Monday

Máquina del tiempo.

Caí en un río de lodo. Estoy sumergida en un espacio profundo de fango espeso en el que, entre más me esfuerzo por salir, más me hundo. La caída ha sido tan profunda y tan inesperada como lo es el fango. En medio de la selva Amazónica, aislado y solitario rodeado de tanta vida. Es un fango viejo y activado. Lleva años marinándose. Puedo sentir la fauna bacteriana liberando sus mieles sobre mi tejido muscular, abarcando rápidamente cada centímetro de mí para ser devorado. Si me hubiera levantado de la hamaca unos momentos antes hace doce años, hoy no estaría luchando contra mi propia fuerza bruta.

De pronto, me quedo inmóvil. Mis ojos se pierden en la orilla carcomida de una hoja enorme color manzana. Ha sido una hormiga. Tal vez un puño de ellas o un escarabajo hambriento que recorrió los límites de la planta. Tan viva, tan en su lugar. No hay razón para equivocarse. Ahí nació y ahí morirá. No tiene miedo, no quiere ver el mundo, no sabe qué hay más allá de su selva. No necesita entender su propia existencia, no quiere a nadie a su lado. No hay falla. Morirá y dará inicio a otra vida dentro del ciclo infinito de la tierra. Y ¿Si regresáramos un poco más el tiempo? Antes de que las hormigas se comieran la hoja. Un poco más atrás. Ese momento justo, ese instante en que perdí la fe. ¿La fe en qué? o ¿En quién? ¿Cuándo la tuve y cómo se alojó en mi cerebro? ¿Por qué la perdí? 

Puedo reconstruir una y otra vez la escena de mi vida. El momento en que descubrí el dolor está confuso. El lugar y los ojos que me hicieron creer en la magia que habito lo tengo impreso en Polaroid. ¿Cuándo olvidé quién era? Puedo pensar en aquellas cosas que "yo creo" que me hacen ser "yo" pero, son utópicas y, mi falta de fe las sabotea en un instante. Y pienso... ¿Necesito creer en la utopía para recuperarme a mí misma? Si vuelvo a creer en la magia, en las maravillas y la perfección del Universo podría salvarme de la autodecepción irracional, acéfala. Es un posibilidad pero, ¿Cómo se recobra la fe en la magia cuando no puedo creer en las historias?  Y ¿Si regresamos un poco más en el tiempo? Un poco más atrás.

¿Por qué estoy tan decepcionada de la única persona en la que debería creer ciegamente? Necesito lo psicotrópico que me da la meditación para no pensar en la debilidad humana. Para situarme en el ahora, en lo único que tenemos disponible y que sí nos pertenece. Necesito el entumecimiento del mantra más poderoso para convencerme de que no tengo tiempo, y que por tanto, no necesito un plan ni un objetivo. Solo necesito creer y esperar lo mejor. Ser buena persona y poner una buena intención en mis acciones diarias. Necesito que mi cerebro lógico se vuelva a hacer el muertito en el mar. Que disfrute la frescura del mar y la espuma de las olas. Inhala... Exhala... Un momento, ¿cuándo sucedió mi Budaísmo? Y ¿Si regresamos un poco más atrás? ¿Cuándo dejé de leer a Nietzsche y comencé a leer a Rajneesh? 

Es la brújula. La perdí hace diez años ¿o más? La puse en el lugar equivocado y alguien se la ha llevado. Si no tengo una brújula ¿cómo le hago para seguir el camino? ¿Prendo los faros y solo sigo acelerando creyendo que hay camino más allá de lo que la luz en la carretera me permite ver? pero ¿hacia dónde? y sobre todo, lo que más me importa ¿para qué? No sé cuándo comencé a cuestionar mi existencia por primera vez. Según mi lógica quien te trajo al mundo debiera ser quien te diga para qué te trajo, pero mi madre nunca me lo dijo. Tal vez ni ella misma lo sabe. ¿Y si nos vamos más atrás?

Unicornio rosa fuego de alas negras.

Soy color rosa, con brillos y destellos. Rosa suave, palo de rosa y dorado. Mírame en la fantasía de una niña de siete años, confeccionada en la sociedad posmoderna del siglo XXI.

Soy hippie de clóset, me fascina el reggae, la naturaleza y no me gusta la marihuana. Estoy levitando en la alfombra mágica de Aladín mientras sobrevuelo el mundo. 

Soy clima frío, un lugar inhóspito, aislado, lleno de árboles altos y me dan miedo los insectos. Vibro en el canto de la chicharra y el zumbido de las abejas, revoloteando en granitos de polen.

Soy amante de la belleza, la perfección del cuerpo, me gusta la piel suave y siempre estoy a dieta. Revivo y muero cada día frente al espejo. A veces me amo, otros días debo perdonarme.

Soy entregada, comprometida, leal, no suelo ser tan detallista y me enamoro intensamente. Estoy en el sueño despierto de cualquier mujer occidental que ha visto todas las comedias románticas.

