Nov 15 2008
Je T’aime Cartagena de Indias
I know I speak mostly about entertaiment, but probably this will be one of those few article that I will speak about me(just a little), as many foreigners in a new land, I keep thinking what I left behind?, what I left behind in my city?, what I think as an aswer, is that I didn’t left behind nothing except a few friends, and a cicle that I was feeling trap because I couldn’t grew as a person. I know is an extremestic approach, but I don’t regret being far away, as I could grew as a person, and I feel happy with my life now.
But… maybe, what I left behind, was the culture that was hidden between the great walls… a culture that is dying and a few people are trying to save, maybe I was a coward to run away and do nothing, because the city and many of their inhabitants need to be educated about the heritage they have, but it seems many people ignore it. It’s sad to see how a city with a great potential is wasted, just because a few individuals try to get rich by any mean, and a population likes the Status Quo (even if a new generation is trying to break the vicious circle of corruption).
I remember with some melancholy my few good memories, I try to remember those few happy afternoons in November when college ended and I went to Juan Valdez for a mug of coffee with one of my good, I try to remember all those poems I made while the sea chanted to me, I try to remember all the good things to not remember the awful ones, because at the end como te amo Cartagena.
