Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Lluvias aisladas

En un mundo paralelo mi vida fue color de rosa y yo no conocí el dolor, el desamor, ni la decepción. En un mundo paralelo, yo jamás cometí errores y todas mis decisiones fueron acertadas, bien pensadas y bien evaluadas. En un mundo paralelo, mi comportamiento siempre siguió todos los protocolos  sociales, religiosos, amistosos, amorosos y más… en un mundo paralelo yo fui perfecta y permanecí intacta ante las tentaciones, la maldad, la codicia y otros. Pero no me tocó vivir una vida así, ese mundo paralelo no existió ni existirá para mí.  A mí me tocó una vida bendecida con altos y bajos, con amor y desamor, con estabilidad y crisis de todos tipos, con errores y aciertos. A mí, como a muchos, me tocó aprender a bailar en medio de tormentas (que para otros pudieran ser brisa suave) y por eso estoy agradecida… no sería ni la mitad de lo que soy sin esas tormentas, chubascos o huracanes.

Dicen que crianza es destino, pero a mí me gusta pensar que cada uno es responsable de sus propios actos… Tengo la certeza de que mis padres hicieron lo mejor que pudieron con lo que tuvieron y las estupideces que llegué a cometer en el pasado fueron sólo mías y en cierta medida, considero que cada error, cada punto bajo de mi vida me ayudó a abrir los ojos, me hizo crecer y me ayudó a amar la vida y Sus regalos de una manera más pura y genuina.

Hoy experimenté una lluvia aislada (no llegó ni a chubasco, pero como quiera cuenta)… fue de esas en las que aprendí a bailar, sin embargo, a mis 28 a pesar de lo experta que me puedo considerar en estos ambientes, tuve una mini crisis. Y es que, de vez en mes quiero que se acuerden que dentro de mí hay un ser frágil  e indefenso. Aunque por fuera puedo parecer fuerte y segura, como todos, tengo un punto vulnerable al  cuál algunos tienen acceso directo. Cuando se mete el dolor por ese huequito, activo mis estrategias y saco todas las máscaras de entereza y fortaleza que puedan existir, al fin que para eso soy un adulto ¿no? Pero hoy confieso que a veces quisiera poder romper a llorar y reclamar ¿por qué tenía que ser así? ¿No ven que en mi corazón sigo siendo una niña, buscando ser amada y reafirmada?... pero justo cuando el drama está tocando la puerta y mi lado oscuro quiere hacer de la lluvia aislada un huracán, recuerdo que soy más que eso. Lo bueno de mi vida, los aprendizajes, la paz del corazón, el amor, las bendiciones, las aventuras de vida y más, son mucho más que cualquier cosa negativa que pasa por mi camino… entonces, suavemente dejo que se desvanezcan esos momentos de crisis o fragilidad. Los pienso, los organizo en mi mente como un diagrama de flujo o un esquema de causa raíz y poco a poco, dejo ir el dolor, la vulnerabilidad, el temor o la duda.
Hay momentos que llegan destruyendo todo a su paso, derrumbando la esperanza y desestabilizando la fe… pero, como hemos aprendido en la vida, está en nuestras manos dejar que sean sólo eso: momentos, no realidades permanentes. La verdad es que, hay ciertas tormentas en las que no vale la pena quedarse. Como una vez me dijo mi psicólogo “ésta es una de esas situaciones en las que si te caíste: te levantas, sacudes el polvo de tus rodillas y tu ropa, y sigues adelante”.

No hay que abrazarnos a los momentos cargados con negatividad o emocionalidades desagradables… esos momentos hay que verlos llegar, observarlos, desmenuzarlos, organizarlos de la mejor manera que podamos, estudiarlos detenidamente y luego, suave y amorosamente déjalos ir…  hay que buscar, a toda costa, regresar a la paz del corazón.

