I DON'T WANT
TO GO BACK TO NORMAL
I want this
moment to lead to a real revolution. Inside
and outside of us.
I want to
learn the lesson from this difficult period, do not miss the smallest teaching,
I want to
bring within me the emotions, reflections and thoughts
that it
generates and make a profound change of life flow into me.
I want every
job to be celebrated, respected and protected.
From the doctor to the nurse,
from the journalist to the teacher, from the worker to the employee,
from the
attendant to the bricklayer.
There is no job more worthy than another: as we
are experimenting now,
even a supermarket cashier is a hero because she is
currently carrying out a fundamental task.
I want each
person to experience the time for themselves as we are experiencing it now.
Without a slow, simple and dilated time, no person in the world can discover,
truly rest and recharge.
And put your creativity into action. And discover their
gifts.
I want each
of us to spread our gift in the world. . .
just as it is happening now where courses, videos, initiatives of the
most varied were born to be able to give a piece of us (the best!)
In this
emergency, I want us to go back to living on the essentials. . .
shopping in
our countries, buying only what we really need.
I want the
car to be used as little as possible. . .
only out of
necessity and not for leisure or convenience.
I want us to
learn to withdraw from the world and admire it without our disturbance and
noise.
I want our
houses to become nests and not places of passage. . .
I want them
to be the center of our days, to be cared for, lived and loved as sacred
places.
I want the
children's time to be restored. . .
Especially for the little ones who, without moving around and daily
commitments, manage to freely direct their energies towards play and
creativity.
And they are more serene. And calmer. And more true.
I want it to
be favored where work from home is possible. . .
Because in this way many
resources (economic, physical and ecological) are conserved.
I want walks
close to home to be considered precious and to realize that a distant holiday
involves very large environmental, physical and economic costs and, perhaps,
we
can do without them or in any case decrease them considerably considering them
a real luxury.
I want some
distance to be kept. . . Among the people.
Because it is only in this way that
each person manages to draw their own boundaries and not to merge with the other.
And that's
the only way we can be empathetic and bring relief.
If, on the other hand, we
merge, we get lost and are of no help, not even to ourselves.
I want hugs
and kisses not to be given to anyone .
I am a very
intimate and deep physical contact.
To be donated
with care and attention so as not to lose all its value.
I want the
elderly to return to having the role that has always belonged to them . . .
Keepers of
stories, memories and wisdom. The closest to the divine and the mystery of
life.
I want respect,
solidarity, brotherhood with anyone to reign.
By staying at
home we respect ourselves but also the health of others.
We are
helping the weakest with beautiful expenses and initiatives.
We also
started getting to know our neighbors, people who have so far been saying
goodbye.
I want death
to return to being present as it is now in our lives.
Because it is
the fear of death that brings out the anguish.
Because we
usually forget it, because we reject it.
I want it to
become a painful but sacred event like birth, both parts of the same cycle.
We must
return to venerate death as a god, to talk to each other, not to fear it,
to
consider it as the door that leads us to a different world. Like a new rebirth.
All this
cannot come from a decree or a compulsion. It is born within each of us,
After having lived
such a strong experience together. It's time for the turning point.
It is time
for each of us to do our part really. Not to resume everything as before.
But to start
again in another way. More creative. More responsible. More aware. More true.
I no longer
want normalcy. I want the masterpiece.
~Elena
Bernabè
