Un sueño por cumplir/A Dream Yet to Be Fulfilled
Leyendo hace unos dias un post de @tiolucioviajero, sobre la ilusión de patinar en el hielo, me hizo recordar uno de mis sueños por cumplir. El hombre, desde el principio de los tiempos, siempre ha anhelado tener lo que no tiene, siempre ha querido ver lo que no a visto, tocar lo que no ha tocado, comer lo que no ha comido. Y como no soy una extra terrestre, conmigo no ha sido diferente.
Para alguien como yo, que nació y creció entre estos paisajes caribeños, donde el sol es un habitante más y el verde es el color que más abunda, la nieve es mucho más que un simple y normal fenómeno meteorológico, es un mito, un sueño, una quimera, una promesa barada en el tiempo, una fantasía que solo he visto en escenas de películas, series y documentales.
Hello, my friends. Warm greetings to all and welcome to my blog.
A few days ago,I read a post by @tiolucioviajero about the thrill of ice skating, and it reminded me of one of my own unfulfilled dreams. Since the beginning of time, mankind has always yearned for what it doesn't have, always wanted to see what it hasn't seen, touch what it hasn't touched, taste what it hasn't tasted. And since I'm not an alien, I am no different.
For someone like me, born and raised among these Caribbean landscapes, where the sun is just another resident and green is the most abundant color, snow is much more than a simple, ordinary weather phenomenon. It's a myth, a dream, a fantasy, a promise suspended in time, something I've only seen in scenes from movies, series, and documentaries.

During my childhood, I often dreamed of that desire to see snow, and apparently, it's a legacy I passed on to my children. Since they were little, they would tell me about their dreams of playing in the snow, making snowmen, and having snowball fights. Cuba, with its tropical climate, always gifts us the same landscape, where winter simply means a grayer sky, some drizzles, and a slight change in weather with a few degrees less temperature, forcing us to wear a coat or a thicker jacket. The Cuban (especially the Habanero) yearns for winter, above all to show off the outfits stored in their closet. We love to feel elegant with our gloved hands, booties, and scarves.

In the dreams of my innocent and naive childhood self, snow wasn't cold; it was warm and protective. I dreamed of that moment when my body would rest upon it and it would fall on my eyebrows and eyelashes. My fingers would twitch imagining the texture of a handful of compact snow and of ice melting in the palm of my hand. In Cuba, the closest thing we've seen to snow is hail, pieces of ice that fall and can reach considerable sizes, even risking our safety. Snow, in contrast, is soft, fine, and "harmless." And despite climate change, I don't think it's likely to snow around here. On the contrary, it's getting hotter and hotter.

At the heart of all my yearnings as a curious and restless child was the classic snowman I saw so often in Russian cartoons and children's movies. My snowman wasn't just a figure, a mirage; it was the culmination of my dream. But reality was very different, and as a substitute for a snowman, I had to settle for helping to make the scarecrow on my grandfather's farm.

I don't know how many times I closed my eyes to imagine how my snowball would grow"as if by magic," absorbing the whiteness from the ground until it became the base for what would be my snowman. And of course, he would be pot-bellied, like all the ones I had ever seen; I never saw a skinny snowman. My cousins who live in Chicago certainly know what snow is and have enjoyed it plenty. You can see them here enjoying it immensely and its charm, because everything in life has its charm. My aunt, who also lives in Chicago, tells me that the charm breaks when the snow starts to hinder daily life. My cousins have had to shovel snow more than once to clear a path and even dig with a pickaxe just to get out of the house. At that point, my aunt says, it stops being pleasant and becomes "the white shit," a term they use over there when there's too much snow.

Anyway, in the end, the yearning isn't just for the snow itself, but for the novelty. It's the desire to see the world I know dressed as a bride, in a long, white gown. It's the nostalgia and longing for an experience I haven't lived. It's the promise that, when I finally see a real winter and my world is covered in white, I will, at last, be able to take my snow dream by the hand and say to it: "You're finally here." And then, begin to roll the first snowball.

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Por favor, no te olvides de mí. Voy en esa.
Yo invito y tú pagas. Jjjj
Jeje. Vale. Entonces hay que esperar a que nos inviten de Gira Teatral.
🤭🤪
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Muchas gracias.
Feliz domingo.
Siempre a la orden.
😘
Ojalá algún día tengas la dicha de tocar la nieve, hacer muñecos en ella y por supuesto patinar, mientras tengas vida lo puedes lograr.
Muchísimas gracias. Un abrazo 😘
Yo la vi en el sur de Francia, según los habitantes de Burdeos hacia más de 30 años no nevaba pues lo hizo para que yo pudiera disfrutarla a los 40 años. Una maravilla para todos los sentidos. Luego el hielo si es un peligro.
Un abrazo y sigue soñando
Si, seguiré soñando.jjj. Muchas gracias por la visita.😘
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STOPTe confieso que no cambio el verde por nada, pero me encantaría tener la oportunidad de hacer esquí o snowboarding. Hay también lugares específicos que quisiera conocer bajo el paisaje invernal, pero solo a nivel recreacional. Al final el venado tira pal monte.
Pues sí, una vueltecita no le viene mal a nadie. Gracias por la visita.