
🌺 ¡Hola! ¡Hola! 🌺
My dear friends, I greet you hoping that everything is going very well in your lives. I am responding to the call of our friend @iriswrite with this wonderful community that will help us, among other things, to speak from a place of well-being and growth and how we erase 'the act of saying no' from our lives, taking ownership of the good things and the best of each situation. There is a verse that I have learned to understand that says 'everything works for good' (Romans 8:28). In this sense, I come to share a topic that I have certainly learned to live with, but that still hurts or sometimes makes me ask, 'How long will this be?' And it is that more and more it is brothers, cousins, neighbors, friends, who leave the country, and we do not know when we will meet again.
Obviously, I understand that everyone has their life project, and although migration is a global phenomenon, we were not used to that kind of distance, so it is still hard to accept that they take other paths outside the nation. Many times I felt depressed, not only because of sharing important dates like birthdays, Christmas, or celebrating a personal triumph, but also because I missed out on the day-to-day, that physical contact that is routine and one day is simply no longer there, which is replaced by a note, a call, each time with less frequency and losing touch with the growth of the other person. Today, I simply appreciate the existence of technology, because it brings us closer to those moments where physical contact is lacking, but it is a way of saying 'hey, here I am.' I say I am fortunate because I can't imagine being born in the era of letters or the telegraph, or having a military husband, where he had to go on service and letters took almost 3 months to arrive or the connection was lost for a long time 🙃. Now, we are just a 'click' away from communication and sharing with our loved ones the best of their lives and ours 😉.

In a special way, I love to celebrate birthdays. I feel that beyond Mother's Day or Student Day, a birthday is a unique day for each person, which is why it is important to celebrate it. In my home, we have always been taught to have big parties on these dates, a tradition that has remained but not in the same way. I believe that as we grow, we understand that celebrating it involves not only the quantity but also the quality of the people around you. How do we celebrate now? Well, thanks to technology, I can organize myself to make that day special and try to make it as joyful and festive as if we were in the same place.

I prepare myself just like I would for a celebration, and I even buy a cake to share with our traditional 🎶 "AY! What a beautiful night..." 🎶 Even when I have something else to do, I set it aside because "I have to be present for that moment of celebration" with my loved ones. It's not easy; the lump in my throat doesn't go away; the promise of "I'll see you next year" is something you know won't be fulfilled until it happens, and in some cases, you're just left waiting. However, I try to hide it so that the person being celebrated doesn't feel sad and to avoid ruining their celebration (I think I disguise it very well), ending the call with, "I hope you keep enjoying it like you would here" 💕.
What lesson has it left me? To value. To value people when they are close, to put aside that "I can't today," because I don't know when it will happen again, to be there for them more often, to value the internet and communication, since many people take it as something trivial and fleeting, and to understand that everyone is in some part of the world for their well-being, growth, and development, so if my loved ones are happy, I am happy too 😊.

So the invitation is not from a place of complaint or sadness, it is to be creative, adaptive, and to move away from selfishness, from thinking only of ourselves with our sadness, but rather to have empathy, to recognize that this is their happy moment and we are here to support them and be happy with them 💯.

La portada, el banner y el separador los hice en Canva.
El texto lo traduje con ayuda de Google Traductor.
Hasta un próximo encuentro 🌺
The photographs are captures taken from the different events we participated in online. I created the cover, the banner, and the separator in Canva. I translated the text with the help of Google Translate. Until the next meeting 🌺.



