Still My Own

An unexpected note. An attractive distraction. The chair from the opening song returns, now offered to an unfamiliar future self. The ending holds conviction, love and an appetite for more life.

Connected song on Aún Soy Mío
Aún Soy Mío

The chair is still here.

An unexpected note interrupts the plan. So does an attractive man. The old line can remain beneath the new one without making either dishonest. Mama’s doorway and Grandma’s chair return as a welcome offered before all the answers are known, including to parts of himself he has yet to discover. He is not replacing an inadequate self with a better one. He is already whole, with more life to meet and more choices to make. Care, candor and responsibility remain part of how he lives that freedom.

I can stand my ground and still be moved.From the lyrics of Still My Own

Whole now. Still free to become.

The closer does not ask for endless change or perfect certainty. Being whole now does not mean being finished discovering yourself or finished being reached by someone else. The unexpected note, the attraction and the waiting chair put that openness into ordinary life. He can receive love without handing over his future, enjoy desire without letting it make every decision, and question himself without surrendering his convictions to someone else. What comes next need not erase what was real before. He does not choose every feeling that arrives; he still chooses how to respond, with care for his own freedom and other people’s. The album ends with a life to participate in, not an identity to finish defining.

On Still My Own

The album returns to its opening welcome with more ways to live it: receiving love, enjoying desire, questioning a certainty, offering room to another person and choosing what to do next. Wholeness belongs to the present; it is not a reason to stop learning from life or the people in it. The ending leaves him available to the world, with a life of his own to bring to it.