It's important to understand that life is not a dream. A dream is nothing more than an allusion that accumulates images, portraits, experiences, and memories, attracting a host of unknown people, situations, and moments in a wonderful or Machiavellian setting. We don't know.    

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But it is necessary to awaken from the deep sleep in which we live, so that, by living face to face with reality, we become awake and stronger in spirit, courage, and energy.

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We don't know when we'll wake up from those moments we've recorded in our minds. The only guarantee is that we can emerge from the dream unharmed or terrified. However, suddenly, we wake up without knowing what happened, without understanding that after we got out of bed, continuing with the day without any hindrance, an accident occurs out of nowhere.

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This is what happened to me a month ago, friends, when I was walking down the stairs of my apartment toward my car, no less, to go to my morning exercise class, when, suddenly, my tennis shoe hit a step of the stairs, throwing me three steps to the ground, landing my body on the concrete.  

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What happened? I wondered. What was happening? Then I began to breathe deeply, trying to calm the shock, to relax, knowing that something terrible had happened. 

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The ambulance took me to the nearest hospital, where I underwent surgery on my fractured wrist. Not only that, but five of my ribs were also broken. 

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I'm currently recovering. They've already removed the stitches and the metal insert from my wrist. How lucky! It could have been worse! I don't even want to think about it...

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I think we need to wake up right now: without fear, without dread of the present, or apprehension about what we're experiencing. We need to open our eyes to know that day exists, covering part of the Universe with its blanket of light and darkness, in perfect harmony, revolving around us. 

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To awaken from the eternal dream of fantasy rooted in our own history is to awaken to the present, full of stimuli and plans to be realized. To awaken is to forget our afflicted face, plunged into a disturbing sleeplessness for having been unable to understand that life is a treasure trove of surprises. Because, while we were asleep in the fullness of time, the dizzying course of the river was diverted, fleeing in fear of our own shadow. We must have faith that everything is temporary, that life places us in this surprising dilemma, but it also pulls us out of the abyss into which we have fallen, so that we know that everything has a solution in life.

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But we must be positive, girls, and wake up from that meager dream of dreams and plans not forged by what we've experienced. We must revive ourselves, then, after that something that overshadowed our long-held plans, nestled deep within our souls. We must wake up so as not to idealize only in dreams what never came true, after a sleepless night: a long, contemplative time that became a prisoner of darkness and a fugitive from the day.

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We must awaken from the long slumber that fatigue triggered, which is now part of us, because we've grown accustomed to routine and unable to distinguish between the notion of time and reality. Time has been unconsciously sown in the cavernous depths of our minds, and we, without realizing it, fail to understand that sleeping in the vastness of time is not advisable.  

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To awaken is to become aware of oneself, to be present where there is no possibility to be addressed in the fullness of dawn. It is to awaken to remember that life is the summit of all that is hoped for and all that is desired; it is the peak that revives the song of all time and the eve of the silence that will be heard.

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But we must awaken now from the persistent concert of voices strangled in the desert of our difficulties and renunciations. Awakening means avoiding the fears that have unbalanced the comfort of our own initiatives and demands, to change what has been said and not acquiesce in what will be said.

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However, we must awaken from this eternal, rebellious, intrusive, and incomprehensible sleep that unbalances the candor and virtue of hope. We must awaken now from the insensitivity that besets the impenetrable jungle of our insecurities and ambitions… We must be vigilant and keep our feet firmly on the ground. We must awaken now before it's too late.  

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The Word of God says: No one can know your plans except the one to whom you give wisdom and upon whom you send the Holy Spirit from heaven. Wisdom 9:17