Hello everyone in the Ladies of Hive community! What a pleasure it is to join you and take the opportunity to warmly congratulate this wonderful space on its 300th contest, recognizing its admirable consistency week after week, always bringing us these topics that keep us so active and motivated.
This week's questions, written by @nainaztengra, invite us to travel back in time, to rescue those magical worlds we used to believe in, and also to remember those great lessons with which we began to understand life. Here I share my answers:
My favorite story without a doubt was Cinderella, and I believed in it with the absolute and genuine innocence of childhood. For me, it wasn't just a simple story told in a book; it was a real world into which I transported myself religiously every afternoon. My favorite ritual was when my mother took out that acetate record and placed it carefully on the record player, while I lay down on the rug.
There I would settle in with my most precious treasure: a little rag that once upon a time had been a soft little blanket, which I hugged as if it were my passport to fantasy.
When I closed my little eyes, the slightly crackling sound of the vinyl would begin to spin and the voices of the characters would completely wrap around me. In my mind, the rug stopped being the living room floor and turned into the grand ballroom of the palace. I could almost smell the sparkle of magic, imagine the texture of a dress that transitioned from suffering alongside the wicked stepmother and stepsisters to the dazzling transformation of the carriages and glass slippers.
I firmly believed that kindness and hope always found their reward, and that record gave me the certainty that happy endings existed and were waiting for me just around the corner.
However, over the years you realize that those fairytale happy endings, just as they painted them for us, do not exist. Today I understand that fairytale love transformed into something much more real and powerful: a mother's love, being that the true magic wand 馃挮馃専 that brings light and magic to my days.
When my grandfather passed away, I was barely 3 or 4 years old and I was very attached to him; I loved being with him because he spoiled me immensely. So, one day I didn't see him anymore and mom and my grandmother told me he had to go on a trip.
Every day I would ask about him and they would tell me he had called, but that at that moment I was asleep. So I would do everything possible to fight off sleep at nights and in the mornings I would get up early to be near the phone and not miss his call.
Time passed, I don't know how much time passed; perhaps it was days, but for me it was an eternity. I noticed my mom and grandma sometimes with red, swollen eyes, and they would tell me it was the shampoo or a little speck of dust that got into their eyes.
But one day I arrived in silence at my grandmother's house (she lived next door to ours). She didn't notice my presence, so I heard her crying while she packed my grandfather's clothes into a suitcase.
In that instant, I sensed it. I surprised her by wrapping my little arms around her leg and started crying. She startled, but immediately picked me up in her arms, crying with me and asking for my forgiveness for having lied to me.
Looking back and rediscovering these little pieces of our history reminds us of where we come from and how fantasy, pain, and love mature with us. Thank you for reading this little piece of my heart and for this wonderful space!
I don't want to say goodbye without first inviting @zhanavic69,
@syllem, and
@osismi to join beautiful contest.
隆Hola a todas en la comunidad de Ladies of Hive! Qu茅 gusto sumarme y aprovechar para felicitar calurosamente a este hermoso espacio por su concurso n煤mero 300, reconociendo su admirable constancia semana a semana, trayendo siempre estos temas que nos mantienen tan activas y motivadas.
Las preguntas de esta semana, escritas por @nainaztengra, nos invita a viajar en el tiempo, a rescatar aquellos mundos m谩gicos en los que cre铆amos y tambi茅n a recordar esas grandes lecciones con las que empezamos a entender la vida. Aqu铆 comparto mis respuestas:
Mi cuento favorito sin duda era La Cenicienta, y lo cre铆a con la absoluta y genuina inocencia de la infancia. Para m铆, no era una simple historia contada en un libro; era un mundo real al que yo me transportaba religiosamente cada tarde. Mi ritual favorito cuando mi mam谩 sacaba aquel disco de acetato, y lo colocaba con cuidado en el tocadiscos, mientras yo me echaba sobre la alfombra.
Ah铆 me acomodaba con mi tesoro m谩s preciado: un trapito que en otros tiempos hab铆a sido una cobijita suave, la cual abrazaba como si fuera mi salvoconducto hacia la fantas铆a.
Al cerrar mis ojitos, el sonido ligeramente crujiente del vinilo comenzaba a girar y las voces de los personajes me envolv铆an por completo. En mi mente, la alfombra dejaba de ser el piso de la sala y se convert铆a en el gran sal贸n de baile del palacio. Yo pod铆a casi oler el brillo de la magia, imaginar la textura de un vestido que pasaba del sufrimiento junto a la malvada madrastra y las hermanastras, a la deslumbrante transformaci贸n de las carrozas y las zapatillas de cristal.
Cre铆a firmemente que la bondad y la esperanza siempre encontraban su recompensa, y ese disco me regalaba la certeza de que los finales felices exist铆an y me esperaban a la vuelta de la esquina.
Sin embargo, con los a帽os te das cuenta de que aquellos finales felices de cuento de hadas, tal como nos los pintaban no existen. Hoy comprendo que ese amor de cuento se transform贸 en algo mucho m谩s real y poderoso: en amor de madre, siendo esa la verdadera varita m谩gica 馃挮馃専 que da luz y magia a mis d铆as.
Cuando mi abuelito falleci贸, yo apenas ten铆a 3 o 4 a帽os y era muy apegada a 茅l; me encantaba estar con 茅l porque me consent铆a much铆simo. As铆 que, un d铆a no lo volv铆 a ver y mam谩 y mi abuelita me dijeron que 茅l hab铆a tenido que salir de viaje.
Todos los d铆as preguntaba por 茅l y me dec铆an que 茅l hab铆a llamado, pero que en ese momento yo estaba dormida. As铆 que yo hac铆a todo lo posible por vencer el sue帽o por las noches y en las ma帽anas me paraba temprano para estar cerca del tel茅fono y no perderme su llamada.
Fue pasando el tiempo, no s茅 cu谩nto tiempo pas贸; quiz谩s fueron d铆as, pero para m铆 era una eternidad. Notaba a mi mam谩 y a mi abuela a veces con los ojos rojos e hinchados, y ellas me dec铆an que era el champ煤 o una basurita que se les meti贸 en los ojos.
Pero un d铆a llegu茅 en silencio a la casa de mi abuelita (ella viv铆a al lado de nuestra casa). Ella no not贸 mi presencia, as铆 que la escuch茅 llorando mientras guardaba la ropa de mi abuelito en una maleta.
En ese instante, lo present铆. La sorprend铆 rodeando con mis bracitos su pierna y me puse a llorar. Ella se sobresalt贸, pero de inmediato me alz贸 en sus brazos, llorando conmigo y pidi茅ndome perd贸n por haberme mentido.
Mirar atr谩s y redescubrir estos pedacitos de nuestra historia nos recuerda de d贸nde venimos y c贸mo la fantas铆a, el dolor y el amor maduran con nosotros. 隆Gracias por leer este pedacito de mi coraz贸n y por este maravilloso espacio!
No me quiero despedir, sin antes invitar a @zhanavic69,
@syllem y
@osismi para que se unan a este bello concurso
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