About change

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        I recall it was the late fall of 2018…I had gotten to a point in life where the journey seemed rather stagnant as if my life’s boat arrived in a place with no particular waves or winds, and was apparently not moving at all. Just floating. Up to that moment life had gone on a fast pace, with main events that one can experience in a lifetime right one after the other;  all of a sudden life became too quiet and predictable, and the question that lingered was “what’s next?” I remember expressing my feelings to a couple of people: “You know, I feel that a change will come…” 

        I am not a historian, or some type of analyst, or a psychic, I am just an inquisitive person, thinking most of the time that reality is beyond what I immediately perceive, and I kind of always want to know what is behind there…And for this reason I made a habit of exercising regularly that sixth sense called intuition. If there is no other information, at least I have this…

        At the time I was busy sending applications for an academic program, and felt that a change might be on a more personal level. Another year had passed and had reasons to believe that a change would come indeed on a personal level— kept believing that. But it was somehow foreboding and nothing prepared me for what came in the spring of 2020. But not just for me... unexpectedly the whole world was dealing with something unusual:  a potentially dangerous virus was around and we all needed to stay home for safety.

        I was waking up early in the morning to discover the new day, but a strange silence was reigning over the neighborhood and the whole city; it was contrasting too much to the dramatic official news all over, of sick people filling the hospitals to the point of overflow, and not enough room for treatment was available. I was going shopping to a grocery store and near it was a emergency medical center. The building had glass walls and I could see inside the silhouettes of a person, maybe two, sitting nicely in the designated area. Everything was very quiet and clean. It was something disturbing in the general too quiet atmosphere of the city.

        An initial emergency state was declared for about a month, and we were in lockdown, and I was just waiting for this period to pass. I was receiving emails from certain stores that they were planning to open slowly in a few months. Why a few months if the initial lockdown was just a month? The feeling that restrictions were going to be prolonged, and that a pandemic and everything that came with it were rather wanted, became a suspicion that took shape more and more in my mind. In the mean time I discovered that I was not alone.

        Eventually, restrictions were implemented in a more sistematic way, while the pandemic continued and continued... As time went by I questioned everything, and here we are today in a world where simple human freedoms are taken in the name of health, and people are coerced into a form of treatment that is highly controversial.

         No, by any means, I did not anticipate this change...