Now I had other things to do, as my father said, “I had to start thinking about serious things,” as if I hadn’t been doing that up to this point, but yes, he was right, what would happen to me now? Which direction would I take?
One afternoon, I was wandering around distracted, trying to make a little more sense of things.
“You don’t recognize your friends?” said someone passing me by.
I looked up in surprise. It was Simón, it was so nice to see him! It had been a long time since we’d last seen each other. I hadn’t been involved in the bricklaying game in a long while. I’d had to do the university militias, and that kept me busy all summer, so between that and my studies, I no longer worried about looking for those kind of distractions.
The truth is that it felt like I’d turned a page i
