Blue Monday

"To survive the distance, everyone fights and the fire flies". Stevie Nicks, Fireflies.

Well, lovelies. It's Blue Monday. The day sadness threatens, claims, and conquers territories if we leave the space open for it, although it's always capable of slipping in through any crack. The same sadness that seeks to transform itself into nostalgia and melancholy, and that has been a dear friend and traveling companion for some long stretches. Although it no longer likes me as much because I don't allow it to stay with me for long periods of time.

The Blue Day showed up early as I was getting ready to go down to my last breakfast dressed at the Hilton. I want to clarify that it's not as if I ever eat naked. You understand. I began to intensely miss the wonderful moments we shared during the recent week. Then I told myself that, upon returning, I would have to sit down and write about this Blue Monday, full of sensations and feelings, abundant happy memories, and confront the last interactions from my feminine exterior, because deep down, I'm still the same human being, the unique and unrepeatable one, who thus scares away her shadows, demons, and ghosts. My heart appeals to the memories it treasures and has tattooed itself on my soul.

Keystone, without a doubt, changed my life. Esprit certainly did too. It's much better to spend time together in the flesh. However, the turning point came the very moment I joined CDH and wrote "A New Girl in Heaven" and began to feel part of this sisterhood that I adore and later extended to the other Heaven, TGH. Here I've found a new family: kind, friendly, loving, and understanding, whose support has become indispensable.

In this way, I understand that sadness no longer finds much room; it is fleeting, and that as my journey continues, I will have many more moments of joy and happiness. So, goodbye, Blue Monday. You have no business here. 

Gisela I am unrepeatable Claudine