Mel Bruja

I isolated myself again. It happens every time I feel bad, and I think it’s something fairly common in the animal kingdom: to flee, to hide, to curl up and lick your own wounds. In my case, I disappear from every place I can, and emotionally disconnect from those I can’t avoid. Then, everything turns…

Me aislé otra vez. Sucede cada vez que me siento mal, y creo que es algo bastante común en el reino animal: huir, esconderse, acurrucarse para lamerse las propias heridas. En mi caso, desaparezco de todos los lugares donde puedo, y me desconecto emocionalmente de aquellos que no puedo evitar. Entonces, todo se vuelve aburrido…

Learning means realizing that sometimes we see our lives from an angle that doesn’t allow us to truly live them. For a long time, I watched reality from the outside, like a spectator who couldn’t fully engage with what was happening. Eventually, I understood that I needed to change the way I looked at things—even…

Aprender significa darnos cuenta de que, a veces, miramos nuestra vida desde un ángulo que no nos permite vivirla plenamente. Durante mucho tiempo observé la realidad desde afuera, como una espectadora que no lograba involucrarse realmente en lo que estaba ocurriendo. Finalmente comprendí que necesitaba cambiar mi forma de ver las cosas, aunque al principio…

A Night Like So Many Others It was a night like so many others, so similar that I can’t tell them apart. I must have been about sixteen or seventeen; it happened so frequently that all the incidents blur together into one big tangle in my head. Once again, the same story: he came home…