I just read Marcos Rebollo´s “Los Hilos del Mundo”.  The book in general did not speak to me tremednously but there is a passage that I quite liked.  The main character Manuel goes to his abuelo´s village and is speaking with a friend (?) of his abuelo.  She says to him, “Todo el mundo tiene unos hilos que se sujetan al cuerpo…  Unos hilos que hay que atar a la tierra.  Algunos no lo consiguen nunca y andan por el mundo con los cabos deshilachados, como perdidos.  Tienes que atarte los hilos en alguna parte….A ti te falta encontar tu sitio y amarrarte bien a él.  No hace falta que tengas prisa, pero cuando lo sepas, no dudes en atarte.  Para que no se te lleve el viento” (p 107, Los hildos del mundo) (Everyone has threads that cling to the body…Some threads that one must tie to the Earth.  Some people never achieve that and walk along with the ends of their threads loose, like lost souls.  You have to tie your threads to a place…You need to find your place and tie yourself to it well.  Don´t be in a hurry, but when you realize where it is, don´t hesitate to tie yourself to it.  If not, you´ll be carried off with the wind)  I thought this passage was interesting because I´ve always expressed each person´s life like a thread floating through time and used that image to express the suerte we experience when we get to share our lives with people…ie:  that our threads collide and stick together for periods of time– some longer and some shorter.  When I read this analogy of life and “your place” as threads floating about…well, it spoke to me because I myself feel like I am an untied thread and I need to find my place.  And this time it´s not about my thread matching up with a person so much as a place.  If Madrid isn´t it, where will it be?  Is it New York?  Or some place I´ve yet to visit?  And how do you know?  Do you base it on your job?  the people you know?  the people (or significant other) you potentially/hopefully/theoretically have met or will meet?  What reasons are sufficient?  If you feel happy in one place  (ie: Carolina in Madrid) is that enough?  Is it greedy/egoist to think something could be better even though you are perfectly happy where you are?  Is it worth risking all that you have (and have worked to obtain–mostly i am referring to friendships/relationships-romantic, professional, platonic…) just to try something new?  I´m not sure.  I also don´t know what´s waiting on the other side of the charco…I don´t know how to make the right decision.