Change must start from within

Change starts from within

There’s always a concealed purpose

November 17, 2013

Edgar Flores, is a young actor born in Tegucigalpa Honduras who starred in Sin Nombre, a film produced by Cary Joji Fukunaga,  as Willy, AKA: El Casper a gang member of el Mara Salvatrucha in Chiapas Mexico. 

El Casper and a teenage girl named Sayra (Paulina Gaytán), meet one day when their gang member Lil Mago, takes El Casper and Smiley (Krystian Ferrer), to La Bombilla, along the train tracks to rob undocumented immigrants who are awaiting to hop on the trains heading towards the United States. 

When Lil Mago comes across Sayra, he attempts to rape her until his life is put to an end abruptly by Edgar Flores whose heart is tainted with tears of blood after Lil Mago tries to rape his girlfriend and kills her. 

In appreciation to his act, Sayra approaches and befriends El Casper against her father’s will. One day when he’s finally accepted by Sayra’s father and uncle who are trying to immigrate to the United States along with Sayra, he decides to get off the train unexpectedly. What Casper didn’t take notice of, was that Sayra would follow him and shortly after, they would embark on their journey to the United States together.

All along as much as El Casper wanted to conceal his fear, he was in dismay for his life and Sayra’s. He was caught amidst angst, solitude and despair because his life was worthless. At the same time he wanted to break free from the deep and dark hole he got himself into, and seek for a better life in the United States. 

This particular character serves as a reminder that as disappointing, painful,  pointless and unfair as life may be at times, as bleak as our future may appear sometimes, and before we want to change our world, our country, our community, our surroundings and our  people, change must start within. 

Kindness is a good way to show our world that we are ready for a positive change. 

As someone who started doing charity work from a very early age on (since I was 16 years old), I am under the belief that those who have the least give the most, and through the bond of giving is when and where we really experience change and dismiss concentrating about “I,” our needs and “suffering.” All of a sudden all those pounding and torturing thoughts about our past misfortunes dissipate and are soon replaced by a warm reasoning of the feeling of giving a lending hand. That humanitarian act fabricates a unification that will reveal our purpose.  

The consolidation of our world feeling and sharing the pain caused by the endless tragedies that have been occurring all around the world makes our bond stronger. We need to come together in moments like hurricane Raymond  in Guerrero that happened earlier in October travelling very fiercely and strongly at about 170 kilometers destroying hundreds of homes and terminating many lives.

It is through people’s solitude and need and our own where we find the rope thrown to us to avoid sinking any further and drowning...

One of my dreams is to one day be wealthy enough to open my own charity foundation and invite others to ingrain and implement my ABC's: Spirituality, family, work and business ethics, health and fitness, charity work, reading and playing with words, or travel everywhere there is a natural tragedy and help and give those in need, without expecting anything in return because I have learned that the happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They just give and make the best of everything...