Iniciativa: Tu historia de Amor/Amistad
On the occasion of the next Valentine's Day, or "Day of love and friendship" the Blogging Challenge , together with the 
Con motivo del próximo San Valentin, o "Día del amor y la amistad" la comunidad Blogging Challenge , junto a proyecto
I am going to talk about friendship, because it is what I have given more importance to, couple relationships are not my thing. Friendship is so important to me that when I even think of a relationship, the friendship within it is more special than romantic love.
Voy a hablar sobre la amistad, porque es a lo que he dado más importancia, las relaciones de pareja no son lo mío. La amistad para mi es algo tan importante, que cuando pienso incluso en una relación, la amistad dentro de ella tiene más peso que el amor romántico.
On-line friendships have many tints, they are even branded as dangerous, because you don't know who you are talking to, and that is true, you have to be careful, but it is also true that when we write, we are a little more ourselves, gender, race, age, color, it doesn't matter, and if we have never seen the other person or it has nothing to do with our social environment, we feel more freedom to speak, because there is no expectations to fulfill or consequences for showing our strange tastes or talking about things that annoy us about people who we do have close.
The friendship I want to talk about started even crazier, it was because of role-playing games, that is, I didn't even know her as a person but rather representing a character, in fact several characters, so I knew her way of expressing herself and writing, her way of joking, but still nothing about her personality.
Instead of becoming friends in the group, we became friends when the role-playing group where we met dissolved, they were very problematic and I left it after telling them that I was there to have fun and not to be scold and other things, it was after that when she added me to a chat group with another friend and only then we did speak as "users" or as real people and not role-playing; that was almost five years ago.
En lugar de hacernos amigas en el grupo, nos hicimos amigas cuando el grupo de rol donde coincidimos se disolvió, eran muy problemáticos y yo me salí luego de decirles que estaba allí para divertirme y no para que me regañen y otras cosas, fue luego de eso que me agregó a un grupo de chat con otra amiga y recién entonces hablamos como "users" o como personas reales y no jugando al rol; eso fue hace casi cinco años ya.
The first thing I remember she said was "In two years we won't even remember each other" because we were talking about something related to how not sociable we supposedly are, that people are boring or something like that haha, but you see, we have been speaking for almost five years, every day, step by step about more personal things, venting problems, talking for the sake of talking. Ah, she has a cat that she adopted around that time and now she is huge, she looks like a panther.
De lo primero que recuerdo que dijo es "En dos años ya ni nos vamos a recordar" porque hablábamos de algo relacionado con lo poco sociables que supuestamente somos, que las personas aburren o algo así jaja, pero ya ven, van cinco años hablando prácticamente todos los días, poco a poco de cosas más personales, desahogo de problemas, hablar por hablar. Ah, tiene una gata que adoptó por esa época y ahora está enorme, parece una pantera.
Her friendship has been very important to me, because in the worst moments of the crisis in my country I had no way to vent to friends or family, we were all going through the same thing, and someone always comes out with "but we have to be thankful that we are alive" or "So and so is worse" and yes, it is good that we were never in the worst possible situation, but I needed to be able to speak and my complain to be accepted as it was and not made less. Just by letting me complain without making less of my situation she helped me a lot to go through those moments, otherwise I would have felt very lonely, and I have more friends, very good friends, but for that, at that moment, I did not have them because they couldn't help me nor did I want to add my problems to theirs, as I said, we were all in the same boat.
Para mi ha sido muy importante su amistad, porque en los peores momentos de la crisis de mi país no tenía como desahogarme con amigos o familiares, todos estábamos pasando lo mismo, y siempre sale alguien con "pero hay que agradecer que estamos vivos" o "fulanito está peor" y sí, que bueno que nunca estuvimos en la peor de las situaciones posibles, pero yo necesitaba poder hablar y que aceptaran mi queja como iba y no la quisieran hacer menos. Con solo dejarme quejar sin hacer menos mi situación, me ayudó bastante a pasar por esos momentos, de otro modo me habría sentido muy sola, y tengo más amigas, muy buenas amigas, pero para eso, en ese momento, no contaba con ellas porque no me podían ayudar ni quería añadir mis problemas a los suyos, como dije, todos estábamos en el mismo barco.
