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ele submitted a contest entry to If you could send one message you learned about life to every person in the world, what would it be? 1 months ago
Embracing reflexes
Now that I look in the mirror and I can contemplate all my versions of the past at the same time, Now that I can see myself in my own reflexes of when I was 8, 13, 16 and 20 years old and I find the tears without drying on my face And I see the doubts sprouting in my eyes, and I can smell the frustration, and my skin bristles when the past touches my neck with the uncertainty that stole my air then… Now that I’m 24 years old and I don’t regret anything, I would like to send me letters disguised as hugs through the mirror, Letters that say that although some pains do not go away, I was able to turn them into parts of the road, steps that helped me overcome obstacles. I want to hug those girls and tell them that we published our first book of poetry, and the second and third and those that followed; And I will have to confess that in the end, although we enjoy university and fall in love with academic writing and see our name and our words published in international magazines, we were not mistaken when we decided to leave that path. I want my hug to tell my previous versions that we did it and we were happy, we were happy when we made community short films, when we lost the fear of speaking in public; That we were happy when they recognized my face on the street and thanked me for my poems. I want my hug to tell those girls with flooded eyes, with suicide in the head, with nightmares about abuse, with the addition to the cigarette and with the traumas, that everything happens, that we become Ele Vergara, That although grandpa is no longer there, I would see this woman with pride and that we find every day, paths that tie us to life.
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