Life experiences

I work surrounded by teenagers and young people who dream, who live among creative activities, with many moments of light and shadow. Many of those conversations have inspired and continue to inspire fragments of this story stretched over time, where I confront two main characters: a mature woman, Jimena, who "contemplates life" from the distance of someone who feels that her greatest adventures are already lived, and a younger woman, Sofía, who, if I were to speak in visual terms, "appears to us" blurred, out of focus at times. It is in her that I place this reflection, which in other words I have heard a lot lately...

<<Don’t understand me, don’t get attached, don’t analyze me or look for explanations about me or my behavior. Be smart; if you like it, take what I offer you but don’t stay too long. I don’t know how to care and I don’t want to be cared for. Don’t pity me; I detest compassion (....) I’m not sure what’s inside me, neither good nor bad. Don’t look for logic in what I do because many times I simply do what pleases me, I go with the flow. I live what comes my way without overthinking, and even though it doesn’t always end well, I don’t waste time thinking about what could have been if I had acted differently.(..)

For me, the important thing is to survive the uncertainty generated by the very fact of existing,(...) there is a constant noise in my mind that pushes me to take everything that is offered to me. One must be ready to lose everything, just like that, because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that nothing belongs to you, not even your own life. It’s very random to stay alive, that simple—a single infection, an icy road, cancer, or a simple broken tile can snatch your existence away. In seconds, you become "what once was and is no more". So don’t have illusions about me, don’t invent hopes, better not to speak, just live it (...)>>

And you, what do you think?