready, and you never know how it is going to end. Until we stop and analyze what we are doing, we will not come to a solution. We got to the point where we do not know how to act. We do not know who is right and who is wrong. But one thing is for sure. We are losing our values, our loved one, think hard, please. Stop the hate pandemic! Listen more, Love More. Less Fight, Less Hate.
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Humans
Happiness is About Moments
It is hard growing up without parents, but I believe it is worse when you have parents, and they do not care about what happened to you or your siblings. Careless people with no heart, no conscience, no feelings, selfish people only care about them. Leaving kids around with no care in the world allows them to be abused, mistreated, and killed. How can you be a happy person? People ask. I ask myself the same question plenty of times. For a long time, I did not answer, but I did have a lot of unanswered questions. A lot of doubt about myself, my sanity, my personality, how I act, how I speak, and the way I look. I grow up with so many insecurities, trust issues, depression, etc. My whole life was about questioning myself. What I did wrong? Why my parents did not care about my siblings or me? Why is my brother dead? So many questions, so much pain. Today, almost forty years old. After battling with myself, with two divorces, with the memories of war against cancer.
By Norma Crenna4 years ago in Motivation