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Marta Quéliz
without effect the use of masks or at least, it was left. At the option of each one, I have been greatly surprised by the number of people I have met. in a pandemic and that now I have seen without the mask and I have not recognized him. This has led me to convince myself that with or without it, we can get confused in two ways: not recognizing who we know when they have it on, and not identifying those we met with it once they take it off.
Pure curiosity
I bring the subject up because that experience has led me to understand how important our traits are to achieve that connection that every relationship between people needs. With the mask we only see the eyes, which, as they say, are “the mirror of the soul”, but are they the only ones that show what we are and do it through gestures? In no way, even more so in the Dominican Republic, where communication occurs even with a twisted mouth. Pure curiosity of mine, but really, I think that it has happened to many of us after the Covid-19 pandemic that, those of us who met with his mask, when we have seen him without it, we do not believe that it is the same person.
I was embarrassed
“Hello, Marta,” someone told me a few days ago. Of course I greeted him, and tried to that he didn’t notice that he didn’t know who it was. Luckily, his voice and something he mentioned made me remember who he was. Believe it or not, he is someone with whom he had shared a lot during the past year, but I only saw his eyes. When he discovered him His full face, I didn’t make any sense at all that it was that someone. I felt that he was in front of another person. He went there I said to myself: “But what? damage he has made the mask to the physical identity of the people & rdquo ;. That it has been the best weapon to prevent the spread of the virus, it is true, but it has greatly affected our relationships with others.
“You do not know yourself with this thing”
That’s happened to me too, and I know it’s true. that to you alike. I have had to take off my mask or see how some friends have done it when we do not recognize ourselves with it on. “You don’t know yourself with this thing on,” a very dear friend once told me. I recognized, but she to me not. “Oh, Martita, how long, what? good to see us!&rdquo ;. That is to say, I was about to miss out on this very special greeting, a short but encouraging conversation because of the blessed mask, the one I still use and hopefully I will wear it. You too, because the Covid has not gone away, it is still among us and we must take care of ourselves even if we cover up our identity.