2009 started full force and non-stop, I haven't written in two weeks basically because i've just been sleeping in my house otherwise I am out and about.
But before starting to talk about 2009, I want to highlight that even though 2008 was not my favorite year by far, I feel I became a more wholesome and centered person, much more at ease and in peace with myself. And this is a lot in part because I have been really getting to know and enjoy my family. In some cases it is true that when one establishes a good relationship with parents, step-parents, step-sisters, step-brothers, just anyone that can be considered part of the nucleus of a family, one starts feeling better with the world and in some ways fulfilled. This Christmas, although I decided not to go to Colombia to visit my dad's family because I did not want to deal with precisely that concept of the family. I found myself more in touch with the family that are present here and including those visiting from the past.
I hadn't seen her in almost a decade, which would make me a young girl the last time I saw her, and in which she forever scarred me. She left in me a wound that has never really closed, it is not that I think about it everyday, or even every month, but when I do think about it and remember what happened it always brings tears to my eyes, even now as I write about it my eyes start getting teary. It is hard losing a family member for anyone, especially to death, but when you loose someone so close to you because of circumstances, in a way it is more painful. Knowing that the person still lives and is just not a part of your life anymore, is not and will never be that person you knew and loved again is just difficult. This December she came home, and after almost ten years of not even speaking to her, it was very overwhelming to see her. I am so glad that we saw each other, we didn't talk about what had happened, I think it wasn't necessary, but we knew, we knew that it wasn't necessary to say "Im sorry" because we both have lived with those wounds. We talked, and talked just like we used to do before, we talked about religions, about love, about teachers, about philosophies, about music... She seemed very happy to know even if it was just a little about me. She left the last day of the year. It was a good way to close that chapter, at last she's well.

Krzysztof Kieslowski used to be her favorite director, she described Juliette Binoche in Blue as the perfect embodiment of sorrow and grief, I guess she knows a thing or two about the subject.