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How “El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes,” Revived by Selena Gomez, Held My Melancholia—And Made Me Feel Again.

There’s a kind of sadness that wraps itself around you like a velvet fog—soft, lingering, impossible to shake. I’d been moving through that fog quietly, unsure of whether I was feeling too much or not enough.

Then I heard Selena Gomez’s revival of “El Muchacho de los Ojos Tristes.” I’d never heard the original, but this song carried something eerily familiar. It didn’t just play—it echoed. It held me. It stirred something quiet and buried, a sorrow I didn’t realize was still awake inside me.

I’ve felt this before—through music that presses its hand to your chest like it’s trying to resuscitate something. This one did exactly that. It brought up unlived emotions—sentimientos compartidos—grief I didn’t know was mine but somehow felt like it belonged to me. The kind of sorrow that doesn’t ask permission—it just rises.

Since I started listening to it, melancholia has settled over me. Not just sadness—but something deeper. That slow ache that lives in your chest like a ghost of something you never had but still mourn.

I spoke to a friend about it. She said I was experiencing depression. I told her it felt like something else—something heavier, more haunting. I called it melancholia. She brushed it off, said it was all the same. But I disagreed.

Depression is absence. Numbness.

Melancholia is presence. Longing.

It’s grief laced with beauty. Pain that almost feels sacred. It’s nostalgia for a moment in time that doesn’t exist. A hunger for something you can’t name, only feel.

This song didn’t fix me. But it did something else.

It reminded me—I still have a pulse.

I’m still here. Still aching. Still hoping for something. A glance. A connection. A sign that I haven’t disappeared under the surface of my own silence.

I said this to someone:

“I feel like I am the girl with the sad eyes. Diving deeper and deeper into a melancholic state, wanting so badly to find a spark. I want my heart to be shocked back to life.”

And they told me:

“You’re not lost. You’re becoming.”

So this is me—becoming.

Still tender. Still searching. But no longer asleep.

There’s a spark out there. I don’t know what it looks like yet. But I know I want to feel it.

I used to not understand my cousin when she’d listen to sad songs while feeling low. I thought it was like pouring water on a drowning heart. But now I understand. Sometimes the saddest songs are the only ones that know how to hold us.

So if you're reading this and you feel it too, know this: You are not alone. There is no shame in aching. No weakness in longing. Feeling deeply means your heart is still beating.

Let it ache if it must. Let it rise. And when you're ready, follow the faintest flicker of hope. Even if it's just a breath. Even if it's just a song.

You're not lost.

You're becoming.

And somewhere ahead of you—maybe just beyond this fog—there’s a spark.

And this time, it’s for you.

💓💓💓

If this resonated with you, like, share and comment. We weren’t meant to feel this alone.

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Thankyou for sharing her Latest movie I cried most the time just because I felt her, I knew where she was coming from bless her

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LETS TRY AND GET THE HELP AND SUPPORT WE NEED. #Lupus #lupussucks

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I have sent to my local MP Mike Freelander, to try and get the support and help for all lupus/ SLE & invisible disease warriors that we need?

Email is below.

Dear Mike,

My name is Tania Schembri, my son was seen by you just before you started the MP journey.

I am writing to you in hope that you may be able to get a change put through to the government and make much needed changes for those living with SLE Lupus and other invisible chronic diseases.

I was diagnosed with SLE Lupus when I was 17, it affects my lungs, bones, joints, blood, cognitive function, kidneys were affected during both miracle pregnancies, which at 34 I have just undergone a hysterectomy due to severe menorrhagia, endometriosis & PCOS, as well as chronic fatigue, clinical burnout due to a chronic illness which also has caused medical anxiety and depression.

These are just some of the symptoms I have, with it also affecting my nerves but still undergoing tests for peripheral Neuropathy.

Like the Majority of Lupus, SLE Warriors and so many other invisible diseases. This is not covered under life insurance or income protection as it is classed as a terminal illness, yet Centerlink and NDIS don’t cover it as it goes in and out of remission.

With stress playing a big part on our already compromised immune systems. Our drs and specialist visits, not forgetting our medication or tests and procedures we may need at any given time, it plays a big toll on our financial situation, family life, work life, social life and mental health.

Please the many Warriors living in Australia let alone Macarthur region need your help to get it recognised for help and better support systems in place.

I am happy to discuss this further with you, if you could be so kind as to put some of your precious time aside.

Thank you in advance for reading this email.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could respond to this email also.

Look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards
Tania Schembri

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