Later, after much talking about anything, literally anything, no matter how insignificant or complicated it was, I don't know, penguin in Chinese is a bird in a suit, I commented, jokingly in fact, it did not cross my mind to do it seriously , "Give me 15 $ for a trip" ... and she did haha, I was very grateful for that, not even for the fact of the amount, at that time I remember that I was not in the worst moment, I was in a good one in the middle of the problems and I could have gathered it in relatively little, but the trip was not going to wait, and as I am, having the money I would probably prefer to buy groceries for the house than actually go, but with that gift from her, I went on a trip to the beach, "Isla Larga", which I loved, it is a beautiful place that I had never visited, with a sunken ship around which we dived, a great memory that I would not have had if it had not been like that.
Más adelante, luego de mucho hablar de cualquier cosa, literalmente, cualquier cosa por insignificante o complicada que fuera, no sé, que pingüino en chino es ave trajeada, comenté, en broma de hecho, no se me pasaba por la cabeza hacerlo en serio, "regálame 15$ para un viaje"... y lo hizo jaja, estuve muy agradecida por eso, ni siquiera por el hecho de la cantidad, en ese entonces recuerdo que no estaba en el peor momento, estaba en uno bueno entre tanto problema y pude haberlo reunido en relativamente poco, pero es que el viaje no iba a esperar, y yo como soy, al tener el dinero probablemente iba a preferir hacer un mercado para la casa que realmente ir, pero con ese detalle de su parte, fui a un viaje a la playa, Isla larga, que me encantó, es un lugar hermoso que nunca había visitado, con un barco hundido al rededor del que buceamos, un recuerdo genial que no habría tenido de no haber sido así.
Even now, with a problem that I have in a course where I cannot load the videos, she does me the favor of loading and passing them so that I can continue, it is something simple but tedious, which may not be her favorite thing to do , but she has not told me it bothered her, in fact she tolme to confidently ask her for help when I need it. She has said that for a long time, but it is very difficult for me to ask for things, I usually leave it as a very last option, but with so much time talking and as she has proven to be, I feel confident to say, I can't, help me with this.
Something curious are the nicknames we have, I don't even know when they started, what's more, they sin not being curious enough, because she's from Mexico and I'm from Venezuela ... Guess the nicknames? Ypu right, Taco and Arepa. For being a Designer one and a Bachelor of Arts the other, creativity failed us ... well, they actually are "Taquitoooooo" and "Arepaaaaaaa" or arepita, it depends hahaha.
Algo curioso son los apodos que nos tenemos, que ni sé cuando empezaron, es más, pecan de no ser lo suficientemente curiosos, porque es de México y yo de Venezuela... ¿Adivinan los apodos? Exacto, Taco y Arepa. Para ser Diseñadora una y Licenciada en artes la otra, nos falló la creatividad... bueno, son "Taquitoooooo" y "Arepaaaaaaa" o arepita, depende jajaja.
Espero en algún momento no tan lejano poder ir a visitarla, ver si podemos hablar tantas horas en persona como por chat, porque en realidad yo hablo hasta por los codos, y ella, según ella misma y lo que leo de sus amigos en facebook, es todo lo contrario.
I think my contribution is the lots of random topics and comments that I come out with, I'm kind of cray, well, there must be more than that, but definitely in terms of practical help, there are fewer things that I can do, by the way, for whatever she needs and I can do, she can count on me, I would never say no.
Mi aporte creo que son los montones de temas y comentarios aleatorios que saco, bueno, habrá más que eso, pero definitivamente en términos de ayuda práctica, son menos las cosas que yo puedo hacer, de igual modo, para lo que ella necesite de mi y me sea posible, puede contar conmigo, nunca diría que no.
I could go on talking, but I'm not going to write to you how random our topics of conversation are, and we would go on for a long time explaining how we still play the role, with more than thirty characters and it being just the two of us because we didn't get along with the other role-player groups where we started ... Maybe we were right before that we are not very sociable, but it turned out that we liked each other.
Podría seguir hablando, pero no les voy a escribir qué tan random son nuestros temas de conversación, y nos extenderíamos rato largo explicando cómo es que jugamos al rol aún, con más de treinta personajes y siendo solo nosotras dos porque siempre ya no aguantamos a los grupos donde empezamos... a lo mejor sí teníamos razón antes en que no somos muy sociables, pero resultó que nos caímos bien.
This was my entry for the Initiative: Your Love / Friendship Story, if you want to participate you can follow the instructions in this post. But run, because I'm late and the contest closes in a few hours haha.
Esta fue mi entrada para el Initiative: Your Love/Friendship Story, si quieren participar pueden seguir las indicaciones en este post. Pero corran, porque se me hizo tarde y en concurso cierra en unas horas jaja.
Espero les haya gustado, hasta la próxima publicación
Hope you liked it, until the next time
firma y trama diseñada por @jes.seth
