I've called this photo: “With the sun in my hand”
I think today perfectly represents the thoughts that I express here.
It is worth clarifying that these are just my thoughts, mis ideas, my way of seeing and understanding this situation we are experiencing. Referring to the COVI 19 I don't pretend to teach at all, It is just a vision like others that other people can have, But I take it as a task, Almost an obligation to share with all those who want and want to read it and how I ask what is telling me to this virus?
Many times we feel our own body, tired, hectic, tense or disturbed by our demanding routines, for not stopping a moment with the desire to do everything and much more than what the day demands and allows us, For that incessant run to be able to have everything we should have to be happy according to what they have made us believe, The media, The consumer society or the big corporations that is happiness, without stopping to think a single moment that happiness is inside us.
Well, like that, As our body explodes and reacts with a pain, A discomfort, an anguish or a disease, that are not the fruit or more or less of the stress with which we load ourselves, Thus our beloved planet manifests to tell us something in so many occasions, that many times we are not able to see or do not have the courage to recognize. And in that same way as our body is expressed in the way that he can, Through some physical ailment, Mental the spiritual, The planet speaks to us, generating situations that would seem to be alien to us. I would not be so sure that they are.
How many terrible things, Incredible, sometimes inexplicable they happen in this land caused by the human being, that until today, It seems not to have realized that we are all one, that we see errors and faults in others, But we are not often able to see them in ourselves, Always seeing "the straw in the eye of others", guilt in others, And we judge and criticize as if we were not partly responsible. This way, Without looking at us, without trying even to know and recognize who we are and what we do, Looking and looking for guilt in the other, It will be difficult for us to change something, Difficult will change the system, the governments or that society that we criticize so much and that bothers us so much, because we are convinced that guilt is always.
Hoy, In this "confinement" in which we are forced to remain, I look back, just a few weeks and come to my mind so many situations that around this huge planet, us, Its inhabitants, We were living and that suddenly they have stood out. Situations that seem to have taken our gigantic and beloved home, to a saturation point or what I would call a "stress peak", To tell us _To! Please, So you are hurting me ... for! What are you hurting.
Thus I started to mentally make a list of events and situations that are different today and that I will try to describe imagining how those situations will be and that will happen in those places today .... Surely they have changed and maybe that is the change we need, such see that the change that the planet is asking us.
Those remote countries…. I refer to those countries that sometimes it is even difficult for us. Nations in wars and permanent struggles, where every day innocent people die from the unscrupulous power struggles of a handful of powerful who would only think about maintaining their "reign" or fighting for causes that for many of us are incomprehensible. I really don't know what to happen in those countries today, They are no longer in the news. The information about the COVI takes the first flat and the second and the third, With what the media flood us every day. Beyond how dangerous this unknown disease can be and until today without successful treatment and the care that as responsible citizens we have learned to respect, beyond that, I think that mode of information that many media use only manage to generate panic in the population and in my opinion that would only help, On the contrary. I understand that a mode of awareness is sought but terror I don't think it's the best path.
In the end…. If in those countries the struggles have ceased for a moment, The bombings, The clashes, Maybe it is an response mode to the planet and the inhabitants who live in those conflict regions .... Maybe there the air is a little breathable dough ... maybe human beings find a little calm.Pollution, pollution and quality of life. It is well known for all that many big cities, With great population concentration, vehicles and transports with their fumes and their constant noises, They disturb the quality of life of its inhabitants to the point of not being able to breathe pure air, much less contemplate a clear sky, but a murky fog due to the emanations of so many cars, buses and others. Well there, Today there is stillness, The air begins to be air without so many harmful gases that pollute it, The noises decrease and instead of engines and speakers maybe women and men feel relief ... maybe too, They begin to listen to each other. Here also the planet is breathing pure air, what has been asking us for so long and that today manifests itself in this way as terrible as sad and worrying. I also imagine that many factories, that without any respect discarded their waste in nature, Maybe they are not working because the staff must stay at home, Well there also nature feels relief.
