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11 de Febrero, 2007
Five Years Ago, Today
Categorized under Blogando , Historia | Tags: Hope, Iran, September 11
ON FEBRUARY 11, 2002, I had just arrived on the West Coast after a three-day Greyhound bus trip. I had been living in NYC for years, and then shortly after the planes crashed into the WTC, I had to leave. It was very hard, because I was deeply in love with New York City, and felt I should stay there in her time of need. I felt very wrong for leaving. Some people wanted to leave after the attacks because the chaos and violence and fear and soldiers on the streets were overwhelming to them. But I was hardcore New York. So when I had to go, it was upsetting to me. I had to go for a few reasons, but mostly because my girlfriend of three years and I broke up about a week before the planes hit. Did someone say "in threes?" Yeah. My job laid me off right about the same time. It was a rough year for a lot of us.
But I was alive.
Here is something I wrote exactly five years ago today on a blog that has since been locked.
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[11 Feb 2002 | 01:09pm]a dear friend says "hope is as hollow as fear." i don't know if she made it up, heard it in the cosmic wind, or is quoting.
at first glance, it may seem to be a statement decrying the reliance upon abstract notions which are too easily subject to emotional bias. and that is not a bad message, right?
yet -- it is not what it seems. this is, in fact the voice of fear. a well-disguised voice. how tricky. for yes, while it is true that both Hope and Fear are intangibles, and while it seems that by defining a common quality, we are equating them -- both of these deductions are false.
reaching for an intangible is still feeding that energy. thus, it becomes a tangible, present thing, with a real impact upon one's reality. and while reaching for Fear paralyzes, shrinks, stifles and destroys, reaching for Hope emboldens, awakens, invigorates and renews. Fear would have us play it safe, by avoiding Hope. and the tricky devil, she wears funny hats.
Fear is the ventriloquist at the table, don't listen.
Fear creates a hollow that only Hope can fill.
—Hollow, from Tales of the W-------boy, May 2001 - 2006
The way the news is reading lately, I'd say we could use a little of that Hope stuff right about now.
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Comentarios (4)
XP dijo:
I think I read that one. But you got that right. We are all in a desperate need of Hope.
Speaking of anniversaries, I just realized, it will some be one year since I started my blog. Funny how time flies. I bet you never would have thought you would be writing something like this five years ago.
Palabras por XP spat forth on el 11 de Febrero, 2007 at 08:46 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
hey man, congratulations! on my actual blogging birthday, that would be May of 2001. for here...i've got a while. this blog is pretty new.
i didnt know what i'd post in five years, couldn't have guessed, but would not even tried...at that point, when i wrote this, i had no idea what was in the week ahead of me. it was a real unsteady time.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 12 de Febrero, 2007 at 05:41 AM
Professor Zero dijo:
S***, so it has already started in Iran. I'm going for the hope, it will do me the most good, even if it is overly optimistic, misguided, whatever.
Palabras por Professor Zero spat forth on el 12 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:56 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
bingo....that's it right there, cero. in my eyes, at least.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 12 de Febrero, 2007 at 08:17 PM