Kurt Vonnegut once said, "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things". This has been my favorite quote since I was a child, yet I have never realized how it has applied to my life. Not until my name was announced for the best actress academy award, did I finally understand the meaning of this quote. In order to get to the point in life I had gotten to, I had a colossal amount of work. This work started since I was little, but it took me a long time to realize that it had begun. My career has started from three little things I did as a child. It started from getting picked for public speeches at school, little self-written plays for my cousins, and my big role in one drama my church did. My life as an actress had started without me even knowing.
To start off, I could lie and say that immediately I was the star of every single production put on at my church, but in all honesty, my career started off more embarrassing then that. At my school, when I lived with my grandma, they would crown a school queen of the carnival and a white nun orchid (The National Flower of Guatemala). Annually the school would host a huge carnival, with fundraisers, prizes, dance routines, and even 5K races. At every yearly carnival, a queen and a white nun orchid would be announced toward the end, but the queen and the white orchid, would be aware of this fact a week in advance. Somehow, I always got picked for queen, and ended up having to prepare a speech. Yet at the beginning, I was afraid of making a fool of my self in front of the whole school. However, my grandma was so proud of this accomplishment she pressured me more a bout my diction, poise, way of dressing, and even made me practice my speech twice a day. But, the feeling at the pit my stomach, the first time I won was interminably there. I still remember the aura of nervousness radiating off me.