Alex Pelao He is going through a difficult date and expressed this in a deeply intimate post. Through a series of stories in which he chose an all-black background and white letters, the influencer and content creator became He remembered his mother ten years after her death. With no photos, no music and no embellishments, he let the rawness of the message speak for itself.
“10 years ago today my mother left”he wrote first. A year ago, in a lecture at Ferné with GregoShe had said she died of lung cancer in 2015, when he was just 19 years old. This loss, which shaped him in the middle of his late adolescence, is once again put into words with mathematical and emotional precision now that the decade is over.
In the second story, Alex explained: “And today I realize how sobering time is. It is infallible.” It’s not the first time he’s publicly reflected on the issue, but this time he’s chosen to do so from a much more contemplative, almost philosophical standpoint. Without dramatizing, but with an honesty that is often difficult to find on social networks, he recognized how the passage of time reorganizes, smoothes and turns pain into a lesson.
The third story completed the message: “It’s always TODAY. The time to thank that person for being in your life. Thank you so much for being here.” Although the phrase appears to be addressed to someone who is present, the subtext is clear: it also speaks of those who are no longer there but continue to occupy a fundamental place in emotional consciousness.
The post was particularly well received because the audience remembered what Alex had said about this duel in his interview with Alex Grego Rossello. In that conversation, he described his mother’s death without shock or solemnity as an experience that “split him down the middle” and confronted him with an adulthood for which he was unprepared. He didn’t dramatize, but admitted the blow was devastating.
He said he was only 19 years old, had “very little emotional management” and felt disoriented for a long time. However, he also explained that his mother’s death has become one of the most profound lessons of his life over the years. Not because it stopped hurting, but because it forced him to see the world from a different perspective.: Understand the fragility of bonds, put certain problems into perspective and appreciate the people around you differently.
In the same speech, he reflected on something that again contradicted the message he released today: No one is “special” when they suffer a loss. Millions of people go through the same thing and yet every story is unique. This contradiction also appears in his storieswhere he doesn’t give names or detailed memories, but makes clear the traces his mother left on him.
Ten years after his mother’s death, Alex Pelao positions himself not out of pure pain, but out of transformation. He doesn’t romanticize suffering, but he recognizes that its absence has shaped him. In conversation with Grego, he explained that the loss of his mother forced him to put future separations and frustrations into perspective: “How can I stop my girlfriend from leaving when my mother is gone?”he thought at that moment.
Today, after a decade of emotional distance, he decided to return to this point: time teaches, rearranges and, although it does not erase anything, allows gratitude even for what has been experienced through pain. Without the need for an image, a song or an impact, their stories conveyed just that: a memory that remains deep, an absence that became a compass and an invitation not to postpone gratitude to those who are still there.
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