2010, the end of an Era

Changes. A brand new year has arrived and suddenly, right at the very beginning, I could not stop thinking about changes. Life is changing, the world seems to be turning upside down, the globe turning again and mixing everything up. This is the year when I turn twenty five. You are young when you are twenty five, some would say. Of course it depends on who your are talking to, but let us say, yes: twenty five is a young age. But, at least for me, this is the turning point in life when you first realize that even your changes aren’t for kids anymore.

Everyday you hear news from all over the world about people getting seriously sick, dying, being fired, people making babies, babies being born, old relationships falling apart or people moving God knows when they will come back. The great difference is that this time, it is all happening to me, or to people very close and dear to me. And therefore it somewhat interferes in my life.

It comes a time in life when you just cannot run away from all that, and maybe the best thing is to face it. “Come on! You are a grown up now! You can handle it”, I would say a few years ago. “To be a grown up…”, yeah, not that glamorous as I use to think.

Everything changes all the time and we have to deal with it, whether we like it or not. But there is one thing that all these events from 2010 made me face. It only proves that we are alone, since the moment we were born until we die. Good friends will be there for you and maybe that won’t change, but at the end we only have ourselves. Good moments with friends are meant to be lived and we do have to enjoy them every second, but they end. And when you least expect, it is over and everybody is saying how fast it went by.

But not everything is so bad about growing up. Every moment and everyday we learn how to keep the emotions that penetrate our minds, hearts, skin and shake us to the core and change us. And we keep going on, moving on, growing up.