Sunday, November 27, 2011

The melody of a wizard generation


Esta canción es un ícono. 

Con solamente tres notas la mayoría de la gente sabe exactamente de dónde proviene. Una ésta canción define toda una era, catorce años desde la primera publicación del libro uno, hasta el estreno de la octava película.

Esta no es una historia cualquiera. Es una historia de como el amor es la fuerza mas poderosa del universo. Una historia de cómo el amor triunfa sobre cualquier magia, cualquier mal, y cualquier otra fuerza. Una historia que comenzó con un niño y la lucha por encontrarse a sí mismo, la lucha por terminar el mal que casi termino con su vida. Esta historia ha formado parte del nuestras vidas, que ha alcanzado todo tipo de razas, edades, zonas horarias, idiomas, religiones... Es una comunidad mundial que se basa en una misma historia.

Esta comunidad multifacética toma muchas formas. Millones de fan sites, foros, juegos dedicados a Harry Potter han acercado a los fans, y muy importante, se han creado amistades gracias a esta historia. Y bueno, al mismo tiempo, Harry Potter es mucho mas pequeño que eso, pues es parte de mi historia.

En sus páginas hay amistad. Del principio al final de cualquier libro que quieras leer, siempre habla de lo importante que es mantener la amistad. También tiene la unión del hogar y la familia. Es un lugar seguro en momentos de miedo o desesperación. Las palabras son constantes desafíos de amar mejor, vivir mejor, Esta historia me ha cambiado en maneras en las que solo la verdad, la honestidad y el amor con las que están hechas esta historia podrían haberme cambiado. Sip, las historias tienen mucho poder. En esos momentos de tristeza, enojo y desesperación, en esos momentos que creía que nunca terminarían tenía esos libros en mis manos. "Adormecer el dolor por un rato te haría sentirlo luego con mayor intensidad" dijo Albus Dumbledore. Y yo lo escuché.

La canción empieza de poco en poco.

Tranquilas notas de piano que me arrastran a la aventura. Y después, cuando la segunda melodía comienza, estoy inmediatamente adentro de la historia, viendo y recordando mis primeros momentos con Harry en Hogsmeade, en Hogwarts, nuestro primer momento enfrentando a Lord Voldemort. Todos y cada uno de los momentos están ahí, creciendo con la música hasta la batalla final, la resolución... el "final" de la historia.

Y después, todo termina. 

Una era de catorce años termina. Y en realidad se siente como el fin de la infancia. Hasta que J.K. Rowling dice que "Hogwarts siempre estará ahí para darte la bienvenida a casa", y en eso recuerdo que las historias son eternas, que las lecciones de vida que he aprendido en éstas páginas vivirán por siempre, que mi lugar a salvo todavía existe para llevarme al mundo mágico cuando quiera que se lo pida.

Éste no es el final de una era, sino el siguiente capítulo.

"No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los sueños, Harry, y olvidarse de vivir", dijo Dumbledore... Y qué bueno ha sido éste camino.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

L is for the way you look at me...

I've found almost everything ever written about love to be true. Shakespeare said "Journeys end in lovers meeting" personally I have not experienced anything remotely close to that, but I'm more than willing to believe Shakespeare had.
I'm constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives. It was Shakespeare who also said "Love is blind." Now, that's something I know to be true.
For some, quite inexplicably, love fades.
For others, it's simply lost.
But then, of course, love can also be found.
And then there is also another kind of love, the cruelest kind, the one that almost kills its victims. It is called unrequited love.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Monday, June 6, 2011

Those who share their thoughts

1. hola. i want you to be here. i want it to be christmas so i can be in memphis. i want to go to 2pc for the sunday worships and sunday school. i want to eat cake. chocolate cake. i want to take a shower. i want to go to the last harry potter premiere with yall. and i want to be in a pool.


2. i want adriana. i want to be in mexico. i want to be lifting incredibly heavy buckets of wet concrete. i want to be bitten by impressively fierce mexican mosquitos. i want to give you a big hug. i want it to be christmas so i get to hang out with you too. i want to see harry potter. in mexico. again.


1. i want you to be here. i want to give you a big hug too. i want to freeze in memphis this christmas. i want to hear your lovely voice again. i want to sing worship songs in english AND spanish with you. i want to lift heavy buckets of concrete with you. i want to see you and scream.


2. i want to learn to speak spanish so i can talk to you and think i am cool. i want to sing in whatever language comes to my head in that moment. i want to not freeze during christmas because i would be visiting you in mexico. i want to color with chalk and paint fingernails and be grossed out by your chili flavored candy! hehe basically, i just want to be as cool as you.


