Thank you for your generosity.
Thank you for giving us your light.
Letter from Luís García Codrón to the participants of the Luces En La Oscuridad Contest.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you… a thousand times thank you for having participated in our Lights In The Darkness Contest, a thousand times thank you for having known how to share your soul, your tears, those deafening screams that were hermetically silenced.
Thank you, thousands of times thank you, because we have felt how many of you have opened the spring of accumulated tears by sharing those pains, those terrible lonelinesses of the soul, those desolate fears and anguish lived in your journey.
Thank you, thousands of times thank you, for having had the courage, the talent, the time and the desire to “bare the soul” showing the terrible wounds or scars of suffering that so many millions of human beings carry when they face mental illnesses.
Thank you, thousands of times thank you, because we are many, millions, you are not alone, no, and your testimony will help in those lonelinesses that hurt like invisible knives. We have felt you with that tremendous difficulty to put into words the terrible tears of depression, we know the effort it means to face the monsters that haunt us, the crows that sometimes nest in the sewers of our minds.
Thank you, thank you, thousands of thanks, because by participating many of you are going to help other wandering beings who carry the very heavy burden that at some point you carried, and your perseverance, struggle and overcoming will be able to provide that hope so difficult to see when there are only dense fogs and the lights go out.
Thank you, thank you, thousands of thanks, because through your experiences embodied in your creations we have felt identified, embraced, breaking that often distressing feeling of being alone in our own bubble.
Thank you, thank you, thousands of thanks, because many of you have shown that those terrible experiences are part of a past that has been overcome, which nevertheless made you bigger, more sensitive, deeper, as you have demonstrated with your creations.
Thanks to those of you who have written from the hospital, to those of you who have communicated with the help of your therapists, to those of you who are brilliant beings loaded with talents and abilities but who know that your mind at times brilliant accomplice, can also at other times be dark enemy.
To you who sip the tears of those wandering loved ones or who care for and listen to tortured minds. This immense gratitude to so many of you who work giving your embrace, your support, your hand with your profession to those beings who walk on the edge of the abyss in the night of the soul lost among storms of anxieties and anguish.
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We have felt you, you have seduced us, by that love, patience, understanding that you have given to those near and dear ones who struggle to get out of the labyrinth in which their minds wander and for whom you are an anchor that prevents their small boats of the mind from getting lost in the infinite ocean of broken existences.
We have felt the caresses to the soul when reading your words or visualizing your creations, which sometimes we felt as our own.
You are contributing with this action so that we can look for ways to share with society our emotions, our experiences, our struggle to get out, in that environment so often of denial, contempt, blaming, rejection, exclusion, ignorance that generates the stigma. How terribly unfair, having to fight against a disease and in turn need to hide it, so as not to face the consequences of stigma!
Hopefully we can help people who feel that their mind is different to stop adding to their suffering guilt that they don’t have.
All of you, each one of you, in your different realities, helping to stop silencing the tears that still dwell in our souls, allowing many others to understand a little more our realities and experiences.
Hundreds of you have shown that life is beautiful, despite the tears along the way. Hundreds of you have shown with your testimony that there is no eternal night and that spring will return after that long cold and dark polar night during which our minds wandered for a while. Hundreds of you have shown that there are many reasons to accept and love each other. With your testimony you have also shown that we must let them help us, we must know how to ask for help.
Thank you for the caresses to the soul that through your participation you are going to offer to so many beings who need to be understood, listened to, valued.
Thank you because the immense power of words, which are so damaging at times, can in turn help, accompany, soothe, relieve, heal.
Thank you, because at BELO we want to fight for the respect for human dignity, for the dignity of all of us who are part of this collective… How extremely unfair that sometimes a medical diagnosis is used as an insult in a disciplinary way, that a diagnosis is detrimental to those who suffer from it!
Almost 900 registrations, from people living in 14 different countries, of all ages, with so many different realities, united sharing our tears and loneliness, our special minds, but also so many smiles and stories of resilience, struggle and overcoming that should help us NEVER LOSE HOPE.
Thank you all for seeking to contribute to a better world through showing the richness of your/our souls.
