Mar 5, 2022
The World Will End Tomorrow: 7 Things to do Today!
The leaders of the planet, sooner or later, will decide to bomb themselves and destroy us atomically. It is unavoidable. Nothing and no one can stop them. It is irrevocable the destiny of humanity that cannot escape -whatever it does and whatever happens- to its own death. We only have today. Nothing more and nothing less.
Every time an event out of the ordinary happens, the most intimate and shocking question that the human being knows appears: the inevitable proximity of death. Whether sudden, sought, found, inflicted, received… death lurks night and day! Every once in a while, it embodies enormously as in times of war. Today the veiled, dark and unfathomable monster is visible. The reaping has begun, the collection of corpses continues, and human stupidity persists in its fatal course.
I make a small digression. Modernism and its sequels removed the death component from the vital equation. Because it was uncomfortable, difficult to explain and justify for nihilistic and immanent theories. Death is one of the most obvious and visceral challenging forces of eternity. That’s why it bothers, it gets in the way. It was and must be hidden behind walls, under tombstones, formatted into insipid news. Death disguises itself as instruments of torture and people in their tools of use, but it remains hidden behind cruelty. It has been trivialized to the point of ‘reifying’ it and disintegrating it from its original meaning: reminding us that our life is a sigh, a stroke and two seconds of time and then dust blown away by the wind.
War is nothing more than a terrible reminder of human insanity, of that need to kill each other to be right or win, to destroy the other and those who stand in the way to win. The thinking reeds that make up the human species -the only known race capable of disintegrating the planet with their sole will-, march slowly and inexorably towards their extermination. How sad to say goodbye to our common home. Goodbye planet. I didn’t love you as much as I wanted to, but I will miss you more than I imagine. We only have a few tasks left before the end and we only have today to start, at least, to do them. Tomorrow will be late.
- Prepare in advance. Today we have a pending encounter with love. Not yesterday or tomorrow, today. It will take time to arrive and that is why we must be prepared, with the flashlight with spare batteries. Because when it arrives it will be very late, there will be no electricity and the cell phones will not work.
- Return what was borrowed. We have been gifted with time, life and abilities that we will have to have distributed to the right and left. If we bury the gift, it’s time to dig it up and put it into production now. We still have a little time.
- Share our food with those who are hungry and our drinks with those who are thirsty.
- Help those who are passing through or lost, help the millions of refugees, house them or accompany them indoors.
- Dress all those who are going through physical or spiritual nakedness.
- Give them what they need and human warmth.
- Assist the sick, visit the prisoner.
What we are going to do today? We only have a few minutes left.