Soy de hechos, demostraciones y acciones, más que de palabras y promesas. Mis pies se mueven al ritmo de mis neuronas, no de mis impulsos. Amor pensante.

Soy del romance antiguo, de la audacia en el amor y del tradicionalismo en el modernismo. Resueno en la voz del mariachi de media noche, en la serenata junto a la ventana.

Soy la ropa negra, la elegancia, lo callado y muy poco extravagante. Me escucho en la voz del pensamiento, en los susurros de los cobardes y la decepción femenina.

Soy inteligente, autodidacta, líder, casi siempre insegura y siempre valiente. Estoy en las oraciones de mi madre y en el filo de la existencia humana.

Soy anti-tendencia, la oveja negra, la oposición y me gusta no ver noticias. Permanezco en la creación de la potencialidad infinita una y otra vez.

Soy yo, por muchos años fui un camaleón y ahora soy un unicornio rosa con alas negras. Vuelo hasta la cima del volcán de nieve a sanar mis heridas y regreso en rosa fuego. Soy un cuervo en la nieve que devora ratones de campo abierto y soy pseudo vegetariana. Vivo en la ferocidad del oso polar y la ternura del regordete osezno. 


Saturday

TRAVEL TO ANOTHER COUNTRY

I've spent the last eleven months in a different country, and now the time to go back home, it's around the corner. I've got all kind of feelings regarding the end of this period in my life but something it's true. I don't regret anything. 

I spent all my money, everything I saved for one year. I stopped my professional career; I sold all I had, including my car, my clothes, everything. I left my family, my friends, and my whole life only to be able to come to this beautiful country. I've been alone for these months, meeting new people, learning from a new culture, improving a different language, and getting to know myself better. That was the best part of this excellent experience. 

My whole life, I saw a big part of my friends go away for short trips, travel around different countries, study abroad, or just go away on an adventure. And I always asked myself: how do they do it? I mean, how? 

And yes! The big problem is money if you're not a wealthy person or if this is the first time you're planning to do something like that. 

Well, the answer is simple. You must focus on your purpose and put all your energy on that goal. You might have to quit everything else, parties, coffees, dinner with friends, new clothes, movies, everything. 

A few pieces of advice: 

One: Go alone. There is nothing more rewarding for your inner self than the feeling of victory in the middle of an unknown airport. 

Two: Live there. Forget you're a visitor. Find the way to actually live there; it doesn't matter if is one day or one year. 

Three: Make friends. Leave the antisocial you in your country. Dare to meet people from your country, local and from other countries. 

Four: Live simple. Enjoy all the free stuff in the new country, and spend your money on food, rent and cellphone. Give your self some little expensive things, but be sure that those things are experiences and not objects. 

Five: Be present. Forget about all those things you left behind. That person doesn't exist anymore. Your life is just what you have right now, so enjoy it as much as you can. 

Six: Be kind. Always be polite and thankful. Change your mindset from the moment you get on the plane, and always try to help, love, thank and share. It will back to you multiplied. 

Seven: Learn. Open your eyes, ears and mind. Not because some things are some way in your country, it means they are the same way everywhere. 

Eight: Read. Books always will give you the support you will need in difficult days. They open your mind and let you see things differently. You will definitively have rough days. 

Nine: Take care of your self. Don't be reckless nor unreasonable during your trip. You need to be smart, preclusive and follow your inner voice. 

Ten: See it all. When you're in a different part of the world, do everything you can to see all the wonders in that place. You're already there! So, please do it. 

And eleven: Share. When you have done something and have learned, share everything you can to help others to do the same. There is always someone doubting about this.

Tuesday

CROSSING FINGERS

I wish I could see you one more time.
I wish I could look at you in the eye for a minute.
I hope this life gives me that gift before I leave this town.
I pray for the day when I can see your beautiful blue eyes again.
I dream about that moment at least three times a day.
I crave being in front of you, face to face, just for one more time.
I have all this desire in my heart, and I wish I could have you here right now.

Oh baby! If only I could see you, only to be able to look at your face and say to you: "Thank you for teach me a lesson. I'm a stronger person."

I am crossing my fingers with all my heart.

Saturday

TRUST ME

There is a woman beside the closet's door in my bedroom. 
She is staring at me, like if she knew me better than myself. 

She looks mad, heart-broken, and she has this hopeless look in her eyes. 
I think she is mad at me; I think she is disappointed with me. 

She is looking at me as if I could read her mind and if I could know what I did wrong, and I think I know, deeper inside of me. All those things I said I was okay with, she is not. All those behaviours I said I was willing to tolerate, it turns out she's not. 

I know that she is getting older, and sometimes she thinks she would be able to bare anything to have a little happiness in her life; to fulfill her heart. I support her in every thought, any step, and moment of meditation. The problem is I believe her all the time. And when we appear to be in the middle of an uncomfortable situation, she gets mad at me, and she looks at me as if everything was my fault. And maybe it is. 

