Many things are said about friendship, but I want to point out two phrases that I have found out there, who knows where, and they will be the pretext to tell you about a very dear friend, a sister, I would say. Someone I love with all the strength of my heart, although we don't see each other very often and sometimes we even don't speak to each other for days.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself
When I read this, the first thing that came to my mind was a name: Li. And well, she also yawns a lot when I'm next to her. Anyone would say that I make her sleepy, however, what they do not know, and I do know, is that Li disarms in my presence. I think all the shields fall off, and the heavy loads that we all usually carry; then she feels light, wanting to rest on a cloud.
Well, the last time we were close I accompanied her to a organoponic that is in... a place in Pinar del Río. Honestly my orientation there is lousy. And she told me: I see things that you don't see, because I look from the outside; I see things that you don't do and could do, because I look from the outside. In the same way it must happen to you with me.
Then she looked at me with her tender little face and bright eyes. I followed her down the path and thought for several minutes about what she had told me.
After a while I took out my camera and caught the moment when she was solving some things for her entrepreneurship, a beautiful project that she and her life partner are carrying out with great determination.
I admire and love her since I met her or saw her at the Federico Engels Vocational School in Pinar del Río. It was a soulmate thing, it just happened like that, although we didn't talk or start relating well until we got to college. There in the scholarship, our lifelong friendship was sealed. I believe that yes, we will be friends for life. Soul friends.
I remember when she moved to a rental here in Havana and there, I went to spend days with her and make mischief, which I better not count here. I was young and the gruesome stories of love affairs and other crazy things in those days were not lacking.
Li was waiting for me at night to tell her everything I had done in my wanderings. She said: let's see, first of all, you eat and she gave me a plate of food, those exotic foods that she liked to prepare... While I ate, I told her everything. The stories of bars, the boardwalk, G and 23, everything, from pi to pa. She would get out of bed just to watch me eat and so I wouldn't feel alone. I think she wanted to protect me from myself.
I can say so much about my friend and at the same time I would like to keep quiet, give her a little blank space on this page, introspection, peace, because it would be like breathing me from silence. Sometimes you also need us to laugh like crazy and get messy, of course.
She has been and is a reconquered piece of myself. I'm paraphrasing that other statement I said I would bring here. What I want to point out is that I believe a friend, or a love, is not that they are different so that they can complement each other, it is quite the opposite. They are the most similar people; they could be armed with pieces of both bodies without losing their essence. Their souls could also be assembled with pieces of one and another and the seams would hardly be noticeable.
If you have another idea of this, I would like to know.
Another memory:
I still have the pieces of paper that Li left me at the scholarship reception. With painted butterflies, to tell me any nonsense and that when I arrived exhausted from the sun and the walk, a smile would be drawn on my face. She was like that and still is, very witty, and always willing to do anything, however minimal it may seem to get me the joy at all costs. Oh, with how heavy I tend to be sometimes. The patience you must have with me!
And well, I also have to say that her mom and dad are special beings that I adore, and her husband and her children-my nephews, loves that I also keep warm in my heart.
One day I will tell you about Marina, anise flower.
Phrases
Each new friend is a reconquered piece of ourselves.Friedrich Hebbel
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself, and especially to feel or not feel. Whatever you're feeling at any time is fine with them. That's what real love means: letting a person be who they really are.Jim Morrison
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