A stone on the road
It's already May and the weather is still cool, it's great for running, but I want it to get warmer to enjoy the pool.
This week I felt motivated, now everything is ready for the publication of my book, it has been quite an adventure. I had been worried for a long time about write it, what I have learned is that writing it is only one part, yes the main part, but only one part.
The first thing was to gain the confidence that I could write a text that was worthwhile. I don't mean that I didn't believe in being able to have clear writing, because of my training and work I wrote many texts, but technical ones. Reports, reports, articles, but in these you always have to be clear and concise, therefore they are dry texts. Being able to write something that was entertaining, that's what I doubted I could do.
I tried several times, but I wasn't satisfied and quit. It was during the confinement of the pandemic when I was able to dedicate more time to it, I finished the first chapter. But I read it and, I don't know why, I wasn't satisfied and I left it again.
Time passed, last year, in May, when I retired I decided to try again. I looked up the text I had written during the pandemic on my computer and read it again, I liked it and that encouraged me. So I decided to try it again, I don't know what changed, but now the texts were flowing. I got into the habit of going out to the terrace to write, a very good complement was the pool, there I meditated and questioned myself about the ideas I wanted to capture in the texts. Rebeca, my wife, laughed at me, seeing me talking to myself in the pool.
That's how I moved forward, at first I kept it a secret, the only ones who knew that I was writing a book were Rebeca and Mariana, and Guille, my kids. That's how I finished writing the book I had planned, but I couldn't stop working on it and making more changes to it. But I didn't show it to anyone, I was still the only one who knew the content
I was at that point when one day, while I was sharing a few beers with Guille at the pool, he asked me what the book was about. I began to explain to him. After a while, he interrupted me, “Oh, I understand, you are writing your personal cosmogony.” This is how the title arose: “HISTORY OF THE EARTH, A PARTICULAR COSMOGONY”
That's what I was wondering about in my race today when a stone on the road taught me that my destiny was to roll and roll.
When I noticed I was rolling on the asphalt, I ended up with scratches on my hands, knees, and face, nothing to worry about, but I decided to get up and walk home, I didn't finish the 15 km that I had to do today. Obviously, my wonderings were over too.
I remind you that the book comes out on June 4, on Amazon. It´s going to be in Spanish, if sales go good I‘ll translate it into English before the year is over.
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