tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896456029589633600.post3120431968884234638..comments2023-05-11T05:54:21.047-07:00Comments on Living on Refried Dreams....: Date with the Virgen?Refried Dreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05387521513641562755noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-896456029589633600.post-21524652085429136502009-01-28T08:14:00.000-08:002009-01-28T08:14:00.000-08:00Hmm... I totally see where your coming from and wh...Hmm... I totally see where your coming from and why you feel the way you do, one of the benefits of assimilating. Maybe I can help clarify things a little, from my experience traditions come over anything and everything. Making sacrifices like leaving work for a week or even a month at a time to pay homage to La Virgen is nothing in comparison to what they hope the to receive in return, but in reality it's more about the hope and the strength to make it another day because they need it. The kind of people that make these sacrifices aren't the type of people that dwell on material possessions because they're to poor to afford any real luxuries and because they're learned to live beyond the need of material possessions. For some people this is all they have ever know and some feel the need to redeem themselves because of things they have done in the past. I know that in Mexico city, there's people who crawl on their knees in agony and pain until they reach the church steps all bloodied. That's how powerful their commitment is to La Virgen and their way of living. It's hard to understand the old ways if you weren't around them. Hence the trash, making a sacred journey is more important to them than cleaning up after themselves. And of course where ever there is pain and suffering, they'll be vultures there to pray on them.El Random Herohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17971257745245521958noreply@blogger.com