In one yellow world, there is a boy on a hospital bed.
The boy will be an author one day — Albert Espinosa.
The bed is his classroom,
and his notebook will become the book El Mundo Amarillo
— or “The Yellow World”.
In one of his yellow notebooks, he scribbles a piece of advice, given by one of his doctors.
Open your hand and accept this invitation for curiosity.
Open your hand and ask 5 questions a day.
5 questions, coloured in yellow, tinted in insights.
But what questions?, you may ask.
Any question that comes to mind:
about the way you live today,
about the way you want to or have to live tomorrow,
about something you observed on the way home,
about something that randomly sprung into your mind,
about the world order,
about the way books are bound,
about big and small matters,
about yourself and the rest of the world,
about the tangible and the intangible.
about.
Who am I asking though??, you may ask.
The holder of the answer — or an answer, one of many — could be you.
Or not.
You might write questions to ask your mom, your dad, your friends, your former roommate, your friend from childhood, the woman on the subway, the guy on the street, and everyone and anyone who came into your life.
To tell you a little secret, I even write to my granddad who passed away.
The practice is not about answering, but about asking.
A hospital bed,
an adolescent boy,
with a yellow pen,
writes
“Las respuestas curan, las respuestas ayudan.
Hacerte preguntas equivale a sentirte vivo.
Que te den las respuestas demuestra que tienen confianza en que sabras que hacer con esa informacion.”
Behind these melodic Spanish sentences, these beautiful bracelets of letters, he hides the following:
“Answers heal, answers help.
Asking yourself questions equals feeling alive.
Being given the answers shows that they are confident that you will know what to do with that information."
And with a yellow notebook, he still asks questions.
Get a yellow notebook.
Get questions.
Get answers. Sometimes.
What are your 5 yellow questions today?
Until the next yellow ink,
Katrin