Mexican Soap Operas And Their Meaningful Moments: What Lies Beyond The Dramatic Slaps.

Today I was watching a soap opera, a Mexican one, and even though I hate those, I got to admit that I'm a fool for this one. It is one about love. Love being the root of every single tragedy that happens in this novel. But, why so pessimistic? Well, not really. It also shows the power of love that Celine Dion once sung about.

The reason, though, why I bring this up is because one of my favorite characters said something that really got me thinking. He said "When we dream that we are dreaming, it means we are about to wake up.". Now, I want to take a second and analyze this deeper.

What did he mean? Well, when we are in pain, caused maybe by the heart, and I don't mean physically but emotionally, we might not realize what is wrong in our picture. We are so focused in a specific thing and we fail to see what that specific thing is a part of. I mean, we see what we want to see, what we want to believe, and sometimes that only brings us despair, but because we deny ourselves the privilege to understand, we feel lost and deepen ourselves in sorrow. When we take a step back because we notice a glitch in our way of thought, we then realize that things perhaps aren't what we thought they were and exactly THERE is when we notice that we are dreaming in our dream.

But what next? Well, when we realize that we are dreaming, and realize things aren't as they seem to us, we start searching for answers and we start pinching ourselves to confirm that in fact we are dreaming. It is then, when we finally hit the wall and realize that our worries are in fact true, we wake up. But we don't wake up only to see an ugly truth, we wake up to make it beautiful. We wake up and it's in us that lies the power to search for that which we wanted in the first place, be it love, happiness, peace.

It's like superheroes tell us all the time, we gotta be strong in the face of the enemy and in the face of sorrow, and even if we fall we gotta have enough fortitude to rise once more and be stronger than before because what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger. I rest my case now, and I invite everyone to pinch yourselves every once in a while and make sure that you are not being sold rabbits for cats, as a saying in Spanish goes. But most importantly, when you wake up, don't fall back asleep and don't give yourself to sorrow and pity but fight for what you want. Even if you don't believe so, everything has a different way to it. Don't lose hope.