Sunday Feb. 27/2011

It’s 6:53am and the road is covered with ice, snow on the sides...

That’s what happened after my first morning far from home (again). We went to sleep around one in the morning, after catching up with our friends an realizing how differ-ent our realities are, so different in a way that would have never occurred to me; All these while drinking coffee and eating home made bread with butter and cheese.I was awake since four and was just moving I bed, facing the ceiling, until I decided to just get up and go look thru the window. Outside the house’s roofs were still covered with snow. I thought of listening to music and played some Johnny Cash on the iPod, “The first time I ever saw you” was the first song. While looking at Maria I felt lucky. I thought of taking a picture but couldn’t make the Olympus work.

Lo que va de este año se me ha ido como agua entre las manos...

Hacia mucho tiempo que no me sentía con suerte o simplemente no encontraba una razón para tener suerte. Luego entonces este año ha transcurrido rápido y he tenido suerte.

Tuve la oportunidad de hacer un viaje poster-gado por más de diez años. En un nivel per-sonal pude experimentar sensaciones que tenia olvidadas, me emocione como niño al ver toda esa nieve acumulada, recupere el sentido de la aventura, fui ingenuo en muchas ocasiones. También reafirme muchas otras cosas que pienso, y fue reconfortante darme cuenta que hay mas gente regada por doquier con la cual se puede compartir: intereses, ideas, risas, experiencias, sin importar de donde vienes, quien eres, que es lo que haces, cuando se rompe la barrera que im-pide comunicarte con alguien no importa nada más que compartir lo que eres con los que tienes frente a ti, sin pretensión alguna.

De lo mas sobresaliente fue tener acceso a la vida de unos amigos que conocí hace unos seis años. Me supongo que pudiera escribir muchas cosas sobre como me sentí y como me siento al recordar pero no es necesario. Fue muy cercano a la perfección.

More than half a year has gone by... It’s been a while since I felt lucky; maybe I just didn’t have a reason to feel like it. Besides the fact that the year is going really fast I’ve been lucky.

I had the chance to take a trip that had been just a plan for over ten years. I had the chance to experience feelings I had forgotten about, I got excited like a little kid, felt this urge to be adven-turous, and was naive again so many times. I also confirmed so many other things, it was comforting to realize there’s many others who feel alike and so you can share interests, ideas, laughter and experi-ences no matter where you come from, who you are, and what you do, once you are able to bring down the barrier that keeps you from interacting with someone else and share what you are with others with out any false pretensions.

One of the highlights of this trip was the chance I had to take a glance to the life of some friends I met like six years ago. I could write a lot of things to express how I felt then and how I feel now as I remember my time with them, but it feels unneces-sary.

Al I can say is, it felt pretty Close To Perfection.