Focus on the good. 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Sin más preámbulo: estoy enamorada

El año pasado, en varias ocasiones me dije a mí misma que no podría volver a amar, que no estaba hecha para eso y que muy seguramente no estaba llamada a la vida de pareja… esta idea no me mataba, porque afortunadamente, ya era muy feliz cuando caí  en la cuenta de que estar sin pareja podía ser una posibilidad de vida.

Dicho esto, la vida, Dios y sus planes son indescifrables y justo cuando más en paz estaba con la idea de estar conmigo misma, llego él… de la forma más inesperada y menos planeada. Un día de noviembre y luego de 10 años sin vernos, justo al acercarme a esa mesa él estaba ahí, perfecto, resplandeciente, tal como lo recordaba… con su luz intacta y más atractivo que nunca. Durante esa noche, yo jugaba en mi mente con los posibles motivos de esa coincidencia, pero no le di mayor importancia. Semanas después, perdí la cuenta de los mensajes enviados y de las llamadas sorpresivas recibidas. Meses después entré en la zona del amor sin mayor reparo y con gusto lo digo: estoy enamorada.

8 de Diciembre, la locura más grande… ir a su festejo de cumpleaños, sin haberlo visto después del encuentro fortuito en esa boda. Me invitó a su cena de cumpleaños a las 8:30 pm, y aunque parecía una locura ir al festejo de alguien con quién no había convivido en años, yo fui... imposible negarme a esa invitación, ¿qué podía salir mal? Confieso que dudé 20 veces si ir sería una buena idea, hoy confirmo que sí lo fue. Se construyó un bello puente ese día… él en un lado, yo en el otro, pero al fin con un camino trazado de por medio… el mundo de las posibilidades.

10 de Diciembre, nos vimos para platicar. Lo importante de este evento es que YO lo invité a él jaja pero he de decir que fue una buena idea, porque whats app jamás ha sido un buen medio de comunicación. En persona pudimos hacernos tres mil preguntas y detallar el pasado… ciertamente 3 horas no fueron suficientes para explicar lo acontecido en 10 años, pero al menos ya teníamos la certeza de que no éramos asesinos en serie, ni estábamos locos (bueno, tal vez un poco pero ¡qué importa!). Me fui a mi casa sin saber si le había “gustado” lo que había visto y escuchado de mi… Nerviosa y preguntándome si volvería a llamar, decidí agradecerle a la vida por esa noche. Para mí, ya el hecho de haber estado ahí con él ese día, había sido suficientemente especial… así que, lo que viniera después sería más como un regalo.

12 de Diciembre, fuimos a bailar y cupido hizo de las suyas. Llegamos al bar. Yo sabía que él bailaba   increíble, así que me puse mis mejores tacones, ropa cómoda pero sin perder el glamour (el poco que puedo o no tener jaja) y me vestí con la mejor de las actitudes. Empezó la música de salsa y me invitó a bailar… ¿qué puedo decir? iba apenas una canción y ¡yo ya me estaba enamorando! Tenía que venir el reggaetón, quería demostrarle que yo también tengo mis talentos de baile. ¡No viví en Puerto Rico en vano! Bendita noche. Bailamos salsa, reggaetón, cumbia, ranchera, texana, mariachi, de todo. Nos bastó una noche para atravesar el puente que se había construido días atrás y con ello, abrir las puertas de nuestro corazón. Nos bastaron 5 horas para sentir que podía haber algo más. Ese día nos despedimos sabiendo que cupido había flechado nuestros corazones… aún no sabíamos qué pasaría, pero ese día fue especial, ese día yo comencé a enamorarme.

Empezamos a vernos cada que podíamos… no había forma de detener las ganas de seguir descubriéndonos. Pasamos la mañana del 25 de Diciembre juntos… intercambiamos regalos, abrazos y el más profundo deseo de que el amor siguiera creciendo en nuestros corazones.

El destino no nos defraudó. A 3 meses de haber iniciado esta aventura, seguimos agradeciendo las coincidencias, los regalos del destino y Sus planes. No conocemos el futuro, pero el pasado que ya compartimos y el hermoso presente que vivimos, son en sí una gran bendición.