Manifestations and marches. Around the entire planet we saw number of people in the streets, various groups belonging to different groups, claiming for their righteous rights, right for a dignified retirement, rights to be included in society without taking into account sex, Religion or political affinity, Gender equality and salary equalization, Rights to more and better work sources, right to make social justice really fair and many etc.. But together with these worthy protesters, some groups were also expressed that leaving the extremes, They transformed free and genuine expression properly into a pitched battle, In the middle of the street and against their own neighbors who were only looking to hear their voices. We could see how those extremists without any awareness or respect, destroyed all kinds of urban equipment that they would find ahead, He burned parked cars, ATMs and business stained glass windows broke like we could see, To name just some cases, In Paris and other French cities or in a Catalonia divided into two, or in different cities in Latin America where the peaceful demonstration is so difficult to carry out. I also think of multicolored scarves that dyed the streets of so many cities, claiming what for each one was fair, Many times aggressively as a way of imposing their wishes, mixing and confusing concepts of life and death with rights and without mattersing them nothing beyond their screams or proclamations ... without understanding the other .... Well today, Neither the righteous protesters nor the agitative or extreme groups circulate through the streets. Is it that the earth is also wanting to say something here? Will it be that it also tells us, To! Look at your interior, Know and answer to then be able to respect the other….? Is it that it also means that we are not the owners of absolute truth and that it is enriching to know how to appreciate other points of view?
Needs, hunger, refugees, Walkers. We have seen long columns of people walking long routes, abandoning their countries, crossing borders or at least trying to do it, Under the sun, Rain or storms, without stopping or rendering because they wanted to get to a place to settle, work and be able to give their children a decent place to develop their lives. Nor are they today in the news and probably their march has stopped. Maybe they are also thinking about whether that was the best option or maybe they are strengthening to be able to one day continue their dream. Those who have managed to reach a host country, Today they are where they surely wanted to be and from there they will have to face this situation that affects us all, But today at least with the peace of mind of being in a country that wanted to receive them. They do not get news about hunger in the world either and that is surely, But today's demand is to combat this terrible virus that came to shake and hope that we wake up, so that once surpassed we can have a new mind, A more open head and that we can see what goes beyond the entrance door of our house or our neighborhood and thus be able to contribute our grain of sand.
Governments, politicians, opposition and corruption. Little are heard these days about debates, proposals, discussions and much less litigation between government and opposition officials, who in Arduas struggles to impose their opinions, They ended up assaulting the other by the simple fact that their policies were different from their own. Although in reality everyone should join them one thing, What is the common good, Social justice for each and every citizens. But many times superb could more, to the point of showing many of these individuals, Barely defend your position, They seem not to matter anything more than their own self. Nor do we listen to news about justice that seemed to be distracted when he had to take care, taking the population to the fury and general confusion where what was at some point evidence of the corrupt procedure of an official, It seems later that it was not so much and those evidence that evidenced a crime even of murder, Today they have diluted in vague words or confusing interpretations. I don't know that Covi comes to all these people, But I think that today in their homes they will have time to think about their procedure. We see today united politicians and in accordance with this evil that affects us all, Hopefully it also serves to find the way to make politics in a dignified way, Hopefully they are heard, I hope you respect and hopefully, who have not done so today, Respect all citizens.
My list could continue, entering into detail of thousands of situations that I have not mentioned and that in one way or another affect the human being and our beloved planet, But the idea of what I wanted to expose and that has been around for days in my mind has been partly expressed. And I say partly because as the hours pass, The days, The weeks, new ideas and thoughts will come.
I think the important thing is to stop for a moment, wake up, try to understand what seems inexplicable. Ask us: What comes to tell each of us this situation? What things are I doing? What things are I stop doing? How do I behave with others and the planet?. What things could improve? What does respect for me mean?. In my opinion, Each and every one of these questions we can answer them once we have stopped for a moment to think, Once we have looked inside us, Once we have reflected on ourselves, About our mistakes and successes, About our pure being, Without external influences, Without the conditioning that imposes us and always imposed society. Hopefully, When we have overcome this difficult moment we are not the same but better people to generate a better society, a better planet that as our home we know how to take care and value.Maybe today we deserve to reflect and especially put into practice that phrase that will bequeathed us Mahatma Gandhi And what does it say:
"Let's be the change we want to see in the world"
Ana Lia doctor – Marzo 2020