Donde no hay espectáculo y donde sí hay elección. Ladies of Hive Community Contest # 277 [Esp/Eng]

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🇪🇦 En Español



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Hola comunidad @ladiesofhive

A veces el corazón guarda anécdotas que, vistas con distancia, parecen escenas de una comedia ligera.

¿Cuál es la cosa más tonta que alguien ha intentado hacer para conquistarte?

Hubo una vez alguien que decidió impresionarme con algo que claramente no sabía hacer.
Prometió cocinar “la mejor cena que yo hubiera probado”. Habló durante días de sus supuestas habilidades culinarias, de recetas secretas, de técnicas heredadas, de sabores inolvidables. La expectativa creció tanto que casi parecía una competencia de restaurante cinco estrellas.

El resultado fue, arroz crudo y pollo quemado.
Pero no fue eso lo más tonto.
Lo más tonto fue la actuación previa. La exageración. El personaje que intentó construir. Esa necesidad de mostrarse extraordinario cuando lo sencillo habría sido mucho más encantador.

Porque si ese día me hubiese dicho: “No sé cocinar muy bien, pero quiero intentarlo por ti”, todo habría sido distinto. Yo habría valorado la honestidad, el intento, incluso el desastre. Nos habríamos reído juntos sin problema.

Aprendí algo ahí, no me conquista la perfección escenificada. Me conmueve la vulnerabilidad. Me gusta quien admite que no sabe, quien no necesita inflarse para parecer más interesante.
A veces lo más “tonto” no es fallar. Es pretender ser otro.

Si pudieras viajar en el tiempo, ¿irías al futuro o al pasado?
Esta pregunta me llevó a otro lugar.
Antes pensaba que iría al pasado, pero no para cambiar algo, sino para observarme. Me gustaría mirar a la Isabel más joven y decirle vas bien, “No tienes que apresurarte tanto. No todo es tan urgente.”
Pero si realmente pudiera elegir, creo que iría al futuro.
No para saber si tendré éxito.
No para ver resultados materiales.
Iría para saber en quién me convierto.

Me intriga la mujer que estaré siendo dentro de veinte años.

¿Seguiré siendo sensible?
¿Habré aprendido a soltar con más facilidad?
¿Seré más valiente o más serena?

No quiero saber los eventos. Quiero ver la evolución.
Hay algo poderoso en pensar que el tiempo no solo nos arrastra, sino que nos transforma. Y me gustaría confirmar que todo lo que hoy estoy trabajando por dentro, la paciencia, la firmeza, el amor propio, realmente florece.

Aunque también hay un detalle importante, si viajar implicara perder la sorpresa del proceso, entonces no lo haría.
Porque el misterio también es parte de la magia.
El pasado ya cumplió su función, enseñó.
El futuro aún no llega, promete.
Pero el presente, es donde decido y es ahí donde la vida pasa.

Y tal vez ese sea el verdadero viaje en el tiempo que sí podemos hacer todos los días, elegir mejor ahora para que el mañana tenga sentido.

Gracias por estas preguntas que parecen simples pero siempre terminan abriendo pequeñas puertas interiores.
Un abrazo sincero para todas

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🇬🇧 In English


Where There Is No Spectacle and Where There Is Choice


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Hello @ladiesofhive community,
Sometimes the heart keeps anecdotes that, when seen from a distance, feel like scenes from a light comedy.

What’s the dumbest thing someone has ever tried to do to win you over?

There was once someone who decided to impress me with something he clearly didn’t know how to do.
He promised to cook “the best dinner I had ever tasted.” For days he talked about his supposed culinary skills, secret recipes, inherited techniques, unforgettable flavors. The expectation grew so much that it almost felt like a five-star restaurant competition.

The result was raw rice and burnt chicken.

But that wasn’t the dumbest part.
The dumbest part was the performance beforehand. The exaggeration. The character he tried to build. That need to appear extraordinary when something simple would have been far more charming.

Because if that day he had told me, “I’m not very good at cooking, but I want to try for you,” everything would have been different. I would have valued the honesty, the effort, even the disaster. We would have laughed together without any problem.

I learned something there: staged perfection doesn’t win me over. Vulnerability moves me. I like someone who admits they don’t know, someone who doesn’t need to inflate themselves to seem more interesting.
Sometimes the dumbest thing isn’t failing. It’s pretending to be someone else.

If you could travel through time, would you go to the future or the past?

This question took me somewhere else.

I used to think I would go to the past, not to change anything, but to observe myself. I would like to look at the younger Isabel and tell her, you’re doing fine. “You don’t have to rush so much. Not everything is so urgent.”

But if I could truly choose, I think I would go to the future.
Not to know whether I will be successful.
Not to see material results.
I would go to know who I become.

I’m curious about the woman I will be in twenty years.

Will I still be sensitive?
Will I have learned to let go more easily?
Will I be braver or more serene?

I don’t want to know the events. I want to see the evolution.

There is something powerful about thinking that time doesn’t just carry us forward—it transforms us. And I would like to confirm that everything I am working on inside today, patience, strength, self-love, truly blossoms.

But there is also an important detail: if traveling meant losing the surprise of the process, then I wouldn’t do it.
Because mystery is part of the magic.

The past has already fulfilled its purpose—it taught.
The future hasn’t arrived yet—it promises.
But the present is where I choose, and it is where life actually happens.

And maybe that is the real time travel we can do every day: choosing better now so that tomorrow makes sense.
Thank you for these questions that seem simple but always end up opening small inner doors.
A sincere hug to all of you.

The images are from Pixabay, and the English translation was done using DeepL Translate.



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It was like he was a great chef, even though he didn't know how to cook 😅 That was like women who fake a pregnancy; they'll get caught any minute.

I agree that it would have been better if he hadn't pretended to know something he clearly doesn't. Starting with lies reflects very poorly on him. Good luck in the competition. Blessings🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Que buena esa historia, la verdad aunque exagero hizo el intento por hacerlo, el problema es que no se preparo. Excelente aporte. Haces una buena idea de dejar el pasado donde quedo y el futuro esperar lo que vendrá, como dices es mejor vivir el presente. Muchísimas gracias por tu participación en las damas de Hive. Un abrazo.

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That's a great story! Honestly, even though I exaggerated, he did try, the problem is he wasn't prepared. Excellent contribution. You make a good point about leaving the past where it is and waiting for the future to come; as you say, it's better to live in the present. Thank you so much for your participation in the Hive Ladies. Hugs.

!LADY
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Pretending to be a 5-star chef Ha ha ha, I've never had that done for me, It must have been a sight to see. My father was a Sous Chef for a hotel and I had opportunities to work with him when he ran the restaurant.
Thanks for sharing @isaacmf123
!LADY

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