Última parada (last stop)

Some time ago I was in a car for a concert of classical music and it was inevitable not to bother with the unbearable traffic of this city (Medellin) at six in the afternoon. However, while the vehicle was moving, I could see that on the left side of a bridge through which it was passing was a bicycle without pedals, armchair and chained to a completely dry tree. Honestly, I was touched and surprised, since it is not very common to find this kind of thing on a daily basis. As I could not get off and take some pictures, I decided to go back later and take the time to find the composition that I liked the most and also observe different angles. On the other hand, that bicycle expressed death, but also a lot of tranquility, I don't know the reasons, although it was. I think that is why I decided to call it "last stop", since it made me think about the last leg of someone's life and the bike itself. I was amazed with that object in the tree and I was constantly wondering who would have uploaded it there and what would be the reason, which I never knew until yesterday that I decided to publish the image to share a little what I had felt. It wasn't until the night that an old classmate wrote to me through an internal message and told me the story behind the bike in the tree. It turns out that it was not disconnected from the title I gave it, so here it goes. There are some voices that at that point on the bridge there was a girl with a bicycle and she was hit by a bus that ended her life. It is not known where he was going or where he came from, but in that place he finished his entire journey. The bike was bent and without some of its most important accessories. After the event, some say, that one of the girl's relatives took the bicycle, painted it white and then chained it to that tree as a way to remember and honor her. I do not know if the tree had leaves before the bicycle was there or if it has always been that way, but the truth is that the trees and plants around it have all the things that characterize a healthy tree ... will it be that the tree It withered after charging with the bike? "Last stop" is a title that I put without knowing the real story, but that has a close relationship with it.

Oscar Arcila,   Colombia, Medell?n