Year of the Cliff-Diving Bull
The world around remains enslaved by the folly of mad men and women. The lust for power, greed and tyranny dictate the day to day existence, the very destiny of the exasperated masses. The oppressed were further tormented while those living under the illusion of freedom went on with their lives unperturbed. The hungry, the homeless and the poor were stripped naked of their dignity by the cheapness of the rich. Generations aspiring for human honor and personal liberty suffocated from the obnoxiousness of fetid traditions and the defunct morality of ideas long dead. Is it about the world I'm writing or is it about me?

I bullied my way forward like a raging bull in an Andalusian plaza de toros. The smell of blood and urine and earth mixed together, filling my nostrils with the pungence of life and death. Torn between encouraging cheers and dispiriting shouts the arena turned red in my eyes. The matador was a small man like most. He would not stand a chance if it weren't for his picador on horseback and the gang of banderilleros stabbing my back with barbed sticks. Men who hide behind shiny pretense are bereft of courage while honor lies under the hoofs of the beast. Another swig followed by a long drag and the red lessened. I was walking upright again, crossing yet another bridge and burning it like others before. There was an open field ahead and way in the distance the silhouette of a forest emerged and drew my horizon. I walked on.
Happy New Year!
Comments
I hope 2011 will be even better to you than 2010, and may your walk towards that forest be as satisfying as the crossing of that last bridge. Enjoy that peaceful freedom!
Answering your question, I think you are writing about the world as you see it, so it's kind like you write about you too.
May we all keep on enjoying your wonderful view of the simplest events.
Happy new adventure and the happiest of New Years.
Happy New year :-)
I hope 2011 is a better one for everybody although I can't really complain about my 2010. It was the best year in my life... and there are plenty of those under my belt, you know.
Thank you for always being a friend.
I'm dumbfounded by your poignant comment, lolll. Just kidding :-)
As I already commented on your wonderful blog, I wish you boundless happiness in every single drop of an endless blue sea.
Writing about the world through my eyes is the only way I can do it. I'm fortunate to have YOU here as a reader and as a very dear friend.
Happy 2011 to you Gaby!!!
You're one of the first people I told about me starting over in 2011. The forest is a pleasant albeit long way ahead but I'm so happy I burned that last bridge.
I wish you a change to the better. A year of fulfillment and new dreams.
Thank you for always being here and for other things :-)
I'm so glad when I know that my writing is providing you with an insight about my country.
I, too, look forward our meeting soon. Don't forget the beer, and light wouldn't do it for me ;-)
Happy New Year to you too :-)
I'm so glad to see you here again.
I knew I'd get you back here :-)
You're giving me all the praise I dream of by simply reading me. That you comment at all makes me much more than happy.
Thank you, always... Happy New Year!
It took me quite a while to feel liberated my friend. I hope you discover your own freedom earlier.
There's only one chick for me KJ. I looked so hard for so long till I found her and she's the fairest of all the fairies out there:-)