LET´S CALL THINGS AS THEY ARE. BREAD IS BREAD AND WINE IS WINE!

Just a few days ago I received, through friends, two messages almost at the same time.

The first one labeled “I pass judgment on you, world!” served me as the base for my last posting in my blog titled “the last flipping of the coin…” in reference to the basis of the negative and frustrating universal reality we are actually facing.

The title given to the posting reflects, in my mind, the need to definitely stop on our tracks in order to define where we stand in relation to the future.

It reflects the need to get a final referential point that could be turn into the initial step in a new and positive phase of our individual and collective lives and make our own.

It reflects the need to stop the senseless crawling over the pebbles and thorns filled present paths so we can stand up, proudly even if painfully and limping, and start walking towards a future holding hopes and dreams instead of despair and drugged drowsiness.

We cannot keep on walking as widowed criers, less of all as the hired ones to pull their hair and shout the beatitudes of the dead ones in the villages of stagnant rural areas.

We must call things as they are. In other words, let´s call the bread, bread, and the wine, wine. Let´s call hard work, hard work, and not exploitation as is so easily said when we see other societies get ahead and leaving us behind.

Let´s call laziness, laziness, and shortsightedness, shortsightedness, and start being logical and honest, because we cannot keep on pointing fingers on what we want to be part of it, but without the slightest intention to sweat and labor as they had done to get what they got and we envy.

Let´s stop callously and cynically inventing justifications in order to force others to give us whatever we want without having to show any gratitude or reciprocal exchange in terms of cooperation and good usage of the gifts received.

In other words, let´s recognize that the real causes and origins of our deficiencies and vicissitudes are we, the men, the individuals, the persons, and the human beings, the homos sapiens who have no discernment and wisdom at all.

We should not beat the bushes knowing well that the fox is nowhere around. We should not beat the bushes searching where there is nothing we have put or left in there in the first place.

In other words, we, every one of us, should openly and honestly declare ourselves guilty for commission, omission or indifference, without disguising this fact or hiding behind generalizing but empty wording such as “the world”, “the abusers” “the power of the people” “the debts of the exploiters” and so many similar ones.

We should decide, for God´s sake, to stop talking and start putting our hands on the plow to open the dried out, because of our own inertial laziness, but otherwise fertile soils of the future.

We should start working instead of being the passive escapists of the “I accuse you, I judge you, I condemn you”. On the contrary, we should courageously declare “let´s accuse, judge, condemn all of us, the lazy and the pusillanimous.

Let´s stop opening ourselves to the intolerance, complacency, indifference and escapism. Let´s stop looking for scapegoats when we definitely know that the real culprits inhabit the innerest and darkest corners of our own beings.

The natural world, this magnificent creation of God given to us to care for it, to enjoy it, to protect it, to inherit it, is there, showing its natural beauty and the created one by the laborious hands of the minds and hands of the resolute caretakers that anteceded us.

It is our utmost responsibility to keep and advance what has been done before, correcting the mistakes or deficiencies, but not destroying everything while trying to do it or accommodate it to our whims or irresponsibility. It is already over the time to keep on throwing the baby away with the soiled water.

But it is not too late. We can stop and close our ears to the deafening stridencies who keep us jumping on our feet and preventing our progress in peace, through hard and honest, conscientious and productive labor.

Because the world is beautiful but its beauty lies not only in the exterior magnificence but in the inner strength of its inhabitants! Enjoy it and let enjoy it! Remember it will still be there when we depart from it!