What if one day you received a package with a diary and a letter that said, "I have been diagnosed with a terminal illness. I am going to die"? That's what happened to Lucia. One day she received the diary of Teresa, a childhood friend, who was suffering from a life-threatening illness. Through these intimate pages, Lucia discovered how Teresa was coping with her illness, the questions and feelings that assailed her and the reflections that came to her about life itself.
Someone told Teresa about yoga, but it sounds like something weird to her… Gods? Connecting with nature? That doesn't make her happy and it isn’t the truth. She wants to know what the truth is and feels herself drawn more and more to it.
Teresa had a fight with her sister and blew up at her. Why do I always have to be the one to forgive? But what if my sister dies and it turns out that the last thing I said to her was something mean?
With these reflections, Lucia is beginning to understand the importance of forgiveness.
Teresa is still plagued by this question: who am I? She learns that she has dignity and that she was born to be herself and not a photocopy, that she should ask God what He wants from her. Teresa begins to change. She decides to go into church to be with Jesus.
Why do I have to put on a mask around others? Why can’t I be myself? Why do I go with the flow? These are questions that Teresa asks herself, doubting whether sincere people, who aren’t fakes, actually exist. She is aware that when she truly is herself, she feels free and happy. Who am I?
Teresa goes out to shop with her sister. Back at home, she wonders why she doesn’t like being fashionable or being the center of attention anymore. She feels like “being in” means being clones and moving in the same direction, like sheep. But what is being beautiful and well dressed then?
Teresa discovers that her friends were making fun of her. She feels like she’s getting a taste of her own medicine, because she used to do the same thing, even though the people she gossiped about didn’t find out about it. Deception? Pain? Regret? A question arises: Why doesn’t criticism seem so good and normal to her anymore?
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