July: Mountains, Roads, and Utah

Happy Late Fourth of July, of you celebrate it of course. Right now it’s 12:00PM passing through New Mexico in the car, my sibling yelling, “GOAAAL” he is watching the PSG vs. Bayern of Munich. I am not that much into soccer, so I have my headphones, listening to “toxic till the end” by ROSE. My other brother is watching Dragon Ball Z I believe, and my dog, sleeping and dreaming happily. Looking out of the window we are passing through RV trucks, small ranches, a little rover, and couple of mountains. This week I have been uncomfortable by lots. We were in Utah arriving June and leaving today at 5AM. I slept for, I do not know know how much but a good rest it was.

Back to the uncomfortableness, we stayed in Salt Lake City Utah, for various of reasons. There was an event happening. We toured around the very much deadliness of the unfortunate Salt Lake City watching homeless people for money, food, and walking around the city. At the beginning I was very skeptical, uncomfortable, and I hate to admit paranoid at one point. I do not like homeless people and my mentality about them changed a day before we left, yesterday. We visited the Capitol Hill of Utah and the inside was beautiful, I grabbed little pamphlets as souvenirs at the souvenir store in from of the Capital Building .

I saw the city and mountains around it from the very top high above and saw the places where some famous movies were filmed all throughout Utah, like Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, High School Musical, Back to the Future, and Footloose were among the list. We visited City Creek which was a mall, we did not buy anything but we walked around, seeing a lot of police nearby. We visited a couple of people that we knew, they were here for a sports competition. For three days I dived into he pool and played with my siblings, laughing and I had not time to write or read as much as I wished to read. I brought three books with me, plus the one I am reading, which I am currently in page 290 out of 436. It has been an amazing read, that has taught what the Buendia family has gone through fir several generations, and through their family’s life, it’s a magical/realistic fiction by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I repeatedly have to be flipping pages back and forth to understand since the names often repeat and over repeat in this cycle. I have enjoyed very much and my spanish vocabulary have broadened. I read a couple of pages at the time and after I am done with this book I am going to be reading, The Castle by Franz Kafka which I have been anticipating so badly!

Yesterday I learned that I cannot judge a book by its cover, and yes I know we are often told these all round several periods in our life, but yesterday I said something that I think didn’t sound bad but it did, it was regarding Salt Lake City and the problem with the many homeless people in every corner. I wasn’t thinking what I was saying, and I said, “I hate homeless people, I hate them they are horrible.” My parents, made me realize that homeless people live out of the compassion from others. I’m grateful for what they have told me. That we may not know their situation, that others choose to be homeless, others because they cannot pay they become homeless, that yes they have issues like everyone else but they choose drugs, alcohol, or other means is not for us to judge them and where they are coming from. That others want to get out of being homeless and be better. I took what I said back and felt like crying, badly because in that moment I released that what was wrong with me? Was that me? What happened to my own compassion? I know I have not lost it but those words came to me with such distaste that after I understood I cried, because it wasn’t fair.

After that we returned to our hotel to pack, get ready, and now we are here, in the now, in my car, with food, and listening to BLACKPINK. Earlier we stopped by Wilson Arch which was beautiful to get out there and see, enjoy the beautiful earlier mountains of Utah. It was refreshing to see the red rocks, collecting, and enjoying the time before hitting the road.I’ve also had a film idea I just need to get my thoughts together, it’s a short film, maye no more than 20 minutes, I just need a cast, a crew, and a couple of cameras, and of course a budget, however this could just go with no company which I’m fine with it. The film so far is about a girl, named Korry who looses her way with God and her parents force her to go to this summer church camp, she hasn’t prayed since a while. She is sort of a bad kid. When she is forced to go to the camp she is hostile at first, to her team, her cabin, not understand but soon, she understands and giving her life to God again meeting three important friends who teach her at the end of this camp. This is just an idea, i’m not sure of it’s really going to happen but my main focus right now is my book. The film would be a..summer project really.

So far in my book we are doing well, I just really need to speed up the writing process by 2,000 words, to be able to accomplish my goal. No pressure, right right right. Currently FMC is trying to fight off a very…annoying Prince since…this is a ball/ceremony before the competition for her hand in marriage the winner gets to marry her, essentially. She doesn’t agree with this, but the Prince picked up the fight first. Also, no this is not the love interest, I don’t think there is going to be a love interest in book one…. Well let me reiterate that, there are going to be hints on a selected few, it’s like watching my children growing up. Honestly it’s been something so far, while I may take shorts breaks here and there, I have to continue, because this is my passion no matter how hard it gets. I leave with this since I will be writing and reading looking at the mountains around me.

See you next time,

SMS