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Threads of reflection, from the sweet of the house...
  • When I got out of bed to go to work and turned on the radio, I've often had fun with a supposed news that the announcer could announce: “What if now they announced that we can’t leave the house? For example, for a week?” I have enough fabric, food and reading at home, what a pleasure! Imagine that in what we can already call our First Life, in which we never stop at the frantic rhythm of our crazy life, we had to dream of a pause that can only come from outside.
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Antton Olariaga

I've always thought it's as unlikely as unreal news, and maybe that's why he tempted me and hinted me. Well, how things are, I end up hearing the news – because we have to be careful about what we ask of life, you know it – and, what you mean, it is not being as I have imagined it. Because every day I feel like I've woke up in a science fiction movie, to a reality that every day has a more unreal character. And indirectly, I wonder if we're actually living this, if this Present Life is real as well.

I carry my lockdown full of sweetness because I'm quite a guest, friend of myself, lover of writing and reading, great workouts for loneliness. But that's not a problem, because I can't forget that this crisis overcomes the personal dimension, because we're facing a collapse of the world, which is going to have unpredictable consequences in our Next Life. I feel the uncertainty, the concern for the weakest, the uncertainty of what will come next and, why not confess, the fear.

Like all crises, this also has a positive aspect, in which, if something is to be stressed, I would mention the ability to question the values that we have put at the center of our lives, to question the presumed control of people over life and to reflect on what is really important to be well. First of all, it has shown our fragility, and I think it is an unbeatable opportunity to question the pride and feeling of pride for a humanity so committed to concealing and denying mortality. Mortality makes us vulnerable and knowing that we are vulnerable, humble and humble.

Then there is an opportunity that offers us to see that we are a society with an excessive rhythm and action. Not lowering performance, remaining productive, not wasting time, that's the most important thing in this crisis experience. And please don't send us the list of movies and books that can be seen and read in the lockdown anymore, don't design an endless list of activities that can be done without leaving the house. Let us get bored, yes. And it took time to feel, to think, to be at rest. Needless to say, our children and our young people. Friendly teachers, let us reassure our little ones, that they take the opportunity to learn a little cooking, organize coexistence at home and enjoy.

And as far as we're concerned as Basques, it's what we always do. It has become clear that the border that divides our country into two, that it has never disappeared, that there is no reality that is understood as an autonomous power, that the occupation is still in force, and that the two dominant states will seize the opportunity to advance in the qualitative leap in the assimilation process: they will turn the coronavirus into a colonovirus. For example.