1. i want to speak english in my mexican accent. i want to say 'sacapuntas' every time i see you. i want to laugh in spanish (jajaja) and english (hahaha) even though no matter what language it is, it always sounds the same. i wish i was as cool as you are. i want to have a sleepover with you. i want to see you dancing ballet. i want you to see me tap dancing. i want to color with chalk. and i wouldn't mind eating panera or chick fil a.


2. i want to listen to you speak english in your adorable mexican accent. i want to listen to you attempt a british accent in your mexican accent. i want to say the word sacapuntas every time we hang out. i want to listen to you tap dance and hear your spanish and english laugh simultaneously.


1. i want to hide because i can't do a british accent (i've tried). i want to eat mexican food with you. i want to go to the cenotes because i've never been to any. i want to be with you every day. i want you to be here because that's what makes my summer complete. i want to give you something i got for you last christmas but forgot in merida in april. i want to dance like crazy because of the mosquitos with you. basically, i just want to be with you.


2. i want to chase you because i've heard you do a british accent and it is hilarious. i want to eat american food with you. i want to go to the cenotes and push you off a really high cliff (but no worries, because i will jump right after you). i want a milkshake. i want to remember the merida mall.


1. i want to see a british person and copy his or her accent. i want to eat my favorite food (pasta) with you. i want to cook dinner for you (i only know how to cook quesadillas, so i hope you like them). i want to fall off a cliff. i want to know why cenotes have cliffs. i want to graduate because that's the day yall are coming. i want a milkshake too. i want to go to wolfchase galleria and give the guy a lot of pennies and dimes to buy another pair of toms. i want sonic. i want to go to forever21 and buy some dresses. i want to go to target again. i want to see your beautiful american faces again.


2. i want to eat pasta with you (BECAUSE THATS MY FAVORITE FOOD TOO). i want to eat italian food. i want to drink a sonic slushie while i am eating your delicious quesadillas. i want to explain to you why cenotes have cliffs by showing you this summer. i want to go to forever21 and buy a bunch of dresses. i want to look at another fast food menu in spanish. i want to give you change for all those pennies and dimes. i want to pinch your cheeks and embarrass you in front of your friends. i want to get a choco tan.


1. i want to know what a choco tan is. i want to ride a bike with you even though my experiences with bikes. i want to tell you something i'm dying to tell you but it has to be in person. i want to tell you that in person because i want you to hear my mexican accent. i want to take a lot of pictures with you to put in my book of 'best memories'. i want to pinch your cheeks until they go red so i can embarrass you in front of your friends. i want to hear you saying otorinolarringologo. i want to say that word wilson good wants me to say but i can't. i want to go to a redbirds game and not see the game. i want to see everything in english. i want to start thinking in english again. i want a nerf guns battle.


2. i want to battle you with nerf guns. i want to laugh at your adorable face and bounce your long perfect curls. i want to try to say otorinolarringologo because it would come out of my mouth like orskdlajfoeipowmflsdkf;als. i want to know what word wilson good wants you to say but you cant. i want to ride bikes with you and teach you how not to fall. i want to take a whole bunch of 'artsy' pictures with you. i want to get a tan. i want to sleep in a hammock again.


1. i want to go to the movies with you. i want to know what's the word wilson wants me to say so i can tell you. i want to go to true north and sing from the inside out. i want you to sing its spanish version desde mi interior. i want to see if you get tan or red. i want to shake your hammock. i want to ask you que hace el pez?. i want to explain that joke to you. i want to learn jokes in english. i want to see snow for the first time. i want to stay in high school forever because college kinda scares me. i want to be a senior again.


2. i want to be obsessed with harry potter with you. i want to run in late to true north because of ballet and see your beautiful face in the dark and hug you for about 10 minutes. i want to learn from the inside out in spanish. i want to prove to you that i get tan and not red because i am italian. i want to teach you knock-knock jokes in english. i want to bring snow from memphis to show you, but it would probably melt mid-flight. i want to fly somewhere exotic with you on vacation. i want to stay with you in high school, but i also want to cry out of joy for you at your graduation. i want to know what 'que hace el pez' means....and why you are asking me about fish.


1.  i want to go to true north all wet because of rain and see alix and get really excited and forget i'm wet and freezing. i want to sing and suddenly see someone in the dark and hug you and almost start crying because it's been so long. i want to show you i get red, then orange then tan. i want to see snow in memphis with you and take pictures. i want to spend a whole summer with you. i want to spend a YEAR with you. i want you to come to merida before 8 pm in 34 days so you can be in my graduation ceremony. i want to tell you that que hace el pez means what's the fish doing? and i want to tell you that the right answer is 'nada' which means 'nothing' and 'swim' in spanish.