I do not know when the Basques who have been kidnapped in prisons in Spain and France are going to receive this newspaper. And if you're going to receive it ... Letters take 20 days to arrive. And newspapers have not come to them in the last few days.

We find it difficult to assimilate that in prison there are no computers, mobile phones or networks that have become essential in everyday life. They live in the world of television, radio and paper newspapers. That landline phone and cards are ways to relate to them. That there is no spontaneity of WhatsApp.

In the new situation we are living in Euskal Herria, it would not be a bad exercise to imagine the lockdown we are suffering without all these trepetations.

This is not the subject of this article.

When the lockdown began, I began with automatism until a year and fourteen years ago to the customs that were mine: to start counting the day of the lockdown, to organize the day to day...

I realized that in the WhatsApp groups there was a different course of the situation and I decided to share my experience with each other. Always knowing that each one of us is a world and that each one finds the best formula to face the difficulties of life that adapts to their way of being and experiences.

I wrote like this.

"You have to do day-to-day planning. I think the best thing is for everyone to organize their own thing. Working the imagination. First, reflect on what we can do at home, list it and, finally, plan the week. Distinguish between days and weekends with activities and hours. Carry out special tasks and plans for Saturday and Sunday. The important thing is that this planning is done, even if it is not followed. It is not a question of subjecting ourselves to a regime that we impose on ourselves. This planning is to have a reference and to own the decision. Otherwise, our lives will be in the hands of others. If it's chaos, let it be mindful chaos and our chaos. What time to go to bed and get up, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time, what time to clean the house, what time, what time, letters, what time, what time?

A few days have passed since then and, more or less, we are all adapting to the new situation. Discovering this new situation.

The point is that if this situation were to continue in time, we should be prepared to deal with this situation in the best possible conditions. And, according to all appearances, it will extend. If that were the case, we should be aware of the consequences. If we want to be able to care for our neighbor, we have to be strong.

From this reflection, I transmitted to my environment these new reflections, based on my experience, that would help them. And a friend has encouraged me to extend it, in case they could serve. So, remember those that seem interesting and forget about others:

Being the human being a being that adapts to any situation, even to the state of seclusion, although not natural, gets used to and adapts.

According to what I have lived, the state of seclusion, like any process that affects the human being, has phases.

The first and shortest is that of rage and pain, especially if, despite the assumption of reason, confinement carries a high personal cost. I will not delay this.

The second is adaptation.

Despite the harsh situation, novelty always has some attractiveness. Adapting to this new situation, discovering new habits, helps to know the new aspects of oneself, of oneself and of the other.

It's not a euphoric situation, but compared to the sadness, anger and decay experienced a few days earlier, it's a big change. And that can lead us to think that the situation is not so untenable. Especially if we put an end date on it. Like prisoners in comics, we're going to start drawing virtual sticks on the wall of the living room. Even if it is unconsciously, we set a time limit for this condemnation and the time until the final assumption becomes more sustainable.

As we know it is going to end, we do not think of any other solution than to suffer. When we're done, what we were doing before, and now we can't do, we start to think that we're going to do all those things again with more enthusiasm. That we will approach life with more enthusiasm. We'll think we've been idiots, not savoring the present moment, and leaving us a few things for later on.

We settle and adapt. Because in us, hope takes the place of anger and despair.

This second phase is the key to dealing with the indefinite time that can last the lockdown. That's when we have to fix habits and automatisms that will help us cope with the inevitable ups and downs that our minds are going to have over the days. As the days go by and the deadline for the conviction we have set, and if the day of the end begins to move away on the horizon, they will help us not to fall into depression and incommunication.

In fact, when this phase of discoveries is exhausted, and according to one's own identity and experiences that will happen sooner or later, the initial rabias and pains that have not completely disappeared, which, as has been said, depend on the personal cost of this situation and the understanding of the meaning and reason of the situation, can be reimposed.

During the lockdown we will spend many hours with family, with the people we love, or with the people we take ill, or alone. But it's always closed. And the shortest escape route is usually the one inside of you.

Therefore, in this last phase, we run the risk of being locked into ourselves: our social life is completely botched or fallen; the effort needed to get out of the isolation imposed on us by the confinement can weaken the forces of communication with the neighbor: we have no problems at work, no problems at work, no problems at school, no problems at street level. In short, our visual and social landscape has been reduced. And the solution can be to protect ourselves within ourselves, like inside a shell. And inside that shell, we can lock ourselves up with twenty-first century treps, turning the virtual world into a single window.

That is why I think it is so important that, during the period of adaptation, the habits that mark the new daily life and the time we will devote to social life are consolidated outside our internal world.

And, as it is happening, organize social appointments, strengthen the community through direct communication from windows, balconies and terraces. Just like in jail, it's done from window to window, from building to building and from courtyard to courtyard.