"Un mar de fueguitos": "A sea of bomfires", Eduardo Galeano

(Entrada editada y republicada)

"El mundo", tomado de El libro de los abrazos de Eduardo Galeano

(Cerrando un año sin poder abrazarnos…)

"The World", taken from "The book of Hugs" by Eduardo Galeano

(Closing a year without being allowed to hug each other...)

Galeano teaches us that...


       A man from the small village of Negué, on the coast of Colombia,was able to climb up to the high sky above.

  Upon his return, he spoke. He said he had beheld, from up there, human existence. And he revealed that we, humans, are a sea of little bonfires.

  "The world - he revealed - is that: a multitude of people, a sea of little bonfires.  Every person glows with their own light among all others. There are not two bonfires that are the same. There are big bonfires and small bonfires and multicoloured bonfires. There are people whose fire is peaceful, which does not even tremble in the wind, and people whose fire is wild, which fills the air with sparkles. Some bonfires, dull fires, neither gleam nor burn; but others burn life with such zeal that you can't even look at them without blinking, and whoever comes close to their fire becomes aflame."

I HAVE TAKEN THE LIBERTY OF TRANSLATING THIS ENLIGHTENING TEXT INTO ENGLISH - MY SECOND LANGUAGE AND MY OWN EXISTENTIAL FIRE - BECAUSE IT IS WRITTEN BY A FIERY WRITER WHO SHEDS LIGHT ON MY OWN EXISTENCE . I AM POSITIVE HE WOULD NOT EVEN BLINK, AS HE WOULD KINDLY UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE ONLY DONE SO TO DEDICATE MY TRANSLATION TO ALL THE YOUNG BONFIRES WHOSE FIRE I ATTEMPT TO KINDLE EVERY DAY AS 

                                                                               A MOTHER, 

                                                                                             AUNT 

                                                                                                 AND TEACHER 💔🔥… 

                                                                    

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