Como la Flor
“If you have a dream, don’t let anyone take it away. And always believe that the impossible is always possible.”
Selena Quintanilla – Perez
Hay Daizee Loves!
If you didn't know, Selena is one of my ALL-TIME favorite movies, and has been since I was a little girl. I love music and singing, and use to dream of being a SUPERSTAR… so there’s that. I love Jennifer Lopez, who portrays Selena in the movie. I also love the family dynamic of the movie. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, I love the fact that Selena was a DREAMER. As a young girl, she dreamed of her future. And as a young woman, she continued to dream.
Challenge
The next time you watch Selena, I want you to pay attention to how many times she speaks of all of her dreams. Whether singing, fashion designing, or owning her small farm with chickens, and cows, and goats. LOL
The most pivotal moment of the movie TO ME is the Como la Flor scene at the Monterrey Concert. There were 100,000 people in the crowd. Men, women, and children. The crowd was so rowdy! Selena had to calm all 100,000 people down in order to continue the performance. She successfully does so by starting Como la Flor off slowly and silencing the entire audience. It really is a beautiful moment in the movie.
After the concert, she’s telling Chris (her soon to be hubby) how she felt in that moment on the stage. She felt like her dreams and the dreams of those in the crowd, were the same. She could feel how their hopes in dreams were in her. That is some powerful stuff! And it really is how dreams and inspiration work. Your dreams will always be bigger than you and will always touch the lives of anyone witnessing you turn these dreams into reality.
I guess with understanding all of this and being where I am in life right now, I can appreciate Selena’s story even more than usual. I can relate to it all more than usual. Because of that, when I watched her movie over the weekend, her death at the end hit me harder than usual. Although, I am aware of the fact of how sensitive I am, I can honestly say that how emotional my response was surprised me. I typically always cry at the end when she is murdered by ole girl, but this time was just so much different. I completely broke down like I haven’t seen it 100 times and didn’t know what was going to happen. I broke down like it was me watching ME die and seeing my family and husband in so much pain. I KID YOU NOT. I was watching it with my sister and had to go in my bathroom to let the ugliest sob out in private.
There were just soooo many things running through my mind. Selena was 23, going on 24 when she died. I’m 24. I can’t imagine my life being over and I don’t want it to be. I’m in such a GOOD PLACE, and I think that is what shook me up the most. Selena was in the midst of all of her dreams coming true when her life was taken away. Not only were they her dreams, but her family’s dreams. Her fans’ dreams. She was in her PRIME. She was so happy. She was in love. She and Chris had even been talking about having babies after the tour. She and her mom were all excited about that. Then, OUT OF NOWHERE, her life… and everything attached to it… was taken by someone she considered a friend. A FRIEND. I could just so easily relate to the betrayal, shock and pain I could so easily imagine her loved-ones feeling. You don’t expect young people to die… but they do. That has been one of the hardest parts of the last few years for me. And I think that no matter how old you are… anyone dying that is your age… just reminds you that it could be you.
Anyways, after I stopped crying, I just thanked God. I thanked Him for my life. I thanked him for my family and everyone I love. I thanked Him for allowing me to have so many dreams and the ability to chase them. I thanked Him for allowing me to share them with others. I thanked Him for that moment and the realization and understanding of so many things.
Like who would have thought watching Selena would shake me up so much that day.
Relevant Fun Fact
- Como la Flor means “like the flower”. Shout out to my Daizee Loves! But Como la Flor is actually a love song about how losing love is like a withering flower when not properly cared for. And how it hurts to lose love.
I just wanted to share this with you guys, and to remind you all to love like tomorrow isn’t promised, and to chase your dreams like tomorrow isn’t promised… because it isn’t.
Thanks for reading. I love y’ all!
Love ALWAYS,
Megan