Luego de múltiples errores, fracasos y decepciones, quiero decir que entrar en el amor, pareciera ser el acto más estúpido y suicida que alguien pueda cometer… pero a mí me gusta pensar que es cuestión de coraje, valor y sobre todo, de fe. He trabajado los últimos años de mi vida en entender qué he hecho mal, en qué he fallado y pienso que cada día es una oportunidad para hacer las cosas diferentes y para hacerlas mejor. Cada día que él se despide con un beso, con un te quiero o un te amo, mi corazón experimenta alegría y miedo. Alegría porque no hay nada mejor que estar a su lado, y miedo porque cada día que pasa el amor crece, junto con las posibilidades de que mi corazón se rompa en mil pedazos… pero cuando esto pasa, cuando me abrazan los miedos, les pido que guarden silencio por unos instantes y entonces, uno a uno enlisto los aprendizajes que me han dejado las experiencias del pasado; conforme los voy enlistando, repaso mis cambios y reafirmo que esta vez soy diferente, soy mejor. Cuando mis miedos están en silencio, recuerdo que no voy sola, Dios me lleva de su mano. Considero que el miedo es normal, porque me siento vulnerable, pero para mí lo más importante es reconocer cuál es la fuente del miedo y entonces, confiar en que el amor de pareja, la guía de Dios y el trabajo personal de años, esta vez harán la diferencia.

"Ama sin medida, sin límite, sin complejo, sin permiso, sin coraje, sin consejo, sin duda, sin precio, sin cura, sin nada. No tengas miedo de amar..." Chavela Vargas. 



Will you write about me one day? | A delayed post from 2015, yet still current.

"Will you write about me one day?". Those were his words when we first started to see each other. Today, almost 3 months into this and after 13 years of knowing each other, I finally get to write about his beautiful heart and soul.

His name is Mario Azael, please ignore “Azael”, he hates that part of his name. He was born on December 8th of 1985, so he is 29 years old now. He has dark brown eyes, almost black. Not sure about his height specifically, but when I hug him I can put my head right on his chest, so I will say somewhere around 1.75-1.80 meters. Strong arms, enough to lift me up haha… he is fit, healthy and very handsome. He is an Engineer and he holds a Masters Degree on Marketing with a major on Finance. The youngest of 3 siblings. He has 1 nephew, which he loves to bits, he is his everything… he will be a great father, you can tell.

Mario is not just a regular guy with loads of potential… Mario is a gentleman on its finest definition. Let me tell you about some of his greatest qualities as a man and as a human being.

One: He has God in his heart. I have never met a guy so committed with God´s plans and so faithful to His love. Mario wants to spread God´s love and His word to as many people as possible… He believes faithfully that this is part of his mission on earth. I can only say he has done fantastically; every person that crosses his way, walks away with a bit of joy in their heart  <3.

Two: Mario understands and knows which are the important things about life… he just gets it. What he has gone through, what he has experienced and what he has felt, has made him more human, more sensible, kinder and wiser. For him, nothing is ever as important as family unity and peoples’ well being. For him, there is no lie, no fight and no mistake, greater than the love to the individuals close to his heart. I firmly believe that he is incredibly loved by the people around him, because he gives incredible love to them. One can only get what one gives.

Three: He is open… and when I say open I mean it in every possible way. He is open to learn new activities, regardless of how corny it may look. He is open to hear peoples’ side of their story… He has very strong ideas and opinions around certain topics in life, however, he seeks understanding and is always asking trillions of questions to understand you, to get you and therefore, to respect you. Is always a delight to talk to him, because you know that he truly listens and truly cares about what you are saying. He wants to respect you from an understanding approach, which is beautiful.

Four: He gives you his all. No matter if you are a friend, a cousin, a sister, a girl friend… if you walk into his life, he will give it all to you: his time, his attention, his love. Mario is that type of person who doesn´t give love in pieces… He gives it all, he proves you how important you are to him. He makes you feel you are worth.

