It was a winged dream... but
bad people turned it into a winged sin.
Now we ask ourselves what have
we done wrong… if we have. Each one of us is accountable for the choices we
make in life. You reap what you sow. But because ruling out all risks is simply
nonhuman, we are never secure about anything. By the same token – because we
are humans – we are all entitled to our own mistakes and have the right to
reshape our lives from the lessons learned.
We take this for granted
counting only on values and principles a good society provides. The problem is
that there are only a few places in the world where “checks and balances” are
taken seriously. Rights don’t shift as power change hands. But people in these
places understand it as a constant struggle to retain the rights they can’t
live without. They also infer that rights are as equal as obligations. This is
only possible where freedom and the rule of law can coexist, thus “checks and
balances”.
So, what’s wrong with us Varig
people? Why can’t we just regain the
right to live decently?
Maybe we should start by
asking where we are. And one possible answer is that we live in a land of many
colors. It is not the color you can see with your eyes, but the many colors of
our crude society. Within the bright colored circles of power one can have it
all. Right or wrong the long arms of law won’t reach you. While others of faded
colors strive to make do with needs and pay, some of the few well-endowed
beings – the right stuff – stay above all the intricacies of an ordinary life.
– Who do you think you are
talking to?... has never been so annoyingly alive.
They’ll easily say that if you
are in a dire situation it’s only your fault. They know what you did wrong even if
you don’t. They’ll never concede that you, like anybody else have the right to
err and to overcome adverse times to keep going on. Let alone admit that
sometimes what makes your life miserable comes from bad things, other people
you never knew, did to you.
Then your ordinary life seems
no longer to fit the logical world. When you hear that justice will be served –
even if takes forever – they don’t go as
far as allowing you the same excuse with others – whatever they want or need
from you. Your daily chores, your day to day duties – even leisure – will not
stand still as you wait for justice. Even your body won’t wait for it just
wears out as time goes on.
Some argue that public exposure of human misery don’t change the facts behind it. That the wheels of justice, its rules and rulers are not moved by sentiment. That may be true in part, but removing justice from the human realm is unreal. However cold and focused, justice is made by and for the warmth of human beings. It is neither rocket science nor it is drama, yet it must embrace the good qualities of both.
So, hope walks on… albeit…
It was to be joy in the air… they
made it a nightmare.
Title and Text: José Carlos Bolognese, January 21, 2013
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