Tuesday, March 1, 2011

[ a d e u p a s a t . b e n v i n g u t p r e s e n t ]

Goodbye mom, dad. Goodbye to hanging out with my friends in Passeig de Gracia.  Goodbye to hugging my two little brothers, never at the same time. Goodbye to long and unusual deep conversations with my old brother. Goodbye to walking in Spain pass a bakery and smelling the fresh smell of bread; the bread I’ve ever tried. Goodbye to crowded Christmas with all my cousins, uncles and aunts, and my grandma in her big apartment in Barcelona; cutting Roscon, waiting for who gets the best coin hidden on the inside. Goodbye to trips in motorcycle with Anna driving down la Vallvi, and summer nights in Sant Feliu with my germana-cosina Mir. Goodbye to Sant Cugat, and my room for one year. Goodbye to short trips to Asturias and seeing Andres. Goodbye to driving all the way up to the Netherlands, crossing Europe.  Goodbye to exquisite dinners of that first taste of teriyaki chicken, as well as dinners of pica-pica and white wine, watching some old classic movies. Goodbye to Maxima, the first cat I’ve ever liked. Goodbye to the baby perfume of Lucas straight soft blond hair. Goodbye to Arnau running around as if he had drunk 2l of coffee. Goodbye to walk on the hot sand, to swing in the Mediterraneo and to days at the boat. Goodbye to that café con leche with Angela at the Piano. Goodbye to La Escala, and to Rooney. Goodbye to the Peugeots. Goodbye to walking to Els Ferros, in the Mira Sol subway station.
Goodbye to walking to MiraSol every single morning. Goodbye to my room in Asturias, my house in Jose Cueto. Goodbye to the drama, the cries and the stress. Goodbye to the perfectness and the right or wrong. Goodbye to the judgment of people who do not know me and think they can say whatever they want. Goodbye to gossips and bad friendships. Goodbye to loud arguments with my mom. Goodbye to the cold, bad weather of Asturias. Goodbye to the close minded and the ones who think they know everything. Goodbye to El Retiro. Goodbye to my D’s misunderstanding of what I am doing with my life. Goodbye to moving where I didn’t wanted to. Goodbye to hours of wastefulness, doing nothing, because I didn’t know what I was doing. Goodbye to being too stress and pressured because it mattered what people thought. Goodbye to disillusion and arguments.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Butterfly! I am overwhelmed by the richness in your life, the travel, the people, the food, THE FEELINGS!

    I am struck by the beauty of grouping all that is precious and wonderful together. At first, I thought you were the luckiest and most extraordinary person--never to have a bad moment.

    Then pow...you are human too...one who feels the judgments of others, one who feels stressed, and one who longs for the absence of arguments and disillusionments....

    Some very good writing!

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  2. I guess we are all human...but some of us get to suffer more than others...like those, I am not unfortunate nor lucky. I am just me. My life is how it is...
    Thank you for taking a moment to read my thoughts, Hallelujah.

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