He once asked me if I could write about him on this blog… well, here is the first one :). There are dozens of talents, gifts and qualities of him that I could write about, but I won´t share them all, otherwise he will end up with trillions of fans and, what would I do? Haha

This is Mario.... and if he ever crosses your way, make sure you stay around, you will walk away with more than what you arrived with, every time! :) 
Selfie del amor <3

P.S. Thank you for being you, thank you for letting me into your life, I feel blessed to walk by your side. All my love, Nanis.

Sunday, January 25, 2015

No one judges me... except for myself.

Is during my solo conversations with God that I feel profoundly loved.

I guess I never knew what being truly judged was until God blessed my path with one of the most amazing persons on earth and for this lovely reason, every now and then I get scared and don't feel "enough". God has tested me with this, and I know I am weak, but I won't stumble. When I talk about being judged, I am not talking about "the people", because the people has shown me their love in so many beautiful ways... people I barely know has given me their support and love. When I talk about being judged, I talk about me judging myself. One of the wisest persons I have ever met once told me: "unlike yourself, I don't put tags on people... Or to say it better, I didn´t put a tag on you".

What is it with us, humans (or some of us), that we try to strive for perfection, when all we need to do is to BE the best version of ourselves (whatever that means). All we need to do is to love ourselves and the people around us... That's it, really!  But for some reason, we (or at least I) always find reasons not to feel enough.

I haven't found the formula for self forgiveness or limitless self love, and perhaps I shouldn't, otherwise I may end up being an arrogant... Nevertheless, every time I close my eyes and feel like I am not enough, I pray to the Lord for strenght, faith, wisdom and love... Every time I feel I am about to crumble, I look up for Him and on a blink of an eye, He is right there with me, healing my wounds and reminding me that we are all imperfect and that He loves us all, just the way we are... Every time I wonder "how did I get so lucky?" He replies back on His best way, showing me that for Him we are all exceptional creatures, worth the world in every possible way. I know Im not the first one to say this, but I cannot just NOT share it....  when I need to feel safe, secure and strong, all I need to do is turn my eyes, heart and soul to Jesus. Every time I feel like "the world" is against me (when in fairness, that "world" seems to be only me), I raise my hands and heart to Him and, like magic, He grants me the peace my heart needs.

I know God is always next to me, waiting for me to take His hand, and when I take it, not only does He makes me feel like I am not alone, but He reminds me that  when it comes to fighting my own demons and all my personal battles, He is more than just a cheerleader... He is my Coach, my trainer, my strenght, my source of power and more. I shall win all the battles, even if in this terrenal life they look like failures, I know I am winning them all, because when it comes to God, absolutely everything is part of His perfect plan.

Let His love and mercy remind me every day that we are all worth the same... No matter our past, no matter what we have done, we are all worth the world to His eyes, and we deserve the same kind of love. Let me be thankful for the angels He has sent to this earth to remind me what I am worth, who help me be the best I can be and as happy as I can be. On this special day, I am thankful for him, my favorite angel on earth <3, who not only reminds me every day what I am worth, but also shows me a world of love, joy and above all, hope...

Psalm 23 "The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me..." 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

An update on my pursuit of happiness: I can´t remember when I was sad the last time.

I can´t remember when I was sad the last time. That has to be good, right? :D

We sometimes get used to being sad or to have a plain and boring life, which is not wrong (we are free to choose how we want to live the life we are given)… about me? I have dedicated the last years of my life to fight each and every single day to be the person I want to be. This fight, which will never end until the day I die, has had positive results so far…

Today I am thankful for what I had experienced the last 28 years of my life, for they have made me who I am today… but I am especially thankful (and proud!) for the last year and a half. When I realized my life was not what I expected it to be, back in 2013, I made dramatic changes and almost felt like I was starting from scratch. I was trying to remember who I was, what I wanted from life and from the people around me… I started wondering about the things that truly made me happy, remembering my values and, who I truly was. This exercise was incredibly good… I did it all, all over again: dancing, painting, running, writing, traveling, reading, praying, walking, being on my own, being with complete strangers, being with my family, being with God… When I think of why is it that I can´t even remember the last time I was sad, all I can think of is that I was way too busy looking for happiness that I forgot what sadness looked like.

