All the weekend themes are amazing, I think they are all a great option to celebrate 250 successful weeks of a community that keeps growing, and that is why I have decided to write about myself and the things I have done to grow as a person, something that also deserves to be celebrated, because wow it took me to have the tranquility I enjoy today, and although there are chaotic days or events around me, this New Me knows how to handle them and come out of it with great elegance, and although I learned when I fell the lowest, the inner peace I have today I came to think I would never reach it.
I had to process several betrayals to realize something that we are told from the time we are very young, and that is to put ourselves first. I look back and I can say that I was a prisoner of myself, putting everyone's interests above my own, and although at the time I felt good doing it, it turned out to be something that after my 30s brought me more problems than benefits. The worst thing is that sometimes I feel selfish, because my nature has always been to serve, but I learned to say no very politely, and I stand by it firmly. Yes, there are people who have walked away, but it's the best thing that could have happened to me, before I felt used and abandoned again.
Music always brings peace of mind, but practicing music as a profession could easily be a double-edged sword. You can't do it alone, you need others to harmonize, and you have to learn to deal with those others. Something that has helped me to grow has been not to depend only on music for healing and reflection, now I have included contact with nature in my days, and I escape from the big buildings of the capital to breathe fresh air somewhere in the big mountain. I have always had this place nearby and ignored it for years. Walking or hiking helps me exercise, think and heal a lot of harmful thoughts, they have really helped me transform my days and my personality, and it is an activity I recommend to everyone reading me today. Connect with nature, breathe it, listen to it and feel it, and you will see that it will help you improve as a person. We are part of it, but somewhere along the way we have forgotten it...
And all this brings me to a last point, but not less important than the others, and that is to Learn Something New. Possibly it was the mourning that had me stagnant for some time, but I have always been interested in learning a new activity, that keeps us active and in constant personal growth. In music I never stop learning, right now I have a teacher that keeps me very happy, and in fact I am exploring my own anatomy for singing technique, but my adventures as a hiker are teaching me more about another of my passions, which is geography and although I am not perfect yet, I am taking some photography courses in my free time and putting them into practice, especially with nature. These photos are a small example that I'm putting my whole heart into it, and that's something I love about my New Me.
