In my family nucleus, many sayings were recorded, some were funny and others were somewhat blunt.
Since then I learned that we are always looking for information, we love information, and what makes us human beings are stories, it's what connects us with humanity, with people, with time, imagine not having stories to give examples of things that are fashionable like the Frankenstein movie, where does your dad come from, where does your mom come from, it's like that eternal emptiness.
I am talking about all this because I remember how my father mentioned during a family dinner, with an air of sarcasm the following saying "I will sit and wait for the corpse of my enemy to pass by".But I just remember, the energy of how my father used to say it, and the.silence that was generated between him and Mom, that saying fell like a piece of granite in the middle of the table but one knew in the long run who they were talking about and what was happening.
I didn't understand the saying but....it.that if I felt clearly it was what Dad was saying and towards whom it was directed.
Those phrases like: He who does not listen to advice does not grow old,raise crows and they will poke your eyes out, this saying was used by Cervantes, by López de Vega, the golden age, he who kills by iron, by iron dies, many of us hear them from the mouths of our parents or grandparents, they have Oriental roots.
These sayings all come encrypted, as one would say nowadays as a file that is encrypted and you don't have to get ideas from so many stories.
These sayings were recorded since I was a child in my moria I never asked for an explanation no one explained anything to me, but I remember the energy that each saying carried to my parents.
I also remember being told that I couldn't laugh with my mouth open and throwing it head back because I would look vulgar and I was a class lady... Lol, "Better bird in hand.than a hundred flying", reality surpasses fiction, children only know how to dream and adults let go of the birds.
My dad always repeated it, "I will sit patiently by the river, and you will see the corpse of your enemy floating by." His teaching is not revenge but patience, that is, he speaks with certainty that life itself is responsible for putting everything in its place.
In my country Venezuela, that saying became part of everyday life, said with that very Creole touch and tropical mischief of my people, which mixes irony and calm, as part of the ancestral wisdom of my land. * It's a way of saying: I'm not going to get my hands dirty,life will take care of itself*.
But if I stopped for a moment to remember them, I'm sure I'd find out where they came from. These phrases contain what was lived in our homes with our family nucleus; there is more legacy than stories there.
The real question is: What happened? Because those phrases, those silences, those stories made us what we copied to survive. Are the sentences true? It depends on the observer.
I tell you my favorites that although no one understands they serve me: for example: 'shrimp that falls asleep wakes up in paella 🥘 ; tree that is born crooked, the little birds fall 😉... Do you have them? Until you understand the true meaning learned in your family nucleus, you will not be able to change them.
Janitze 🌹
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