Exploring the world, its people, its places and activities, has given me happiness, peace of mind and a sense of being complete. Every activity I started, helped me find a small piece of who I am... Here are some of the things and gifts I found through each of the things I did to find myself and build my own happiness:
1. Through drawing and painting lessons, I learned that not everything is about being quick and efficient. Painting is an art that takes time, appreciation, attention to details and specially, it requires a soft side of you to be purely exposed… when you paint, you need to feel every movement of your hand and every emotion needs to be connected to your fingers and its fibers. I learned to be soft, gentle, and to observe…
2. Through dancing, I found the importance of self confidence… you need to believe in yourself! Someone who dances, say flamenco, without confidence, passion or fire will look just ridiculous! You need those elements to bring the dancing to life! And guess what? You need those elements to LIVE and ENJOY life!
3. Through writing, I learned to put out there all the emotions, sensations, feelings, moments and memories. When I write not only I organize my ideas, but sometimes I let the past go. In other instances, I write to make an emotion or a memory last forever… every time I read what I write, I reframe myself.
4. Through running, I prove myself that I can be better than what I think I am. I prove myself that there are no limits when you dedicate yourself fully to something. When you try, try and keep trying (training), you can only get better and better. Running for me is like living… at the beginning you can´t run 1 Km without feeling pain or getting injured badly, but once you start practicing and you learn the way, you just get better and faster! When I run I feel limitless and I know I can accomplish anything I want.
5. Through singing, I only scare people haha but who cares, it makes me happy… when I sing I feel every word and emotion of a particular song... Music takes me to a place of magic. When I sing, especially to God, I feel Him with me and I find that this can be a moment for us two…
6. Through travelling, I have learned to be open, tolerant and appreciative of what I have and humble about what I lack. When I travel, I meet incredible people who show me there´s a world out there, waiting for us! I have learned that I need to remain with my heart and mind open to see and perceive the greatness of this world and what it has to offer, such as beautiful and incredible people and amazing places! When I travel, I practice my true self and I let myself be… the more I practice it, the more real it becomes and the easier it gets to be who I am in my real world.
7. Through being with complete strangers, I learned that we all have a story to tell. The life we are given, which sometimes seems to be “hard”, turns out to be full of stars and joy when you learn from others´ journeys. When you listen, when you see and feel others, the doors of appreciation, understanding and care are opened. Every time you get to know a new person and actually open your heart to that individual (just for the sake of being human), you learn to love a bit more.
8. Through being with the ones I love (friends, family, coworkers), I have learned that there´s beautiful people who truly knows me and my heart… who are and will always be with me. True friends and family, lift you up. True friends and family, fill your heart with love and hope when your imperfect self becomes weak. They teach you how to love, to be thankful and to care…
9. Through praying I connect with God and any possible pain is healed… When I pray, God reminds me I am not alone and that there´s a plan being worked out for me… When I am alone, with God and his infinite love, I remember why it is all worth it. Being today here with Him, gives me hope and strength for a better and even happier future. When I close my eyes, I close them to the promise of a joyful tomorrow.

I am thankful for my past, for it has made me who I am.
I am thankful for my present, for it is full of blessings and happiness.
I am hopeful of the future, for it is full of opportunities to be the best I can be.

Thank you to those who have joined me in the journey of life… may God grant me time on earth to keep  fighting each and every day for my own happiness, and for the construction of a world on which love is the only rule.

