I don’t know why, but when I sit in front of the computer to write what I think, I link everything, in one way or another, to the hard times that we are going through, and today I would like to break a spear in favor of premieres, and not only at Easter but throughout the pandemic. If there is something that opens the critical, almost always destructive, towards our brotherhoods is the acquisition of new belongings, medals, cloaks, tunics and even images, what if silver, gold, jewels …, what if Jesus was poor and did not want riches. Criticism and more criticism, although it is also true that these criticisms are always from the same people and in the same forums, and more so in times like the ones we are living in, times in which needs change and our priorities are reorganized.
But I still think that the same questions and the same thoughts that have supported us before, are still present, current and are valid at this time. Behind each stitch of a skirt there are surely families who need to be able to do their weekly shopping. Behind every minimum and careful beating of a burin there are also plates of food that are brought by the same hands to the tables in their homes. Behind each bouquet of flowers, there are also families who pay their mortgage or their electricity, gas or water bills. Surely behind each lighted candle there are also families who buy their children’s clothes. Life continues despite the regrets, fortunately, and fighting is being fought and hard, we have to move forward but we are not in a position to decide which sectors can do it and which cannot.
Behind every minimum and careful beating of a burin there are also plates of food
I see every day how the hospitality industry (with good reason) complains about the situation, and we support them; The people who are in ERTE launch their call for help and we support them, we also support those small family businesses that do not know if they will be able to continue for another month, and should continue like this, I do not doubt that, but on the contrary there is talk of a brotherhood premiere already comes to light that we only think of taking “little steps to the street”, in unnecessary expenses, accusations that we do not see further and sometimes I think that is what some are interested in, creating controversy, disunity, criticism is served.
Sure my analysis is interested, partisan and simple, but sometimes the simple is the hardest thing to believe. And yes, I still think that I put the gear in gear and prevent it from standing on a link is everyone’s mission. One day I read I don’t know where, that the strength of a chain depends on the strength of the weakest link, and of course, they are one of those questions that one never stops to think about but that has all the logic in the world.
And that is what it is about seeing which is our weakest link so that we can all strengthen the chain that unites us. A strong chain that does not stop the resurgence of our battered economy, a chain that unites all equally and we shout: We could win together.
