The awareness of being connected / La conciencia de estar conectados (eng-esp)
Greetings, everyone.
I used to think that writers were lone wolves. I would lock myself in my room, write my things, and believe I was self-sufficient. Until one day I had nothing to write and I realized that stories don't come from nowhere; they come from life. And life is other people.

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I've learned that we live in a system of systems. Everything is connected, even if we don't see it. What I write today, someone will read tomorrow, and perhaps it will change their mood, make them think, or help them make a decision. That's an effect, a consequence. And it's a responsibility.

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This isn't just true in professional life. It's the same in everyday life. When I'm in a bad mood and yell at my partner over something trivial, that bad mood doesn't stay there. She goes to bed sad, the next day she's irritable with her colleagues, and those colleagues go home in a bad mood. It's a chain reaction. A chain reaction that I triggered with a moment of stupidity. The same thing happens if you do something positive. A smile, a kind gesture, a message of support. All of that travels, multiplies, and comes back.

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Life has taught me (us) that I will never be completely self-sufficient. I need the mail carrier who delivers the book orders, the proofreader who saves me from my mistakes, the reader who buys my books, the people who tell me their stories in a bar so I can steal them and turn them into fiction. I depend on all of them. And they, in some way, depend on what I give them.

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The world is a network. A country's economy affects what I earn in royalties. A war on the other side of the world drives up the price of the paper my novels are printed on. A pandemic locks the whole world down, and then everyone needs stories to tell or read. Everything is intertwined, like a giant spiderweb. You can't touch one thread without the rest vibrating.

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That's why we have to think carefully about what we do. Improvising isn't always an option. We need to stop and think: if I do this, who benefits? Who does it harm? What ripple effects will my decision have? And then, do it together.
Together.
Because alone, believe me, we won't even get to the corner. I've tried. And the only thing you achieve by isolating yourself is running out of stories to tell and people to tell them to.
Leer en español
Saludos, estimadas.
Antes pensaba que el escritor era un lobo solitario. Me encerraba en mi cuarto, escribía mis cosas y creía que era un ser autosuficiente. Hasta que un día no tuve nada que escribir y me di cuenta de que las historias no salen de la nada, salen de la vida. Y la vida son los demás.

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He aprendido que vivimos en un sistema de sistemas. Todo está conectado, aunque no lo veamos. Lo que yo escribo hoy, alguien lo leerá mañana y quizá le cambie el humor, le haga pensar o le ayude a tomar una decisión. Eso es un efecto, una consecuencia. Y es una responsabilidad.

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No solo en lo profesional. En lo más cotidiano pasa igual. Cuando estoy de mal humor y grito a mi pareja por una tontería, ese mal humor no se queda ahí. Ella se acuesta triste, al día siguiente está irritable con sus compañeros, y esos compañeros llegan a sus casas con malas pulgas. Es una cadena. Una reacción en cadena que yo provoqué con un momento de estupidez. Lo mismo pasa si haces algo positivo. Una sonrisa, un gesto amable, un mensaje de apoyo. Todo eso viaja, se multiplica, vuelve.

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La vida me (nos) ha enseñado que nunca seré totalmente autosuficiente. Necesito al cartero que trae los pedidos de libros, al corrector que salva mis meteduras de pata, al lector que me compra, a la gente que me cuenta sus historias en un bar para que yo las robe y las transforme en ficción. Dependo de todos ellos. Y ellos, de alguna manera, dependen de lo que yo les dé.

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El mundo es una red. La economía de un país afecta a lo que cobro por mis derechos de autor. Una guerra al otro lado del mundo encarece el papel con el que se imprimen mis novelas. Una pandemia encierra a todo el mundo y entonces todos necesitan historias que contar o que leer. Todo está entrelazado, como una tela de araña gigante. No puedes tocar un hilo sin que todo el resto vibre.

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Por eso hay que pensar bien lo que hacemos. No vale improvisar siempre. Hay que pararse a pensar: si hago esto, ¿a quién beneficia? ¿A quién perjudica? ¿Qué ondas expansivas va a tener mi decisión? Y luego, hacerlo en sociedad.
Juntos.
Porque solos, créanme, no llegamos ni a la esquina. Lo he intentado. Y lo único que consigues aislándote es quedarte sin historias que contar y sin gente a quien contárselas.
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