Live. Love. Explore. Be thankful. Have courage.
A happy moment at the Golden Gate <3 15.11.14

Monday, December 8, 2014

I have been doing it all wrong

When I was a little girl, perhaps more like a teenager, I started wondering what makes a lady a “good” woman. I must admit that I did not have the best role model at home, and not because my mother wasn’t good enough, she has always been a lovely and beautiful person, but I remember that my parents were not the best couple on earth, which caused confusion in my mind. This confusion led me to numerous questions around how good one can or should be, to become “a good prospect” for a good guy (to then build a happy family, yes yes the fairy tales, blame Disney ha!).

By the age of 14 I thought I had it all figured out… Back then, I created a list of characteristics and a full definition of a proper lady. This list had elements such as:
   •  Good girls never wear provocative clothes
   •  Good girls are religious
   •  Good girls are smart but never smarter than guys
   •  Good girls always say yes
   •  Good girls always smile
   •  Good girls cook well
   •  Good girls work out
   •  And many maaany more …

As I am a very committed person, back then I started acting each and every item of my list… I practiced every single day, until one day I think I became the person of my list. I then met a guy, who latter became my long term boyfriend, who by the way wasn’t the best person on earth, I mean he was there all the time and we were trying to build a true love relationship but it never really worked out. It wasn´t until we broke up that I started asking myself “how did my perfect plan fail?”… I mean I was this “good” person and a “proper lady”… How did I do wrong and chose the wrong guy? For many months I blamed him for being the “bad” one of the story…  I kept thinking like that, until I realized I was failing in this area, over and over again.  I failed so bad that I even “picked” the wrong husband. It was right at that moment of massive screwup that I realized I was doing it all wrong…. I did it wrong all the time, it was me, not them.

It took me 27 years to learn that one cannot pretend to be someone who you are not… That game can only last for so long and the issue with that is that, not only will this ruin your happiness, but you will also make very veeery stupid decisions. How on earth could I choose the person to walk life with, if I did not even know who I truly was? I could not expect to build a family, when I was not capable of building myself. The past is definitely in the past, but it was evident that I needed to change, from scratch.

I have done a deep analysis on my mistakes and also, I have observed successful close friends, to understand the keys to true and endless love (as if there were  many hehe). I truly believe that there are no recipes for true love, but a few things have been appearing consistently between the great benchmarks I have done with my friends and the analysis of my epic massive fails.

In two words: STOP PRETENDING. You need to be yourself, and to make this happen, you need to give yourself time to get to know you. Getting to know yourself is hard, because you realize how massively imperfect you are, but that process of getting to know you will come accompanied with lovely benefits, such as: tolerance, understanding, openness, appreciation and the best of all, it will give you the opportunity to love yourself. And this one is the ONE thing on which I have failed badly. Accepting who I am, without concerns of how it may look like from the outside, has been the key to my present happiness. Hearing my inner voice and driving my life in the way that I always truly dreamed of, has been the reason for my smiles and enthusiasm. For so long I looked out there, for what was always IN me <3. Self love is different from being selfish or egocentric, because when you truly love yourself in a healthy way, the outside counts too…Is from this self love that I have been able to appreciate and value what I have and above all, I have been able to value the people that join me in the walk of life. Is thanks to this self love that I have learned to prioritize the people around me, and not in a bad way but in a very good one… what I mean is that now I know to whom I love the most and I dedicate all my efforts and time to them, because they make me happy and I want to make them happy too. It is from self-love that true peace, balance and mindfulness come from. One must stay truthful to itself and be congruent in life, and good things will get in our way… otherwise, our lives will be just a spiral of mistakes, pretensions and dishonest behaviors.

I have learned that I need to stop trying too hard… Not that I need to give up on love, but I need to know that love cannot be forced. The right person will come along and, because my heart and mind are ready (or will be ready at some point), I will be able to actually SEE that person and that person will honestly and transparently SEE me. Additionally, this self love will allow me to identify the things I have “missed” in the past... I should be able to get to know that person in a much more honest way, and that person should be able to meet me as I am, without sudden “surprises”.
I may be all wrong here, again (it would not surprise me haha) but one thing I know: if you don´t fully love yourself, you can´t honestly love anyone else. In the way that I continue to love who I am, I will continue protecting my heart and to others. In the same extent that I keep valuing and respecting myself, I will value and respect others too.

