Lil’ Child, Runaway Wild!

According to the Miami Herald, a Miami-Dade high school, sophomore ran away from home last week - all the way to Cuba. His father is trying to get him back.
Now there’s an extreme case of running away from home. Damn most kids normally go to a friend’s house or the mall for the night, and then come home to face the consequences. But this dude, 14-year old Alfredo Diaz, left this country – land of the free, land of opportunity – for Communist Cuba and Fidel Castro. Well, not exactly. Supposedly, the youth man swiped his passport and Dad’s credit card and booked two flights over the Internet, one to Bahamas and the other to Cuba, in pursuit of a summer love. You know like in that movie “the Notebook”. This minor got through airport, post-911 security, without so much as a peep from airport or airline personnel. He then boarded an American Airlines flight; watched the in-flight movie; had something to eat; took a nap and no one even wondered why this little youth was travel alone, much less to Cuba. I guess in a city where the problem is Cubans sneaking into the country, one Cuban heading back home was a sign of good things to come, to some of those airport personnel. LOL.
Personally, I commend the kid for his perseverance and fortitude in achieving his goal. Nowadays, not many youngsters can focus on a goal and see it through to the end, much less plan it out and prepare for it. Lil’ Man Diaz knew what the hell he was doing. He didn’t just get up one morning and say, “you know what, I’m heading to Cuba to get with that chick I met over the summer.” He planned his shit out. I don’t blame him. An island paradise and a hot lil’ chica, what youth wouldn’t trade life in America for such a carefree life. Shit, my little brother did the same thing when he was a sophomore in high school, only thing not for a chick. The ladies are a bonus of the carefree island life. Plus, I could imagine the lore of a place not completely corrupter by American ideals and consumerism.
Way to go Alfredo Diaz! More power to you!