Soledad* Diaries: Gratitude and Joy [esp/eng]

in OCD3 years ago (edited)


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Soledad* means loneliness, solitude, in Spanish - it is also a woman's name


After years of imagining the ideal life of someone who wakes up to listen to the sun rise and perfume the rest of the day with its energy, now and finally, I can say that I wake up before the sun rises.


"It's a shame", I thought as I stared away from the window beyond my favorite view in the world, "that I don't see myself as those youtubers, already focused, already "making it" with a all put together life that conveyed the peace I imagine of the stability."

It was anxiety who took over to perform the character of my alarm clock. And I am thankful for it.

And, today, I looked into her eyes and laughed just like Sayri when I tickle him.

She - Anxiety, I mean - who only receives my explosions and my overflows, unperturbed, taught me, through the silence of the birds singing to the sun the open pathways of the sky where He should circulate, although He, grumpy and busy, already knew it, that She and this and I, and everything, are the gift that God sent to us.

It turns out that it was never the goal but the path to it. The routines, the obstacles and the blessings.

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And I go to the bedroom and see Sayri sleeping. He is growing so big. And so handsome. And I look at my endless list of household chores, and I think of everything I'll have to cook with plans A, B, and C in case Sayri doesn't want to eat, and I wonder when I'll be able to write. And so on.

And I feel my heart break and I notice that it is also mending itself. And that I don't feel half empty but half full.

And I see that I am fulfilling the dream of that little 5-year-old Artemis who saw herself living from her art, alone and traveling the world, and also the dream of that Demeter who promised herself to hear every laugh that came out of the little mouth of her baby, and of the Hestia whose fire never lets her home cool down, and of Persephone who descended into her hells until she owned them.

Suddenly, I realize that the musical work of my film is more complex and rich and that its color palette has hues that I could never have imagined.

"It's just that what we ask for"
, She told me, "is so illusory that, upon arrival, it is impossible to recognize."

Human eyes are not able to see, much less foresee, the beauty of divine creation. That's why we don't see angels."

And I laugh at having fallen, like one of many more innocents, to the elemetal joke; unable to recognize what was always right in front of my nose.


The gift, beyond the goal and even the path, and its routines, and its obstacles and its blessings, was always me.

Luego de años de imaginar la vida ideal de quien despierta para escuchar el amanecer y perfumar con su energía el resto del día, actual y finalmente, puedo decir que despierto antes de subir el sol.

Es una lástima, pensé mientras perdía la mirada lejos de la ventana, más allá de mi vista favorita en el mundo, que no me vea como esas youtubers, ya centradas, ya "lográndolo" con una vida que transmitía la paz que imagino de la estabilidad.

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Fue la ansiedad quien tomó las voces de alamar despertadora. Y yo le agradezco.

Y, hoy, la miré a los ojos y me reí como Sayri cuando le hago cosquillas.

Ella, que solo recibe imperturbable mis explosiones y mis desbordes, me enseñó —a través del silencio del cantar de los pájaros, indicándole al sol las vías abiertas del cielo por donde debía circular, aunque él, malhumorado y ocupado ya lo supiera— que ella (la ansiedad, digo), y esto y yo, y todo, son el regalo que nos mandó... Dios.

Resulta que nunca fue la meta sino el camino hasta ella. Son más rutinas, los obstáculos y sus bendiciones.

Y voy al cuarto y veo a Sayri durmiendo. Está tan grande. Tan bonito. Y veo mi lista interminable de quehaceres del hogar, y pienso en todo lo que tendré que cocinar con sus planes A, B y C en caso de que Sayri no coma, y me pregunto cuándo podré escribir, y me apeno por mi mamá que mantiene a su hija de 25 años y a su nieto.

Y siento mi corazón roto y noto que se está reparando. Y que no me siento medio vacía sino medio llena.

Y veo que estoy cumpliendo el sueño de esa pequeña Artemisa de 5 años que se veía viviendo de su arte, sola y recorriendo el mundo, y también el sueño de esa Deméter que se prometió oír cada risa que saliera de la boquita de su cría, y de la Hestia cuyo fuego jamás deja enfriar su hogar, y de Perséfone que descendió a sus infiernos hasta dominarlos y ver a su mamá, por primera vez, como su mamá luego de tanta ausencia.

De repente, me percato de que la obra musical de mi película es más compleja y rica y que su paleta de colores tiene tonalidades que jamás pude haber imaginado.

Es que lo que pedimos, me dijo, es tan ilusorio que, al llegar, es imposible de reconocer.

Los ojos humanos no son capaces de ver, mucho menos prever, la belleza de la creación divina. Por eso no vemos ángeles.

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Y me río de haber caído, como una inocente más, de la broma elemetal; incapaz de reconocer lo que siempre estuvo frente a sus narices.


El regalo, más allá de la meta e, incluso, del camino, de sus rutinas, de sus obstáculos y de sus bendiciones, siempre fui yo.


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Ney is a 25 year old Venezuelan writer figuring out her voice and place in this world through her words. She speaks spiritually oriented while discovering how to balance adulthood and motherhood without letting her wanderlusty, more artistic self behind of the ride.



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Te amo muchooo! Eres tan fuerte y tu vida es maravillosa, amix! Espero que cada vez que lo olvides rapidamente lo recuerdes... Mua!

Gracias, amigo! Te amo más, mwah 💜


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