Capillaries On My Legs

of rites, ceremonies, nationalities and other inventions

leave tomorrow forever be alone Colombiano, starting tomorrow I will also be English ... I do not know what changes represent that in my daily life, in my view the world and what happens in it. I have no idea. All I know is that something must change, because we are animals where rituals and gestures to consolidate an additional layer that already and that we bring up our identity.

In something I need to change because I think what we are is just a long, steady and endless amount of rites and ceremonies. Some examples:

• the day before and the day after the graduation ceremony of the college or university, are just as ignorant to ourselves but to others are receiving immense knowledge, so immense, that rarely could we know it is;
• parents who want to ensure your child's eternal life after finite life just because of baptized, while others seek give a "civic welcome" their children so they do not fall into the confusion of religion
• marry a cold and dreary before a judge and that is the happiest day of his life, however, for others the day happiest is when the priest says "you may kiss the bride"
• the English when they came to America were surprised by the rites of some Indian wild to decapitate their enemies or worshiped the sun, these same Indians could not believe in the barbarous customs of the English to burn heretics and worship two sticks in a cross.
  

Crossing a border, country, city, neighborhood, home ... any line, any wall, any border ... are just gestures, which can be reduced to a few centimeters or seconds between the "before" and the "after." However, I believe that all borders and rites which we believe necessary and indispensable in our daily lives are just inventions of our mind to feel safer, to find ourselves and not get lost in the world, inventions need to know who we are, but above all, to see who is the other. The dreaded other.

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