Joy, Fear, Confidence, Anger, Sadness, Friendship, Disgust Calm, Surprise, Shame, Enmity, Anticipation, Compassion, Kindness, Envy, Emulation, Contempt, Gratitude, Admiration, Pride, Jealousy, Sympathy, Obfuscation, Irritation…
Have you ever experienced the feeling of lying on the wet ground after a rainy day, or on the green grass at dusk on a clear spring day just to gaze at the star-covered sky? Nowadays, people marvel at the sophisticated creations with technological advances that feed our senses with the words “PERFECTION” AND “BEAUTY”, creating before our eyes the perception of a world governed entirely by human intelligence.
What an irony in life… I have to smile, showing a face covered in scarlet, so as not to show that my heart is broken and shattered. Only then can I continue to hide the inevitable reality that pressures me to live in the shadows since you have left.
Feel me… Every morning when you wake up as if it were the warm light of the new day, which impetuously passes through the glass of your window to illuminate your face, while I gently caress your lips to give you a kiss.
Around the world, there is a very great diversity of cultures that adorn the natural or prefabricated beauty of each country and that, in many aspects, identify us or group us in specific geographical areas. For example, in Guatemala, there is a very old custom of saying “HEALTH” when we hear a person sneeze. And I know that in many Hispanic countries there is also this custom, although the word HEALTH is not necessarily used every time someone sneezes.
In a relationship, there will undoubtedly always be disagreements, anger, complaints, jealousy, confusion, forgetfulness, and probably complaints or scolding. When a problem is discussed as a couple, they almost always blame each other, because in a relationship, feelings, emotions, and passions are involved that can prevent having a neutral conversation that can help solve the conflict about which they are discussing.
There are pains that make us scream, hit, moan, or twist. And they express themselves openly, without conditions or restrictions. Regardless of opinions, criticism, or advice, we only want to eradicate them from our bodies. But there are also pains that are suffered in silence because the bond of love, which physically held us together in an almost perfect personal world, was broken.
We are reaching the end of the year two thousand twenty-three, and in the United States of America, Thanksgiving Day is approaching. Celebration that turns out to be the preamble to the Christmas festivities. But how many of us are happy with the life we have? Or perhaps I should ask: How many of us are preparing to enjoy this time of year with more love, peace, and goodwill throughout the world?
Two months have passed since I shared my most recent publication. My computer, keyboard, and desktop are covered in dust. It seems incredible, but every time I touch the keyboard, the dust sticks to my fingers. Leaving traces semi-tarnished by the density of feelings dormant between memories and tears, which gently awaken from dreams almost forgotten in time.
In the book of Acts of the Apostles, in chapter 17, there is an anecdote or story that Paul tells us about what he preached in Athens and an inscription that strongly calls his attention “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD”. Perhaps we have had the opportunity to read this story before, but perhaps we have not given it the attention it deserves or discovered the importance of that phrase. And probably without realizing it, we have omitted to discover the mystery that it contains, or we have taken advantage of the great invitation that is offered to us to know the “UNKNOWN GOD”.
When people begin to say that they were very happy in the past or to tell anecdotes of what they experienced in their childhood, they almost always end up crying nostalgically because of what they consider to be the best time of their lives. Normally I listen to them without interrupting, and when they are silent and spilling bitter tears, I ask them, “Would you like to make a trip to the past?” When listening to the question, they usually release and cry with more flow. Then I receive some of the most common answers: “Yes, but it is impossible.” “Yes, but nobody can’t.” While they observe me in disbelief or wait for me to magically transport them to the past so they can find the happiness that they yearn for and that is lost in their world of yesteryear.
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