Think better or think better?

Lately there has been a shortage of kisses and hugs, true and false, but words have not been muted...

We are what we think and what we think identifies us. Thinking better makes us better.

The days succeed one another, taking away half of the faces; just eyes on sight.

Distrustful, fearful, prejudiced, disbelieving and denialist looks. There is something for all tastes and palates, as long as they are not affected by the pandemic.

When some senses are lost, others stand out; I wish those of repentance and, in cases of extreme happiness, those of conscience.

The months say goodbye, carrying with them lives and leaving sequels, revealing characters, destroying old concepts and building – for those who understood the message – reflections.

However, we are not yet at the end of our troubles.

We are clusters of hopes amid the inconsequential.

We forgot the vaccine against the neglect of those who should take care of us and we remain infected, in homeopathic doses, with the viruses that subjugate our souls to ignorance and apathy.

Lately there has been a shortage of kisses and hugs, true and false, but words have not been muted.

We virtually console ourselves, while we watch from the windows of our palaces, endless social abysses, burying alive the remnants of dignity of those who had already left their bodies at the mercy of their own hopelessness.

Many will not see the future and others will be indifferent, as they have already surrendered to the accounts of the years, like penances prayed in the rosaries, after confessions of invented and concretized sins.

But if we are what we think and our thinking identifies us, I wouldn't want to be pessimistic.

I just want to think better and not necessarily “the best” in the optimistic sense of the word.

I am referring to the clash with us, in the clash of unmasked faces with the hidden depths of our misfortunes, as a form of purge, so that tomorrow overwhelms us and does not make our faith in vain.

Marcelo Kassab.

Writer and Dental Surgeon.