They wanted their group of friends to share it, but The video that was posted on YouTube last Monday already has more than 1,150,000 views. “We could never imagine such a thing, messages are being written to us from all over the planet thanking us, from Sydney, from Argentina, from Colombia, from all over Spain,” they have overwhelmed La Ventana. Too there are schools in Asturias where teachers are hanging it in the telematic classes they give to their students.
These two friends, Paula, 23, a medical student and María, 22, and an Industrial Technologies student, live in Gijón and study at the University of Oviedo. “I wanted to help in some way, but I did not know how, explains Paula, so it occurred to me to write a letter following the example of some online initiatives aimed at coronavirus patients. In the end, I ended up sending a letter to myself, but from a few months later. It pretends to be a reflective self-criticism and also send a shot of energy and encouragement to everyone. When they are things that come so deep inside, it was easy to put it on paper. “
So, in just thirty minutes, the lyrics of ‘Querida yo’ were born, which María proposed to convert into video, rummaging through personal recordings of them and mixing them with real images of those who are fighting the virus.
The result invites value everything that we did not care about before: “coffee between breaks from study hours in the library, the inflatable classes, kisses and hugs from your parents, the straws that start on Thursday and end on Sunday. “And he also asks to stop complaining about secondary things and put yourself in the shoes of those who are suffering.
“Enough complaining”
The title already contains all that declaration of intent. “You have to go from that me, me, me to us. Realize how unfair and selfish it is to complain about being locked up at home or not having more Netflix series to see when there are so many people who are dying, sick, lonely and terribly scared. And so many others literally risking their lives to help them to the limit of their strength. “
If you can help someone, they are satisfied. “A lot of people are writing to us in English, so we are already working on a translated version that we will upload shortly”, Maria has counted.
The two have said goodbye to this little talk on the radio with a message to the elderly: “We want to send you a huge hug and a lot of encouragement, so you know that you are not alone, even if you believe it.”
Ahead is hope and a delayed celebration. The one on Maria’s birthday, 22 years ago, just the day the state of alarm was decreed.
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