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Published: February 9th 2008
A very good friend of mine wrote me an email after she read my last blog entry about the clown on the streets of Mexico. She said, “Maria, yes there is so much of this contrast in Mexico and I am happy that it is making you feel a lot of different things. But I hope you went away with more than this feeling of helplessness and confusion…”
She made me realise that I had missed something very important in my story of the clown. Something that shines through in Mexico and her people much more than the glumness and sadness I had described earlier. What is it? It’s hard to describe, to pinpoint with words, because it is such a simple and beautiful phenomenon. What, what?
It’s the purity in watching a young child shriek with the same unwavering raw pleasure at touching, again and again, the first ever Dalmatian he has seen, it’s black spots bigger than the little stretched out mittens of the child.
It’s the unwritten - the unscripted - melodies in a powerful song played so loud late at night in your room that you know with certainty the neighbours will complain in
the morning, yet you turn it up just a little more with a smirk on your face.
It’s the feeling you have when you wake up the morning after someone very close to you has passed away, and you place your cold feet on the wooden floor boards, and you know that whatever comes along today will be ok.
It’s the beauty and calm you can find when you put all your love and energy into a big spring clean-up, or when you mow the lawns with such precision and meticulousness that the sweet smell of the clippings smells even sweeter.
When it all boils down, I think it is simply the joy and wonder of being alive, of being blessed and fortunate enough to roam this world and experience all it has to give and all you have to give to yourself and others. It’s excitement, it’s acceptance, it’s respect, and it’s living now in this very moment.
That is Mexico.
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Alejandro
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Hi-hola
hola maria, i guess in your last travel to mexico you here that..hola maria!!! anyway i just want to tell you that mexico is such a magic country i have friends for uk and they just have no words like you as well, i think mexico have the special "touch" for those that have a good apreciation of life, we are not like paris or like italy but we are very proud of our history or our culture (meal is soooo cool) well i just think that my comment wil fit very goog in your eyes. please add me adios