Surely, I am missing around 3 million keys for pure and endless love, but I am sure this is the base for it.


Fall in love... with yourself. Happiness lies within <3


P.S. This one goes for you Raquel... you are a true inspiration.

Monday, December 1, 2014

Mi más grande miedo (aparte de morir)

A veces me pregunto si me quedaré sola para siempre… Estoy segura de que no soy la única que se cuestiona estas cosas, o al menos eso quiero pensar jaja

Hablar del miedo a quedarme “sola” es algo que ya se hizo parte de mis charlas semanales con mis mejores amigas. La verdad, me imagino que ha de ser muy cansado para ellas escucharme decir una y otra y otra vez “wey, ¿tú crees que me quede sola?”, pero mis amigas son las mejores amigas del planeta, porque siempre me escuchan hablar de lo mismo, como si fuera la primera vez (lucky me!).

Sin temor a ridiculizarme, confieso que estas dudas y temores sobre el amor, la vida en pareja y mi futuro en este ámbito, pasan por mi mente de vez en mes. Hoy fue uno de esos días en los que me levanté pensando: “will I ever be loved by a man, again?”… y sí, me lo pregunté en inglés, solo Dios ha de saber por qué. De forma extraña (o tal vez he de decir “de forma humana”), a pesar del gran trabajo que he hecho este año para estar en paz conmigo misma y ser plenamente feliz on my own,  en momentos el miedo a estar sola me invade y siento que jamás podré ser lo suficiente para ser amada de nuevo. No intento hacerme la víctima, sinceramente en ocasiones me fastidia que estos pensamientos vengan a mi mente, pero he  llegado a aceptar el hecho de que soy humana y por más “bien” que esté conmigo misma, es normal de pronto sentirme “sola” o con un miedo paralizante de no ser digna de ser amada. Cuando hablo de no ser amada, me refiero al más puro sentido romántico de la palabra… ese amor de pareja que uno vive y siente en cada poro… el amor que se construye en cada mirada, en cada detalle, en cada plática e incluso en cada pelea. Yo sé que soy inmensamente amada por la gente que me rodea y yo los amo también, con cada pedacito de mi ser, pero por algunas razones humanas conscientes e inconscientes, de pronto me inundan los pensamientos de que nadie me va a encontrar lo suficientemente adecuada como para ser su compañera de vida.

Si algo he aprendido este último año es a ser yo misma, sin pretensiones, máscaras o falsedades, y eso me enorgullece, porque en esta libertad he encontrado mucha felicidad… pero hay algo de esta libertad que me aterroriza, cuando de amor se trata… me lleno de preguntas… ¿Podrá alguien aceptarme así como soy? ¿Soy lo suficientemente atractiva? ¿Y si mejor soy un poco más convencional?  ¿Y si soy demasiado extraña? No sé si te haya pasado, pero en muchas ocasiones, cuando volteo a mi alrededor y veo que no “encajo”, entonces me pasa lo que me pasó esta mañana… me veo en el espejo y me pregunto: “will I ever be loved by a man, again?”.


Sé que son preguntas sin respuestas absolutas…. Sé que debo seguir siendo yo misma, buscando la felicidad en cada una de las cosas que hago y vivo. No me queda duda que soy bendecida por tener las amigas que tengo, por tener la familia que tengo, por trabajar en lo que amo y estar en el lugar que estoy… Me encanta poder hacer y deshacer con mi vida… amo viajar, conocer gente nueva, tener citas conmigo misma, hacer planes para luego deshacerlos, ponerme metas muy altas y trazar planes a 20 años… Amo mi vida y estoy enteramente agradecida por ella… pero aún así, aún con todo eso, me pregunto si algún día podré reírme de mi misma por pensar que, tal vez, el amor no era para mí.