That woman might be right, but she knows I can't stand mental games, so, if she tells me something, I will believe her, no matter what. If it turns out, she didn't mean it, or she wasn't sure, that is not my fault entirely. 

One of my ugliest defects is that I'm a literal person. If someone tells me I want to meet you at noon tomorrow, well, I understand that he or she wants to see me the next day at noon. I'm so literal that sometimes I cannot understand jokes of those people who laugh first and talk after. 

I think she knows me very well, and she knows all these things about me. I believe this is what she loves about me and what she hates at the same time. 

I want you to know that I'm here for you, and I'm going to protect you from everything and everyone. I know it hurts, I know you felt happy for an instance and then felt crushed. But I will do my best to make you feel better and to heal your heart. Trust me.

Tuesday

FOOLISH ROMANTIC

I'm the kind of person who still believes in true love, passion, and magic. As my horoscope says most all the time, I look like a bitch, but I am not. 

Maybe my face is not communicating how I feel or what I am dreaming about, but inside I am a foolish romantic. 

I'm one of those men and women who still think someone I love is going to knock the door in the middle of the day and kiss me without reason. If someone I fought tells me that he doesn't want to know anything about me, I still think we will have a dramatical reconciliation. Something that will make us cry every time we remember that moment we were mad. 

I'm the kind of woman who if her boyfriend told her that he was to busy today and he won't see her tonight, she is still waiting for him to come at midnight just to give her a kiss before he goes home because he couldn't wait till tomorrow. 

I disagree with the idea that the guy has to do all the job in the flirting. I believe they want to feel desired, wanted, and they need to know, just as women, that we are willing to win them no matter what. And if a woman has the luck to do this with a mature man, it would be just the best experience she can have. 

I think there are lots of men and women craving this romanticism, but we are too scared to be damaged, to be hurt, that we don't dare to try even a little. We think over a thing, over and over again, and we ended up thinking it's a stupid idea. 

I would like to do something exceptional and romantic for someone who I want to be with, and that he doesn't think I'm a psychopath or I'm too desperate for love. I would like someone who I want to be with would do the same for me. 

I remember a brief chapter in my life when a guy who liked me ran out of a party full of people and screamed my name from the door where he was standing. I was almost at the end of the corridor, about 20 meters far away from him and everybody, but he screamed my name so loud for three times and ran over where I was, just to beg me to stay and dance with him. 
Sadly, I didn't come back to the party because my dad had just died a few days before, and I was too sad to be in a party; I was there because it was my job to throw the party for the company I was working for, but I remember that moment as one of the most romantic moments of my life. 
Eventually, we ended up together, and we had a beautiful relationship for a few months. 

Sometimes I think things too much, and because of that, I rarely do what I wanted to do in the first place. But the foolish romantic side of me is in pain, it's sitting in the corner of my shadow heart, crying in silence, staring at the floor, and trying not to hear my thoughts. I imagine that fool as a thin young guy, white, tall, and big dark eyes. He is almost like a draw I made with my pencil on a white piece of paper, and now he cries every time I kill an opportunity of romance in my life. He used to yell at me before, but he doesn't anymore, he just cries. 

I hope he doesn't die. I'm trying to find a way to give him what he needs. It's hard, though. But I promise I will keep trying to save him. My beloved foolish romantic drawn guy.

Thursday

MY JASMINE TEA

I never drink cold tea. I hate it. 

But that night, when I mentioned it was late, and that we needed to go back home, I noticed my tea was frozen. 

I recall I barely drank half of the cup, and I left my Jasmine tea got cold in a couple of hours. I wasn't talking that much; I wasn't busy, and indeed I didn't forget it was there on the table; But, I was so focused trying to read his eyes that I stopped drinking; I stopped breathing, and sometimes I caught myself staring at his right eyebrow and the way he lift it when is explaining something carefully. 

I was really nervous during the entire date, but it wasn't because of him. He talked about himself like he had nothing to prove to anyone, with this refreshing attitude about life, like when someone is just putting his thoughts on the table with no preconceptions and no wearing masks. And his words heard so natural coming from his mouth, and they felt just right. 

I was nervous because I wanted to talk more with him, I had a lot to share about what he was giving and trying to catch from me, but that day was being so odd before he showed up that I wasn't brave enough to open myself better. 

I listened more from his side that night, and I usually do that with every person who appears in my life, I like believing I'm a good listener; I'm pretty sure that every person has something to teach me or give me in thoughts. 

At the end of that night, I went to bed with a smile on my face, a cold Jasmine taste in my lips, and a strange feeling of peace or calm in my heart; I'm not sure what it was, but it felt good. 

I have been thinking about that cold tea almost every night; I liked it, and I'm starting to believe that I like cold tea now.

Máquina del tiempo.

Caí en un río de lodo. Estoy sumergida en un espacio profundo de fango espeso en el que, entre más me esfuerzo por salir, más me hundo. La c...