All the days are the same for people. They go to work, they make relationships, and they believe that after the death there is something that is waiting for us. But if finally there is nothing, they will know that the hope they have in life is only a distraction for the reality after the death, the nothing.

BÉCQUER

“Hello dad, I say hello to you because I refuse to say goodbye. You had the bad luck of not presenting the common symptoms that this damn illness caused. You were at home with your wife, my mother, a tireless and fighter woman who strictly followed all the doctors’ instructions. She also got infected, but she has managed to get over it. You were fighting for 27 long days. I looked forward to the daily call from the ICU, hoping that one day you would wake up and start to get better. On April 23, 2020, you left. I couldn’t shake your hand, I couldn’t give you the last kiss, the last goodbye. I know you are with me, and you won’t’ leave me alone. They told me that you were one of the best: hardworking, fighter, that you adored me and mom, and especially your grandchildren, who will never forget you because a grandfather like you leaves a mark. See you soon dad, one day we will see each other again. I love you.”

LUCRECIA PIMIENTA

I have never been able to feel the same feeling I had in primary school as I changed schools, my friends, the study methods, and teachers. You have always been there for my problems. You have comforted me all my life and you don’t know how many times I have thanked you this. Although we are quite far away, I always do my best to have the same feeling I had 6 years ago. You don’t know how many times I think of you, nor how many times I have told you I love you. I really miss your hugs and your cuddles. But even if we are far away, you will always be my best friend. Since you came into my life everything has changed and I thank you for being part of me. Thank you for everything you have given/will give me all my life. I LOVE YOU.

REVEUSER

I still remember the day when I met you. I felt those butterflies, those that you feel when you are in love, they have already passed months since that day, and I still think that it will be forever. People will wonder why, and the reason is that when you look at me, I feel like I´m the luckiest girl in the world, I think I have been very lucky to find you and that I wouldn´t be the same without you, and with all you do I feel you treat me like a princess. I think we are made for each other; people will think that these are teenagers’ things that, in a short time, will end the relationship but I´m confident that we won’t. We don´t have to believe everything people say. You have taught me to believe in love, postscript: you and me 3 meters above the sky.

NO ONE LIKE ME

Summer 2021. It was sunny, the sand stuck to my skin and between laughter and strong thrills we spent Sunday morning on the rocks near the sea. It was noisy. A group of boys spread out their towels next to us.

He looked at me and I smiled with no interest. I couldn’t stop thinking about how he looked at me. Suddenly, we realized they were approaching us with the intention of meeting us. At that moment, I already knew that it was not going to end well…

We spent that night walking and talking on the sand, as we would do the rest of the nights for every day that summer. September came and I knew that our paths would move away. Our story remains there, in a summer love that I will never forget. Our paths will meet again, and the day that it happens, everything will be different.

AS

Children’s laughter is tender…they fill the streets with joy in this season. The sound of the waves, the smell of an ice-cream everywhere, the touch of the sheets of my bed when there is no time to wake up and the taste of a whole summer to enjoy. What would the world do without you, summer?

GIOCONDA

That feeling which you don´t know how or why has arisen, the one that makes you smile like a silly girl. You know it won´t be eternal, that it will be a simple ephemeral moment but, even so, it doesn’t stop you from feeling it once. Once throughout your life, you don’t even think if you could lose everything to get to that feeling, you just jump and do it. That feeling that arises from the feeling of being alive or from ecstasy when all your efforts and sacrifices give the desired result. When you have freed yourself from something that imprisoned you in a deep and heartbreaking pain or even from the simplest moments of life, such as a short walk with your pet in the mountains when you stop to stare the landscape and the air hits your face. From my point of view… I think that it is the best feeling.

TAQUITO

Sometimes we think that it is easy to forget things that have really impacted us and marks a hole in our hearts. It isn’t easy and we need to accept it and if we need help, ask for it, because if you leave it, maybe then it will be too late. And we are destroyed inside.

The most important thing in our life is mental health, and how we feel.

MOONLIGHT

All this happened in La Paz, in the Andes, Bolivia. My mom’s uncle, who was a peasant, was shepherding his sheep and cows in the field just like a normal day. He was carrying his animals to the hill, and it clouded over and started to rain and lots of thunders began to fall and one of them fell in his right hand. Suddenly, he realized that all his body was scattered, then, another thunder fell, and it crossed all his body. Since then, he started to read the coca leaf, sacred for the Bolivian people as a sign of luck.

JUANETE 1

This is the story of one of my dreams. I remember that I was a slave who was climbing a mountain, handcuffed with many others. I looked around to see where I was, but I didn’t find anything, literally there was only that mountain. When I almost arrived at the top, I found that there were a lot of guards and any slave. While I was climbing, I realized what the objective of getting us to the top was: killing us. Once I arrived, I knew they were going to kill me, but suddenly someone pushed me away, sacrificing himself for me. Before he died, he told me: “Live for me”, after that I saw how his body was falling down the cliff. Then they killed me, and I woke up from fright. I’m still intrigued to know who the person who tried to save me was…

SVEN