Returning to Normal Life

 Returning to Normal Life

From my desk, in one of these more or less improvised vaccination centers, I see thousands of people passing in front of me every day. I see how they walk, sometimes fearful, sometimes showing a haughty attitude, and others humble and fearful. 

The entire human race passes in front of me, I see them lined up, each with their characteristic tribal attire, big people and small people, with their hair combed to the right or to the left, their clothes neat or more often neglected. An endless legion of souls, few with beautiful bodies and most with grotesque attitudes, but after all human souls full of the same anxieties, hopes and fears.

This generation will pass, like all the previous ones, and today's events will be forgotten or remembered as something curious. Human desires have never been so rude and sometimes so stupid in the face of the terrible reality that we have lived in this generation. And yet, in spite of everything, we are now beginning to recover a certain "normality", that is, to return to the same worried life, once again forgetting the true foundations of a real life.

So we return to the "normal" fight for the latest gadget, or to the search for a place for our vacations "far from here", even if the people coming and going cross the same path, because "here" and "over there" is just a place in our mind.

Soon the masks will fall, the feeling of freedom will seem to have arrived again with the air that we breathe freely. But after the moment has passed, the air will become thin again, full of the usual anguish, the usual impulses, the false needs that an inhuman and capitalist society will demand and impose like a slab on the soul of all human beings.

But if for a moment, just for a moment, we thank fate, heaven, karma or whoever you want, for that incredible but difficult past situation, for the unique opportunity to face our fears in that homemade monastery, then after that, we would face the rest of our lives, that tremendous adventure that awaits us, full of challenges, exploits and generosity, smiling and courageous, because a life without heroism, even a little bravery, is not worth living.

Take advantage of this opportunity, if you know what I'm talking about, don't go back to the "normality" that they are selling you, but really go back to yourself, look for philosophy or the "love of wisdom", only that will help you on that road.

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