Comments on: Electro-Shock Blues

By: Onidia

Onidia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:50:23 +0000

Now, I feel much better about my mother’s condition, but it took years of my life to accept it. I haven’t seen her for 14 years and I don’t know if I’m going to see her again. Sometimes I am here, but my mind is in another place with her. I know she knows I like to be free because she repeated that to me constantly. I didn’t want to leave my country because she was sick when I left, but she pushed me to do that. She sacrificed herself for me and she told me don’t worry about me I will be fine, do something good for your life. When she was better I tried to convince her many times about coming to live here with me, but she never accepted because she didn’t want to make me spend money on her health. My mother is a very special person, but she wanted to live in a world full of justice and never had the ability to accept the opposite.

By: William Berry

William Berry — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:48:18 +0000

Death is sad, but the point of existentialism is not to ignore it. Feel the pain, don’t avoid it.
Enjoy life.

By: Onidia

Onidia — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:23:07 +0000

I went to youtube to watch a video of the song “3 Speed,” it is good but,extremely sad. The daughter of a friend of mine was murdered 4 years ago by her husband and after 4 years she cries everyday for her daughter. Death is a very difficult topic. I am from the Caribbean and in my country death is a tragedy. I lost my great grandmother 5 years ago, I didn’t cry because she was 97, but was enjoying of a very good physical and mental health. I am Cuban and she was Mexican. By the contrary, my mother is young, I was born when she was 21 and she has mental problems because she abused for more than 20 years of prescription drugs and every time she is in a hospital my aunts and my brother take turns to be with her at the hospital room, but I feel really bad because I am in this country very far from her and I can’t do anything and also because she is my mother.